The line of less than
less than
adjective
having a smaller number or amount than
phrase of less
far from; certainly not. "Mitch looked less than happy"
You use less than to say that something does not have a particular quality.
For example, if you describe something as less than perfect, you mean that it is not perfect at all.
[emphasis]
Her greeting was less than enthusiastic.
Her advice has frequently been less than wholly helpful.
Self-Worth is fundamental for someone to live a powerfully purposeful life. Our optimum state is “enough”, no more, no less. Unfortunately, our value of self is an inside job that only we control, growing up it can unknowingly get damaged, tarnished, distorted by other people’s opinions and the way they treat us. Our society and the people we spend time with, affect our inner integrity, and over time can this can be diluted until suddenly we begin to make decisions and choose from a value of “less than” enough.
I like to explain self-worth like the London underground. Taking my kids into London when young we said if you ever find you’re traveling in the wrong direction:
- STOP!!
- cross the platform
- and return 🙂
Although it takes time to master in mindset we can do the same anytime we find ourselves choosing from a place of less than. First stop is "negative thoughts", you loose hours, days and the best part of your life in this area.
On the tube this can take time, but the truth is once you realise you’ve stepped down the line of “less than” in life, you can return like Dorothy in the Wizard of oz. She tapped her feet and said, “there’s no place like home”. We can do the same, as we realise, we’ve been choosing something less than. As you start to master this and you catch yourself you can stop, smile and then return to a place of choosing from a place of enough.
Another stop is “self-abuse” which takes you off to places such as overeating, self-harm, self-sabotage and many others. These elements in life can only be found through the line of less than. Would you choose that for someone you loved unconditionaly, so why do you accept it for you?
You may know someone with money, status that appears somehow "more than" you. They may seem powerfully loud as they speak, drive their convertible around so everyone can see, flash expensive watch’s and desperate to tell everyone what their next big venture or purchase is. The truth is "more than" is a myth and something only found from the line of less than. If you were enough you wouldn’t need to stand on tip toes to appear bigger. You would simply be enough!! No more, no less, in whatever, wherever and with whoever you are in life.
The last stop……. suicide.
The ultimate form of self-abuse is for someone to take their own life. Self-value becomes so little and or internal abuse so great that a decision is made to terminate life seems the best course of action.
Over time the distance we've created from the truth of enough and self care and our state of mind seem a million miles away.
Most of us were taught that being on this line was normal, acceptable, part of life and we find stratagies to cope with it. We’ve attachments to the drama that goes on down there and find ourselves slipping onto it all too easily.
All roads lead to freedom.....
Self-love, happiness, empathy, wealth, peace of mind are all treasures you can access, but only from a place of enough. Just like Dobey in Harry Potter who was enslaved to a master. Only after being set free was he able to access joy and the positive things in life.
Why not treat yourself to the permision to choose "Enough" for you and the decisions you make in life.
Quote
“Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter,
and those who matter don’t mind”
Bernard M. Baruch
Questions to help you think differently:
- How would you choose if you was coming from the line of enough?
- When thinking about a situation you feel maybe clouded with a lack of self-worth. Ask yourself If you had a child or someone that you loved unconditionally, what would you choose for them to have or feel in that situation?
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