You are good enough! This moment is good enough!!
Channel: SF Dharma Collective
Date: 2023-04-12

Augusta Hopkins leads Spiritual Friends Sangha’s Mindful Mondays in the theme: You are good enough! This moment is good enough!!

What if we went through the days of our lives noticing, what doesn't suck? Can you imagine? Instead of our habituated noticing of precisely the opposite - that which sucks. 

We are naturally, or more specifically - genetically, inclined to notice what sucks. To notice what's wrong. What isn't right. That's how our ancestors, both human, primate and reptile SURVIVED so that we could be born in this human form. Now, in this present moment, we have the opportunity to notice what doesn't suck, what is OK, what is good enough, and by miracle of miracles, what is PLEASANT. As we take the time to notice what is pleasant and to take in the good we notice our ability to be with things that are other than we would have them be - those things we don't like - increases. Our capacity grows. We become more resilient and better able to navigate life. We enjoy life more. 

We can cultivate our ability to care for ourselves, and the present moment, by recalling pleasant experiences and by NOTICING pleasant experiences as we are having them! And BEING WITH HOW IT FEELS IN THE BODY to have the pleasant experience. This can cause profound beneficial change. And can be a radical act - to notice what is OK. 

Check it out for yourself. Play along with this guided meditation and short talk.

Come LIVE in person, or online, next time to engage in the discussion, sharing from our hearts and listening to each other. Growing in our collective experience!!!

Much metta!!!!

🌺 Join Augusta every Monday at 5:30 at the SF Dharma Collective, 2929 24th Street, or online via Zoom: https://sfdharmacollective.org/events/r/hybrid-mindful-mondays-with-augusta-hopkins

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