Part 8: What If Capacity is the Deeper Skill? “Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.” — Rabindranath Tagore A Final Reflection on Capacity. What [...]

As I have been writing about capacity, pressure, presence, agency, and resonance, I keep arriving at a meaningful and relevant question beneath them all. What if we became comfortable with the idea of enough? Being, doing, and having “enough”. One of the hardest challenges in our society and culture is the constant need, drive, expectation, and demand for “more”. As a result, we are always asking our nervous system for more, and our nervous system isn't designed for the constant pressure of “moreness,” so how do we counterbalance this? What if we valued “enough” instead?

As I have been exploring this whole idea of capacity, a question that emerges for me is: how do we sustain capacity in a high-demand world that is always asking for more, built on production and doing, rather than presence and being? I don’t have a single answer to the question of how we sustain capacity over time, but I believe the question itself is important and really matters.

A felt sense is an internal aura that encompasses everything you feel and know about the given subject at a given time. It encompasses it and communicates it to you all at once rather than detail by detail.”  - Eugene Gendlin, in his work on Focusing and the Felt Sense