The following quote is from my topic, The Prison of the Comfort Zone and the Slavery of Comfort Addiction | The more you drink comfort, the thirstier you get.":
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes wrote: ↑August 11th, 2023, 7:05 pm Hunger and food addiction or other eating disorders are no more or less special than gambling addiction and the urge to gamble at a casino. Or infinite other examples. I choose to most often use examples of things like food, hunger, alcohol, and drinking simply because those tend to be most commonly relatable for most people. But every human has their things, and every human is on the addiction spectrum.
We all have our different props, but the underlying story of the play on the stage is the same for us all.
I will now expand on that a bit:
The props vary but the fundamental struggle is the same, and we are all on the same side, as conscious human agents, with each and every one of us familiar with temptation and the incessant choice to be free-spirited (a.k.a. self-disciplined) or be like a prisoner in our own body pulled around like a puppet and a slave.
Other common props and puppet strings are sex, drugs, money, attention, fame, and reputation, especially in the small town sense of reputation. You might be surprised what some people would do just to be popular in a tiny middle school or to prevent a bad rumor about them from spreading around a tiny workplace or small church. And everything on this Earth is tiny, on this pebble flying in the night sky. Even our tallest buildings are playful sandcastles that will be gone and forgotten in the blink of a cosmic eye. Why play with sand as a slave when you can play free?
Face your fears. If drinking is your thing, consider going 100% sober. If reputation is, then consider purposely ruining your own reputation. If excess is your problem, consider being stubbornly moderate in your approach. If excessive moderation is your problem, consider being immoderate for a bit. If you are an overeating food addict, consider going full Gandhi and fasting for a full 21 days. If you love your hair with unhealthy addictive attachment and the thought of losing it makes you throw up, then I say Britney Spears that **** right off. Cut your strings. Liberate yourself.
I don't know what the comfort zone is for you, but I advise you: Leave it.
Because here's the funny thing about it: You can't escape discomfort. That's in part due to basic sensory adaptation, meaning the same reason smelly people can't smell themselves and allegedly cold water only feels cold to people who aren't already in it. At another level, it's an even deeper pattern and truth perhaps best represented by the yin yang. Everything nets to zero in the end. So you can't escape discomfort, but you can escape the comfort zone. So that's the funny thing: These lands of happy freedom are no more or less comfortable than the hellish prison of the comfort zone. When you sell your freedom (a.k.a. your soul) for comfort, you don't get comfort; you just lose your freedom. You just lose your soul.
With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
a.k.a. Scott
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In addition to having authored his book, In It Together, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program.
