What if this moment is enough?

When we tune into our experience without clinging, pushing or pulling, a sort of softness and ease naturally arises.

From this space of calm, we might ask ourselves: What if this moment is enough? What if there is nothing to improve?

A lot of our desire for self-improvement stems from a place of self-deficiency. As a result we feel like we’re never enough, and also project this onto others.

But this way of viewing is conditioned and optional. There are times, for example, when we don’t see things this way.

When a baby is born, we don’t look at it and say: ‘wow, this little human can’t talk, it can’t walk, it can’t read or write…it’s so deficient!’ No, we look at it and see beauty and love it completely.

However, as we get older, we start to take on all sorts of beliefs and expectations. We then attempt to ‘fix’ or ‘improve’ ourselves in some way.

Usually we don’t really succeed and end up feeling even worse about ourselves. Our attempts, even when successful, never leave us feeling fully satisfied.

The invitation here is to let go of that deficient thinking and turn towards something else — what’s actually here now? What can we see and feel?

We can feel the body breathing, the heart beat, the warmth of our hands. We can notice how it’s a miracle that we’re alive. We can notice that our desire to solve a problem is just a pattern of the mind.

When we tune into things this way, we longer have a feeling that we’re not enough. We don’t have to get up immediately and prove ourselves. Rather, it means that we notice that there’s actually a lot there to appreciate, to be grateful for, and simply to enjoy.

We can then ask what’s really important in life — what’s worth paying attention to and what actually makes us happy. And when we do take action, it comes not just from our minds, but from our hearts and deepest intentions.