This Moment Is Enough

Hi, welcome back to your Daily Mindfulness. In today's session, we're going to talk about how to feel into this moment being enough. And I'd like to start this with a poem by David Whyte and it's called, Enough. He writes, "Enough. These few words are enough.

If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now. Until now." So take a moment to sense into what that poem might be pointing to. I know for me personally, there are a lot of moments that feel like it's not enough.

Like I need to get something, get somewhere else, complete something, improve this. And once I get there, then it'll be enough. But there's never been a previous moment where I got to that place and it was permanently enough. This treadmill doesn't actually end. And so what would it be like to experience this moment as enough? To still have goals and to still want to improve certain things, but to be able to appreciate the depth of what is here along the journey.

And maybe take a moment for yourself to sense is there a feeling of not enoughness. And what does it feel like? Where is it in your body? Is it in the hands? Is it this energetic feeling of needing to get somewhere. And let's just take a deep breath, settling into it in, through the nose, out through the mouth. The belief that there is some future moment, more worth our presence than the one we're in right now is why we miss our lives. So you're doing the work.

You're training your mind to be here and you're training yourself to appreciate the journey rather than just the end point. And I'm proud of you for that. You're doing great. Thank you for your practice. And I'll talk to you shortly in the meditation.

Take care.