How to Calm Down

When stress has you whimpering or acting like a troll in some fairy tale, ready to rip off heads, you are not at your best.  You are the proverbial toddler who needs a nap and some food.  Could anything be more obvious?   

Announcing Kindle version of Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace 

I have just rewritten this classic and made it more streamlined.  You’ll like it. 

Naturally, I am happy to include it in my Three Wise Men Epiphany Kindle Sale.  All my Kindle books are marked to the bottom of Amazon’s pricing - $2.99.

Here’s the Description of the Simply Serene 

Simply Serene will show you four amazingly powerful methods that will successfully help you to defeat stress, to be fully alert, and to be serene so you can operate at your peak potential. 

YOU WILL LEARN:  

1.   How to Calm Down 

2.   How to Reduce Stress 

3.   How to Deal with Stress 

4.   And How to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace Simultaneously.  It’s all very cool. 

That’s your mission.  By the end of this manual –  

You will know how to be simply serene at any time. 

You will know how to choose between FOUR TIME-TESTED, SURE-FIRE METHODS to get the best personal results in the moment. 

You will know how to defeat stress. 

You will know how to turn off self-doubt, anxiety, fear, worry, fretting, hopelessness, overwhelm, and depression. 

You will know how to pull back from the fight-flight response, thereby allowing you to act from a calm, yet alert state. 

You will be able to operate more powerfully. 

You will steadily move closer to your peak potential using these four methods. 

From a peaceful, calm state, you can take the steps to creating the life you truly love.

You Can Read the Rest at my Mentor Blog

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/

Or go straight to the Amazon Page for all my books

=> http://amzn.to/vXKNbC

Walk in beauty, 

William 

P.S. Please pass this on to anyone you love.  Click the social media links.  Thanks.

How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

Remember when I said, "Don't get The Wholesome
Entrepreneur: How to be a Successful Entrepreneur
yet"?
Well here's why...

In this season of Thanksgiving, here's another
"THANK YOU" for being a reader.

From now, the day after Thanksgiving, to
Epiphany, January 6th my Kindle books will be
marked down to as low as Amazon will let me --
$2.99.

Go to my Amazon author page to find the ones you
want.

http://amzn.to/vXKNbC

Epiphany, also known as twelfth night,
commemorates the pilgrimage of the three wise men,
wizards, and their visit to new-born Jesus.

These three wise men have been long standing
heroes of mine.  I have enjoyed lovely images of
their travel across the desert following the star
of wonder for as long as I can remember.

The mystery of their journey has fueled my
enduring love of pilgrimage and the sacred.

What star would you follow?

So, it's a good season to celebrate wisdom and
gratitude.

I thank you for your wisdom and I hope to add to
it with these offerings.

Go for it = > http://amzn.to/vXKNbC

Walk in beauty this season and be mightily blessed,

William

P.S. You can pass this on as a gift to your
friends and other loved ones.  Clilck the social icons.

Lose Weight and Feel Great

My beloved naturopath, Amy Hobson, told me about these medical school classmates, Jade and Keoni Teta.  They started training people in fitness while still high school students.  Then they both went on to study microbiology or the like.  After that, they looked around for a medical school that aligned with their research and their experience in training folks.   

They landed at John Bastyr Naturopathic College.   

I like these guys and their book -- The New ME Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest

Watch these Youtube Videos 

The New ME Diet lectures part 1 - 3 

http://www.youtube.com/user/metaboliceffect#p/u/40/hm3C5xYhJBE

http://www.youtube.com/user/metaboliceffect#p/u/39/3KRYbOD-djE

http://www.youtube.com/user/metaboliceffect#p/u/38/lTC3m5YYbgU

Another one I found very useful for losing fat specifically.  Working with the carbohydrate tipping point below helps me to burn fat and still have enough energy for my vigorous workouts.  And life. 

http://blog.metaboliceffect.com/2011/05/25/carbohydrate-tipping-point/

 Both of these programs look good --  

Ten Week Fat Loss On-Line program 

Metabolic Effect Fitness Program also on-line. 

You can find more…

You can find more cool resources on my Cool Resources page.  

Don’t Get My Kindle Book Yet

Amazon Kindle has just published my book--  

The Wholesome Entrepreneur:

How to be a Successful Entrepreneur  

But don’t get this book yet. 

I’ll tell you why on November 25^th.  

Here's What Successful Entrepreneur, John Gallagher, Says about The Wholesome Entrepreneur – 

"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." 

And Roger A. Rosenblatt MD, Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine, U. Washington said:

“William, I never told you how much I enjoyed your book; I think it is brilliant. Practical, funny, and enormously supportive. You write like a dream.”

The book is great.  The full description at Amazon will help you to decide if it’s a fit for you. 

Go check it out.  See if it resonates with you. 

= > http://amzn.to/vSifn1

Walk in beauty, 

William

Announcing the Seven Essential Secrets for a Magical Life

When I first met Otter, she hadn't learned to play yet...  

…Or if she had, she had forgotten she ever knew how.

Otter felt rushed all the time, always trying to catch up. Always trying to perform better to please THEM.

She felt anxious, sometimes helpless. Was she depressed? You tell me.

In The Seven Essential Secrets for a Magical Life Program, you get to follow Otter as I help her successfully regain her life.

Through seven concisely soulful videos and playful explorations, you will gain what I shared with Otter to help her live a life she loved wholeheartedly - body and soul.

The playful explorations bring the Secrets to life and help you to integrate them into your daily life.

These treasures have been tested in the crucible of life for centuries. And William shares these playful, simple, venerated strategies for living with his private clients to help them achieve their life goals. They have been tested.

If you want a soulful life with vision and heart, get this one. You'll like it.

It’s a gift to loyal readers, like you, dear one.  No fee.  Nada. 

Go for it => http://bodyandsoulmentor.net/get7essentials.html  

Walk in beauty, 

William 

P.S. Note: This offer will only be around until Midnight, Oct. 26^th 2011.  Take advantage of it.

Grab it & enjoy 

=> http://bodyandsoulmentor.net/get7essentials.html

Your Sweet Heart

As you know, I am a recovering worrywart.  And as you have no-doubt heard, worry does not help anything.  And as you also no-doubt know, knowing that worry doesn’t help, is not enough to stop your worrying.  

Right? 

What does help?

This time honored meditation works.

Heart Breathing  

Sit quietly.  Phone off etc.  Breathe slowly and easily.   

Feel your fear, your worry.  See the images.  Now breathe all that into your heart.  I know, “Yikes.”  But trust me, your heart will be fine. 

Let your heart soften.  And continue to breathe in the worry, the fear, the pain. 

When you feel you have taken in as much as you can, you can start to exhale loving kindness phrases. 

For instance –

        May I be blessed.

        May she be blessed.

        May I be at peace.

        May I be safe and loved.

        May she be at peace. 

        May she be safe and loved.

You can make up any phrase that feels good to you.  Or if you’re worried about someone else, ask yourself what whould bless them.  Are you with me? 

Keep on with all of this until you feel at home and at peace in your heart. 

OK?

These Two Books Can Guide Your Heart 

I recommend reading Legacy of the Heart : The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood by Wayne Muller first. 

Muller is kind, gentle, and in your face truth telling at the same time.  He is a therapist and has a masters in divinity or the like.  He quotes Jesus, Buddha, Steven Levine, The Dalai Lama, and Rumi…  All my heroes. 

He offers the most useful meditations I have found for healing shame.  I recommend this highly. 

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chodron. 

This lovely book deals with what it’s like to be human and having to live with uncertainty all the time.  The 108 teachings are one to one and half pages long.  I like to read a couple before bed. 

Walk in beauty, and may your sweet heart be at ease, 

William 

P.S.  My recent article -- Breakthrough with this Magical Phrase

Can also be quite useful for your worrywart.  Find it in my blog. (http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/)  

P.P.S. You might enjoy my wonderful Life Giving Manual – Simply Serene -- Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace. It used to be $27, now you can get it and others for less than a subscription to Netflix.  (Click Mentoring Programs at www.BodyAndSoulMentor.com)

Breakthrough with this Magical Phrase

I discovered a very powerful phrase to help you create a life you would love to live. 

Warning:  Just because this is SIMPLE, don’t be deceived.  This incredibly powerful tool can change your life.

Here it is –

“I just ask, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if…’, and then I fill in the blank,” he explained. “Then I let go. More often than not, the thing I mentioned comes into my life.” - Chuck Pennington

In my generation, the word “cool’ works very well.  If cool doesn’t work for you, come up with something else.  The idea is to find a word that’s light, inviting, and fun.  Playful.  OK?

The construction of the sentence automatically does three things –

1.   Makes it light and playful, cool.

2.   Easily, allows you to let go of the request.  Letting go is one of the main steps in the law of attraction you may recall.

3.   When you fill in the blank, you make a picture and feel the results of the goal all at once.  Try it.  Notice what you feel and what you image.

Try some.  Make up some “wouldn’t it be cool ifs_______?”

Here’s one – Wouldn’t be cool if I had lots of energy?  Notice the energy you feel just saying it?

Craig’s List Magic 

One of my beloved clients uses this principle and then goes to Craig’s List (an online free classified ad service) where she immediately finds that which  would be cool.  Every time. 

Sabbatical Insight

As you know, I closed down my Body & Soul Mentor website recently.   

I asked myself, “If you create another membership site, what do you want to offer people…  What do you want people to have?  And how does that contribute to the world as a whole.” 

What was clear is that I wanted the same things I always want. 

1.   I want people to live lives they love wholeheartedly – body and soul.

2.   I want people to make a difference in their world and to be happily satisfied making that difference.  I want people to know they make a difference.

3.   I want a world that works for everyone.  I want people to make decisions that consider the consequences of their decisions on the 7^th generation to follow.

Now, here’s the cool part.

Fact. When people live lives they love, they are using their gifts and talents.  And when people use their gifts they make a difference in the world.  When a sufficient number of people do that then we have a world that works for everyone.

So…

Wouldn’t it be cool if everyone made decisions based on what’s best for the seventh generation to follow?

Wouldn’t it be cool if everyone made decisions that led to a world that worked for everyone?

 

Here’s one I’m working on now –

Wouldn’t it be cool if I didn’t have to impress anyone, and I could just be ordinary?

As Prayer

I use this magical phrase to pray for clients and other loved ones. 

For instance, wouldn’t it be cool if Sasha had tons of clients to help finance her college expenses?

What are you going to do with your one precious life?

What would be cool for you?  Make a bunch of these.  Say them all day long.  Use them to antidote limiting thoughts.  Use them to create a life you love wholeheartedly. 

Wouldn’t it be cool if you walked in beauty? 

William 

P.S.  This magical phrase is kissing cousin to my Life Giving Manual – The Magic Formula. You can read about it HERE.   

P.P.S. Please, leave your comments below, click the share link, and pass this cool thing on.

Elvis Has Left the Building…

Elvis Has Left the Building…

After years of providing valuable service to members of Body and Soul Mentor including providing wonderful life Giving Manuals & Programs, special videos, and podcasts the stage has gone dark.

Body & Soul Mentor website has closed. You can’t be a member any longer. 

You won’t’ be able to get any of the products on the open market any longer. 

Certainly, it’s been a good run.  However, it’s time for a new Body & Soul Mentor to arise.  In the next few weeks I’ll be putting the finishing touches on the new Body & Soul Mentor member website.

The rallying cry is, “More fun, less cost.” 

This is more fun for you and for me.  Lower costs for me.  Lower costs for me mean that I can lower your monthly fees.  So it’s lower costs for you and for me.

Hurray! 

For less than the price of a Netflix membership or a Sunday paper subscription, a membership in Body & Soul Mentor supports you on your journey to living a life you love wholeheartedly - body & soul – while making a difference in your world.

For decades, I have lovingly mentored people, just like you, on their sacred journey with encouragement, inspiration, insights, and magical resources.

Clearly, the new site will be more fun and easier to use. Simpler over all.  And simpler is good for you and for me, right?

Here’s a preview of the programs and manuals you’ll get as a member, if you choose to join.

=> http://bodyandsoulmentor.com/index.php?page=programs

While you stay tuned for The Grand Opening of the new Body & Soul Mentor…

Walk in beauty, 

William 

P.S.  Obviously, my Amazon books and kindles are still available HERE.  

And if you’re the one that’s been buying them, thank you.  Amazon doesn’t tell me who to thank – sad but a good idea to protect your privacy.

Notes from the Universe

I love these FREE daily emails I get.  I love them so much I forward specifically inspiring ones to my girls.  I save the ones that move me so I can go back and get another boost.   

They help to reboot my thinking.

Here’s a recently poignant one to me as I work on healing shame in myself and in clients. 

To some, on other planets, William, you get more done in a single day than they do in an entire year.

On this planet, however, getting things done has been confused with worthiness.

I guess that pretty much answers the intelligent life question.

You're still out of this world,
The Universe

Notice, the note uses my name.  When you get yours, it will use your name. 

You can even ask the Notes to the Universe emails to address your personal goals.   

See below -- 

These goals will occasionally be woven into your private emails!

IMPORTANT!!!! Complete the sentence using proper English. DO NOT refer to yourself using words like "ME", "MY", "I", "OUR" or end the sentence with punctuation. DO use colorful adjectives, like fabulous, awesome, etc. 

I "now" have my own _____________________________________. 

I will soon _______________________________________________.

Is that cool?  I’m going to update my account with this new option. 

Clients love them.  I love them.  I highly recommend them to anyone wanting to be inspired and motivated for getting the most out of their life.  

Best of all, they're free.

Click here to find out more and join the 400,000 others who now receive them! 

Go for it => CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE

 Walk in beauty, 

William 

P.S. Obviously, you’ve noticed that the main stream news creates fear and hopelessness.  Doesn’t it make sense to have a tiny antidote arriving in your email box every morning? 

Clearly it does.  Get some good news.

Go for it => CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE

P.P.S. Obviously, you can cancel your Notes any time.

Altar Making Spoke to His Heart

Richard, a long time member of Body & Soul Mentor, sent me this very moving response to his reading Altar Making.  I thought you’d be inspired.

 

This moment I have downloaded your "Altar Making" and I find it just marvelous. Thank you. It spoke to my heart immediately. 

When reading your piece, I was vividly remembered of my youth when I fabricated a lot of "thinking points" in our backyard, on the fence to my father's house, on my way to school... which in retrospect I would probably call "altars" now.  

I have e.g. always felt in a very particular way when I was climbing our apple tree in the garden where I had built a tree hut for me alone. It was sort of a retreat for me. 

Those memories are very dear to me, and I use some of them in my daily work with patients who have lost their connection. 

        Best wishes, 

        Richard Schneider, MD

        Rueschlikon, Switzerland

Altar Making will only be available for purchase until August 14^th when it will only be available to members in the new version of Body & Soul Mentor private mentoring website. (Stay tuned.) 

The Get Wealthy First Program and The Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well Program are already unavailable.  (You can get them both when you become a member of the updated, revised, more fun, reasonably priced website. 

Altar Making will disappear on August 14^th. 

Don’t miss your chance at Altar Making.     

Go for it.

CLICK TO CONTINUE

Walk and climb trees in beauty, 

William 

P.S. As time is running out -- Pass this on to your peeps, please.

: )

Sacred Legos

As I was formatting well beloved book -- Altar Making --A Spiritual Practice to Deepen Your Connection to the Sacred for a Kindle version, one of my beloved clients shared her love of building with Legos.  She described her creations with loving passion.

Did you share her passion for building?  I did. Perhaps, you played with dolls or action figures?  remember how fun that was.  For me, I built things with blocks and populated the structures with anachronistic canon, trucks and cars and army men.  A lovely interplay unfolded with movement and imagination.  Enjoying the feeling the weight of the blocks and delighting in the structure taking shape. 

My conversation with my client revealed to me that when you create your own altar, you feel that same playful pleasure that you felt as a child.  And when you bring in the Sacred, your satisfaction naturally deepens. 

If you’re like me you may also find that your connection to the innocent heart of your inner child deepens and sweetens in this sacred practice of altar making or shrine building. 

Just as you loved to play with blocks, Legos, dolls, or action figures, building altars will feed your heart and soul by connecting with your hands and your deep creativity.  And obviously, your soul is nourished in your deepening connection to the Sacred. 

It’s wonderful. 

In addition to my insights, I have seven friends, spiritual teachers all, that disclose their private experiences with building altars.  Their contributions will feed your heart and expand your horizons. They give you a wide range of surprising insights you will not find anywhere else.

Just imagine how nurturing it can be to build your own sacred altars and shrines.  I recommend you get the book and nurture your soul. 

You can get the digital PDF version of Altar Making with color and your 300-day satisfaction money back guarantee here. 

CLICK FOR PDF COLOR VERSION

CLICK FOR THE KINDLE VERSION

Walk in beauty, 

William 

P.S. the PDF version will only be available for sale until August 13^th, then it only be available with a membership. 

P.P.S. Members get it included in their membership both now and later.

Spiritual Practice & Carnegie Hall

You know this one: A visitor to New York City asks a local guy, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”

The local says, “Practice. Practice. Practice!”

Today, I ask you, “How do you get to live a life you love?”

Same answer, “Practice!”

I have a practice of practicing those things that keep me living a life I love.  Over the year I have tried many things.  In a moment, I’ll share one with you, but first a ground rule.

There is no living happily ever after without continual practices.

Happiness is about circumstances, about chance.  Living a life you love is beyond circumstance.  If you need sunny skies to be happy, you’re subject to the ever changing whims of circumstances.  Living a life you love is about loving it all even in the inevitable rain or snow.

All spiritual traditions have suggestions for you on how to live a life you love.  Some have rules.  Rules aren’t practices; at least not how I think about practices.  We do rules because someone else said so.  You do practices because they work for you.  You have tested them in the crucible of your daily life.

Our Magicality Program Podcasts

As you know, Krysta Gibson and I took on a project to create a series of podcasts that would speak to the listener as if the three of us were having an intimate conversation together – You, me and Krysta just talking about things that matter.

One of our podcasts was about spiritual or life practices.  We gave ourselves a challenge and limited the list to five each.  Both of us use way more than five to navigate this world, but we settled on five we thought would be super useful for you.

You can listen to our Magicality Practices Podcast HERE.

A Fantastic Favorite Practice

Here’s one of my current favorites.  Just sit in a comfortable position, either on a cushion, cross legged on the floor or in a chair.  Then just FEEL the sensations of your breath flowing into your body and flowing out again.  It’s like being caressed by a supremely loving being from the inside.

One simple consequence of this practice is you will be deeply in the present moment. 

What good is that? 

Well, you’ll be happy.  Your nattering mind will be quiet.  You’ll be calm.

For this moment, you’ll be enlightened, at one with everything and everyone.  You’ll be peaceful.

And what more would you like?

How’s this?  If you have a problem, it will likely be solved by the time you arise.  Or a path to the solution will be evident and you can move on your new direction.

 Get all 10 of the practices, test them in your life, and live a life you love. 

CLICK TO CONTINUE

Walk in beauty (Hint: that’s another practice),

William

P.S. What if just one of the practices could shift your life, so that you loved it ten times as much?

CLICK TO CONTINUE

P.P.S. Pass this on to your friends, please.