As a cold water simmer, I can tell you that this is entirely true – when your hand is freezing and you put it in cold water, that cold water is going to feel warm. Even though it isn’t. Because it’s about the baseline you started with.
It’s also such a good illustration for the much-too-low baselines we can learn to accept in life – we often tolerate a situation (cold water) because life before was worse (giving us the freezing hand). Or because we don’t have any awareness – or expectation – of better.
None of us has to get used to life being just okay – but we do.
Do things feel ok right now because six months ago they were worse? Or are you genuinely living a fulfilling and exciting life in which you are truly flourishing?
I realised some time ago that the purpose of the resilience coaching I do is to set people free from the limits that childhood, the world, previous partners, social conditioning etc created in our heads. Our lives manifest from how we think about the world – and changing that will have a huge impact on reality.
Finding Freedom is my new program that will give you the opportunity to start getting free and alter that reality forever, Getting more clarity on what kind of water you’re currently in – and how to change things to find your flourishing too. We start on 4th November.