Don't We Love to be Comfortable?

     We just love comfort, and really, I mean really, dislike (feel uncomfortable about !) all manner of discomfort. Yet guess what, we live in a sea of change, largely out of our control - an inherently uncomfortable situation! So comfort, if we're being honest, is a brief sporadic experience. Then how can we effectively make the best of the greater part of life?
     What's the absolute worst that can happen to us? This is where we get really freaked out and start relying on luck, statistics, Zodiac signs, favors from extraterrestrial beings etc. Regardless, we will all experience not one, but probably several "shipwrecks" in our life. Even for these worst-case scenarios we have what it takes to not just survive, but use to our ultimate benefit & thrive! See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/05/self-concept-worldview.html and http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2013/12/health-within-illness-prioritizing.html
     Optimizing our quality of life obviously goes well beyond doing common-sense things to control our environment. And clearly, putting more & more effort into control does not exactly bring happiness. 

     "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." General Omar Bradley, commander of US ground forces, Normandy invasion, WW II

       “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.” Albert Einstein 

     We need to spend less time & effort egocentrically obsessing about comfort, and direct more of our limited resources towards being evolved human beings by upgrading our prefrontal cortex & heart. See: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/11/cracks-in-armour-great-gift.html

Dalhousie University on February 13, 2014