Here is a lovely quick video from Kelly McGonigal talking about how we can reinterpret stretching outside our Comfort Zone less as a threat, and more as a benefit.
It's all about understanding and reframing the physical sensations that we are feeling when we begin to stretch beyond what is the norm for us mentally and emotionally.
This is so important: understand that the discomfort is just a physical sensation. This awareness keeps us from misunderstanding and personalizing the discomfort as if it were a threat to our safety or survival.
The discomfort we find in the "stretch outside the norm" is just information, not an invitation to be triggered into Fight, Flight or Freeze or become angry, or threatened, or give up, or give in, or anything like that. It is not a signal that there is something wrong with us fundamentally as a person.
It is just our biology telling us that something new and different is happening. So lean into the discomfort. Become comfortable with the discomfort.
Welcome the discomfort because it means you are growing.
So, how do you handle the discomfort of being stretched outside your Comfort Zone at work? Does it get in your way? Do you need to develop a different approach?
I can help. Schedule a time for us to talk and I'll tell you more...