A Lesson From
Conversations With God

Self-Awareness 101 Episode 6: A Lesson From Conversations With God

Willard discusses a passage from "Conversations With God: Book 1". He explores the idea that we are here to "create", and that many of us have become conditioned to live our lives as a re-enactment rather than a journey of exploration. We can only truly express ourselves when we step outside of our Comfort Zone.

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Have you ever noticed how certain books can really help you gain clarity on your own life, on your own personal journey? For me, one of those books was a book called “Conversations with God”.

And there's a specific line in the book that really jumped out at me, that forever impacted me, and the line was, “life begins at the end of your comfort zone"

By the time I read Conversations with God, I had already been on my own personal journey of personal development, self awareness, and spiritual development for about eight or nine years. I had been exposed to the idea of a "Comfort Zone", but this simple phrase gave it a whole new meaning.

With this amount of time for hindsight, I was able to look back at a place in my life, where, my comfort zone actually was creating so much pain for me that it was actually a point of insanity living the way I was.

I had been drinking heavily, I had been using drugs; I had been doing everything I could to numb every aspect of my life for about 11 years. At my worst point, I was drinking 2 cases of beer, a half bottle of tequila and taking 2,500mg of caffeine in pill form daily.

But as sick as this may sound, I was comfortable there. I knew when I got up in the morning, that if I ingested the alcohol, if I ingested the drugs, I was going to have a specific outcome at the end of the day. I could count on reaching a place that was safe for me, I didn't have to deal with emotions, I didn't have to deal with responsibilities. As strange as it may seem, I was very comfortable in that insane place in my life; for me, to actually feel... to be responsible... talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone.

But there came a point in my life where I had to make the decision, a point where I could not continue living the way that I was living, because either I was going to die or I was going to kill someone else. At that point in my life, I really wasn't scared to die, I actually welcomed the idea. But to kill someone else in a drunken state then have to live with that for the rest of my life, that was something I could not deal with.

There was a strange sense of security of knowing every day that I was living that same re-enactment over and over again. Going the same places, seeing the same people, doing the same things, experiencing the same emotions

But I had to make a choice to step outside of my comfort zone and face life. Not only face life, but begin experiencing it in a whole new way. And now 20 years later, I have to say it was one of the most amazing choices I ever made and one of the greatest things that has ever happened.

If you're continuing to do the same thing every day, all you're doing is reenacting what you've done the day before. This repetitive cycle is usually created because of fear. Your comfort zone doesn't have to be as bizarre as mine was, but I want to offer this to you as an idea. Life was not designed to be a re-enactment. It was designed to be lived fully, expressing our greatest potential.

Opening yourself up to trying something new, trying something different, stepping beyond your comfort zone, will change your life. It will change your life forever.

I believe that we were put on this earth to create, we were put on this earth to experience, when we were children, when we were babies, that's exactly what our life was about, was experiencing new things; Creating by participating in life . And a lot of times as we get older, we lose that, we forget the joy of being present in life, and experiencing life.

It may not be easy, but I do promise you that if you step outside of your comfort zone, if you take that one step, your life will never be the same, life truly does begin when you step past the repetitive process of a comfort zone and begin to take the risks to live the life that you deserve and that you're here for.

So, I ask you to take a moment right now and look at your life and ask yourself, "What are some of the things that I'm hiding from by staying inside of this comfort zone?" And, "What's one small step that I can take today, that I can take at the very latest, tomorrow, that would at least move me forward in a positive direction?"

I promise you that if you take that step, you will find, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now, that your life has truly taken on a new shape, continue to expand yourself, continue to expand your comfort zone, and be prepared for the wonderful ways that your life will change.

I invite you to read the book which helped me, Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) written by Neale Donald Walsch.

I look forward to hearing how your life changes for the better by expanding your own comfort zone.

Take care.

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