Rest as territory selection

Do you rest by moving to territory that isn’t challenging you? Sit on the couch so you’re not physically challenged, eat familiar foods so you’re not sensory challenging, binge netflix so that you’re not mentally challenged.

Or do you rest by expanding the comfortable territory until it contains where your current environment ?

Both actions are important, but modern society has the downside that it provides limitless ways to retreat, but very little encouragement to expand.

And even more problematically, when you let your territory of comfort shrink, and you have no habit to expand it, you now need to retreat even further to get comfort, so it’ll shrink more.

I’ve long said that comfort-seeking is the enemy in modernity, but that’s not quite right. more like “retreating to comfort as an all-consuming habit” is the enemy.