Connecting the Dots

by | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 | Personal Growth

cowTruth is all around you.  But it is up to you to put it all together.

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Consider the following three quotes:

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Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.  –  Lester R. Bittel

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If you’re going through hell, keep going. –Winston Churchill

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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.  – Abraham Lincoln

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Now putting them together:

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Have a good plan for your life.  Determine what is most important in life as the central theme and move forward in that direction.

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As it is said in the game of chess, an imperfect plan is better than no plan.  All too often I see people get so lost to details that they lose sight of the big picture and start spinning, as scattered thoughts bounce back and forth in their head.

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During tough times, keep moving forward… get through it.  Do not wallow in the mire.  Do not crumble, panic, or give up or give in.  Now is the time to be strong and keep going.

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Learn as you go so you become more skilled to move in the direction of the plan.

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Every experience is a learning.  You must be willing to expand your thinking, expand your horizons.  Conditioned thinking is a rut that most live by, are tortured by, and die by.

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Look beyond that horizon.  Life is not as you have been led to believe.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Freedom of Speech

by | Tuesday, August 16, 2011 | Personal Growth | 1 comment

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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits:

freedom of speech,

______ freedom of thought,

___________and the wisdom never to use either.

____________________________–  Mark Twain

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Perhaps this was truer some years ago.  Today it seems many value and impose their own impulsive opinions far too easily.

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A deeper, more humble and reflective mindset would better honor the sanctity of our freedoms.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

The Feel of a House

by | Monday, August 1, 2011 | Personal Growth | 1 comment

My youngest heard me comment that through the feeling in the house you can easily come to know the people that are living there.  She asked me to write a blog about it.

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Home – Om – Womb.  The Self manifests on many levels.  What’s on the inside is reflected by what’s on the outside.

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Because you live in your home so much of the time, that correlation, that reflection becomes very tangible, very concrete, and precipitates out into physical and energetic levels in a very direct sense.

If you walk into a home, be attentive to the feeling and you will get a feel for the person living there.  You would do well to look at your own living space in that regard. By adjusting the living space, the outside can influence the inside. It goes both ways.  That said, it is not as easily done as one may think.

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A rigid person may look at a home and say, “It’s not orderly enough.” They then create so much order that it causes a tension in their being.  Someone else of a more relaxed nature could look at that same home and say, “Oh, I am too messy”, or they may say “Oh, it feels too tight”.

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So – is it your issues and conditioning that’s assessing your house, or is it coming from a deeper level?  Is it the truth, a truth that you’re discovering?

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This can be a very good arena for reflection. Pay attention when you walk into other people’s homes.  What does it feel like?  What’s the experience?  Then, when you walk into your own living space, you may have more of a reference frame to base your assessment on.

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This is not to be done as a judgment of the people or yourself.  It is a tool for exploration. The exploration in and of itself facilitates the self-normalization process.

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Sometimes a little bit of incense can go a long way.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Life

by | Sunday, July 3, 2011 | Personal Growth

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

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I have yet to meet the person whose life has not been a daring adventure, though I have met many who did their best to avoid that.

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Best to embrace the adventure, but to do so wisely.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Misery

by | Friday, May 27, 2011 | Personal Growth | 2 comments

Some situations are simply difficult and would result in misery for most anyone.

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However, if you and your loved ones have reasonable health, sufficient food, and a place to sleep at night, and misery still seems to follow you around, it is likely that something else is going on.

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Think of a piece of folded, (creased) paper. Unfold that paper and then push on it. The paper will fold on that same crease every time.

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Your psycho-physiology is the same.  Your psyche is primarily based upon the physiology of your nervous system.  If there is a fatigue in some aspect of your nervous system that relates to your psyche, it will result in a recurring ‘fold in your paper,’ so to speak – causing a specific negative emotion to recur.   It may be misery or anger or something else.

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This sort of fatigue is deeply trenched in the physiology.  Sleep alone rarely heals it. Meditation is your best tool.  The best meditation for this (as well as for evolution toward enlightenment) is taught for free.

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There is another very important tool you can use.  Learn to not indulge the negative emotion.  Find a way out!  That can involve by simply choosing to think another way in the moment.

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For example, the other day I was running late for a ceremony and could not find the proper clothes to wear.  Searching every drawer and closet, as soon as I felt myself getting frustrated, I decided to think another way. “It is okay.” I told myself. “I can just wear something else.”  I did just that and all was fine.  Remember: What you put your attention on grows stronger.

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There is an appropriate time to explore a negative emotion to attempt to free it up. You can feel the feeling and ask where it came from in childhood, etc.  This can be of real value.  However, people who get on to that approach often over do it.

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We have all seen balloons that inflate to become a cat or heart shape or any number of other shapes.  When there is not sufficient air in the balloon, it is wrinkled and the shape is distorted.  Your physiology is like a balloon.  It must be filled with energy and consciousness for you to be happy.  It is just that simple.

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I have just summarized the tools you need to do this.  Now it is up to you.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

Letting Go

by | Sunday, May 22, 2011 | Personal Growth, Spirituality

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Sometimes in life you just need to let things go.

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You cannot always hold on to all your dreams.  When it involves a loved one, it can be particularly difficult to let go.

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To just tell yourself you are letting go is really a lie.  At such times, go deep within and find the place where nothing is held on to.

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At the depth of your being, there is no holding.  It is a place of eternal peace and rest.  Cultivate your awareness of that.

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This is called salvation.  It is not an attitude.  It is much deeper.  It is a state of being… a state of physiology.

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Be in the world, but not of it… not lost to it.

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Love from that level is the highest and truest form of love.

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Having attained that, you are still in the world of holding on, but you have not lost yourself to it.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.

What’s the best thing you have ever done?

by | Saturday, April 23, 2011 | Personal Growth, Relationship | 7 comments

Driving my daughter home from school the other day, she asked me a lovley question: “What is the best thing you ever did when you were a kid?”

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I can not remember what I said, but I do remember very well where my mind went…  namely, “kindness.”  I thought of acts of kindness that I did as a kid.

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This inspired reflection.

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As an adult, it is the same.  Smart, clever, profound…. they all fall far short of simple kindness.

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It made me realize that all I do with the school, Mount Soma, the temple, etc. are inspired by kindness.

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To help our world, to help humanity:  these things all blossom from the seed of kindness… the best thing you can ever do.

© Michael Mamas. All rights reserved.