Dare to change

What does change mean to you?  especially when someone (may be yourself) asks if you are ready to change? Does it sound scary? Do you get excited about it? Or does it seem to be a repeatedly boring subject which may never happen to you?
 
Is the change something that you usually try to avoid (even by trying to be indifferent about it) or an attractive wish list.
We may have  heard or we may  believe on 'change your questions, change your life', 'change your mind, change your body' or the famous quote of Gandhi; ' be that change you want to see in the world'. But sometimes we may get lost in the invasion  of big fundamental questions, that we may give up at the first little steps. Sometimes, we are so confused or under pressure which we could not be aware of where we stand and what the damn thing we need to change!!

"The new world is being born and we

Unaware of changes (still) standing in our survival (spot)" - Molana (Rumi)
 
No matter our gender, age, race or type we all have one common starting point and one common  navigator  for change:   Our  comfort Zone and Our  mind. The interesting thing is that we need to deal with a navigator, the mind, who is also the source of all the boundaries to change! (We'll come back to this issue later)

No matter which human behavior model to follow  psychodynamic, behaviorism,  TA..., we are commonly living in our comfort zone.  The comfort zone is  described as a mental conditioning that causes a person to create and operate mental boundaries.   These personal boundaries include:  beliefs, opinions, past experiences, habits and social learning.

Our comfort zone may not be even a comfortable place to stay in, but usually we predict that stepping out of it may be make us more uncomfortable. So we try to cling to our safe beliefs and habits, which make us who we are (as we think), as much as possible.
Some people say magic happens outside of this comfort zone and show  it by the following draw:

(They also define some lucky bastards with inside comfort zone Magic!)

I  say  the magic (moving from ordinary life to extra ordinary) is  the process of stepping out,  and the result is just a regulated outcome.
There is also another model which categorizes the stepping out to three level of : Stretch, Risk and danger.
 

 

 In this model, which is usually applied in personal/organizational behaviour studies, the comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk. The model indicates that  everyone has an optimal performance zone where his/her level of concentration and focus is enhanced because of the raised level of anxiety of stepping out of the comfort zone.

By understanding the student capabilities (zones), the flight trainers try to keep the students  to experience flight in their stretch zone.

I'll continue the discussion and a new model of human comfort zone later. Meantime, you can have quiz about your own comfort zone at:

http://www.whatismycomfortzone.com/

Have fun