Work with tension

Work with tension

“You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.”

-- James G. Bilkey

We need tension in our lives. It’s the force of personal evolution -- it sparks creativity and higher consciousness. If we’re not comfortable with a situation, we try to improve it, right?

Tension arises through our experience of opposites. These opposites fight each other as each one struggles for dominance. Tension is transformed when two opposite dimensions of reality are brought together in balance and in wholeness.

Know that tension is an integral part of growth. Instead of avoiding or resisting tension when it arises, identify the opposing forces at play. Make space for each of them to be there together and the tension will transform.

We encounter tensions between positives and negatives, mind and body, self and environment, self and others, and personality and soul – the dualities in our lives.

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

I really like that quote! If you want to make a change, then try doing something out of your comfort zone. It will make the way you see things change.

Tension and discomfort can be positive catalysts in our lives and I think that is greatly overlooked. Often we think of disasters or problems when we think of being uncomfortable. But truly, it is all a matter of how you organise your thoughts. Do you see opportunites or do you see obstacles? Challenges or chaos? What do you want to create? It all begins at thought level.