57. Productively Uncomfortable: How to Expand Your Miracle Zone
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Stepping out of our comfort zone not only allows us to live a richer, fuller life, it grows everything about us that makes us unique, special, and capable of making a true difference in this world. Tune in to Michael and Monica’s continued discussion of the comfort zone as they reveal how going against our comfort is the most powerful way to create miracles and share practical tips for being productively uncomfortable.
Spirituality is all about growth, and constantly maintaining that forward movement, that momentum, is the key. – Michael Berg
Further readings:
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
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| 0:00.0 | There's no way to fulfillment. |
| 0:10.0 | There's no way to happiness unless you're living an intense life. |
| 0:12.6 | And the only way you can live an intense life is if you're pushing yourself out of your comfort so consistently. |
| 0:17.0 | I think that we need to challenge ourselves in the very practical ways that we live. |
| 0:22.7 | And what is that really stopping us from doing? |
| 0:25.6 | Spirituality is about movement, even our spiritual understandings. |
| 0:29.9 | If we stay within that which we know, we're not spiritual. |
| 0:33.8 | So there's a nature, which is what we know and what exists. |
| 0:37.2 | And then there's the realm of miracles, which is going beyond the laws that govern our world. |
| 0:40.7 | So how do we access that? |
| 0:42.7 | When a person changes or goes against his nature and gives up of himself, |
| 0:47.0 | he forces nature to give itself no matter what the rules are. |
| 0:50.5 | The only way, really, to access that realm of the miraculous is if you go against your nature. |
| 1:00.1 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 57. Wow, 57. We hope you had a very uncomfortable |
| 1:07.2 | week. By choice. By choice. |
| 1:13.2 | And then expansive growth. |
| 1:15.6 | So it's interesting. |
| 1:21.3 | I was talking with somebody today and she wanted some advice on how she could change certain things in her relationships with many people, not just romantic, but her children. |
| 1:26.7 | And she kept sharing how it's so difficult for her to say no. She says yes to everybody, people pleases. And then I said, well, then I'm sure there's a point where you explode. I don't think she was going to divulge to that part. She's like, yes, it's exactly what happens. So I'm like, okay, well, clearly this isn't working for you. And we talked about all that. And she kept agreeing with me yesterday, but it's so hard. And I just don't know, |
| 1:50.4 | you know, I'm in a tribe. And she was still holding on to all of those things that she's |
| 1:56.0 | uncomfortable about, right? But that idea of actually saying no and being uncomfortable in that, which is clearly |
| 2:02.5 | the right thing to do, right? It's going to help her grow, change and really make her happy |
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