Sometimes you're tired

Sometimes you're tired. Sometimes you just can't get your enthusiasm up. Sometimes you just want to sit back and say, "to hell with it all."

Feeling low, tired, grumpy, sad, are all perfectly natural things to feel. There's nothing wrong with you. There's nothing you need to fix in your energy or your spirit.

All you need is to accept how you feel. Accept it fully. Love it completely. Let it be a part of you, and let it show you what it wants to show you.

Sometimes we want to smother our darker feelings with positive thoughts and intentions. Sometimes we become afraid of our anger, sadness, guilt, fear, and angst. We believe that to radiate negative feelings will only bring negative things into our life. But the anger is there for a reason. The sadness is there because a part of us has been denied. The only way to transcend the feeling is to surrender to it. To love it and let it show us what it's trying to show us.

To be spiritual does not mean to be at peace and zen all the time. 

To be spiritual means to love and accept yourself fully, no matter where you are, and no matter what you're feeling. 

To be spiritual does not mean you will never again feel a negative emotion. 

To be spiritual means you accept all your emotions as valid aspects of yourself.

To be spiritual means you allow all your emotions to guide you, like currents in a river.

And just as you are a dynamic being, in an ever changing river of feelings, so is everyone around you. The more we accept the validity of all our emotions, from light to dark, the more accepting we are of all the emotions of those around us.

I hope this week ahead is full of many delightful surprises for you.

Warm hugs,

​Melissa