I don’t often post other people’s videos on my blog…but this blew me away. This man’s gift needs to be shared. Feel him heal you with the poetic power of his dance.
This Is What Giving Your Gift Looks Like…
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Tag Archives: Courage
Let Life Crack Me Open
Let life crack me open
So that the truth leaks out
Like liquid light…transforming
The darkness
Let me be filled up to the brim
With more than I can handle
So that I may discover that I am
Limitless
That love is limitless
There are no hurts too big
No joys too messy
To mess with the heart of me
The bones of me
My soul
Use me
Challenge me
Stretch me
Grow me
So that I might fully
Know the gift
Of my life.
Facing Fears, Burning Through Illusion
As I let go, and let go, and let go, I find myself coming upon all kinds of opportunities to expand beyond former edges and burn through limitations.
What actions do you avoid taking in your life because you’re terrified of how it would make you feel?
For me, right now, it’s any action that could potentially cause me to lose external approval or be ridiculed that makes my throat tighten and a fire rise in my chest. And so I’m taking actions, step-by-step to kill that made-up ego story. Creating this video was one small way of peeling back a limiting layer. x
Love Revelation: Thinking…plus action…makes it so
Tonight’s magical NYC subway adventure included a conversation with a very close-talking, surprisingly profound and maybe a little psychic drunk man telling me that he was “very attracted to my light” and that I belong on Stephen Colbert or Broadway, šĀ , followed by a deep conversation with a man newly studying to be a lawyer about, NLP, Eckhart Tolle’s the Power of Now, Jed Mckenna, Byron Katie, Landmark Worldwide (It was a long train ride from the city at this hour).
And the evening ended with a text message from this new friend: “Melissa, amazing connecting with you. your journey is going to be as beautiful as you decide to make it. Thinking makes it so.”
This whole night began with my heading into the city to grab a drink with a lovely man who I met on the Subway last week who was reading an inspirational book that grabbed my attention.
All of my life, people have warned me to “keep my guard up” and worried about my daring willingness to leap into the unknown, befriend strangers, and go off the beaten path. Even in the midst of connecting with kind strangers like this man, I’m met with concern that I be careful in whom I put my trust.
The fact of the matter is that I wholeheartedly trust me and my inner guidance system. I’m just really good at following the YES in my heart and also listening for the NO, and nearly 33 years into this life I’m living, which has included travel to other countries and cities and meeting countless people, I have yet to have experienced anything short of magic.
I’m not lucky or extra blessed or extra special in my experience of miracles showing up daily in my life. I’ve just chosen to show up wherever I am from a place of wonder and a desire to connect, of sharing myself and discovering the light inside of others.
Love begets more love y’all. And as my lovely new friend said, “thinking makes it so.”
:)Melissa
Ā©2014 Melissa Simonson
Love Revelation: Being a stand for love in the world
It’s an incredibly vulnerable and weird experience to do a funding campaign.
Since launching my GoFundMe campaign to support my New York move a little over a month ago, I have been confronted by many uncomfortable feelings and thoughts.
“You look so needy.”
“People are gonna think that you don’t have your stuff together.”
“Asking for help on this level is just too much–peopleĀ are going to be so annoyed and think you’re rude…and a little pathetic…for asking.”
Yes, I talk to myself like this in my head, and it hurts. And, there are days when these thoughts can almost stop me.
But here’s the thing: While YES, I asked for financial support in order to help ME transition my life to NYC, this campaign has been about SO MUCH more than me because WHO I AM is someone who wakes up everyday committed to making a loving difference in the world.
I have designed my life inside of the greater commitment to being an Ambassador of Radical Self-Love–of being someone by example, through my dedication to my work, through my creative expression, my family relationships, my friendships and through every day-to-day interaction to be a CAUSE for people to love who they are.
I live each day of my life committed to having others be LIT UP by their lives. I am committed to everyone knowing the freedom that comes with full self-expression, and to healing the shame that causes them to hide their true voice. I am committed to having people wake up in the morning with a smile on their face because they GET that they are truly loved & lovable in every moment.
So, for everyone who has contributed to this campaign and for all those who feel inspired to contribute, you’re not just donating money to me as I make my life in New York–you, right along with me, are choosing to be someone who is committed to creating a loving world.
THAT is the difference you make through donating to my crowd-funding campaign.
And so I’ve chosen to set all of my feelings of shame and thoughts of self-judgement aside because my life is NOT about looking good. I am a stand for love in the world, and so I’m choosing to risk what you’ll think of me, and choosing to invite you to be a powerful contribution along side me instead.
And so I want to ask, will you make the powerful choice to join me in creating a loving world?
Please visitĀ http://www.gofundme.com/
Thanks for all that you are.
:)Melissa
Ā©2014 Melissa Simonson