anything that challenges comfort of self will be met with resistance

One of the counterintuitive properties of mind is that mind hates the new.

Anything new presents an uncertain outcome to the mind and mind hates uncertainty.

Uncertainty = whats in front is hard to predict = danger.

Notice i have not used self-comfort but comfort of self in the title. That is very intentional. Self-comfort can simply imply, physical self comfort. Comfort of self is all about the internal self agent that is driving all our subparts of our mind.

Since this is a feature, not a bug – deeply understanding this process gives you a tool how to operate around high resistance tasks. At first sight, mind will always try to convince you to avoid them. But mind does not want whats best for your expansion, on the contrary, it wants to minimise the growth for the sake of self-preservation. It is this push and pull that constantly creates internal conflict.

We can either get forever lost in this comflict or we can allow for this feature to manifest but do not stand in its way. “Do the opposite” is that part of a value system that we can implement, when we feel that self-resistance again. We literally can reprogram the mind, dog and a whistle style.

Mind will always does what the mind wants to do. Most of the time its gonna be the opposite of new 🙂