The Hokey Pokey

I woke up this morning, remembering a time from my past. All those days came back to me. I could feel them. I hadn’t even gotten out of bed yet. My mind had labeled that time in my life as a story of struggle. As my feet touched the floor, I recognized my story flooding the gates. I began to feel that sinking feeling inside, which starts flooding the system as soon as the lie is told.All of a sudden I realized, I’m running the same story in my life now! Only this time, I recognized this present story of struggle as one perspective on the Truth, that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with Truth. The feeling started to dissipate.This story of struggle reached out of my past and touched on my present story of struggle. It touched it like you would touch the tip of your finger to the reflection of itself in the mirror. It touched it so that I would notice it.It was a sign post, a gift. It was pointing to my unconscious moments, when I’m submersed in the belief of my story of struggle. This is the source of my discomfort. When I’m Present, there can be no discomfort.Luckily, this present story of struggle is running at a low intermittent hum, in the background of more Presence than there was earlier in my life. It is for this reason I was able to separate Self, from the story in my mind.It’s like having one foot in Reality and one in insanity. And when that’s the case, you could yank your sleeping foot back into Reality, instead of being submersed in the pain and suffering of the story….. “You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and shake it all about….”And so, that’s the dance of this human experience, the Hokey Pokey. And everyone can do the Hokey Pokey. Everyone.And that’s what it’s all about.