"Just Roll Over and Float" uniquely presents a doable and deeply compelling, joyful map toward an ease-filled life by weaving the philosophical. spiritual and emotional threads of our daily lives and selves.
Reviews:
"Roll Over and Float will save us from the endless pursuit of perfection—if we dare. Dare to relax and allow the gate that wants to open flood each moment with peace and healing light. Too good to be true?Lesley Michaels convincingly describes the unreasonable goodness, hidden a choice away, inside us. All it takes is to stop living your life from the outside in! Compelling. Well written. Loving."
- Martha Harrell, PhD Jungian Psychoanalyst and contributing author in
Transforming Terror: Reclaiming the World Soul
"Of all the very many spiritual self help books flooding the market, Lesley Michaels has crafted a work that stands out as a guidepost in the whirling confusion prevalent in our current accelerated planetary shift. "Just Roll Over and Float" provides a clear beacon for the reader to discover joy and ease, power and play in the midst of tumult."
Rev. Rosemarie Palladino, MAR, RMT
"In these uncertain times, thank goodness for "Just Roll Over and Float" reminding us that we are here to have fun and be joyful. Listening to our inner wisdom provides the key to learning to love ourselves and others so that we can live fully and boldly in each day."
Titia Ellis, PhD, author of The Search: a Memoir of an Adopted Women
"Just Roll Over and Float" offers a clear and practically applicable understanding of living a spiritual life by diving into our humanity and living boldly. A necessary book for every modern age reader."
Susie Hastings, author of Walking the Spiritual Path with Practical Feet: 10 Visionaries Who Make a Difference
"I wholeheartedly recommend reading this little gem of a book. Its simple and accessible style has allowed me to understand concepts of which I had previously only had an intellectual appreciation. It is extremely rewarding to be able to work with some of my major impediments to psychological and spiritual growth. I have bought several copies for friends and a second one for myself that isn't mutilated with yellow highlighter. Thank you, Lesley Michaels."
Dr. S.
Excerpt:
An ever-increasing percentage of people on the planet are practicing a constant drive to find wholeness. Wholeness cannot be found like a trinket that has rolled under a chair. It can only be experienced, and this can only occur by living it.
A whole and authentic life is not spent buried in books, not spent in prayer circles or meditation rituals, not spent in therapy rooms or an endless succession of self-improvement events, not spent being afraid to turn the stereo above three or bond with those of completely differing beliefs and interests. It may include some of these activities, but not from the flight inducing perspectives of fear. Any sensation of being afraid, leads us away from an actualized life, and holds us captive to the search for context. So each of these activities only benefit us to the extent that they are choices to move toward the self, existing as additional components to a life full with other exchanges and expressions.
Although frequently spoken of in minimizing language our human body and senses are as important an aspect to living a complete life, as is our inner wisdom. A life lived wholly is spent eating amazing food and enjoying every calorie, having great sex with a beloved, and dancing with your whole body, mind, and spirit until you can barely move the next day, then waking to languor within your sheets smiling at the exuberance of the experience. This is the embodiment of an authentic life.
To truly and fully live, one must feel life, taste life, be life. The renowned writer Emile’ Zola once stated:
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you:
I came to live out loud.”
Be actualized wisdom expressing humanness. Live boldly, live loudly, live with full commitment to being in the body of life, not sitting on the sidelines with a book, notepad, and pen, quietly making observations and taking notes.
It is time to come out of the cloistered confines of a self-created classroom and dive into the most magnificent field of learning that will ever be available to us—life. As you rise from your study and struggle to begin with a totally new set of experiences of living wholly, you begin to understand the vastness of a life only available through full sensory participation.
We each have models in and around our lives, friends, and associations who do live in a full way, who have grasped the understanding that living is the action of being consciously alive. The people we each find closest to us are those with whom we share the most in common. How many of those dearest to you also model full sensory living? How many within your intimate circle live with such uninhibited passion as to inspire not only their closest friends and family, but all with whom they come in contact? What traits and traditions are those most closely bonded to you emulating? What are the points of similarity between them as a group, between them and you?
Are they committed to living the fullest experience offered in each moment of every day? Do they exude the radiance of happy people with full lives and richly intimate relationships?
Are they involved in life beyond the parameters of their immediate family, work, and close personal friends? Do they reach out to the world at large through community service, volunteerism, political activism, social advocacy, and then come back to share of the enrichment this offered?
Is traveling—enjoying new and unfamiliar environments, gaining wisdom from varying cultures, drinking in the many different sights and sounds that this world has to share, to educate through, and to simply enjoy—a regular part of their life?
Can you sit and chat with them about the great novels you have each read, or the new musician you only just discovered, the amazing film you recently attended?
How varied are your associations? What is the breadth of your daily experience? This is the mirror reflection of your own level of comfort in engaging with the wide range of possibilities available to each of us in this world.