March '07 eNewsletter: The Joys of a Messy Life

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. --Confucius

Hello and welcome to Ignite Your Voice Coaching--where I create a safe space for you to explore and freely share the Truth of your being. This month, I invite you to "get messy" as we explore the joys of fully embracing our human experience.

March in Wisconsin (and in many places) is a dismal month. For most of us, it takes all that we can muster to not go crazy waiting for the first signs of spring! Everything is brown and gray. It is dirty and still TOO cold. I think it would be easy to say that amidst all of the mud and melting snow, it is a messy and not very fun month. My trusty Thesaurus defines messy as, "Indifferent to correctness, accuracy, or neatness....Lacking regular or logical order" (Roget's II: The New Thesaurus). As human beings, we have become very attached to order--to being correct, accurate and neat at all times. We are constantly pushing ourselves toward the next moment when we will be better, stronger, and brighter than we were before. We continue to sacrifice our present experience for what we think that we should be feeling. We think, "I would feel so much better if I could just be joyous and see the beauty amidst all the gray muck outside of my window." I don't know about you, but when I look out of the window at all that gray, I feel pretty gray on the inside. With that said, I will also say that I think that March weather is nasty, and I do NOT find mud-upon-snow-upon-mud to be beautiful! Ahhhh, it is amazing how much more peaceful I feel now than I did while striving to experience all that joy. Allowing myself to feel crappy actually feels pretty darn good!

So often, we want to be anywhere but here, to be experiencing excitement instead of boredom, joy instead of grief. We cannot wait for the door to open into something deeper and more meaningful than our current experience--but what if I told you that your experience, right now, is the only door? Through our joy just as equally as through the mess and muck of our grief, we have access to an infinite number of experiences--each experience, a unique expression of the Divine. When all is said and done, do you really want to deny yourself any moment in this all-too-fleeting human experience that you are living? Allow the deep sigh to rise up from within your bones as you allow yourself to relax into Truth. NOW is all there is.

So, when I invite you to "get messy," I am certainly not instructing you to stop cleaning your house or encouraging you to wear dirty clothes for the rest of your life--cleanliness and hygiene are lovely things worth practicing. What I am inviting you to do is to recognize that "grief un-resisted is grace" (Adyashanti, 2006)--the doorway toward inner peace is through our current experience. So now, I invite you to look within once more. What would it feel like to simply let go--to suspend judgment and allow yourself to fully experience whatever you are feeling in this moment?


If you would like to have support while further exploring this and other questions that come to you on your journey, feel free to visit my website: www.igniteyourvoice.com . My introductory session is always free! I look forward to hearing the Truth as it arises from within you.

Blessings!

Melissa Simonson
Spiritual Life Coach
www.igniteyourvoice.com

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.--Jalaluddin Rumi