Reshaping the way you think.

Be it as a group or an individual, when a decision is made, a spark is struck and decisions made nothing is ever, or will ever be the same again. A journey of discovery has began. The waters of time [ and change] flow on around us.

Once each person realises that the world that has shaped their comfort zone has intruded, challenging the naivety and alerting our defence mechanisms, one of two things will happen. Either the walls to our comfort zones inhabited will to be reshocked. Until the next time made to withstand a grater impact. Thereby protecting from realities whilst hindering our growth potentials. Or, work to expand the comfort zone will begin. The impetuous and gravity of the developing expansions made to accommodate the new growth potential desired.

With the first decision is do you make a decision? Or just be comfortable watching life go by. Your life. If a decision is or is not made then to find a groupthat will support your decision will be one of your next decisions. The groups may be government supported and funded right down to your inner self repeating often enough that is comfortable and there is no reason to move from here. To move at all would disturb the dust mite generations which would alter the cobweb caring capacity. Life in the comfort zone is cushy for the lazy, self absorbed, comfortable inner self. Why stress yourself? Why invite pain?

The second decision gives each persons key to change acceptance. Change per say, will be uncomfortable at the best of times. People anticipate fear and loneliness. Both fear and loneliness will drive people to hunt out others going through the same change levels, or they will find and stay with a new group that has dropped out of the discoveries. Together a new comfort zone has been developed. The fear of success comfort zone.

Hunting for a group that has similar change values and expectations as your own is helpful to the alteration and acceptance of expanding your own comfort zone. Finding other who also has the same key to change acceptance. In Journeys to Justice P Hunt observes that to operate inside a comfort zone. ...outside it we feel uncomfortable. And that we Make decisions based on the confines of that comfortable space. Our inner self does not like to be exposed.

The variety, depth and level of help groups are diverse and all encompassing. Once a new comfort zone has been entered into, adjusted and reshaped our inner self settles down. Re-establishes boundaries once again. For a while we have that new identity.

Actually if the inner self was feminie it would have gone on a massive shopping spree, gathering a new identity. A bit like purchasing a new wardrobe, accessories, pots, pans and accessories. Space and time in short bursts is needed to rearrange the furniture, try on the new clothes, mix and match and invite in friends. Gotta do this again soon, and again. So time is wasted, and the journey for change is hijacked, delayed or simply put on hold. Until next time. Change is not only brought into a widening comfort zone. Old habits, acceptances, methods and views, of both ourselves, and the world we like in, have to be reshaped. At times throwing out the old for the new is painful. The old representing an established, familiar, comfortable identity and security level. New things bring fear of the unknown.

Change is inevitable. Its how each of us copes with the past changes, and the inner self, that allows the next comfort zone challenges to take place at all let alone the length and breath of change that will occur.

As Philip Hunt states "Travel has reshaped the way I think and experience the world"

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[1] Jeffers, S. Feel the fear and do it anyway. (2004) Vermillion. London. P 43

[2] Hunt, P. Journeys to Justice ( 1996) HarperCollinsReligious. Australia P 18