Friday, December 19, 2008

THIS IS HOW IT IS

THIS IS HOW IT IS
Another 50 -Word Story

There is a time in autumn when the leaves on the sycamores
start to dry, the wind blows. Listen to the rustle sweep
over you. Soon, your body sings, you rustle. You blow
through the trees across the meadow. You hear. If,
perchance, the flicker calls now, you will disappear.

What grabs you and pulls you deep into the present?

What bird song or bird call does it for you?

What animal always makes you pause and draw a quick breath when it crosses your path?

When were you so moved? How long has it been?

Go outside. Today. Get some Sacred connections.

Blessings,

William

P.S. SIMPLY SERENE - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace -- will serve you well if you want some guaranteed ways to become present. I talk about the famous Owl Eyes in depth in this one.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x


P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Inaugurate the Wondrous

Kim Ivy of Embrace the Moon and I met to inaugurate our plans for the class we’re crafting for you – Body & Soul Inauguration.

You may have read that we’re presenting a class on January 3rd at Kim’s Dojo (training hall) in wonderfully vibrant downtown Ballard.

Kim and I enjoy each other’s company and we have fun together. We invite each other to be simultaneously more playful and more profound. Your presence will fuel this creative fire.

Here’s how you might benefit… Creative magic will sizzle and you can play along with this energy to open doors, make changes, heal, find joy, and unknown wonders to be revealed.

Hey, what’s inaugurate mean anyhow?

Here’s what one dictionary says – other than the presidential version on the 20th. – 3. To open or begin use of formally with a ceremony; dedicate. The Latin root does come from – to auger. Auger is what soothsayers do by reading the signs and portents. If you’re like us, you are reading the signs of paradigm changes.

Kim and I are formally, that is with clear intention, going to help you to inaugurate a blessed era as you step into this new world that is forming around you, right now.

Ask yourself – what do you want to dedicate yourself to in this new world. What do you want to bring forth.

I am dedicating myself to living from my heart. This is not a new idea, even for me, but a deepening and a renewal of dedication.

We are crafting tools to help you connect to the profound and joyous realms of your heart to bring forth something that will serve you in years to come.

You will gain tools you can use everyday to stay connected to your deep center.

You will have fun.

Obviously, you may feel challenged when you move outside your comfort zone.

The real fun is just outside your comfort zone - Pat O'Bryan

You can read more details here

www.VitalArts.net/events/

>> REGISTER BY CALLING KIM AT (206) 789-0993 <<

I’ll leave you with this gentle conceit –

I just watched Henry V where Henry stirs the troops to noble action in the face of a fearsome horde. The exhausted English faced a much larger mass of fresh French troops who defended their own soil. It was impossible.

Henry ends by saying – pity those who were not here on this day of glory.

Will they be sorry to have missed this opportunity to inaugurate this wondrous on-going intent into the new world?

You can watch the famous scene (less than four minutes.) –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZVxbrW7Ow

Join us.

>> REGISTER BY CALLING KIM AT (206) 789-0993 <<

Blessings,

William

P.S. If you think this class will benefit friends, please forward this email to them.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

What Alice Walker Says Applies to You

In the last posting for you, Alice Walker’s wonderfully compassionate letter to President Elect Obama. Today, I have re-written it for you, as if she had composed it to you.

I believe what she says applies to you, dear one. Take it to heart.

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Nov. 5, 2008

Dear One,You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the people of Planet Earth. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so many others before you carried, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, only to be struck down before igniting the flame of justice and of law, is almost more than the heart can bear.

And yet, this observation is not intended to burden you, for you are of a different time, and, indeed, because of all the relay runners before you, Planet Earth is a different place.

It is really only to say: Well done. We knew, through all the generations, that you were with us, in us, the best of the spirit of peoples of all continents. Knowing this, that you would actually appear, someday, was part of our strength. Seeing you take your rightful place, based solely on your wisdom, stamina and character, is a balm for the weary warriors of hope, previously only sung about.I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance.

A primary responsibility that you do have, however, is to cultivate happiness in your own life. To make a schedule that permits sufficient time of rest and play with your family. And so on. One gathers that your family is large. We are used to seeing men and women soon become juiceless and white-haired; we notice their family looking strained and stressed. They soon have smiles so lacking in joy that they remind us of scissors. This is no way to lead. Nor does your family deserve this fate.

One way of thinking about all this is: It is so bad now that there is no excuse not to relax. From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone.I would further advise you not to take on other people's enemies. Most damage that others do to us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. We must learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

However, as my mother used to say, quoting a Bible with which I often fought, "hate the sin, but love the sinner." There must be no more crushing of whole communities, no more torture, no more dehumanizing as a means of ruling a people's spirit. This has already happened to people of color, poor people, women, children. We see where this leads, where it has led.A good model of how to "work with the enemy" internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. Because, finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies. And your smile, with which we watch you do gracious battle with unjust characterizations, distortions and lies, is that expression of healthy self-worth, spirit and soul, that, kept happy and free and relaxed, can find an answering smile in all of us, lighting our way, and brightening the world.We are the ones we have been waiting for.

In Peace and Joy,

Alice Walker

Blessings,

William

P.S. While Mr. Obama takes care of himself, you can use WHOLESOME ENTREPRENEUR'S One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets to sustains and nourishes your body & soul while caring of business.

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/6boskq

Monday, November 17, 2008

You Can Learn the Magical Healing Panacea

You Can Learn the Magical Healing Panacea

FOOT REFLEXOLOGY


Recently, I needed some help with my bladder and prostate… too much information? I turned to my first love – Foot Reflexology to handle the problem.
Really, my first love is magic. But when I first met Foot Reflexology back in 1973, the therapist diagnosed all sorts of cool things that confirmed what the doctor had said. How did he know? I felt confident that reflexology was magic. I still feel that way.

Here’s why you might think Reflexology exhibits wonders

· You can heal yourself when you travel. This is crucial if you travel – it’s portable.
· You can heal and assist the healing of anything and everything you or a family member has. It is a true panacea.
· You can learn it easily. Suzanne taught our 5 year old to work on her. Hoo ha! Good news.
· It’s mysterious. No-one really knows why it works. Therefore, it’s cool.
· It feels good and fun to do. Some say they crave it.
· You will feel relaxed from its effects. Or, weirdly enough, energized.
· You can impress your friends with the magic.
· Quadruple the effects of the other therapy work you engage in. I made up that number, but it does make every other modality work better.
· You can stop colds and flu in their tracks. Help your family and friends.
· You can boost your immune system.
· You can diagnose problems at the very beginning making them easier to handle.

Fee: $37. You can reserve your place by calling me or emailing me and then sending me your check.
Or by credit card or PayPal here => http://tinyurl.com/5pd84k

When: 9:00- Noon. Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at my flat on Alki Ave. SW overlooking the bay.

Who: William Wittmann, M.Ed., LMP www.VitalArts.net

Questions: William@BodyAndSoulMentor.com 206.328.2073

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Fill in your information, and I promise to let you know the next time I offer a class. Naturally, there’s no obligation and you can unsubscribe from the list easily.

Blessings,

William

P.S. If you think this class will benefit friends, please forward this posting to them.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

From your happy, relaxed state ...

To begin today, the software fairies at Body & Soul Mentor chose for you a big quote from Alice Walker. Even if you aren’t an American, you’ll find inspiration and great mentoring here.

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Nov. 5, 2008

Dear Brother Obama,

You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so many others before you carried, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, only to be struck down before igniting the flame of justice and of law, is almost more than the heart can bear. And yet, this observation is not intended to burden you, for you are of a different time, and, indeed, because of all the relay runners before you, North America is a different place. It is really only to say: Well done. We knew, through all the generations, that you were with us, in us, the best of the spirit of Africa and of the Americas. Knowing this, that you would actually appear, someday, was part of our strength. Seeing you take your rightful place, based solely on your wisdom, stamina and character, is a balm for the weary warriors of hope, previously only sung about.

I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that you do have, however, is to cultivate happiness in your own life. To make a schedule that permits sufficient time of rest and play with your gorgeous wife and lovely daughters. And so on. One gathers that your family is large. We are used to seeing men in the White House soon become juiceless and as white-haired as the building; we notice their wives and children looking strained and stressed. They soon have smiles so lacking in joy that they remind us of scissors. This is no way to lead. Nor does your family deserve this fate. One way of thinking about all this is: It is so bad now that there is no excuse not to relax.

From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone.

I would further advise you not to take on other people's enemies. Most damage that others do to us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. We must learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. It is understood by all that you are commander in chief of the United States and are sworn to protect our beloved country; this we understand, completely.

However, as my mother used to say, quoting a Bible with which I often fought, "hate the sin, but love the sinner." There must be no more crushing of whole communities, no more torture, no more dehumanizing as a means of ruling a people's spirit. This has already happened to people of color, poor people, women, children. We see where this leads, where it has led.

A good model of how to "work with the enemy" internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. Because, finally, it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges, purple and majestic, also dies. And your smile, with which we watch you do gracious battle with unjust characterizations, distortions and lies, is that expression of healthy self-worth, spirit and soul, that, kept happy and free and relaxed, can find an answering smile in all of us, lighting our way, and brightening the world.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

In Peace and Joy,

Alice Walker

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Blessings,

William

P.S. You have my permission to share this story with widely.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Mind Altering Quotes

I have one space left for my class FLOW: THE MAGIC OF MAKIN ART. If you want to come, call me 206.328.2073. You can read more about it and get on the email notification list here

=> http://www.VitalArts.net/events/

I though you might enjoy these quotes that I will be handing out in class on Saturday.

What spaces do they open up for you?

What new perspective?

QUOTES FOR THE CLASS

One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. - T.S. Eliot,

Good artists copy; great artists steal. - Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. - Picasso A long, long time is needed to be young. -- Picasso I like to live poor... but with a lot of money. -- Picasso It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. -- Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Picasso

We painted like children in the face of nature. - Henri Matisse

When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise. - Henri Matisse

My advice is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. -- Thornton Wilder.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. - Buddha

In one of the spate of dance movies of a few years ago, the beautiful woman asks the gorgeous man, "Do you know how to dance?"

"I'm Cuban, of course, I know how to dance," he says.

This response reminds me of something I read about Bali.
They have no word for artist. And that is because, like the Cubans and dancing, they presume that if you are Balinese, of course, you are an artist. - Reflections from William

Blessings,

William

P.S. Speaking of great quotes here's a magic message from Uncle Mike --

If you ask me, Www, I'd say the main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from.

Ain't no thing -

The Universe

If you aren't getting these magic messages from Uncle Mike, read my review of Mike's goodies including this fabulous freebee.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/3yu6yz

P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Here Is What Happened To Matisse…


Here is what happened to Matisse the first time he took up brush to paint –

“When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise.”

He’s talking about flow. He’s talking about the right brain. He’s talking about the Buddha brain. He’s talking about conscious action. He’s talking about presence.

Art of any sort has the ability to put you into the graceful state of flow. When you are in flow, you enjoy what you’re doing. You lose self-consciousness. Your sense of time changes. It disappears completely. It stops dead in frozen, perfect moments. Or it flies.

If you’re in the Seattle area on Nov. 8th 2008, you can join us for FLOW AND THE MAGIC OF MAKING ART. Go here for details.

=> http://www.VitalArts.net/events/

And do sign up to be informed of future classes.

IF YOU’RE NOT going to be in Seattle, paint. Get books on making art. Visit the libraries of the universe. Go to art museums. Paint. Draw. Sketch. Doodle. Use your right brain. You could start with the amazing book -- DRAWING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0874774195/williamwittmannvA/


Do watch this video about the right brain done by Jill Bolte Taylor, a woman who had a brain breakdown and lost her left brain, thereby making her completely right brained. Fascinating. (Note: Oprah has some interviews with her on-line as well.)

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html


P.S. If you are not in the Seattle area on Nov. 8th, you can learn about flow in my Life Giving Manual - THE MAGIC FORMULA -- How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want.

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2

Obviously, even if you are in Seattle you’ll benefit immensely when you get it.

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Other Thing That Happens Is…

It’s 5:17 in the DARK morning, I am half way through my workout, but I want to put my artistic vision that blossomed in my heart during the night onto paper. I want to do it NOW.

I find the paper… Do some physical therapy… breathe hard while I get the crayon… do some more PT… breathe… Oh! Blue tape, that will be good. Tape it down… more PT…

…Enough, you get the idea… The Muse had grabbed me. Again.

The other thing that happens when you engage in life in general and in art in particularly is that passion or more exactly enthusiasm fills you with god spirit. The muse grabs you with a vision and pulls you forward into life. The project must be done. The vision must be fulfilled.

Eckhart Tolle talks about three things that fulfill the goal of staying present while DOING -- Acceptance, Enjoyment, or Enthusiasm. (Do you remember that ENTHUSIASM means to have God within. Cool, right?)

One of the indicators that you are in flow is – enjoy what you’re doing.

Flow is the antidote to fear. Obviously, you have noticed the fear mongers are at work in the world…

Stop listening to them. Stop it.

Be in flow more.

You can learn about flow in my class -- Flow and the Magic of Making Art.

Join us – Flow and the Magic of Making Art -- A One Day Class, Nov. 8, 2008

You can find details and register here => http://www.VitalArts.net/events/

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If you are not in the Seattle area on Nov. 8th you can learn about flow in my Life Giving Manual – THE MAGIC FORMULA -- How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want.

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2

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You can also see some pretty art and a story about my father and art.

Even if you don’t want to take the class or live on another continent.

=> http://www.VitalArts.net/events/ click through to the class.


*** PLEASE ***

While you’re there, sign up for the no-obligation class notification list and I will let you know about classes I offer. If you don’t want to know about classes, don’t sign up. Fair enough?

You can join the list or the class here => http://www.VitalArts.net/events/

Antidote your fears – get into flow.

Blessings,

William

Friday, October 10, 2008

The Sky Is Falling?

Do you remember the story? An acorn falls and bops Chicken Little on the head. She panics and dashes around shouting, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” She vows to tell the king and sets off on her journey.

One after the other, she convinces her friends that the sky is falling. She tells them she has evidence that she has heard with her own ears and seen with her own eyes and even a bit of sky hit her in the head. And off they go to see the king who will certainly help them. Along the way they meet Foxy Loxy who offered to show them the way to the king…

He showed them into his den and ate them all up.

In times of scary news reports, what do you do?

I rely on clear headed friends and mentors who show me the BIG picture. I want a perspective that lets me see a bigger, longer term picture clearly. In the financial crisis of 2008, when the news was screaming, “The sky is falling!” The CEO of Vanguard Funds did just that in a little video.

He showed a graph of the single day loss of 20% that occurred back in 1987 (I think). Can you imagine? It’s a terrifying downward spike. Then he pulls back and shows the BIG picture. You can hardly see a blip on the graph. The sky didn’t fall.

You can have a life you wholeheartedly love -- body and soul. Really.

I can help you.

Become a member of Body & Soul Mentor the next time I open the doors for $9.97/month. You can get on the no-obligation waiting list and get a cool podcast that will remind you of what’s truly important.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html



IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html

Blessings,

William

P.S. In times of fear mongering media I recommend my Life Giving Manual – Simply Serene -- Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x

Sunday, October 05, 2008

What Are You About, Dear One

Josh, a new reader, asked me such a challenging question I thought I’d pass it on to you.

Here’s his question, “In one great sentence tell me what you believe you are about?”

The form of the question raises other issues about believing, so for this exercise I abbreviated the question to:

In one great sentence, what are you about?

One of the questions I ask my patients is -- who is the you that you refer to. If you don’t think there are multiple versions of you, then you have not been paying attention.

So, who is the YOU in the question – what are YOU about. Give an answer for each of your voices.

Here are my responses from the different voices.

My first two responses – as a therapist/mentor.

· I am about helping people to live a life they wholeheartedly love.

· I am about helping people to love their journey through life.

Version three – my core?

· I am about living in Presence and Love and acting on what arises there.

Version four and five – from one of my wounded children

· I am about being right. Or more exactly, I am about not being wrong.

· I am about getting Mom and/or Dad’s approval, and your approval as a substitute.

Version six – as a healthy child

· I am about play. Playing with you. Playing outdoors. Playing alone.

Versions multiple non-verbal responses –

· I opine that all art is a self-portrait. You can look at my sacred landscapes and consider them as self-portraits. What can you tell from these?
=> http://www.vitalarts.net/art/sacredlandscapes.html


Your Turn -- Try the Exercise

In one great sentence, fill in the blank –

I am about ________________.

Listen to your internal voices then fill in the blank for each of them.

What have you learned? What is revealed? Was this hard to do?

Live long and prosper,

William

P.S. Catch the Launch of THE WHOLESOME ENTREPRENEUR --

You get - One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets on How the Wise Entrepreneur Sustains and Nourishes Body & Soul While Caring for a Business

And for a limited time, until October 9th 2008 you get two powerful options.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/wholesome2options.html

P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

You’ll Love This Brain Storm

Before I tell you what my brainstorm is and how you can save money, get my focused attention, solid information, and heart filling inspiration to help you live a life you wholeheartedly love, I’ll give you a story.

I was thinking about -- The Are-You-Kidding-Me Great Option – For One Dollar More… Option Two I am giving you for THE WHOLESOME ENTREPRENEUR Launch.

You get One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets on How the Wise Entrepreneur Sustains and Nourishes Body & Soul While Caring for a Business. And for $1 Dollar more you get a membership that gives all my Laser Focused Reports and Life Giving Manuals as a member.

A value of at least $121 for a buck. Now that’s Cool. Right?

But I thought, “Hey! Why not just let people sign up for a membership at $9.97 as Option Two? They’d get all my manuals and reports – that I normally sell for $121-- for becoming a member.”

“Are you nuts, William?! You can’t give away the store,” my business voice said.

“Sure, I can. It’s my store,” my generous self said. “Obviously, I want people to get my focused attention, the best information, and heart filling inspiration I can give them so they can live a life they wholeheartedly love.”

So there you have it. My generous self won. Clearly, you win, too.


You get to choose –

Option One -- Get the INCREDIBLE Wholesome Entrepreneur - One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets on How the Wise Entrepreneur Sustains and Nourishes Body & Soul While Caring for a Business at $27. Without the membership.

Option Two -- The Are-You-Kidding-Me Great Option – Become a member of Body & Soul Mentor for $9.97. (Automatically, renews every 30 days at $9.97.)

You get my focused attention, information, and inspiration to help you live a life you wholeheartedly love for $9.97/mo. Obviously, I priced this so it would be easy for you to continue being a member.

Be sure you read all the details before you decide which option works best for you

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/wholesome2options.html

Go for it

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/wholesome2options.html


If you want more brainstorm-news-flashes about becoming a member be sure get on this no-obligation waiting list – The Journey Begins. I will keep you posted on ways you can join.

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html

Blessings,

William

P.S. HEADS UP: The two options launch Oct 2nd at 6:00 AM PDT. Option Two ends Oct 9, 2008 at 7:00 PM PDT or when 200 new members have joined whichever happens first.

Announcing the Launch of The Wholesome Entrepreneur

When I was putting my affairs in order for my surgery last winter (when doing major surgery there is always a chance, however small, of not making it), I updated my wills and I wrote like mad to finish The Wholesome Entrepreneur. I wanted to leave it as a legacy for my daughters, both entrepreneurs, and to the massage profession. I finished it before I went under general anesthetic.

Obviously, as we all expected, I survived. And I have this Life Giving Manual for you now.

I launch The Wholesome Entrepreneur, on October 2nd at 6:00 AM PDT.

The subtitle describes the book well –

One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets on How the Wise Entrepreneur Sustains and Nourishes Body & Soul While Caring for a Business

I’ve learned the hard way, curled up on the floor in a fetal position that the self-employed don’t take care of themselves very well. They need help. This manual shows them easy steps and some more challenging ones that can save their lives.

Crash and burn is not pretty. Despair sucks. You and I want people who can thrive over decades of entrepreneurship. You want them to be able to sustain this life of freedom. Right?

I have helped many people to stay sane and thrive over my thirty plus years as a therapist and mentor. It’s mythic, even when people are making good money, they still need help staying whole.

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"Give me one day and I'll show you how to have a rich, rewarding, life connected to the Sacred while running a business.”

When you get your copy of this amazing manual, The Wholesome Entrepreneur -- One Dozen Life-Giving Secrets on How the Wise Entrepreneur Sustains and Nourishes Body & Soul While Caring for a Business you'll discover amazing secrets like ...

What the Zen master from the 6th C has to say that will change your life. Just think about getting a powerful tip like this.


· The ultimate perspective clearing device. And if you’re reading this you know – Perspective Is Everything.

· How to gain inspiration to solve any problem in your business... This one's really cool!

· Where to find true joy in your business. Wouldn’t that be useful?

· How to have unlimited energy for life.

· How to be in alignment with the Sacred and feel supported in all you do.

· And much, much more ...


HERE’S WHAT JOHN GALLAGHER SAYS –

“GREAT! It's like you wrote it for me! :)

"I never would have become an entrepreneur without the tools I learned from William years ago. It blows my mind that ANYONE can learn these life saving tips in a manual.

“For those of you who WANT to be entrepreneurs, you will learn how to remove the blocks from preventing you from realizing your dreams. Hint: There is one secret in this book that says “Just get to work!”

“William’s techniques take the whole human into account and really work.

“For those who ARE entrepreneurs, you will learn what you need to do to keep yourself sane, healthy and happy. There is no way your business will ever be sustainable without following Williams 12 Secrets.

“If you want to start your own business or already own one, you’d be insane not to read The Wholesome Entrepreneur."

-John Gallagher, L.Ac. , LearningHerbs.com (http://tinyurl.com/6fqf8b )

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YOU GET TWO OPTIONS –

Buy The Wholesome Entrepreneur outright and gain the benefits,

Or for ONE DOLLAR MORE you can become a member and get everything I have ever written.

You can read details, watch a short video, and get samples here --

Go for it => http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.net/wholesome2options.html

Blessings,

William

P.S. Remember you can’t get the book or join until the launch date of October 2nd at 6:00 AM PDT.

P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Cut Through the Lies

Politicians lie, exaggerate, obfuscate, spin, and manipulate your base fears. So, what?

So, what happens for me is I lose my sense of humor. I descend from skeptical, which I view as healthy, to cynical, which I find to be dark, oppressive, hopeless, and no fun.

Here’s a cure go. Read www.FactCheck.org every time you see a political advertisement. Or better yet, skip the ads and just read what the scrupulously non-partisan folks at Fact Check have to say.

These folks rate the veracity of political campaign ads. Recently, in the US campaign, you may have seen some real stinkers.

If you live outside the U.S., you may still find the site humorous and useful, but look inside your own borders for similar sites. Surely, this valuable site will have imitators. Then again, no-one delivers the same barrage of ads over such a long time as the U.S.A. does.

Blessings,

William

P.S. A good antidote to BAD political ads is A MAGIC MESSAGE from Uncle Mike, News from the Universe --

If you ask me, William, I'd say the main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from.

Ain't no thing -

The Universe

If you aren't getting these magic messages from Uncle Mike, read my review of Mike's goodies including this fabulous freebee.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/3yu6yz


P.P.S. You have my permission to share this story with no more than three people.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Oh, I See Your Problem

“Oh, I see your problem,” Zen Master says, “The trouble you have is that you think you have time.”

Woof!

Who’s the “you” Zen Master addresses? To which “you” does the master refer? It’s not your Buddha mind, now, is it? It’s not the wise inner sage. It’s your personality, your ego identity, your ego mind.

Your ego has a couple of jobs, at least.

One: Always be right. Justify if you need. Be delusional if you need. Be right by being wrong if you need. Just be right.

Two: Keep the knowledge of your certain mortality at bay.

I have written before about using the phrase – today is a good day to die. Today’s quote is another take on this wake up call.

How can you use it to wake up? How can you use it to be joyful in this very moment? Instead of waiting for some event in the future, as when I win the lottery, when I marry/divorce, when I get the promotion, when my parents, spouse, boss, best friend apologizes or they approve of me.

It might be instructive for you to look inside and discover the circumstance for which you’re waiting. What needs to improve before you get to be wholeheartedly happy in this very moment?


And What Pray Tell Would Be The Best Use Of Your Limited Time?

Obviously, I recommend you use any strategy you have to become present, to become conscious of this present moment. Right here. Right now.

· Meditate
· Practice taiji
· Be still
· Watch your breathing

You can find wonderful suggestions in my books
SIMPLY SERRENE (http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x) and LOOKING DEEPLY INTO PRESENCE (http://tinyurl.com/os966) including the guaranteed Owl Eyes method.

FOOLPROOF RELAXATION (http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9) offers another way. (Note: SIMPLY SERENE contains an early version of FOOLPROOF RELAXATION.)

All three carry satisfaction guarantees. Go for it–

Simply Serene => http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x
Looking Deeply into Presence => http://tinyurl.com/os966
Foolproof Relaxation => http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9

Byron Katie’s book, LOVING WHAT IS can be very useful. More later.

Blessings,

William

Friday, August 01, 2008

YOUR TIME’S RUNNING OUT…

Dear One,

YOUR TIME’S RUNNING OUT…

Your chance to join BODY & SOUL MENTOR ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st. THAT’S TONIGHT!

I don’t know when you’ll be able to join after this time. And it will never be at a better price -- $1.oo for the first month. NEVER.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com


YOU GET…

Remember when you become a member, you get these books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports as part of your monthly membership:

The Wholesome Entrepreneur – $27

Altar Making – $Priceless

Amazingly Content -- How to Be In Love with All You See & Hear, and Be In Harmony With Family, Friends & Work –$19.97

FOOLPROOF RELAXATION -- How to Relax, Become Present, and Be At Ease Anytime and Anywhere You Want. – $9.97

Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways To Be Instantly Alert And At Peace – $27

Looking Deeply Into Presence – Solve Problems, Make Critical Decisions, and Create an Extraordinarily Rich Life – $17.97

The Magic Formula –How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want – $19.97 (Note: I just doubled the price on this gem.)

And don’t forget the COMING ATTRACTIONS that members will also get as part of their monthly fee. You can read about them in the right sidebar at http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Total that up and you’ll find it’s a bunch of value for only $9.97 a month.
Naturally, you can read all that you get here => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com Find out for yourself.

Again, your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Live long and prosper,

William

P.S. A couple more countries have members now. Cool!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

How Optical Illusions Help You Eat Well

How can air in food make you more satisfied – make you eat less? How can it curb a tendency to be fat, or reverse a trend?

Can it? Turns out – yes.

Feed a hungry college student a half glass full of smoothie and they will eat 20% more at lunch ½ later than the college student who drinks the SAME smoothie only whipped until it swells to a full glass with air. Not only that, but the ones that eat the airy smoothie don’t make it up at their next meal.

My brother, John, and my food guru, Dick, have both recommended Mindless Eating and Volumetrics to you and me. I finally read them. Actually, John recommends listening to Mindless Eating as a book on tape, so that’s what I did. I recommend it.

Listen to get the fun of it and the flavor of it. Then get the book to read the summaries of what to do.

Both titles don’t really work to tell you their messages. The subtitle of Volumetrics is great – Feel Full On Fewer Calories. I’d rewrite that to read – Feel Satisfied on Fewer Calories.

It’s not my job to re-title these excellent books. Mindless Eating deals with how our brains are tricked to eat more than we want by other visual cues and often by genuine optical illusions.

You could summarize Volumetrics – We don’t eat calories, we eat size, volume. We are stratified by greater volume and not necessarily by greater calories. Satisfied means you eat less, means you lose fat and still feel, well, satisfied.

These are not deprivation diet books. DEPRIVATION DIETS DON’T WORK. And need I say, not fun.

The two cheapest ingredients in food are water and air. Adding air or water is the simplest way to feel more satisfied with no additional calories. You read about air in the smoothie above. Soup is food with water added. Raisins are grapes with water removed.

Let’s see what that does for you…


Raisins

Which is more satisfying. ¼ cup of raisins or nearly 2 cups of grapes (50 ml or 500 ml). The metric numbers makes the size difference even more startling. Exact same number of calories. Exact same food. One has water; one doesn’t.

Which would you choose if you wanted to feel most satisfied?

Yep, me too.


Soup is the Free Lunch of Satisfaction

I live on good soup, not words. РMoli̬re

Even though soup is mostly water, you and your body perceive it as food. This is very counter intuitive to me.

Proof? Give people a 270 calorie chicken-rice casserole and a glass of water as a first course to a luncheon.

Give another group the same casserole with the water added to it to make it a soup. Check both groups to see how much they ate for the rest of lunch.

The soup people ate 100 calories less of the lunch that followed and didn’t make up the loss at dinner. Cool, yes! Soup created more satiety, satisfaction. Other experiments showed that chunky soup creates more satisfaction than strained soup. And hot and cold soups both create the same benefits.

You can read the physiology in the books if you’re interested. But this seems like magic to me.


Bag the Peanut Butter

I over eat peanut butter; it is one of the highest density foods you can find. If I eat volume, then you have to eat a mountain of calories to get a decent volume.

If I lived alone, I would just not bring it into the house. Obviously you can use this useful tip for all your trigger foods. Since I live with the Mysterious Madame Ling, who likes peanut butter on apples, I simply put the peanut butter in a brown paper bag.

Not only is this -- Out of sight, out of mind -- it puts inconvenience into the circuit making it harder to mindlessly eat.

Note: You may be and I am on a seafood diet, I eat everything I see. Out of sight, out of mind.


Eating Out? Eat This, Not That

Men’s Health magazine food editor, David Zinczenko, has written a book that works with some of the same ideas, but he takes it into the world of eating out in America. If you live outside the USA, these examples can still be instructive.

John shared this one with me -- Baskin-Robins’ Banana split or Dairy Queen’s?

I will just tease you. Go to the site or get the magazine to see which one.
http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/15-Top-Swaps/index.php


This page deals with drinks. Check the classic cocktail for a shock.

http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/Drink-This-Not-That/index.php



OK, One Optical Illusion

People perceive tall as more than short.

Remember the optical illusion from childhood of the upside down T. They ask which is longer – the horizontal part or the vertical section.

People say the vertical is up to 20% taller when they are in fact the same length. (The illusion is so strong for me, that I got out a ruler and tested it.)

Tall thin glasses will have you drinking less wine, juice, or Coke. And again, you will feel satisfied. Remove the short squat glasses from your life, unless you want to increase your consumption of water, then the idea works in your favor. I drink water out of a Bavarian beer mug.


Action

If you have people in your family who need to monitor fat gain, get the books, read them, and then apply the tricks.

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TIME’S RUNNING OUT…

Your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Remember when you become a member, you get these books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports as part of your monthly membership:

The Wholesome Entrepreneur – $27

Altar Making – $Priceless

Amazingly Content -- How to Be In Love with All You See & Hear, and Be In Harmony With Family, Friends & Work –$19.97

FOOLPROOF RELAXATION -- How to Relax, Become Present, and Be At Ease Anytime and Anywhere You Want. – $9.97

Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways To Be Instantly Alert And At Peace – $27

Looking Deeply Into Presence – Solve Problems, Make Critical Decisions, and Create an Extraordinarily Rich Life – $17.97

The Magic Formula –How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want – $19.97 (Note: I just doubled the price on this gem.)

And don’t forget the COMING ATTRACTIONS that members will also get as part of their monthly fee. You can read about them in the right sidebar at http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Total that up and you’ll find it’s a bunch of value for only $9.97 a month.

Again, your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Eat well,

William

P.S. If you haven’t read the Magic Formula, clearly, this would be a good time. It shows you How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want that includes the healthy body you want.

What would your life be like if you loved your body?

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2

And, of course, if you’re a member, getting the MAGIC FORMULA is one of your benefits.

Again, your chance to join Body & Soul Mentor ends 9:00 PM PDT August 1st.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Biggest Concerns

Here are the two biggest concerns I hear from people about joining Body & Soul Mentor.

I have no time.

I hate reading on a computer.

I don’t have time …

A concern of some folks is the old time thing. “I don’t have time,” they say.

“Who does?

Well, actually, you have enough time for this.”

Because of two things, you’ll get your money’s worth.

1) I have priced this so that there will be no financial barrier to joining.

2) I have compacted so much value in this sight that even if you apply the minimum of 17 minutes a day you’ll get your money’s worth.

Just nose around Body & Soul Mentor until you find the article, the podcast, the Laser Focused report, the forum that sparks a single insight. You can live on one or two great insights a month. You can skim the regular and prized letters I send – scanning for the gem that changes everything…

I will give you more tips on how to do this when you join.

3) If you don’t have 17 minutes a day, join and find out how to get more time.

I Hate Reading on the Computer

I am with you there. Short articles and videos are just great on the computer. Don’t you agree? But for longer pieces, I want to print it and head to my favorite reading spot.

All the articles on Body & Soul Mentor have a print friendly link at the bottom of the page. Use it.

All my books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports, which are intentionally shorter than 20 pages, come as Adobe Acrobat files and can be easily and beautifully printed, even bound.

Lastly, for non-reading altogether, I have podcasts for members. You may have listened to the Pilgrimage one. If not, you can get it here.

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html

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Good Surprise

The underlying question of people in the above two concerns is – Will I get my money’s worth?

I say, “Yes.” Here’s why – price.

I want you to get the very best value I can offer. And I don’t want money to stand in your way.

That is why after weeks of pondering, I decided to keep the price for membership at $9.97/month instead of $17.97 even though there is HUGELY more value in the site now after this HUMONGOUS upgrade.

In fact, I am going to bet that people like you will like the sight so much once they try it that they happily will continue being members for years.

That is why I am going to offer the first month at the token price of $1.00.

Be sure to be first in line to be one of the 200 new members.

Go here Thursday morning, July 24th at 6:00 AM PDT.

=> http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.com


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Go to http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.com to look at everything you’ll get when you join. You can watch timer countdown to the opening…

And Tomorrow, July 24, 2008 at 6:00 AM PDT I’ll open the doors for the first 200 people to come join. Then I close the doors for at least a month to see if I can manage the new folks along with the current members.

Take your time in considering. Carefully Read the whole letter I wrote at http://www.BodyAndSoulMentor.com I don’t think all 200 places will disappear in a shot. Consider wisely. Take your time.

In any case, at the end of the week, August 1, 2008 at 9:00 PM PDT. I will close the doors.

Note: I reserve the right to close the doors for any other unforeseen reason. Very unlikely, but that’s the nature of unforeseen events.

Blessings,

William

Monday, July 21, 2008

Fear Reframed

A famous British stage actor used to be horribly frightened before each performance.

One day someone kindly inquired, “How’s your body feel when you’re about to go on stage, when you say you have stage fright? What are the sensations you feel. Just what your senses tell you. Don’t label the sensations.”

“Hmm,” he pondered. “Well, my heart’s racing, I’m breathing high up in my body. I’m on edge…”

“And how do you feel when you’re excited?” his friend continued.

“Oh! It’s the same.”

So, from thenceforth, whenever he was preparing to go on stage and the old stage fright would ramp up, he would just say, “Jeepers, I’m excited.” And he’d be fine.

Try it the next time you’re feeling fear about a new adventure. Just say to yourself, “Holy moly, I’m excited.”

Blessings,

William

P.S. Woof! That’s me doing a lot of heavy lifting UPGRADING Body & Soul Mentor. I am really close to launching the site on the July 24th at 6:00 AM PDT.

A favor: although, I think Body & Soul Mentor site it terrific, I want to be sure I have included everything you might want.

I have all my books, Laser Focused reports, and manuals on the site available to members at zero cost.

I have the new videos posted. (Many wrote about how much they liked the last one on Dave’s Knee.)

Moving, powerful podcasts are available for members.

You’ll find the stories and articles are organized beautifully. I have IMPROVED guided tours available to make it easy for people to get around.

In short, there are lots of goodies available to members who will be glad to pay the low monthly fee of $14.97 or $17.97… I haven’t decided yet.

But, this is where you come in… please take a couple of minutes to respond to this SUPER SHORT survey. Really. There are only two questions I need you to answer.

I you would be so kind

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Monday, July 14, 2008

What Are You Hungry For?

Sometimes, I find it hard to tell when I’m really hungry for nutrients as opposed to being emotionally hungry.

I have been on a long journey to heal some early wounds around eating. I am much recovered. Because I like to explore my edges and live outside my comfort zone, I still find it difficult. Obviously, living outside your comfort zone, can trigger emotions.

I found this list from Mindless Eating comparing physical hunger to emotional hunger, helped me, you might find it useful, too.

Physical Hunger

Builds gradually
Strikes below the neck, e.g. growling stomach
Occurs several hours after a meal
Goes away when full
Eating leads to feeling of satisfaction


Emotional Hunger on the other Hand…

Develops suddenly
Above the neck e.g. a taste for ice cream
Unrelated to time
Persists despite fullness
Eating leads to guilt and shame

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The Body and Soul Mentor web site humongous UPGRADE continues…

All my Laser Focused reports e.g. Amazingly Content (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp), are ready for download to members at no charge. Hoo ha!

And so are my lovely manuals including Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace (http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x).

Members love this huge benefit.

One of the really cool things about the internet is you get to meet people from all over the world. I now have members from –

· Netherlands
· UK
· New Zealand
· South Africa
· USA
· Canada
· Australia
· Portugal
· Dominican Republic
· Germany
· Norway

Is that cool or what?

If you want the inside track on information for becoming a member and to get on the no-obligation waiting list, go to The Journey Begins

http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html

I’ll keep you posted and you get the wonderful podcast with Beverly Cook talking about pilgrimage. It’s cool.

Blessings,

William

P.S. Stay tuned for more news about the goodies to come on the web site. Remember you can’t join until 6:00 AM PDT, July 24th, 2008 when the doors open for one week or until 200 new members join us. Why only 200? I want to be sure I can take care of people on the site before I let any more in. Smart, huh.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

The Journey Begins

The Journey Begins

The doors are closed to new members on Body and Soul Mentor web site.

Woof!

Now I’m into the huge, Humongous UPGRADE. Double woof! I have tons of work to do.


OPENING THE DOORS

I’ll be opening doors for new members for one week starting, 6:00 AM PDT July 24th.

I will close them on Midnight August 1st 2008 EDT.

HEADS UP:

I will close the doors when I have 200 new members if that happens before the August 1st cut off.

And I reserve the right to close the doors for any reason that I can’t foresee now.

Why the limit of only 200 new members? I am only one guy here in Seattle maintaining a private practice, running a real life, and I want to be sure I can truly help the members and not be overwhelmed. I won’t reopen the site to new members for at least a month or two after we see how it goes.

Fair enough?


HERE ARE THE GOODIES YOU’LL GET

I have great plans, and I’m sure more will be added as members make suggestions.

Here are the goodies I know you’ll get.


ONE

I’ll be adding podcasts on a regular basis that you can download and listen to in your car or while you’re doing the laundry and such. Or listen to on your computer. These will mostly be revealing conversations with amazing people on the journey, too.

You will be amazed who I know. One friend said about me, “He talks to giants.” I humbly submit, it’s true.

The first one is with Beverly Cook about her pilgrimage to the holy route in Spain. See below for how to get it today.


TWO

I’ll be adding videos, because some things are much better explained with pictures. You’re smart so you know this.

Have you ever said, “Hey, let me just show you… It will be faster.”

I have.

Now, I can just show you. I’ve mastered the Flip Ultra video camera which makes it a snap.

The one for how to stop headaches is quite useful. One viewer with a headache saw it, applied it, and Poof no more headache. Too cool!

You’ll be delighted with the usefulness of these videos.

Oh, and they’re short. The headache one is 1:21 minutes. This helps me to honor the 17 minutes a day promise, right?

“Give me seventeen minutes a day, and I'll show you how you can get a life you love – Body & Soul -- or your money back."


THREE

All my books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports will be free to members. YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE.



IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

Since everything on my site relates to being on a quest, a hero’s journey, a heroine’s journey, what better introduction than to listen to a conversation with Beverly Cook, LMP, a real heroine on a real journey –.
Get on this waiting list. I won’t obligate you to joining, just keep you informed.

When you get my Conversation with Beverly podcast, I’ll keep you up to date on how you can get access to the goodies by join the membership of heroes and heroines on the journey.

People who were present at the conversation with Bev were blown away, inspired, and moved.

What is the value of pilgrimage in your quest for the sacred in your life?

You get to listen to Beverly and me talk about her recently completed Camino pilgrimage, the ancient pilgrim route in northern Spain known as El Camino de Santiago.

By the way, this podcast is a good example of what you’ll find on the web site every day for free, exclusively to members.

It’s free.

Go for it => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

How Do You Mix Ho’oponopono with Tolle?

Emily, a reader of Amazingly Content (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp), asks this great question. I thought I’d share it with you.

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Dear William,

I am reading your ebook Amazingly Content. I already knew about ho’oponopono from Joe Vitale and Dr Len but it's great to hear the inspiring stories in your ebook and more information about how to apply it.

I have some questions on using ho'oponopono.

Recently I have been looking into the material of Eckhart Tolle and others who teach being in the present, in the now. I would like to continue to do ho'oponopono but am unsure how to do that whilst tuning into space and silence. Perhaps it's not necessary to be saying the phrases all the time?

I also find it difficult to clean at the same time as talking to someone or doing something that requires concentration. I would be very grateful if you could answer these questions for me.

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Emily from the UK

***

Good question, yes?

The truth is that all of these methods are art forms, like jazz. You have a theme, and then you improvise.

It is not necessary to use the four phrases of ho’oponopono all the time. It just helps. Presence is your big goal. Here’s why.

When you are present, you love. When you are present, you are reconciled with all that is. That’s the way presence works. You get Presence and you get love, gratitude, reconciliation. And aren’t these the goals of Ho’oponopono – to love God and be reconciled with everyone and everything?

So being present, in any way you can manage it, is one’s primary task. Tolle says that explicitly in A New Earth. Be conscious, be present then do any work in the world you want from that place. The Tao Te Ching said the same thing 2500 years ago, right?

Having said that, when I am angry, resentful, jealous, spiteful, complaining or obsessively needing to be right, ho’oponopono is the best I can manage. It brings me back to sanity. Remember one of the primary virtues of ho’oponopono is you don’t need to know what to do, you don’t have to believe anything, you just humbly invoke the process, say the phrases, and it does the work.

You may notice that sooner or later ho’oponopono returns you to the present.

Having said that, being present before you use ho’oponopono, makes ho’oponopono work better. One could use the methods in Foolproof Relaxation (http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9) or any other presencing technique to cool down and get present, then slide into some ho’oponopono.


RULES OF THUMB:

If you can be present, then that’s what you do first. If when you are present, your entire disharmony fades, then you’re done.

If you can’t be present easily, use ho’oponopono.

If you have fear, use presencing techniques.

When you want to pray for someone, use ho’oponopono

I can repeat -- I love you – all the time.


CLEANING WHILE DOING

Saying the phrases of ho’oponopono while being with someone can be difficult. Practice.

Saying the phrases of ho’oponopono while performing a task can be difficult. Practice. I use it while doing complicated cranialsacral therapy all the time. You can learn to use the phrases while working, too.


When it gets in the way of you’re being present to someone or something, just be present and listen to them, see them. Presence trumps everything.

Ho’oponopono is an attitude as well as a process. Just listen with love and respect and you will be doing ho’oponopono even if you’re not uttering the phrases.

You can mix your tools to get the job done. Experiment and you will gradually learn what works best for you and in which situations.

Thanks Emily.

Blessings,

William

P.S. LAST CHANCE. The special offer of a month’s membership to Body & Soul Mentor without cost when you get either Foolproof Relaxation or Amazingly Content, ends Midnight July 9, 2008.

You can get them here.

Go for it –

FOOLPROOF RELAXATION => http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9

AMAZINGLY CONTENT => http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Obviously, Not True…

A reader wrote this about my Laser Focused report Amazingly Content. http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp


Since this Ho’oponopono thing is so obviously not true,I'm going to have to take advantage of your guarantee.If it is true, then prove it by using it yourself to change my mind about asking for this refund. See, it ain't true!

Isn’t that sweet? I smiled and cheerfully refunded his money. I didn’t try to change his mind. Amazingly enough, I am content.

But the truth is, I understand what he’s saying. Ho’oponopono, the method in the report, is obviously untrue. How could it be otherwise? When I read Dr. Len’s miraculous story, I thought, “Hmmm.”

I trusted Joe Vitale who told me about it. You can read his famous email in the report.

Part of Joe’s story is that he didn’t believe it either. He researched it at length. He had telephone conversations with Dr. Len. Eventually, they met. Still it took Joe a long time to get it.

Even though I trust Joe, I researched it, too. I think I read everything that Joe wrote about it, and yet I was still skeptical. Because I don’t understand it, I am still skeptical. I do note that it works. I don’t let my skepticism get in the way of receiving the benefits of being in love with everyone and everything.


I Test Everything

Did you know I graduated in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard? I like to test stuff.

You may know that before I tell you to try anything, I have tested it first in my own life. Then I refine the tests in the laboratory of my friends, family, and patients. If it passes those tests, I tell you. It passed all those tests and I wrote Amazingly Content for you. (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp)


Now, I travel around being in love with everything and everyone. And I feel Amazingly Content. (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp)

And don’t let Suzanne Burroughs know that it’s not true, it’s working too well for her. See below for her report.

Obviously, not true?

Thursday, June 19, 2008

What Was Revealed – 100 Day practice

What Was Revealed – 100 Day practice

This isn’t the most powerful question in the world –

Is today a good day to die?

This is –

Is today a good day for Suzanne to die?

Holy Poop! If I have any doubt about the nature of life and death, this question will flush it out. If I have any doubt who my wife, Suzanne, truly is, this question will slap me awake.


A Refresher –

My friend and colleague, Kim Ivy challenged me and her students with maintaining a practice for 100 days. It’s a traditional Taoist idea.

I took it on.


My Practice

My practice was to show up every morning at the beach on Lake Washington or on the Salish Sea, practice Taiji (Tai Chi) or something similar in order to be present enough to be able to say wholeheartedly, “Today is a good day to die!”

In order to be able to say that wholeheartedly, you have to be present. No mind chatter. The grasping, clinging ego never thinks it’s a good day to die. When you’re present, the ego is gone. You are free to say, “Today is a good day to die!”

My beloved Zen teacher, Genjo, said, “That’s all well and good William, but how about a good day for Suzanne to die?

“#@$%** you and the horse you came in on,” I said.

Genjo just laughed, of course.

I found this second question – Is today a good day for Suzanne to die? – most revealing. If you ask my ego, there is never a good day for Suzanne to die.

You may have guessed that someday it will be the day that Suzanne dies. I may be lucky enough to be there. We have been married for nearly four decades. We’re likely to be married until death do us part. So this practice has a point to it, doesn’t it.

In order to say – Today is a good day for Suzanne to die -- wholeheartedly, I have to be deeply present. I have to know who she is at the deepest levels.

I showed up every day for the 100 days just like the US mail – through rain, wind, cold. Some days were a tad sloppy, others fully transcendent as you might expect.

One day slipped my mind completely due to a change in routine.


The Surprises I Discovered

At some point, moving through my morning forms, I would open to the vast magic of life unfolding in the present moment, and I would find Suzanne right there, in the infinite moment.

One day she was in the curvature of the earth. Another in the Lombardy poplar, another in the cherry blossoms. Each day she appeared. Each day she appeared in a different guise. Obviously on each day, I could say, “Today is a good day for Suzanne to die.”

Blessings,

William

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Give us 35 minutes listening to this playfully powerful conversation, and we, William Wittmann and Kim Ivy (www.EmbraceTheMoon.com) will reveal the power and magic of standing meditation. "This is fun. This is easy. This is hot."

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Colonoscopy Fun

I had the scoping today, an easy procedure, and as you may know, now being recommended for everyone starting at age 50.

In my face as I waited, I read a plaque that announced, colorectal cancer has the 2nd highest high kill rate amongst cancer patients, BUT if detected early by colonoscopy people have nearly a 100% chance of survival. It’s one of the good news stories and a no-brainer.

Dear One, when your doctor recommends it, GET A COLONOSCOPY .

Luckily, you can prepare by reading hurmorist, Dave Barry’s -- A Journey into My Colon and Yours – before you get yours.

I was fortuanate enough to read this a couple of days before mine. I laughed ‘til I couldn’t breathe. I laughed ‘til tears came. My laughter drew inquiries from the Mysterious Madam Ling from three rooms away.

OK. You turned 50. You know you're supposed to get a colonoscopy. But you haven't. Here are your reasons:

1. You've been busy.
2. You don't have a history of cancer in your family.
3. You haven't noticed any problems.
4. You don't want a doctor to stick a tube 17,000 feet up your butt.

Let's examine these reasons one at a time. No, wait, let's not. Because you and I both know that the only real reason is No. 4. This is natural. The idea of having another human, even a medical human, becoming deeply involved in what is technically known as your ''behindular zone'' gives you the creeping willies.

Read the rest here http://www.miamiherald.com/418/story/427603.html

The good Mr. Barry goes on to talk humorously of embarrassment and other such things. He doesn’t skip the real-as-death reasons for getting checked.

I have a friend dying of colon cancer. Five years back I lost Paul. My buddy lost his father to the disease. And others … I don’t want to lose you. Get checked. If you let the inner child out, you can even have fun with it all.

Certainly, I will die of something, but today it appears that it won’t be colorectal cancer. If you’re over 50, get checked.

Blessings,

William

P.S. All the way through the prep for the procedure I used the easy method you can find in Amazingly Content to be content, obviously. I tested myself by asking, “Is there anywhere you’d rather be?”

I could honestly answer, “No.”

I was in love with all I saw and heard. Amazing.

Amazingly Content -- How to Be in Love with All You See & Hear,
And Be in Harmony with Family, Friends & Work works magic.

You can find out more here. Go for it http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Which Is Sacred? (A 50-Word Mini Saga)

Which is sacred – The fast-food box floating at the lake edge or the swallows zooming over the surface hunting? Practicing Taiji, my bliss in the present moment deepens while I dance with the darting swallows. The Styrofoam interrupts. How to find the sacred even there? Bobbing beautifully, dazzling light – Ah.

Can you hear the heavenly choir in the lawnmower? Can you hear it sing in the leaf blower? (The big park lawn mower was swooping around me as I practiced my morning Taiji as it does each Monday morning.

Can you find the Sacred Present in litter floating in the pristine lake?

After all, you spend more time with these things than in the so-called Sacred places. Wouldn’t it be useful to learn to find the Sacred anywhere any time?

You can. Just listen to the sounds of the lawnmower. Just be with them. Without judging. Without resisting.

I often tighten up when I hear unpleasant sounds and research shows noise pollution amongst the worst forms of pollution regarding the effects on human and animal health.

When I just listen, relax the cringing, the Holy Angels sing inside the lawn mower and even the leaf blower.

The Styrofoam? As I removed it from my lake, I was mesmerized by the beauty of the light on it and the way the wavelets caressed it and the way the Styrofoam played at the very top surface of the water. My mind was quiet. I was as peaceful and full of light as the most serene meditation.

So, where is the sacred? Find some trash and be with it.

Blessings,

William

P.S. Obviously, Looking Deeply into Presence would supportyou in being present and making your decisions. The bookis designed to help you Solve Problems, Make CriticalDecisions, and Create an Extraordinarily Rich Life.Get some help => http://tinyurl.com/os966

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Insightful Awareness Experience

*** Insightful Awareness Experience ***

I have a very insightful, a bit spooky, fun video for you. It will give you some insights into awareness itself. If you have been paying attention, you will have noticed that I think awareness matters.

Enjoy = > http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

Blessings,

William

P.S. To deepen your awareness more, dip into SIMPLY SERENE - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace. It will give you four ways to become more deeply aware. I talk about the famous Owl Eyes in depth in this one.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Announcing Foolproof Relaxation

Today, I happily announce a Laser Focused Report – Foolproof Relaxation. Taa-ta!

It can show you How to Relax, Become Present, And Be At Ease Anytime and Anywhere You Want. No kidding!

How? Read these stories…


Yikes! Demons and Worries

Three AM and the demons of worry are here. Yikes! Toss and turn. Get up and pee. Get a drink of water. Back in bed, the fears wait for you. Still no sleep. Thoughts racing and repeating… What to do?

Obviously, you use the methods you learn from Foolproof Relaxation.

With Foolproof Relaxation, you will know what to do when you can’t get back to sleep after the 3:00 AM night demons wake you with their obsessive, compulsive mind looping worries.

In short order, you will be able to go back to peaceful sleep in most instances. Just picture how cool that is.

For the other instances, you’ll enjoy a pleasurable deep rest, then sleep. Simply, amazing.

Repeated research proves you will gain more rest from this method than sleep itself would produce. Cool.


How You Can Smooth Your Next Dental Visit

Using Foolproof Relaxation you will learn to be at ease in the dentist’s chair. I even have fun with it. Maybe you can, too.


Other Times you can benefit by using Foolproof Relaxation

You can learn to be alert and at ease in dreadful meetings. Can you imagine the benefit of this?

At some point, you are likely to be in a hospital waiting room, attending a loved one. Using this method, you can remain present and calm your anxieties. When you do that, you will be of immense value to your loved ones – both the person hospitalized and the others who are waiting in fear.

Clearly, this is a grim reality, but take it from me, you’ll want this tool then.

For Adults Only – another powerful time for Foolproof Relaxation

My friend, Joseph, is dying of colon cancer. When he awakens with sensations in his gut, the demons mercilessly jump on him and fan his fears into infernos. The sensations may be nothing at all, or they may be the cancer working its ways. Joseph uses Foolproof Relaxation effectively to calm himself.

If it can work with some truly scary stuff, it will work wonders for you, too.

Oh, yes, it works with your garden-variety, everyday stress very well. Use it daily for ten minutes or more and watch what happens to the quality of your life.

You’ll be more peaceful, calm, playful, and smiling. Pretty cool, right?

Let’s move on…


How Do You Know If This Laser Focused Report Will Benefit You When You Get It?


Do you experience discomfort ever? Of course, you do.

Do you experience fear in the hospital? The dentist’s? The doctor’s? Being with your boss or manager?

Do you have trouble getting to sleep because of your obsessive, compulsive mind looping, thinking, or worrying?

Do you ever want to be more relaxed? More peaceful?

Do you wish you could be present in an instant? Have you been listening to Eckhart Tolle and Oprah and learning about presence? Have you read The Power of Now or The New Earth? This is a great way to be more present. Fast!


If you can say, “Yes” to any of these, then, obviously, Foolproof Rexaxation will serve you beautifully. Get Foolproof Relaxation. (Scroll to the bottom to get it now.)


What Does It Mean When I Say This Report Is Laser Focused And Deep As A Well?

I have focused on just one area and carefully avoided all the side roads I usually love to explore. You will find FOOLPROOF RELAXATION’S twelve plus pages to be direct, yet thorough enough that you will know easily how to use the material. You will be able to apply the insights to your daily life in quick order. You’ll get the happy results you want.

I mean you will know how to relax, become present, and be at ease anytime and anywhere you want.

***
You can, read the details, get the Foolproof Relaxation & start to learn how to relax here –

Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9

Blessings,

William

P.P.S. You have my permission to share this announcement with no more than three people.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Tolle Trick for Presence in the Office

Here’s another trick from Eckhart Tolle to get present when the phone rings. It’s especially useful if you work in an office setting.

Studies show that a ringing phone bugs people -- too many rings in the day creates a stressful hazard. Here’s the antidote…

When your phone rings, don’t answer it. That is a radical choice right there. I have used this effectively in the past to create vast realms of freedom. Experiment with this one.

But that’s not Tolle, that’s me. Here’s what he suggests:

Let it ring once, twice, or thrice while you listen to it fully. Be present to the sound. Feel your body as you listen. Notice your breath. Listened to with full attention, without resistance, even a leaf blower becomes sacred. A telephone is a piece of cake.

Now answer the phone.

Cool. Don’t be surprised if you’re laughing when you answer it. Play with it you will be amazed at how fun this becomes.

Blessings,

William

P.S. Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace will serve you well if you want some guaranteed ways to become present. I talk about the famous Owl Eyes in depth in this one.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x

P.S. S. Pass this post on to anyone who you think would
Prosper & enjoy these wonderful insights.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Your Buddha Brain

If you’ve been paying attention, you know one of the Four Alluring Paradigms that I have is: Upgrading Your Right Brain (http://tinyurl.com/34del4)

Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

Watch this wondrous, passionate video => http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Briefly, the right brain is concerned only with right here right now. It thinks in pictures. It learns kinesthetically through the movement of your body. The right brain is at one with all that is.

In this moment, we are perfect. We are beautiful. We are whole.

Left brain is concerned with past and future. And it thinks it is separate from everything else in the universe -- William Wittmann, therapist, teacher, writer.

Imagine not experiencing any brain chatter, no AM talk-radio harangue. That’s what happened when her stroke shut down her left hemisphere. She found Nirvana and was living there.

Imagine now, choosing to be in that right hemisphere any time you want.

You can. Owl Eyes, that I explain in both the following books, will do that for you. You can do it easily. It’s part of how the brain works.

Be enlightened.

Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x

Looking Deeply into Presence -- Solve Problems, Make Critical Decisions, and Create an Extraordinarily Rich Life
This too => http://tinyurl.com/os966
Obviously, I guarantee both books.

I have many more ways to connect to the right brain on membership site.
Join us => http://tinyurl.com/os966
Watch the video (http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229), get the books.

Blessings,

William

P.S. A magic message from Uncle Mike --

If you ask me, {!firstname_fix}, I'd say the main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from.

Ain't no thing –
The Universe

If you aren’t getting these magic messages from Uncle Mike, read my review of Mike’s goodies including this fabulous freebee.
Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/3yu6yz

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Magic with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle

I struggle with my own craziness all the time. When I’m crazy, I am living inside of my mind listening to a strident voice harangue over a tinny radio urging me to blame my closest friends and my wife for my troubles.

If I take the time to get present -- and I know lots of ways to do that – I return to a connection with the Present and Presence. I become sane. I am happy and serene.

Eckhart Tolle who penned the best seller The Power of Now wrote a follow up book – A New Earth. He is teaming up with Oprah to bring you live webcasts to talk about this stuff. Watch them or download them as podcasts. Cost = $0.0.

http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/webevent_registration.html

I recommend you watch at least one to get a deeper feel for who these folks are. Then you can podcast if you want.

You’ll have to register at Oprah’s and download a special viewer before you can watch these. And there are ads. No sweat, it’s easy.

It will be worth it, I promise.

Blessings,

William

P.S. Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace will serve you well if you want some guaranteed ways to become present. I talk about the famous Owl Eyes in depth in this book.

Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x

Thursday, March 20, 2008

How to Make Difficult Decisions

Here’s how you can use your body to make decisions. Hold the question in your mind. Recently, I was wrestling with what price to set for my private membership monthly subscription rate. In this example I ask, “Is $9.97 a good price?”

I then feel my body’s responses. I mostly feel my belly. You can experiment to find the place in your body that responds best. Just scan your whole body top to bottom. Close your eyes. It helps.

My body “smiles” with the price of $9.97.

Now I try the other side of the decision, the other choice. I ask, “What happens if I drop my price from $15? Should I keep it at $15? After all, it’s 50% more money.” My belly gets tight. I want to hold onto the $15. In other words, my fear comes up. I fear I won’t make enough money to keep the sight running.

Clearly, you and I don’t want to operate from fear. And a smiling body is a good thing. Obviously, I chose to lower the fee from $15 to $9.97 making it easier from my private members to continually enjoy benefits.

This is an excellent example of your body and soul working together, wouldn’t you agree?

For a more thorough approach, the mysterious Madam Ling lives for a day with one of the two choices she is weighing and notices her body. Then the next day she does the same with the other choice.

When the answer from your body is unclear, use this simple approach. Use the same method and sleep on it. In the morning ask the question and it will be clear. Your subconscious will have figured it out while you put your attention elsewhere.

Blessings,

William

P.S. Obviously, Looking Deeply into Presence would support you in your decisions. The book is designed to help you Solve Problems, Make Critical Decisions, and Create an Extraordinarily Rich Life

Get some help => http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=9Q9cG&m=1b_eZShvrPiSKX&b=EoFLc6vETMnC0QA9NNJYUQ

P.P.S. Pass this on to whoever you think needs help making decisions.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Rise of the Author

If you haven't read this goodie yet, please do so immediately. Although Mark Joyner’s writing is always clear and even fun to read, his insights are profound. Many call him a genius.

http://www.simpleology.com/p/riseoftheauthor/wmwittmann

The title is easily misunderstood - the importance of this document reaches far beyond authorship (although your concepts about this will be permanently altered).

I just started reading it myself, and I felt I should let you know about it right now.

This changes *everything* my internet and publishing gurus say. We’ll see. I recommend reading it, and deciding for yourself. It’s a freebee so you’ve nothing to lose.

Blessings,
William

P.S. You can pass this on to three people.

P.P.S Completely unrelated -- a powerful poem from Wallace Stevens.

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of a blackbird.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

How the Traveling Wilburys Can Show You the Way

This oddity of contemporary rock and roll demonstrates playful creativity and gives you permission to hop onboard and play.

I’m talking about the Traveling Wilburys. You may have bumped into stories about them or heard their music. I recommend, in addition to listening to the music, that you watch the DVD that comes with the 3 disk set. The behind the scenes section is a master class on playful creativity.

I’ve watched it three times. What they do is so beautiful, their relationships so loving, I am moved to tears each time I see it.

The story starts with George Harrison, yes of the Beatles, thinking it would be fun to get together with some friends and jam a bit. But one of his guitars is over at Tom’s house. That would be Tom Petty. So Petty is now in on the fun.

The night before, he had dinner with Roy Orbison. So, Roy was there.

Because he has a small recording studio in his house, they give Bob a call.

George says, “You can call Bob for years and not get answer. This time he picked up the phone on the first ring.”

So, Dylan is in on it. And so it goes as they gather for a couple of weeks in May 1988 of writing, playing, singing, recording, and producing before Bob has to go on tour. Everyone did each of those tasks. They all played together.

Harrison spent much of his energy making sure everyone stayed friends. He created a place of safety and playful harmony for everyone. Egos disappeared and joy emerged.

Get this. None of them needed to make money with this project. Harrison says, “If we had tried to get these people together to make an album it would never have worked.” Why do you think this is so?

They just got together to play. Note the multiple meanings of that word play.

They had so much fun and the results were so good they wanted to share it. You and I benefit.

Several of these men are experienced songwriters, Dylan being the fastest and the most prolific, but even they used tools to jump-start their writing. Take note.

Here’s what they did. They passed out magazines to everyone and they flipped through pages and shouted out words from ads. This produced– Dirty World, a good-natured song that makes me laugh with good humor. It reminds me of early Frank Zappa lyrics.

The behind the scenes DVD shares their fears, too. Get this: Fear of singing? Fear of singing!? Woof!

Remember these musicians have all been singing publicly to huge audiences and in recording studios for decades.

They were afraid to follow Roy Orbison to the mike. Who wouldn’t be humbled by that?

Further note: Their fear DID NOT STOP THEM.

I relearned –

1. Fear doesn’t go away.

2. Fear doesn’t stop you.


What can you learn from that?

Jeff Lynne, of Electric Light Orchestra, demonstrates wrestling with the muse. She dragged him out of bed and sent him to the studio. He broke into the studio one night and changed the chord structure of a song leaving the vocals untouched. The guys liked it when they arrived in the morning.

If you act on my suggestions, you will meet the muse too. It’s a good thing. She, who must be obeyed.

Upgrade your right brain. Listen to music. Play music, even poorly. Write silly songs. Write powerful songs from your heart. All of these will expand your right brain and improve your life. I promise.

Take their master class – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=B000P0J024/williamwittmannA/

Naturally, Amazon will let you listen to samples to hear what I’m talking about.

The Seattle Library had a copy.


Paradigms Addressed:
Upgrading Your Right Brain http://tinyurl.com/34del4

Blessings,

William

P.S. Pass this post on to anyone who you think would
Prosper & enjoy these wonderful insights.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Love of the Ordinary

Remember the child who receives a fancy toy for Christmas by his doting parents. Watch as the child opens the present, see the looks of adoration on the faces of the parents, then note the surprise that moves across their faces that changes in the next moment to disappointment, finally, as the light dawns, to delight.

What are they seeing? They’re watching their first born open the present, look at it briefly, discard it, and, then happily play with the box and wrappings for hours.

As I write this, I’m in Kona, on the Big Island, Hawaii. This is everybody’s paradise. I have thrown out the present and am endlessly enjoying the wrapper.

What draws me? I pass on the fancy catamaran trip to the best snorkel sit on the island. I pass on the night dive with the manta rays. This dive was life changing for some in my family. I pass on the parasail lifting high over Kailua Bay, which Kevin thought was the best event of the trip.

I pass because the ordinary steals my heart. Instead of stopping and smelling the roses, I stop and smell the plumaria.

The unfamiliar and ubiquitous bird songs of the mynas and the zebra doves enchant me.

The Saffron Finch that joins my dawn Taiji becomes a loved companion.

I listen to the ever-changing sounds of the surf 30 feet (10 m) outside my window. I “fly” over coral reefs, listening to the sound of my breathing as I snorkel in a rocky cove, 100m south of here.

My Zen teacher, Genjo, might say, “Zen is the celebration of the ordinary.” At any rate, I say so.

Now, what ordinary miracles do I see at home? Home too is paradise if I would but look. This trip I was bowled over by how beautiful Seattle is. Everywhere I look, I see the Divine.

What is sacred and magic about the ordinary in your life? Find it. I promise you its there.

Exercise: Go outside for 10 minutes, look with your artist’s eye, and find three things that knock your socks off. That make you say, “Oh, wow!”

Example: As I was driving home, I saw a photographer surrounded by trees with the astonishing fall colors, the beauty of the lake behind him, as he took a photo from one foot away (15cm) of a pay telephone. I almost pulled over to so I could see what he was seeing. Get it?


If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. – George Eliot

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. – Our old friend, Henry David Thoreau

Blessings,

William

P.S. Pass this post on to anyone who you think would
Prosper & enjoy these wonderful insights.

Paradigms Explored

· Upgrade Your Right Brain
· Simple Is Sophisticated