You're Enough As You Are

You're enough as you are. You're alive. You exist. You're here. That makes you enough. No matter what's happening in your life. It's easy to forget our value because the world is always telling us what we need to do, have, and be to be okay. But the truth is you're enough right now because you're here.

Transcript

Hi,

This is Brooks and thank you for joining me.

Today,

We're going to talk about how you're enough as you are.

I like to bring this up because there's so much pressure from the world to be something other than we are.

We constantly are getting messages like,

You should be like this,

You should do this,

You have to do this,

You shouldn't do this.

They're very persuasive voices.

And so we end up feeling,

You know,

Because we,

There's so many messages out there and they're repeated over and over again,

We start feeling like we're not enough as we are.

That there's something wrong with us in one way or another.

And then we get that feeling like I gotta add something to my life or I have to do something different to become more valuable,

To become enough in my own eyes and in other people's eyes.

And we can spend a whole lifetime trying to become whatever that means to be enough,

You know,

And it's totally exhausting.

And,

You know,

We may do something that temporarily makes us feel okay for a brief moment and then that feeling comes back in,

I need to get more,

I need to become more,

I need to have more,

I need to do more.

And my feeling is to go the opposite direction.

My feeling is that we're enough as we are,

Regardless of what's happening in our life,

Regardless of financial,

Personal,

Health,

Spiritual situation,

Whatever is going on,

That we're enough.

And by enough I mean we're here,

We're alive,

We exist.

For me that means enough.

And I think it's a healthier way to live because otherwise we're dependent on things outside of us to give us a feeling of of being enough,

Of,

You know,

We qualify how we are based on what we have in our life,

What we're doing.

And that's a hard life to maintain.

And it's not honest anyway because we're enough because it is truly,

We're truly enough because we're alive.

If we weren't alive we wouldn't be able to experience anything.

None of the things in our life would exist if we weren't alive.

So being alive is quite profound.

It's quite auspicious.

It's quite wonderful.

But it goes unnoticed because we're always alive.

We notice the things that come and go.

We notice contrast.

So unless we've had a brush with death we really don't notice this aliveness that's within us.

We don't notice that we're filled to the brim with life.

The life force is always in us.

As long as we're alive it's always there.

That same energy that rotates planets around the sun,

The inconceivable amount of energy it would take to rotate a planet around the sun breathes us,

Pumps our heart,

Circulates our blood.

So we're filled with quite a mighty power,

Quite a mighty force,

This force of life itself.

And maybe as I'm talking about it you might get a sense of that feeling of life in yourself.

You might start to notice that,

That which is already there.

The great thing about being alive is you can't be more alive or less alive.

You're alive.

You can't be better at being alive.

You know,

Finally,

Finally I'm more alive.

You know,

You're alive.

And that says a lot and that means a lot.

And you take a moment to notice that your breathing's happening spontaneously.

Your body's naturally drawing in that breath,

Naturally exhaling that breath.

You're not doing it.

Life itself is doing it.

Life itself is breathing you.

It's literally,

Life itself is literally giving you the gift of life.

All the time.

It beats your heart,

It circulates your blood.

You don't do it.

Life does it for you and as a result here you are.

It's quite amazing.

It's quite amazing.

So life itself,

Life itself has unconditional love for you because it lifts you.

It gives you life.

Life doesn't say,

Well you don't deserve it.

Or you didn't work hard enough to be alive.

Or you know,

The multitude of ways that we can depreciate ourselves.

You know,

If you remember not enough or if we just do this we'd be enough.

That doesn't come to play with life.

Life gives us our breath regardless of how we feel about ourselves,

Regardless of our circumstances.

So life feels we're enough.

And the evidence is that we're here.

So that's why I feel that you're enough as you are.

It's worth considering.

It's worth contemplating because the alternative is again,

I'm not enough until,

You know,

Fill in the blank,

Until I find the right person.

Until I get this much money or I get this house or I get this job.

Even spiritually,

You know,

I'm not enough until I become more loving or more compassionate.

More patient.

And once I become enlightened,

You know,

We can find so many excuses for why we think we're not enough.

Yet the fact is we're alive and we're here and we're enough because of that.

Again,

It goes against the normal way of thinking.

That we have to be amazing and do amazing things or have amazing things to be enough.

But as you know,

As you from being alive up to this point,

You know,

That's an exhausting way to live.

And deep down we know it's not true.

We know that,

Excuse me,

This idea that once I have or become or am or stop doing or whatever it is that I'm enough,

Deep down we know that's not true.

We know it's a lie.

We know it's false.

Deep down.

But that's why I like to talk about it out loud,

You know.

Talk about it out loud.

So,

You know,

You start to recognize this aliveness,

You know.

I'm filled to the brim from the top of my head to the tip of my toes with life.

Regardless of what's happening today,

I'm filled with life.

You can even be tired and filled with life.

You can even have a headache and be filled with life.

Things could not be going your way at all and you could still be filled with life.

These momentary bumps in the road,

These momentary pains are not an indicator of our worth.

Life is a mixture of pain and pleasure.

They change hands.

Life is vast so it has incredible differences and diversity and change.

Life is filled with change and as a result of that some days for some moments things hurt and other moments they feel good and they switch back and forth.

This all happens amidst being alive.

And this aliveness is an indicator that we're enough as we are.

So I encourage you to consider this and think about it,

You know.

Try it on.

See how it feels or maybe even just forget about what I talked about today.

And you know information has a way of sinking in past the mind into the heart and we start to have spontaneous personal discoveries like yeah I'm breathing,

I'm being breathed.

Yeah I'm alive and it's whatever's going on I'm alive.

That means something.

Maybe even feel like I'm enough because I'm alive.

So you might be surprised.

I wish you the best.

Take care.

Bye.

Reviews

Very inspiring

Thank you so much. I really, really needed to hear this message today.