Consciousness Today: Jabbawockee or Status Quo?

While watching the season finale of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew I learned an interesting and potent spiritual lesson. (This is not uncommon for me. I believe if I am aware and listening for good in my life, it will reveal itself everywhere).

When Mario Lopez introduced montages of each crew’s journey to the finale stage, each offered relatable, endearing stories. Status Quo recalled arriving at auditions with nothing (money, assurances, etc) and having nothing to return to (presumably the same). Theirs was a tale of struggle and survival, right down to the scary moment when one of its members’ broken ankle threatened to sideline the crew early. However, their perseverance led them to the opportunity to leave with $100,000, and the title, “America’s Best Dance Crew.”

One of the Jabbawoockeezs’ primary motivations was to honor the death of a recently passed crew member. They referenced him throughout the montage (which included interviews). And, one of them ended by saying, “it doesn’t matter about winning. We’ve already been blessed. Just being on this show. And, being able to shine that light to all these people.” He was in tears as he said it, and I was blown away.

I was blown away because this is exactly the place our greatest good is born - a place of already being blessed, a place of abundance, not lack or limitation. If the beginning is an attitude of gratefulness (no matter what is perceived to be needed to improve our lives) there is a recognition that everything that is truly needed to be happy, right now, is already with and within us. Success comes, then, not from receiving something outside of ourselves (more money, companionate relationship, new car, no debt), but from the desire to shine the light already within us, deciding to give of the gifts we already have, and passionately using and creating from our individual talents. When the Jabbawockeez did that, when they created, lived and danced from a pure desire to follow their bliss and shine a light to all the people, their good came to them. Their win is a powerful lesson.

Lil’ Mama commented that the Jabbawockeez are the “birth of a new culture;” “you are the future;” “changing our culture.” When I consider the audacity of hope in Obama’s messages, the way the ideas in The Secret have spread like wildfire, and the comments of Lil’ Mama and “America’s Best Dance Crew,” it becomes clearer that a new day is dawning. I am reminded of an Arundhati Roy saying, “another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

I have heard it said that the mind is the last frontier. As we all work to overcome the old ideas that do not serve us anymore, we overcome struggle by viewing ourselves as victors rather than victims; we believe that God is our supply and not a condition or person outside ourselves; and we become either Jabbawockeean visionaries or live the Status Quo. The idea is not to diminish the accomplishments of (the) Status Quo, only to ask are we coming from a place that believes we came with nothing and (may) have nothing to return to, or a place that recognizes that we are already blessed, the Light is within, and all we have to do is SHINE?!

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