Tuesday, 27 March 2012
I am Enough
Being 'enough' is a real issue for me.
Being vulnerable has been a challenge.
I have had to learn to be gentle with myself. To accept my limitations, to not push myself to the limit all the time. I need to tell myself I am enough. I am loved and capapble of loving deeply from the heart. I need to practice gratitude and joy, the antidotes of shame. I want to live an authentic life that means something. I want to feel like my sould is clean, that I can breathe freely, I want to be weightless. Shame makes me feel weighed down, heavy, laden. It gets stuck. I feel shame when I compare myself to others and wish my life to be like theirs, when I fail to see what I have or take care of it. I feel shame when I let myself be trampled, my dreams dismissed - I don't like myself when I don't stand up for me.
I'm having a thoughtful couple of weeks, things are up and down. This is helping me a lot.
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I completely know what you mean, especially about envying others and not appreciating what you have... Definitely something to think about! -hug- hope you're okay! A x
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy :) I will be fine once I am done with this 'spiritual struggle' it comes and goes. I embrace it as part of being a feeling, actively living and experiencing human x x
DeleteWow! And she ended by saying 'That's all I have' !! It's taken me a lot of years to learn that what she was saying is actually 'all there is'! That's it. She said it all. Thanks for posting this - it matters. xCathy
ReplyDeleteI agree Cathy, it is all-there-is. I cried when I watched this as I felt so deeply about what she says, especially about feeling we don't deserve connection - crikey that hits hard. Glad you found it inspiring as I did :) x
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