You Are Enough

You are amazing!

Stars are giant fusion reactors that transform hydrogen atoms into all the other elements in the universe. Millions of years ago, when stars went supernova, they spewed those elements throughout the universe. That’s where the oxygen in our lungs, the iron in our blood, and so much more that makes up our bodies come from. You are made of stardust.

I am here today partially because the descendants of the Maya moved north from Central Mexico and then east into what is now the southeastern U.S. around 800 AD. I’m also here partially because a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Ferdinand to precipitate the First World War. You are here, with your bodies of stardust, as the result of your own very amazing stories.

Accept All of You.

Most of our experiences, good and bad, are incorporated into our unconscious in what is called implicit memory. Implicit memory shapes our inner world and determines what it feels like to be ourselves. It gives us expectations, models for relationships, emotional tendencies, and our general world outlook.

Being mindful of your inner world—what you feel and sense and interpret about your outer experiences—helps to heal the damage of past injustices, even those that occurred so long ago you may have forgotten them. 

Mindful attention to your own daily experience activates many of the same emotional circuits that are stimulated when a child receives caring attention from parents.

Treat Yourself Kindly

It soothes anxiety and improves the immune system to deliberately bring kindness into your actions, your speech, and, most of all, your thoughts. Try to notice and interrupt negative, anxious thoughts and replace them with themes of kindness and well-being. 

It's not new-age philosophy; it's measurable, proven fact.

Those default thoughts in your mind are similar to a computer simulation--the longer the simulation is active, the more support your mind gives to the themes that fill your thoughts. Negative, anxiety-building thoughts create negative, anxious behaviors. Kind, supportive thoughts result in more kindness and support in the real world.