Eckhart Tolle argues that physical comfort weakens your body because it lacks challenge. When you push through difficult exercise like weight-lifting or running, your body floods with energy you'd never find lounging around, making movement enjoyable and strengthening you. The same principle applies to life's problems: confronting them awakens consciousness and deepens awareness.
If you want a stronger physical body, it's not going to happen. If you make life for your body as comfortable as possible, there would be nice. If it's okay, I'm going to strengthen my body now. I'm going to lie on this sofa for six hours and watch Netflix. The body will get weaker because it's not being challenged. Or you, you go out into, you start some physical exercise, lifting weights, style to small weights. Oh my God. The body doesn't like it. You're making life difficult for your body. And then there's a gap. There's not enough energy. But. But then at some point, whether it's weightlifting or running, whatever, you will experience an influx of energy which would never have come if the body had remained in its comfort zone. Then it comes and then you even begin to enjoy the movement because the energy is there before it wasn't there. If you persevere, the body gets stronger. And that's only on a physical level. Any problem. If you encounter challenges and problems in your life, you can allow the the challenge to awaken you, to make you more conscious.
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