Callous

Not only can your body form callouses, Your mind can as well. Find out how to soften your mental callouses in this mini podcast.

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Transcript

Callous

If you’ve got calluses on your hands or fingers, there’s a good chance you’ve been working hard at something. Maybe you’re a bricklayer. Maybe you play guitar.

That same hardening can happen emotionally.

You know the kind of person I’m talking about. The ones with a barrier between them and what they feel.

So ask yourself this: Has your heart hardened toward something—or someone? How did it get that way? And what calluses are keeping you from feeling?

Calluses exist for a reason. At one point, they protected you from being hurt.

But the situation that caused them may be long gone . . . and yet, we keep working to maintain them—just in case. Just to keep our feelings at arm’s length.

A callus becomes a border. Between you and what you feel.

So here’s the real question: What are you afraid to feel?

That fear causes your calluosness.

A well-meaning counselor might tell you to “face your fears,”but often stops short of giving you a usable strategy.They can’t talk you out of fear—no matter how skilled they are.

What you almost never hear is this: You don’t think your way out of fear. You feel your way out.

Feeling your fear is a reality-based strategy. Avoiding it is an illusion—a head trip—that asks you to deny what’s already here. And that denial keeps the callus intact.

Your mind can jump to the past or the future in a nanosecond. It's great at avoiding the present.

But your body? Your body is always here. Anchored in reality.

When you allow yourself to notice fear in your body—not analyze it, not explain it—that’s when something workable appears.That’s when a door opens to softness and peace.

Take the fear out of your head and notice it in your body.

It’s like paying attention to a knock in the engine instead of worrying about how you’ll look behind the wheel.

Don’t talk about how bad the knock is. Feel it.

It might shake the whole car. But pretending it isn’t there only makes you stiffer.

Just look at people who are rigid.There’s a reason we call them callous.

They’re insulated—from themselves.

If you want to soften your calluses, reconnect with your body.

It’s a way to make life less hard—for you, and for the people around you.

All the best,

John