Your Self-Correcting Mechanism

by | Monday, October 25, 2010 | Health, Spirituality

The development of psychodynamic health has to do with the alleviation of stress.  Inherent in that statement is a rather intriguing understanding:

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The state of the physiology itself is intrinsic to the state of psychodynamic health.

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This understanding is fundamental to an effective, wise, and intelligent approach to psychological health.   The basis of your psychodynamic health, inner wisdom, and intelligence is already there.

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We know that if we cut our finger all we have to do is put a bandage on it and keep it clean.  The inner intelligence, an inner self-correcting mechanism, will cause it to grow back together.  The finger knows how to grow back together.  We just have to create a situation that accommodates that process.

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We need to recognize that the self-correcting mechanism, which heals our finger, is the same mechanism that comes into play in our psychological health.  Our attitude about our mental health is that we need to impose health upon it from the outside.  We say, Think this way.  Hold on to these commandments.  Get rid of that aspect of your being. Align with this behavioral modality.

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Everyone knows that a rose bud cannot be turned into a blossom by peeling back the petals.  Doing that would only make a mess out of the bud.  The ability of the bud to unfold into an exquisite blossom is inherent in the nature of the plant.

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Our psychological health is the same.  I call that inner intelligence the self-correcting mechanism.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Effective Personal Process

by | Sunday, October 24, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality

Effective personal process is experienced as an inner churning, an inner tug of war of thoughts and emotions.

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No stone is left unturned. All stable ground becomes shaky.

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It can at times be a frightening process.

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A false sense of security dissolves as the comfort of the true Self emerges.

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The process, though cyclical, gradually spirals upward to greater and greater levels of fulfillment.

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Truly Free

by | Thursday, October 21, 2010 | Spirituality

As the sweetness of your inner being shines forth into your life, your own self-love becomes a beacon light for others.

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Your cup, full and overflowing, nourishes and supports the lives of those around you.

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When the tree of your inner life is filled with the fruit of your being, the branches of your soul just naturally bow down and touch the earth in humility.

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Then you are truly wise, happy, self assured, and abundant.

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Then you are truly free.

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Expectations

by | Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Relationship, Spirituality

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If we base our life on expectations, it sets us up for disappointment and bad feelings.

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Our growth as individuals does not happen by aligning with our current expectations of what we will/should be like as we evolve.  Those expectations themselves will also change, evolve.

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Aspiring to our current expectation often limits our true growth.

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Comment & Response

by | Sunday, October 10, 2010 | Spirituality, World View

I received the following inquiry regarding my recent blog The Mortgage Shell Game:

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Many people I know are at the cross-roads of making a decision.  Even within my family we debate this.    When the government and the financial system is corrupt beyond belief, and apparently is out to destroy the middle class and steal our savings and homes by a variety of means, do we continue to pay them our taxes, our mortgage payments, and the fruits of our HONEST labor to reward their DISHONESTY?

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I am a revolutionary by nature, but I also value integrity.  Although your recent blog spoke to this somewhat in the larger spiritual sense, I am curious if you have a perspective on the morality debate.  Do we “render unto Ceasar”  as Christ suggested in similar circumstances,  emulate passive resistance as suggested by Ghandi (the salt tax episode), or what?  Sure we look forward to Sat Yuga, but sometimes we are called to action and not passivity in the face of a threat to our way of life at a minimum, and perhaps for many it may literally be life threatening as the crisis unfolds.

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Tricky territory for a spiritual leader to speak into, but curious if you dare….

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To which I respond:

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First, it is important to not be passive or silent.  In America, if not the entire world, we do seem to have a habit of ‘falling asleep’ as with Pearl Harbor and 9/11.  This occurred with the financial system in many ways (Wall Street, banking, and politics, as well).  I have spoken out on these matters for years now, but in the past, few would listen.  My views seemed to be considered somewhat eccentric and extreme.  In light of current news and events, that has changed.  People are listening with interest.

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In America, as with Pearl Harbor, we have a history of waking up from a deep sleep with passion, conviction, and action.  I believe it has now once again begun and we will see what the upcoming elections bring.  Our nation is sobering up.  The pendulum of life swings and it is now swinging from a state of irrational oblivion to a perspective of concrete realism.  It will not occur overnight, and certainly not with one round of elections.  However, the pendulum has begun to swing.

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It is not a time to panic.  It is a time to stay on course with a steady hand on the rudder to guide us out of the storm we currently find ourselves in.  Certainly, if it continued the way it was going, we could have reached a point of no return.  But, we are now in a time where waking up from the oblivion is no longer a rare thing, but is becoming the predominant understanding of all the people.  Now that the people have awakened, it will take time and effort to regroup and rebuild.  Some will resist, still hoping for a free lunch.

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However, a new more enlightened approach will rise, if everyone remains awake and speaks up.  It is within our grasp for the swinging pendulum to catapult us to a time of greater maturity, morality, human decency and rationality.  The potential for success is still in our hands.  The potential for a Golden Age is there.

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As for my advice to individuals spiritually, financially, and otherwise, it all remains the same as it has been throughout the years.  Do the Surya Ram Meditation twice daily, take time to reflect and ponder, and act with financial common sense.  I have gone into great detail regarding the ‘how to’ for all of those things.  As you know, it is not a simpleton cookbook as the time of oblivion might have lead one to believe.

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Decide what it is you want for the long term and create it!  If at all possible, as I have said many times, you would do well to live at Mount Soma.  If that is not possible, you would do well to ‘make the pilgrimage’ to Mount Soma as often as possible.  The most powerful tool you have is alignment with natural law.  This is of course true in good times as well as difficult times.  Mount Soma is a community developed fully for the purpose of aligning the individual, the community, the nation, and the world with natural law.

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Good advice is all around you.  The question is: Do you know it when you hear it?

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Who is Enlightened?

by | Friday, October 8, 2010 | Spirituality | 1 comment

Considering things I’ve been hearing, it is high time we take a step back and connect some dots here.

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It is well known that enlightenment is something quite rare and most elusive.  It is also sadly apparent that many people these days after reading a few books, going to a few classes, and meditating for a while decide they had the epiphany and are now enlightened.  It seems most everyone, from Bill Mahar to your local minister to the girl behind the checkout counter, believes they have spirituality all figured out.

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Whatever happened to spiritual humility?

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

The Mortgage Shell Game

by | Thursday, October 7, 2010 | World View | 2 comments

Some years ago, when the Wall Street derivative crisis surfaced, I pointed out that the real culprit was the computer boom.  Our government was simply caught asleep while Wall Street created a huge, virtual, gambling-casino, card-house with computers.  The multiple leveraging and complexity resulted in a complex maze of indebtedness with essentially no real assets securing the investments.

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Essentially, the computer boom once again created a similar complex maze in the mortgage industry.  Banks sold mortgages multiple times all through computer transactions.  The original documents were lost.  Now, banks are unable to foreclose without being able to present those original documents.  It has created a 1.4 trillion dollar mess.  Homeowners can make a play to legally claim they owe nothing.  Courts may well be bound to agree.  Legislators may need to step in to avert total chaos.

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The complexity didn’t stop there.  Banks could shuffle around money so quickly within the cyberworld that it became like a shell game.  Money could appear and disappear instantly under whatever shell  they wanted it to.  This is where the money came from for many of those mortgages.  Strictly speaking, the banks didn’t even have the money they loaned.  It was a big financial shell game.

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It is yet to be seen what calamities will arise due to the government’s inability (perhaps understandable inability) to keep up with the complexities of the exploding computer world of the financial markets.

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Big financial companies like Goldman Sachs made fortunes.  They started out bankrupting small companies to reap huge financial rewards.  For example, selling AIG useless paper.  They went on to create such complex financial structures that regulatory agencies were unable to identify deviations from regulations.  This enabled them to put companies so far in debt, they were unable to stay afloat.  Not satisfied with those millions, the financial industries moved onto nations.  For example, Greece, which ended up far more in debt than the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would ever have allowed.

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George Soros has made billions by destroying currencies.  For example, Malaysia and Britain.  Some believe he has now moved on to the United States as his next victim.  The finesse and complexity of these markets eludes government inspectors.  With increased regulations, some of the little guys will be caught.  But the big fish will remain unscathed.

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It is really nothing new for big financial powers to manipulate the market from behind the scenes.  The great depression of the 1930’s was created for profit.  The good news is that computers are making information readily available to all the people.  I look forward to the time when all cards are face up and the financial markets operate in a harmonious and life-supporting manner.  This cannot be done through regulation alone.  The regulators are simply no smarter than those whom they regulate.  Positive global transformation can only come about through elevation of world consciousness.  That is our domain.  It is our purpose.  By watering the root of life, all aspects of life blossom.

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