Getting comfortable with self

In our modern technological age we have the ability to find distractions the tip of our fingers. The consequence of this is we are loosing touch with being comfortable with ourselves.

Many people can no longer sit or lay quietly without having music playing, listening to a podcast or watching YouTube or scrolling through social media.

This loss of quiet, restful time, never allows for the small still voice from within you to be heard. The constant need for distraction via technology doesn’t allow for the time and space the mind and body needs to hear this inner voice nudging and guiding you towards your future.

Overstimulation of the sensors leads to the activation of the fight or flight survival response. This dopamine driven reward anticipation of something exciting or pleasurable happening ends up getting triggered to often and pushed to far and then it flips and the ability to derive pleasure from these stimuli drops away. This means that things you found enjoyable previously decreases and you will seek out new, potentially more risky things to get the same hit.

Learning to balance the “doing” and the “being” of life becomes vitally important in keeping the survival fight or flight response and dopamine reward cascade in check.

Building in time within your day or week to stop, without distraction, allowing time to unwind, rest, and completely relax will allow you to re-connect with yourself. Repeating this as the weeks go by, you may just find that you not only get comfortable with yourself again but begin to fall in love with the amazing being who is buried deep within you.