This Saturday, I went on a Shine Meditation Workshop………what a lovely name, that in itself was enough to make me want to attend! I love the thought of Shine, in fact when I worked on my personal Avatar a couple of years ago, that was one of my big statements, I wanted to Shine Bright 🙂
Anyway, I digress slightly, I went on the workshop (not JUST because of the name :-)), but I loved the fact that it was run along the lines of the Mind Body connection, with science to back up how beneficial Meditation is for you, how it can help you develop new neural pathways, get rid of self limiting beliefs and hence help you towards living a more fulfilling, happier life – surely something we should all be striving for?
Her thinking was very aligned with mine and what I focus on when helping people with their Mindset – it was great to hear someone else say the same things but in a different way, introduce me to some interesting research, some new books and some new thoughts – what could be better, I absolutely LOVE learning as much as I can about something I’m passionate about.
It made me really think again about the ‘issues’ we all have and this, on top of a couple of coaching calls I did last week, just reaffirmed that everything that holds us back, everything that stops us achieving what we want out of life is “Self Worth”
It all comes down to Self Worth: even in those who appear very confident on the outside, the vast majority of us suffer from lack of self worth.
Even when we are working at making improvements in our lives, in the way we think, in the way we react or respond to situations, we are striving to be better, to be more than we are. However, if we are constantly striving to be more than we are, we are just going to compound our feelings of lack of self worth, we are going to end up feeling that somehow we are not enough, not good enough, not clever enough, not confident enough, not pretty enough, not slim enough, not fit enough…..the list is endless.
To make those changes in your life, you really need to start from the premise that YOU ARE ENOUGH, because until you truly accept and believe that, you will be playing a comparison game, and that only serves to making you feel less than enough! It also serves to keep you stuck exactly where you are. You will never achieve what you want as you’ll be always waiting until you are good enough, clever enough, confident enough etc etc.
Have you ever noticed how babies, toddlers and little children never question whether they are enough or not, they just accept they are and sadly start to learn to question their self worth through experiences with adults?
We all start out happy and full of self worth, if we have low self esteem then that’s because we’ve learnt it along the way, it doesn’t mean it’s a truth – so if you have low self esteem, it’s time you unlearn it.
Start today, make today that day you believe YOU ARE ENOUGH exactly as you are right now and your life will change and shift in ways you never thought possible 🙂