But that discomfort is what propels us off the couch, away from the relationship or job that's gone flat, that no longer serves us. We should really welcome discomfort and a dash of fear, because we can use that fear and transmute it into energy and the excitement we need to launch a new life. The Void is the place between, that squirmy, dark place we've got to go to feel just how much we need to move on and integrate some learning. When we've just come out of a lot of pain and turmoil, the Void allows us to prepare for the new. It's like the quiet time the butterfly larva spends in its cocoon gaining strength as it metamorphoses into the wonderful new creature it is becoming.
Worthwhile things take risk.
Like the butterfly, we must be willing to enter the no man's land while we transition into our new and better selves. That only happens through the process of breaking free of its cocoon slowly. Like the butterfly, we need to take risks to grow strong. We need times of transition where we begin to take risks, to prepare to be the greater person we are becoming. If we didn't feel some fear, which we can re-label anticipation or excitement, and if we didn't take risks, our emotional and spiritual selves would atrophy.