Being Enough
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Sometimes, the meaning of the phrase “being enough” might be hard to grasp, yet it refers to a human experience, influenced by the interplay between how others see us and how we feel about ourselves.
💡 Some prompts to get the juices flowing: * How is the belief in one's own enoughness formed?
- How do we measure enoughness?
- When do you feel that you are enough?
- How do you judge others based on their enoughness?
🥧 Food for thought:
Here’s the answer of the artist, author and public speaker Alok Vaid-Menon to the question: “What does it mean to be enough?”
“It means to be valued by what is, not what should be.
It means to be present on this Earth, to laugh and hear your own laughter, to cry and feel your own tears, to smile and feel the own musculature of your own face.
It means a profound and sacred intimacy in poetry and interconnectivity of no longer feeling like you have to formulate your body into some pre-existent template or algorithm or equation, but just being valued for the irrevocable fact of your beautiful existence.”
From The Man Enough Podcast: Alok Vaid-Menon: The Urgent Need for Compassion, 26 jul 2021