How does Comfort Make You Feel?
When we experience comfort, we often find ourselves wrapped in a blanket of safety, security, and sense of belonging. It is as if a weight is lifted off our shoulders, and we feel a warmth radiating throughout our body and soul. But why do we derive such emotions from comfort?
Types of Comfort
Research suggests that there are various types of comfort we experience in different situations, making it clear that one person’s perception of comfort is not universally the same (Kolcaba, 2003).
| Relief-type | Easy-type | Transcending-type |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting comfort needs, easing pain/ discomfort, releasing tension, and minimizing physical/ mental stress (physical comfort). | Soft surfaces, ideal temperatures, visual clarity, silence/earrings/musically inclined, no distractions | Elevating to a broader state of experience, seeing connections, appreciating what has been discovered, exploring options, acknowledging the learning from the challenges |
Some studies have pointed out three basic types: relief-oriented (meeting discomfort needs, removing pain/distress); easy-oriented (soft/matte surfaces, ideal light levels, easy-to-blow air blowing); transcend-oriented (new experiences beyond own limits), which the comfort equation emphasizes for a profound understanding for many people today.
| Self-Discrepancies | |
|---|---|
| Gap | Wish-Melancholia (fearfulness) |
| How we now do things | * fear of discomfort |
| How people close to the person should see them performing tasks for achieving their satisfaction | Not how they wanted to grow & change |
Role of Comfort
Comfort’s role also changes depending on the emotional responses we create. From experiences during physical labor jobs & also in spiritual practices comforting the entire body/soul, but also just helping us become more active about our **self-empires as managers.
Self-image with self-love = greater self-tolerance which would be of great usefulness by the various self-as managements techniques. What these self-forging with self-perfection has resulted in better self-explainations – the overall ability to more easily solve own problems because of much understanding of each other so long as.