This week on the Royale, exploring the wilderness of your discomfort.

I'd like you to take a moment to consider all of the places or circumstances that you escape.

They flee into daydream or fantasy in order to not exist in the present moment with what

you're feeling so uncomfortable with.

Long winter months, your feelings of loneliness, your discomfort and stillness and

seemingly stagnant periods of being.

These are all examples of places we often run from and avoid.

By spending hours in our minds attempting to bring about change faster or willing

the summer sun to come sooner.

We leave the present circumstance because we feel broody and trapped somehow.

We've reached our breaking point and have entered into tremendous discomfort.

We have crossed a line where we have decided we can no longer stand in this place we must

escape.

There's a moment when we decide we need to distract and run.

When we reach our limits in love, in the stillness of nature, in winter, what would it look

like if we step one step closer into it rather than as we so habitually do away?

When we've reached our breaking point, what could these places of discomfort bring to

us if we chose instead to explore them further?

There's richness there, hiding in our borders, hiding in the places we don't care to look,

avoid or feel our greatest challenge in facing with grace rather than resistance.

If we could learn to wander in instead of away, if we crossed our road lines into the unknown

territories we have called to pouring or uncomfortable, what could we find?

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