Are you in an echo chamber coma?

As emotional beings it's easy to slip into an I'm right stance when we feel strongly about something and our perspective is challenged. The strength of our righteousness can indicate how important a thing is to us. Yet if we're willing to dig in, we may find that our stance is also an indicator of something living behind that importance—a hidden fear we hold.

Humans tend to cling to the things that help us feel safe and secure. A sense of safety and security is a basic need we all have. Yet it is also true that when we open to new perspectives and face our fears, we grow past many of our insecurities and expand into new levels of wisdom.

If we never do anything to challenge our views or fears, we keep ourselves in a narrow space called an echo chamber that gives us a false sense of safety, superiority and even righteousness. From that space it's easy to miss the larger complexities of life and human existence. Echo chambers aren't where we find real empowerment or true safety. They are where we confirm our conditioning and embrace a false sense of safety based on ego validation.

It's in challenging our views and fears that we access true safety by virtue of deepening into our authentic selves. Through that journey of self-discovery we not only forge a more authentic relationship with ourselves but between ourselves and others.

The journey out of echo chamber and into real wisdom may not be an easy one, yet it is one that can lead humanity to a more fulfilling existence.

Remember if we change nothing, nothing changes.