Getting Comfortable with Uncomfortable
By Master Instructor David Alvas, Director
Learning how to embrace discomfort for the opportunities it possesses is invaluable and life changing. We get so caught up in trying to make our lives comfortable that we forget what we have to go through in life to earn comfort.
No soccer team has won the world cup without grinding through countless workouts. No football team has won the Super Bowl without experiencing tremendous challenges. No baseball team has won the World Series without overcoming the odds. We all have to do things we don’t like or aren’t used to in order to get to our destinations.
Let’s take a brief look at why we, as a species, have such a hard time with doing the uncomfortable. We all have ego. Ego is what tells us what we are good at and what we are not good at. It also tells us what will make us look good and what will embarrass us. It tells us that we are too old or too young to try something. Anytime we are faced with something that we don’t perceive to be “normal” to us, we get a knot in our stomach and our ego kicks in and says ‘don’t do that!’
Ego also controls judgment, a built in self-sabotaging mechanism that tells us that we are better or worse than someone else. Judgment is one of the strongest negative energies that repels us from trying new things. It also happens to be one of the hardest things to remove from our consciousness, and therefore, when it is removed, gives us the most potential for achieving our goals. It’s a simple rule: the harder something is to overcome, the more light (joy, happiness, prosperity, abundance, etc.) it brings in to your life when you conquer it.
If we are not trying new things, we are not abolishing our ego. If we are not doing the impossible, then we are judging ourselves.
I have seen people with no legs run marathons. I have seen blind people walk around a room like they have 20/20 vision. I have seen children with autism lead a professional symphony. Why? Because they decided to, and had no space in their lives for judgment and ego.
Don’t concern yourself with what others think. Sometimes, don’t concern yourself with what you think! Just do it. Especially in tomorrow’s tournament.
All the best,
David Alvas
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