IS EVERYONE STUCK?

First, let me say that, as a rule, I write what I need to hear or what I am telling myself at this precise moment. I am on the journey, too, and sometimes the path is narrow and overgrown so I need to send out an SOS to myself, to the truth I know resides in me, the truth that we all possess in our core.

Second, is anyone truly free or are we stuck?

We all have a story, as Byron Katie calls our life. Most of us seem extremely invested in it...we retell our story, we relive our story, we recreate our story, bringing old memes into our current existence...we wallow in our story.

My job is to get over my story. It is an albatross I carry around with me and - truth be told - I really had a pretty easy life. So why do I need to be so consumed with my past hurts? Why do I sometimes want to create a new hurt that takes me back into the old pain? Why is it that some people never even examine the causes for their misery and constricted lives? Why is it that some understand where the pain originates, but they hang on to it anyway? Why is it that some can have moments of freedom, but can't figure out how to live that way all the time? Why is it that some are always looking forward, creating life as they want to live it, steering their ship, never once looking out at the wake of the boat, which (as Wayne Dyer says) is not what propels the ship, but is a sign of expended energy.

Hanging on to the sadness in our lives is like watching the wake of a ship: it is putting all our emotional energy into where we have been and not into where we want to go.

If we truly believe that we were on this earth to be happy, fulfilled, loved, productive, creative and to love would we hang on to the carnage of our past? If we believe that Divine Intelligence cradles us and will lead us to this purpose, would we need to be sad? If we know that every good thing is already ours to revel in, would we choose to stay stuck? If we know that unhappiness is a fictitious emotion masking itself as our reality, would we invest in it?

You know when you go to a crazy movie, with an implausible plot, but you just decide to surrender to the experience and buy into it totally? How about this? What if we choose to do this with our life...what if we cho0se to buy into the fact that the Universe wants nothing more than for us to be euphorically blissful, loved beyond measure, prosperous and productive? What if we decide to believe that our life IS a movie, that we are the star of the show, the writer and the director?

What if we just let go of the junk we are holding on to and opened our consciousness to what we can now savor because we make room for wonderful experiences to rush in? This can be our reality...this can be my reality. The only thing that stands in the way of it is me...stubbornly hanging on to the past, picking stuck over free. The choice is mine...the choice is yours...stuck or free.