Hey all. This week’s article is late because I was lacking in inspiration. The same was true up to some minutes ago, but hey, I simply wasn’t gonna write anything till an interesting topic visited my mind. Which it did not long ago during this karaoke session with self, so here is the article!!
Basically, it’s about this. Consider the term comfort zone. What does it entail? Now, usually there is the idea of stagnation that is linked with it. Basically, we stay stuck in our comfort zone and refuse to expand, just because of how much we are discomfited out of it! But hey, actually. I mean… what exactly is the ideal that we should strive to?
We speak so much of not remaining in the comfort zone that actually, what! on earth is the zone that we should put ourselves in? Is comfort necessarily bad in that zone? Honestly speaking, I think not. Now, said article will run fully out of this prompt alone because I haven’t got any material or content planned for it prior. So here goes.
First of all, I suppose I will set the ideal as the life of alignment. A life where all of the elements within represent the true you, allows you to become fully yourself in all your domains. Now, relating this back to comfort zones… it doesn’t necessarily have to be removed from comfort because the routines integrated therein can totally be something we do on a daily basis. Over time we’re just so familiar with it and it’s just who we are!!!
So I suppose I’ll just use myself as an example again. I mean, my lifestyle and routine. Just because it’s easy to work with yeah.
Everyday, I start the day off with a physical kickoff and a mental kickoff. Usually the mental one comes first. The mental one is Wordle Daily. Incidentally, I got a rare Wordle-in-2 today and it was really amazing. Hah. As for physical it’s just a short yoga using the app Bend that takes just maybe around ten minutes. So relating these two to my comfort zone…
Are these out of my comfort zone or within my comfort zone? Honestly speaking, I would say they’re within it. Obviously, everything necessarily starts out of the comfort zone. So maybe 1, 2 years ago, this practice!! would’ve seemed totally out of my comfort zone. But now? I’m used to it! And it totally works for me, and is good and empowering and all that! Hmm what shall I call it? Alright!! Maybe ‘aligned dominion’ lol…
So now I posit that the ultimate level is the aligned dominion. Similar to the comfort zone, the aligned dominion contains comfort. However, dissimilar to it, it is NOT stagnant and fear-based, being growth-averse! Rather, it can and should be totally aligned with a truly! aligned life.
Now I’ll go into the idea that I had while singing lolz.
What should be allowed into the aligned dominion?
Now first of all, I’ll used the aforementioned 2 ‘kickoffs’ as an example. Obviously, one thing is that they must share a true affinity with you. Wordle surely does because my linguistic intelligence is ahem… kinda high yeah. I mean, I just started learning Korean 64 days ago and now I’m at Level 22 on Duolingo or high A1 already. And I mean JP N2 or even Hokkien or even my first job thing as a CN-EN translator. Anyways!!
So it’s a good way to kick off my day. As for the physical workout? Well, I mean, I like yoga because I enjoy it. I mean everyone has their own thing they enjoy. It just is how laws of reality works. For instance, after I came back from my self-indulgent Macdonald’s breakfast today I also did Dancefitme for like 20 min and really enjoyed it and hit my 5k steps exceedingly early. The common point between all these? Well really…
It’s just that I like it.
Here I would like to point out a subtle nuance. Sometimes, you like something and enjoy it for its own sake. At other times, you like it because… well, because of the ‘brag factor’ it brings I suppose. I personally!! would use singing as an example for myself, for this is what popped in my head when I was singing just now.
There are some songs that I just love and enjoy singing for their own sake. Some example would be like Rainbow and Suffering. Chinese songs yeah. Meanwhile there are some other songs that I like singing more because! they’re ego-boosters. Like maybe Eyes that Smile or Those Years. Yet honestly speaking the first category is already challenging enough!
Additionally! For the latter category, I have to employ techniques to force out a passable version and it isn’t fully natural and authentic. It is slightly questionable whether the song is correct for me even. Whereas for the former songs! Well, it just fully flows out heart-based, heartfelt and! authentic! Without any real issues too! And thus, maybe those truly are FOR me. Meanwhile the ones where I don’t truly FEEL it? Nope.
So anyway, analogy over. Now I’ll try to link this to more things in life wrt the newly dubbed aligned dominion. Hmm.
Within the aligned dominion… I mean, one thing that comes to mind for me is that I naturally just WANT to do it. If something isn’t yet settled, it weighs down on me a little. For instance, this article. I was kinda sad that the idea for it wasn’t coming to me yeah. Well I couldn’t help it though. Same for last night’s post! The idea for it only came at around 10pm? Therefore I was also slightly not feeling the best because I wanna do it.
And why do I wanna do it? Well, because it just feels so true for me! Basically as an element of my aligned dominion, yeah.
Quick note: Life flows through you and lives you… Thusly, if you somehow!!! feel called to do something, you have karma with it. Or it’s somewhat fatalistically tied to you, in a sense. Meanwhile if you just don’t!!! Sigh. Don’t force it. Never force it.
I mean, I wonder if you know about this, but let me assume you probably don’t. Let me be the one to tell you about this in that case, and may you receive it if now is the right time and you have an affinity for it. Okay. Basically, in a sense, the highest truth is spontaneity. When people, highest!! masters are being lived through by the universe, they don’t know what they’ll say until they do say it. Because that’s just how it rolls, flows…
In a sense, it’s even to the extent that one good way to think about it is that if something does not come to your mind and you do not recall it in a moment, that’s because you need not recall it. When you need the information, it will come then. Don’t discount the universe!!
Still, we can leave talk about reality’s perfection and non-coincidences for next time and continue with the topic of an aligned dominion now. Hmm.
Yeah, as we go through life we find that some things are for us and some things are not for us. Ultimately, linking it back to the comfort zone, our challenge!!! really is to evolve the comfort zone to the aligned dominion.
The differentiating factor? Stagnancy. The lack of a growth mindset. A resignation to merely existing and getting by over living and thriving.
Imagine an ideal life. What percentage of that ideal life can you already incorporate in your life right now, at the present moment? Well! That’s most definitely what you should be doing then, in that case! I mean! Unless your country is war-torn and even survival is an issue for you? Or! Are you just living in blissful ignorance? Everything seems fine for you and it feels nice and enjoyable enough too, and so you’re just sticking with that?! K.
Now, I’m not saying that this path is for everybody. Maybe it isn’t for some… fine. I accept that. Anyways. Yeah. Well. I don’t know, but technological giants have been pointing to how work might be retired in the future. Man, will it be interesting if people have to learn!!! how to actually live now that existing is no longer a problem! Ah oh well.
Regardless. Yeah. I was just! pointing out a metaphysical truth earlier so as to demonstrate the function of wuwei, or how to go with the flow and live through it without resistance as a function of the universe. Of course, there can be takeaways still if that is too complex for you!
Basically, it’s this. Grow your comfort zone into your aligned dominion.
Now, the first thing that comes to mind as a major obstruction or obstacle of this would be none other than fear. Here I would like to promote this viewpoint of impermanence, as change being the only constant. That basically, everything exists as potentiality in a quantum field, so all conceivably you gotta do is this: Identify your highest potentiality… Having done so, work on actualising it. Don’t let your future self live in regret.
And that in itself is already kind of like a highest truth. The comfort zone? Well. Is it as yet still empowering you or has it served you but is now holding you back? If it’s the latter, 手放开。Let go.
At some point in time, it was necessary. Yet now no longer.
Ultimately, retain the elements that so empower you. Grow together with the people who truly mean so much to you, by all means. Be happy together. But ultimately, never forget the ultimate prize.
You seek an empowered life of aligned dominion which some might even call your highest timeline. That is the highest version of you.
Are you truly happy with the diminished version?
Obviously, if you start out on this path to sculpt and achieve this dominion it may not be smooth-sailing all the way. Still, you will be assisted, guided! by the universe, and of course. It will be well worth it. And so sublime.
Man. Wth has this article turned out to be idk well whatever. Hmm. Anyways. I supposed it works as this week’s article, so. Yay me.