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Belonging
Acceptance!
Belonging is feeling of acceptance that you're a part of a group or community.
A place where you are valued and appreciated.
A place where you can be heard and a place to hear and connect with others.
It's a bit like being part of a warm, supportive family.
When we feel like we belong, we're more content and emotionally healthy.
We have people who care about us, and we have the opportunity to care about them.
Building a sense of belonging is like creating a safety net for our mental well-being, providing comfort and support.
An outsiders guide to belonging
The essencial power of belonging
Belonging is the warm fuzzy feeling of being part of something bigger than yourself.
A place where you are valued, appreciated and respected.
Belonging is not just being a member of say a club or something that serves you as an individual.
Belonging in my book is where you are part of a team where the team or group does something that involves the whole team to collaborate and get the job done.
It takes the ideas or feelings of belonging that often is the reward for being of service to others or a common goal.
Book: Happy Mind Happy Life - Dr Rangan Chatterjee 2022
As adults, each of us is ultimately responsible for our own alignment, cntentment and sense of being in control.
Looking outward has a powerful positive effect because we are wired to connect with others.
As a tribal species, we’re wired to thrive when we are of service to people around us.
We’re born with an almost magical ability to pick up what others are feeling through tone of voice, body language, micro-expressions, and even smell, so we can figure out what they’re feeling and know if they need help.
Yet Want (Consumption) Brain cultures are individualistic.
We live in nuclear families, rather than the extended families we evolved in.
We often set up home many miles away from where we were born and where our support networks are based.
We’re encouraged to see ourselves not as members of connected communities but as isolated beings.
We’re bombarded with messages about how we can improve our own lives and in some ways, this is a good thing: individualism is based on the precious value of the individual, and this idea gave us the concept of human rights.
But in other ways , the individualist focus on the self can cause us to suffer.
It makes us prone to neglect the parts of us that naturally yearn to give ourselves away to others.
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Updated: November 2023
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