Mary O’Malley: What’s in the Way Is the Way

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Mary O'Malley is an author, counselor, and acknowledged leader in the field of spiritual awakening. With Sounds True, Mary has published What's in the Way Is the Way: A Practical Guide for Waking Up to Life. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Mary discuss the eight "spells" that keep us feeling separate from life—as well as the remedies that bring us more fully into the energetic flow of existence. They speak on the need for curiosity and the role it plays in uniting our attention with our present-moment experience. Finally, Mary explains her understanding of the awakening process and the skills one can cultivate to come into a robust and joyous alignment with life itself. (60 minutes) Tami's Takeaway One of the worst feelings for me is helplessness. Mary teaches that "life is destined to bring up what is bound up." This podcast brought up for me how I push away feelings of helplessness. According to Mary, "what's in the way is the way," and we can become what she calls "tightness detectives" to see how we clamp down in certain situations and resist what we don't want to feel. When instead we meet our feelings with curiosity and spaciousness, we discover the free flow of aliveness and the absolute trustworthiness in every experience.

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
0:37.0	Today is a rebroadcast of one of my favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy.
0:47.0	Today my guest is Mary O'Malley.
0:50.2	Mary is an author, counselor, and acknowledged leader in the field of spiritual awakening.
0:56.7	Through her writing and teachings, she empowers people to replace fear, hopelessness, and struggle with ease, well-being, and joy.
1:06.8	Which sounds true, Mary has published a new book entitled, What's In The Way is the way, a practical guide for waking up to life.
1:17.3	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Mary and I spoke about the eight spells that keep us feeling separate from life.
1:26.4	We talked about life as an intelligent process that we can trust and the importance of
1:32.4	being curious and how curiosity is the opposite of fixing.
1:38.5	We also talked about the three skills of awakening and how Mary has an armchair on the moon in which she looks at the
1:47.5	earth and from which she understands the awakening process. Here's my very helpful and illuminating conversation with Mary
1:55.6	O'Malley. Mary in your new book there are so many things actually from your new book I want to talk about
2:07.8	but I want to begin with this one idea that really struck me because I'd never heard it before presented this way.
2:15.0	You write about how there are eight spells that keep us feeling separate and I thought
2:22.1	what do you mean spells, eight spells?
2:24.4	Yeah.
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