Sommeliers of Discomfort

The problem that you and I have is that in order to grow we must be willing to look into our discomfort; in fact the guide to our potential is shown to us through our discomfort.Unfortunately, in our society we have so many ways to avoid our discomfort. Most of the people who come to me have been avoiding discomfort most of their lives, having learned to repress it early in life and in a deep and profound way. This is virtually universally true in us.The great thing that people find when they begin using Inquiry Method is that there is a huge upside to looking into discomfort, finding the root and the lesson or healing that is waiting inside it. Begin to befriend and experience your discomfort.When I am working somatically with a person I have them physically feel the discomfort in their bodies, by getting out of your head you can actually experience your discomfort. Most of us avoid our discomfort and experience it as unpleasant thoughts or emotions. If you are willing stop thinking about it and instead, feel the physical experience of it you may find a different relationship with it.I recommend becoming a connoisseur of your discomfort; begin to explore it as you would explore a great bottle of wine, what are the nuances? This kind of exploration can sometimes lead to a huge breakthrough of understanding and awareness.On another level, when we stop running from our discomfort we begin to free ourselves from the patterns that running from our discomfort brings. Start watching how your patterns in life develop out of avoiding discomfort. Do these patterns really relieve you or are they more along the lines of covering it up? How does covering up your discomfort affect your life?