How To Be Humble

Asking how to be humble is a good question.  However the answer is in the question.  In order to be humble, just be humble.

What Is Humble?

Perhaps a more relevant question is what is humbleness or what is the definition of humble.  Humble is acknowledging that anything you have or are is not really down to ‘you’.

Take away all that has come before to lay the path for you, and take away all those who helped you, and take away the fact that you did not create yourself but rather you just find yourself as you are and you can see you have very little, in fact nothing to boast about.

How To Be Humble?

So by recognising that you as the conscious individual really have little to boast about you can be humble to that which has you here and that which has provided you with what you have, including skills and talents.

If you are a fast runner, did you make yourself a fast runner?  No.  Sure you can train and improve but you did not design and create all that you are which makes you run fast.  Similarly with intelligence and business skills and whatever you may observe about yourself, you don’t have anything that you are completely responsible for achieving or creating.

Why Be Humble?

It is my opinion and experience that when you are not humble, when you believe that your success and achievements are down to ‘you’, your ego, your self-image, then that attitude is polarising.  By that I mean that the equal and opposite experience will be waiting for you also.

You will get to experience the equal and opposite experience which is the negative.  Pride comes before a fall, the well known saying goes.  The universe will arrange to take away from you the boasting or the inflated pride in yourself, so that it restores balance.

If however you achieve greatness and have the attitude of appreciating all that helped you then you will stay balanced and will not be polarising.  Recognise you actually did not achieve this thing but have been blessed to achieve it, you have been allowed to achieve it.

What Can I Do To Be Humble?

Say thank you, a lot, and mean it.  Even say it after you make a nice meal or achieve some task, like after I finish writing this page for example.  You don’t even have to be cognizant of who you are thanking, just a general thank you to everything that allowed you that experience.  Thank you is not just about gratitude but a recognition and humbleness also.