{"id":500,"date":"2015-01-30T23:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2015-04-07T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:15:05","slug":"a-gift-from-recent-sessions-with-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/a-gift-from-recent-sessions-with-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"A gift from recent sessions with clients:"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsm\">\n<div id=\"id_55245ff71f7664815340522\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">I invite you to imagine all of life and the universe as one large body that is constantly ebbing and flowing in a process of maintaining homeostasis, just as our own body is in a constant of ebbing and flowing in an overall state of balance with itself. There is no &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;bad&#8221; functioning of the body, there is just&#8230;function.With every loss an<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">d gain of my ego&#8217;s desires, I find that I can get so mired in the details of my experience that I see duality everywhere: Fall in love&#8211;Yay! Relationship ends or transforms&#8211;heart-wrenching grief. Money in&#8211;yay! Money out&#8211;stress. Feeling strong and healthy&#8211;yay! Develop illness&#8211;heartbreak, once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I step back from a higher vision and understand all of life operating as one body, suddenly I see that my pain or my pleasure, my having and letting go are all part of a larger process of ebb and flow. Life is living itself. Constant. Ever-changing and yet, always the same.<\/p>\n<p>There is an emptiness in that awareness&#8211;my ego loves to attach uncomfortable emotion and create an experience of that emptiness&#8211;and yet there is great freedom in embracing how arbitrary and also necessary are the happenings of my life.<\/p>\n<p>My life is in a constant state of balance with itself, and when I surrender to that, I find my center, I find peace.<\/p>\n<p>So, I invite you to join me in the dance, Dearheart. There is an adventure to discover in this surrender.<\/p>\n<p>I exist. With each day, I&#8217;m waking up further to the precious gift of that basic truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0:)Melissa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I invite you to imagine all of life and the universe as one large body that is constantly ebbing and flowing in a process of maintaining homeostasis, just as our own body is in a constant of ebbing and flowing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/a-gift-from-recent-sessions-with-clients\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[163,9,162,86,28,29,31,32,79,50,182,67,131],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-revelation","tag-adventure","tag-astrology","tag-balance","tag-finding-home","tag-flow","tag-freedom","tag-gratitude","tag-grief","tag-loss","tag-peace","tag-surrender","tag-truth","tag-waking-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}