I’m about to get a little fluffy.  Forgive me, it’s only temporary.  I’ll be swearing like a drunk docker before you know it.

I was doing my mindfulness meditation (that I’m still not doing nearly as much of as I want or need to be) from the pioneering and wonderful Jon Kabtat-Zinn, and  my ears tuned in on a particular passage of dialog that I wanted to share with you.

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Just this moment
Just this breath
Just this drinking in of the air
This flowing of the air
Through the body
This giving and receiving of the air
This unfolding of life
Moment, by moment, by moment
In awareness

This struck me as important, for one simple reason.

My life, and your life, is unfolding right now.

Breath, by breath, by breath.  Moment, by moment, by moment.

Each breath comes and brings a new moment in your life, a place you’ve never been before.  And as it fades, so does that moment in your life.

Always something new.  Always a new start.

This happens by the very nature of life, moving forwards without any pondering, any striving or any struggling.

I have no doubt that my next breath will come; that the next moment will come.  I have no doubt that my life will unfold without me forcing it or telling it to unfold.

It doesn’t get any simpler than that, and I trust it implicitly.

True self-confidence is trusting your ability to meet that unfolding of life in awareness.