03-28-2017, 10:06 PM
(03-27-2017, 11:40 PM)Ankh Wrote: I noticed this myself that when one is comfortable one is less likely to be seeking than when one is in some sort of pain. I wish it wouldn't be like that.
I try to do uncomfortable things often, mindfully, and I've started to appreciate higher and higher levels of uncomfortable feelings. It's harder when it appears that the uncomfortable is forced upon you, but conscious seeking out of both uncomfortable and comfortable experience in mindfulness will help strengthen your uncomfortable-appreciation muscle.
For example I've been sleeping on hard floor no cushion and taking freezing cold showers (although this one has started to become almost orgasmic in its ability to draw out unused energy reserves from your cells and energy pathways).
Less physical but more difficult is talking to people face-to-face. I find it's best not to force but to allow yourself to desire conversation with random people. Conversations with people for me are like taking a cold plunge in a freezing lake, for the ego. It refreshes and terrifies your complex all at once. And makes you more accepting of future plunges.