Fill yourself up until you are overflowing with your own humanity. Be humanFUL.
When we are satiated by the fullness of our own humanity—when we are “humanful”—we then get the pleasure of pursuing not just what we lack, but what we truly desire.
Can you feel that tipping point where acting to fill a void tips over into sharing excitement and desire from a place of fullness? That’s our sweet spot.
But… how do we fill ourselves up?
By being fully human:
Filling our senses with healthy pleasures.
Spending our energy on what feeds us back: healthy food, water, movement, authentic connection, beauty, awe.
Healing.
Resting.
Playing.
Co-creating.
Fueling our passions, core values, and deep desires.
Fostering healthy relationships, ones in which we all get to be exactly who we are and who we aren’t.
Expanding our definition of “human” to include the environment that supports us, grows us, and nourishes us, to include all the other earthlings, flora and fauna alike, in our interconnected web of life.
Nourishing them back, so they can continue to nourish us.
Wondering.
Sharing.
Giving and receiving.
To know ourselves and to honor ourselves is to fill ourselves up.
When you are full of yourself in the healthiest way possible, then please—GIVE the gift of yourself.
You—yes, you—are the gift you are meant to give.
Be an earthling. Love earth. Act accordingly.
In a universe where everything is interdependent, we are made human by our connection to all that is.
We’re not human perched on top of all that is. We did not evolve in some hermetically sealed capsule.
We evolved WITH all the other earthlings—saltwater, cicadas, orchids, worms, hawks, gazillions of bugs, maples, giraffes, amethyst, groundhogs, fire, dust, dew, whale sharks, waterfalls.
All of it.
We take in tiny remnants of it all every single time we breathe, eat, see, hear, touch.
The word “human” has its roots in the Latin “humus,” which means earth. We are of the earth.
When the earth changes, we change. When we change, the earth changes. We all have our place, and when one thing changes, all things do.
The only way to truly be happy and healthy is to love and respect ourselves, others, and everything.
If we are made human by all that is, we must love earth and all the other beings who share this planet (and universe, and multiverse, and…) in order to be fully human. Humanful.
I’ve started using the word “humanful,” because to me, it feels like filling ourselves up with our own humanity—in the largest sense of our human earthlingness, connected in a reciprocal relationship to all that is—not the small, arbitrarily separate sense.
When we are full to overflowing with ourselves—not in some unhealthy, ego-based narcissism, but in knowing and feeding our own generative, divine fire because it is also earth’s fire—it’s so much easier to find balance, generativity, and generosity, and spill that over into loving everything else.
It’s so much easier to find our purpose.
I think the purpose of humans is to be fully healthy, happy humans, because I happen to think that that works out well for everything else.
To me, this is how we define our humanity: by remembering and loving our true nature and our place here as earthlings—entangled with everyone and everything else.
Humanful.
