http://www.livingatease.com/Public/Blog/index.cfm Experience life as a master of yoga and meditation without the time and effort required to become a master. en-us 2008 Stillness Technologies. All rights reserved., Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 Full Partner http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3549 http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3549 admin@LivingAtEase.com (By Michael Mead) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 CST In the past few days, I've been walking on vacillating clouds of emotion---some of the people orbiting my life seem to be leaving it -- either by their choice, or mine. These events have left me with an array of feelings---sadness, uncertainty, even some brief moments of anger. So many questions....and with them, judgment -- judgment about what should've been, and why -- and resistance; resistance to "allow" things to bend and flow as they may -- and sadness; sadness about what may come, or not come, and why it can't just be the way it's supposed to be. Needless to say, all this fluctuation has interrupted my stillness and ease, not to mention, my commitment to experiencing my life more congruently. But.....where there's UNrest, there is rest...... This morning, I took a moment to be "still" -- and I was reminded that the commitments we make to ourselves are tools -- tools we use to get to a different place. I decided to revisit my recent commitment to congruence -- What was it about ... http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3547 http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3547 admin@LivingAtEase.com (By Michael Mead) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:00:00 CST ~ There are three mysteries in the world. To the bird, it is the air. To the fish, it is the water. To the human, it is himself.~ I'm not much into New Year's resolutions. If you're like me, New Year's resolutions soon fade into the winter cold. What occurs for me as one year ends and another begins is personal reflection . What has been my experience of the previous year? What have I accomplished? What have I experienced? Where have I failed? Where have I succeeded? What do I want to be different -- and how? As I review my 2009, the defining word that leaps at me is incongruence! I lived 2009 most incongruently. My desire for 2010 - and my promise to myself - is to live with more congruence. Congruence is a state of harmony or alignment. As a state of being, congruence occurs when Mind, Body and Spirit are aligned. My 2009 was dominated by thinking one thing, and doing another -- Believing something, but not committing to it. It seemed to show up most everywhere in my life-relati ... http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3042 http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3042 admin@LivingAtEase.com (By Michael Mead) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:00:00 CST Love never changes; everything else always does. I'm not talking about the kind of love most people experience in life. The kind that is conditional. If someone acts the right way or makes you feel a certain way, you love them. It's not the kind that is hormonal. You fall in love at "first sight," but fall out after a certain number of rolls in the hay. Many of you have heard Robert say, "Love is a place." That's the kind of love that never changes. It arises from your knowing and manifests in your being. It is eternal and universal. Many people never experience that kind of love; hardly anyone knows how to live there as a way of being. For most, it shows up as a peak experience. It may be the moment of your child's birth, a near-death experience or the passing of a loved one. Whatever calls it forth is an external circumstance rather than an internal knowing. My 7 1/2 years with Stillness Technologies has taught me how to live in the place of love as an internal knowing. Whenever it ... http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3019 http://www.livingatease.com/utility/showArticle/index.cfm?objectID=3019 admin@LivingAtEase.com (By Cynthia Zaal) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:00 CST How would your life be if you lived by the words in the title above...? Can you imagine the ease of living? Just welcoming whatever shows up without resisting. Including everything without trying to ignore it, battle it, or shift it. Change is constant. One of my teachers used to say "If you don't like the way things are, simply wait. It'll change." And, conversely, things will also change even when you DO like the way they are. Life and consciousness are in flow. All our attempts to stop that flow only has the effect of hurting us. Imagine how much of your energy and attention is used trying to do something as useless as warding off change. We contract and suffer, but the change does not cease. When we "go with the flow" we preserve all our energy for creation. As we open to allow what is we can stay in stillness. Stillness is a vast reservoir of intelligence from which you can draw to "course correct" continuously. Each creative adjustment keeps you pointed in the direction of your ...