One of the four biggest lies of the self-development industry is the idea that you… must get out of your comfort zone.
In stark contrast, the book, Psycho-Cybernetics, teaches you how to GET INTO the comfort zone – not out of it.
Yesterday I spoke with a man who received poor grades in school. He had a bad experience early on that made him uncomfortable, and this experience haunted him for years.
The man was a C-student as a youth, yet when you look at what he’s accomplished since then, you’ll see that he’s a different person today.
What happened that led to his shift?
Well, in short, he FOUND his comfort zone. He studied what he wanted to learn, not what was forced upon him. Also, being he was no longer surrounded by other students and teachers that reminded him of being a C-student, he was free to grow.
Years later, in his first attempt to pass a professional exam that most people fail more than once, he aced it. A-students failed while he succeeded.
Think about it this way: Whenever you attempt to study a subject while under psychological stress, you’ll find it isn’t so easy. But if the stress is turned into comfort, the speed at which you can learn is staggering.
Children naturally and easily can learn three or more languages, simultaneously, when they grow up in a comfortable environment where more than one language is spoken.
I saw this take place in our own home. When my son was only three years of age, he could hold court in the living room, going from person to person, telling a story in English, Mandarin, Shanghainese and Sichuanese (three Chinese dialects that are only called dialects because the written characters match – even though what comes out of your mouth sounds like a different language).
Our minds are sponges. We can absorb information and learn with ease, when we are comfortable. Learning is stymied or stifled when unnecessary stress is applied.
This is why every visualization/meditation technique I teach is designed to PUT YOU INTO YOUR COMFORT ZONE.
Once you get into your comfort zone, the limits on what you can accomplish are shattered.
Yes, you can deliberately push yourself into an uncomfortable situation, but ONLY if you are INTERNALLY comfortable with the idea.
That’s how it works, my friends.
Why are some people willing to pour a five-gallon bucket of ice water over their heads while others are not willing to do so?
Why do some people travel the world while others won’t leave their hometown?
Why do some people stay up late at night, working on creating a new career, while others sleep?
The answer isn’t that they’re pushing themselves OUT of their comfort zones.
The answer is that they are comfortable with the idea of doing what others refuse to do.
This is one of many reasons I tell people to practice Dao Zou, a moving visualization/meditation that eliminates all the emotional stresses of the day, puts you into your comfort zone, and allows you to create the life you wish to live.
If you visualize when you’re NOT in your comfort zone, don’t expect anything good to come from it.
On the contrary, when you visualize while INSIDE your comfort zone, big, BIG, BIIIIIG changes take place in your life – for the better.
Dao Zou puts you into the zone, the comfort zone, without even trying. Just follow my instructions and you’ll be amazed.
See it. Feel it. Do it.
Matt Furey
