[Article] Why Can’t I Leave My Comfort Zone?

In this article, Acharya Prashant reframes the "comfort zone" not as a psychological barrier, but as a primal, material struggle for physical survival.

He argues that our fear of the "new" is actually a fear of losing the "old" which provides us with food, shelter, and basic security. True spirituality, according to Prashant, is a "street fight" that requires the physical and mental grit to face hunger, homelessness, and social rejection.

If our freedom is tied to our physical needs, is true liberation only possible for those who have trained their bodies to endure?

Short excerpt from the article:

"The body will not allow you to do things where your physical sustenance gets threatened. 'What will happen to this body?’ is the fear. The one who can go without food and sleep in the streets under the open sky can never be enslaved. Have the guts to sleep in the fields, and learn to go without comforts—then the world cannot dominate you!"