by Michael Mamas | Thursday, June 3, 2010 | Spirituality
What does it mean to live a simple life? Perhaps it is better to ask what it does not mean. It does not mean living barefoot in a cabin without water or electricity. You can be fully engaged in the dynamism of life and still live simply.It almost feels like there is more air or space in your life.
Though your days may be very active, you continue to come from a place of relaxed openness, restful alertness, dynamic serenity, harmony. It is something more felt than seen. It is a state of physiology, and that state radiates through your environment.
People may or may not notice, but it does affect them. As your physiology evolves, you more naturally function from that place. It is like the eternal stillness at the depth of the ocean. Even in the harshest storm, it lives on. What does it feel like? It feels like open space – unencumbered, sweet, clean, and gentle.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, June 2, 2010 | Spirituality
There are many simultaneously valid, yet contradictory realities. Wisdom involves aligning with the one that is most life supporting for the moment.
This principle is illustrated in the two-boxes-or-three diagram.
Depending upon how you view the same structure, because there are simultaneously valid and contradictory realities, it can be viewed as being two or three boxes.
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | Spirituality
Often when we want to learn something, we feel we must start by being taught what to do. In the subtle areas of human behavior, that approach is usually upside-down.
It is best to begin with resting into our own self, into the depth of who we are: Being.
Then comes Merging – understanding, communing with, or “becoming one with” who (or what) we are dealing with.
Knowing naturally results from being and merging. We automatically begin to know the person (or thing) with whom we have merged.
Doing becomes the obvious next step. Once we know someone (or something), we automatically know what needs to be done.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, May 31, 2010 | Mount Soma
At Mount Soma some people fast on Mondays, so we had our Memorial Day picnic yesterday. It was great! The spread was outstanding – everything from veggie dogs to coconut cream pie.
One of the highlights was The Great 2010 Egg Drop Science Project. My oldest daughter has a contest at school where the students build a cage of sorts out of glue and toothpicks around an egg and it is dropped from varying heights. The one that is dropped from the highest ground without breaking wins. Well, what started out as a fun little project turned into a fun BIG project! Glue guns and toothpicks covered the table and you could hear the wheels turning as everyone sat around trying to figure out the best way to construct this contraption. The project is still in production!
A croquet game was set up on the lawn and my daughter took her training wheels off and by the end of the day was riding her bike like a pro – almost. It was a beautiful start to the summer season.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, May 30, 2010 | Health |
I am doing a series of talks on taking care of the physical body. Topics include diet and exercise and relationship with your body. They are posted on the main Gallery page of the site.
I will be adding to them, so if you like them, keep checking in for new posts.
I’d love to hear any comments on this series or suggestions you may have for another topic.
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