The Comfort Zone
Navigate towards safety, comfort, connection
“…our bodies need us to turn inward and attune ourselves to the intelligence they offer instead of outward, where we rely on others to instruct us or alarm us.”
READ THIS BEFORE YOU PRACTICE…
In this practice we will explore the internal sense of safety. The subjective internal sense of safety is supported by the objective external safety, but the two of them don’t always go hand in hand. One can be in an objectively safe external environment and still not have an internal experience of being safe.
Before you do the practice see if you can find an external place of safety in your own home, in nature, at a friends or family members home where you won’t be disturbed. So that you know that you’ve chosen a safe environment for yourself.
If your home is not a safe environment I encourage you to reach out to a help line in your area, health professionals, police, friends, family for support. This practice is not to bypass the actual situation that you are in.
If you notice when you do the practice that a sense of safety is not as accessible as you thought or would like it to be, the next sections can be helpful… do the practice in the other sections and then return again to the comfort zone practice. These practices build on each other and are an iterative and cumulative process.