This Moment is Enough!

It is early morning, and I am sitting on my porch opening to the newness of this day. Such joy arises from simply being present with life. I am aware of the cool air on my face and hands, the subtle morning smells, the music of the birds, the sight of leaves turning red and gold. In this moment, there is no need to have anything be any different than what it is. This moment is enough!

You knew this connection with life when you were very young. You didn’t live in past and future. You weren’t constantly trying to be someone or someplace else. You were simply open to life – open to the great river of creativity that is life.

Wherever you are right now, this moment of your life is completely brand new. It has taken 13.8 billion years of creativity for it to show up this way! Life has never appeared as it is right now, and it will never again. And whether you can see it or not, it is enough. In fact, it is more than enough for it is where wholeness, peace and lasting joy is to be found.

To be fully here for life (without laying a story over the top of it) is what you are homesick for.  When you were growing up, your attention got caught in your mind and you may not even be aware that you think your way through life. In other words, you experience life as a thought rather than the living experience of it.

What would happen if, for a moment, you let go of all the wanting, fixing, judging, fearing, and resisting that you live in most of the time and fully experience life right now, no matter what is happening? What would happen if you recognized that everything you long for and everything you truly are is right here, right now? What would happen if you knew that this moment was your home? And what would happen if you finally realized that the safest thing you will ever do is be here for life – not an idea of it, but the living experience?

I am inviting you to take a radical step – pull your attention out of your mind and use it instead to fully experience this living moment of your life. For just a few moments, lift your eyes from what you are reading and see life, hear it, feel it. Can you feel the newness, the preciousness, and the uniqueness of this moment? Even a few moments of fully connecting with life matter. Then watch your attention drift back into your mind, which is always trying to do life rather than be life. Can you see how the clouds of thought cut you off from fully being here for life?

Once you see that there is a huge difference between thinking about life and being fully here for it, the mind will turn this into a problem, a problem that needs to be fixed i.e. “I need to control my mind, meditate more, do more yoga, quit my job.” Can you see that is just more of the game of struggle that your mind so easily slips into? Instead, simply be willing to notice, a number of times a day, that your attention is following your thoughts wherever they go. And then bring your attention back to this living moment of your life.

Because the momentum of thought is so strong, it can be helpful to connect these moments to something you do a few times throughout the day. Wash your hands when you are washing your hands, really taste your food for at least the first 3 bites anytime you eat, allow a long slow outbreath when you are waiting at a stoplight. If your mind simply forgets to notice life, you can set the timer on your phone and whenever it rings, you become curious about what this moment of your life is like. And that may include noticing that your mind is resistant to noticing anything!

The more you give yourself the gift of pulling your attention out of the stories in your head and instead connecting with this living moment of your life, the more life will naturally guide you on your path back to the “enoughness” of this moment, back to your true home.

If this blog resonated with you and want to explore more of my work, I invite you to listen to my upcoming radio show on Dreamvisions 7 Radio: The Third Key to a Joy Filled Life, It will air on Thursday, October 31st and November 7th at 5am and 5pm HERE. After the 7th, it will be available on demand, along with every other radio show I’ve ever done HERE. Please feel free to explore my catalog and listen to topics that call to you.

Offerings:

You are invited to join us for the next Free Live Call: Does Pain have to be so Painful? We will be meeting on Tuesday, December 3rd at 5:30 pm PST for an hour and a half. We will continue to meet every two months, so keep an eye out for future events!

We all experience pain.  And we all experience all levels of pain – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

But we are living in an exciting time where we are changing our relationship to pain.  Join Mary in exploring how, rather than resisting the pains in your life, you can befriend them so that you receive the gifts that always come with them.

Don’t forget if you can’t make it on the day, you can still participate by sending your questions and enjoying the recording after the call at your convenience. I hope to see you there!

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