Two perspectives on health of body/mind

Perspectives are valuable for us to bring higher levels of awareness:

• Physical health and well being will bring higher levels of energy to the community. The effect of this will be immediately felt in the community and will be observed in an increase of skills and abilities of its members, participation in programs and more creativity and will to cooperate. Obviously this is the result of all the inner work being taken place in the community. This will create an special aura for the community that will be felt by visitors and people will be called to join the new way of relating and being. People that is foreign to this practices, will understand by seeing it how it happens. This will be more effective than reading thousands of books. The community should have a set of activities and programs that preserve and enhance its culture, the achievement of its mission and the building of a bridge between paradigms and colours of the spiral.

• Health of mind and body is important, although not crucial. It seems to be the case that we tend to overestimate the misery caused by illness, quite often. Health is therefore important, of course, but not crucial. In any case, it is difficult to try to promote this balance among quadrants and at the same time respect freedom. Definitely health and promotion of health is important, and the environment, the social connections, the contents of our food, matter probably more than it is reckoned at the moment.

What is in the me that may thwart community?

Be aware of what resonates the must. May you be thwarting the community?

• Rigidity — hmmm. A pattern in my response. The freedom of mind, heart. The letting go — these are all so important to let the self-organzing energies of the universe work with and through us. To become partners with this force — oo, la, la!

• A restrictive vision. Deny things instead of adding new elements to life vision.

 

• Selfishness and lack of clarity will always be harmful to any organism. Our consumer behaviors as well as our lack of unity in our daily actions will put the community in awe. Sharing our best traits will help us evolve faster.

• Poor attention to physical health (not fitness); lack of rest and recreation leads to a lot of downtime due to illness.

• Physical ill-health seems to take a large tool on the energy supply that is available to be put into community. We have members who are dealing with forms of addiction which thwart them. But I’m not sure whether these are outer or inner.

• Consumer behaviour may be a thwart factor as members, residents and visitors of the community have a whole life living under a system that creates addiction to consumption and place our happiness in the outer world and not in the inner world. Have the capacity to let go this addiction will a tough task to many people participating in the community and the process may be painful. This is applied to many other areas, not only consumption, but we are talking about being raised in a culture of “having” and not in a culture of “Being”. Our relation to money and possessions will be also a thwarting factor and a process that we will have to deal with very carefully in order to find balance between Yin & Yang economies.

• This is an interesting question. We have some obese members of the communtiy who nonetheless participate in every aspect of community life, from taking long walks to the workdays. I do think we tend to do too much driving around — we choose to send our children to schools far from home — private schools, and the kids all go to different ones!) for example, that may undermine some of our sustainability goals as well as the community building for our children. The kids are often not around, for example, and when they are they may be tired after a long day away. But we all want what is best for our kids, right? I think this is an area where we need to have more community discussion

• Maybe that our own success forces us to try to do more and more, to feel more, to do more things, and this ends up damaging out health and lowering our capacities to some equlibrium point. Living slowly is porbably we still have to learn about, and our body would serve our mind and heart better.

• When individual members of the community consistently act in ways that are not aligned with the values of the community then it may create distrust unless. This individual may be isolated from the community if a minority and the broader community does not tolerate the action.

• Lack of time for participation

 

What is in me that will support community?

Perspectives on ‘What is in me that will support community?’

• Wholehearted engagement and participation in both individual and collective practices and activities.

• The success of a group is determined by its output to a large extent. This output can be either a physical action or the transformation of individual members. The shift toward success or the intended outcome provides inspiration/nutrition for the longevity of the community. Individual action or environmental interaction within the context of the community is a primary measure of the relevance and therefore success of the community.

• Well-being, including diet and fitness goes hand in hand with a person that has a general awareness; therefore it is important to create an environment that stimulates this.

• Just simply offering these gifts. Offer what you can, as a gift. This includes the commitment to develop these gifts in community. There is nothing quite like learning together. Let these weave into the self-organizing of the whole, even if the path is not clear. Just show up

• Valuing each persons talent.

• Health. Fitness. Exercise, Sleep, & Diet. Servicefulness. Efficacy. Efficiency. Clear-Seeing. Cheerfulness. Focused Action.

• We have a number of very active members who share their gifts and model healthy attitudes and lifestyles. We have many workdays that are geared so that anyone regardless of ability is able to contribute, so we are about as inclusive as possible. We are by and large busy people, with busy lives!

• Moderation skills and virtual working mode Acceptance of chaordic processes

• Acceptance of different backgrounds and skills high energy level

• I’d have to say a sufficient variety of skills, abilities and proclivities. We have members who can do physical brute labor, and who have skills as builders and constructors, and we have members who are overweight and have no building skills, but instead are brilliant at thinking through logistical details and make tons of phone calls to keep the community knit together.

The purpose of community

The purpose of a community in my way of seeing things is to work live and evolve together. The skills and abilities we can learn together will not only make us stronger as individuals but it will show us the new way of being which is as a collective body. We have to guide our actions always thinking of the good of the whole and create an atmosphere that respects the Planet and Kosmos. The programs and activities can be so beautiful and powerful it makes me shiver. We as a collective body are the representation of the new way human beings can relate between each other and its Universe

Individual skills knit community

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I’d have to say a success factor is related to a sufficient variety of skills, abilities and proclivities. We have members who can do physical brute labor, and who have skills as builders and constructors, and we have members who are overweight and have no building skills, but instead are brilliant at thinking through logistical details and make tons of phone calls to keep the community knit together.

Physical illness thwarts community

Physical ill-health seems to take a large tool on the energy supply that is available to be put into community. We have members who are dealing with forms of addiction which thwart them. But I’m not sure whether these are outer or inner forces.