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.

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Walk and climb trees in beauty, 

William 

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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. 

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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. 

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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?

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Discover Why She Took A Risk?

Why would you make yourself vulnerable?  Under what circumstance would you do that?

When we recorded our Living with Magicality Program, Krysta Gibson put herself at risk.  Why would she do that? (http://bit.ly/ivLwaO)

When we recorded our podcasts, I took the same risk.  Why would I do that?

Here’s what Krysta says.  As you read this, see what resonates.  How’s it feel in your belly?  In your heart? –

This is the only time I have been involved in a project where I shared some of my own processes in the way I do here. Although it felt somewhat vulnerable to do, I am happy with the outcome. Those who listen to these conversations will hear a distillation of many years of spiritual work put forth by two people who do their best to walk their talk and now are willing to share some of the results with you.

Beyond what Krysta says, let me add.  Vulnerability is what creates love and belonging.  If you put yourself at risk, and share your soul, you create closeness.  Look into your life and see if that feels true.

Whenever someone makes themselves vulnerable and shares their soul with me, I feel closer to them.  Don’t you?

And I hasten to add, be smart – share only with those that have earned the right.

That’s part of why our sharing is a bit riskier – these audio programs are public.  We cannot filter for just the safe people.

But if we don’t model being vulnerable in this public way, how can we be of service?

Now, Go listen to the sample from the podcast and get the complete fourth session on Practices if you like what you hear in the sample.  Our gift.

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Walk in beauty with courage,

William

P.S. What if one of these practices, just one made a difference in your life?

 
You will be happy you listened.  Go for it.

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Sacred Oatmeal???

In the first of our four Living with Magicality
conversations Krysta Gibson talks about a
surprisingly, cool transformational tool – eating
oatmeal. (http://goo.gl/uLpMI)

“How’s that?” you ask?

It is cool, and I use it too. It reminds me of
the silly joke – Buddha goes up to the hot dog
vendor and says, “Make me one with everything.”

Ho HoHo.

As you are eating your oatmeal or your food of
choice, consider …

Where did it come from? How many people were
involved to bring you your breakfast?

Maybe a spouse. Certainly, farmers. And
truckers. And the guys that built and maintained
the tractor. And the guys that made the tires for
the tractor. And the guys that delivered the
tires to the tractor plant. It goes on…

And Nature cooperated to bring you your breakfast.

All the waters of the world danced their water
cycle to make the rain that watered the fields.

And the earth that carries the soil. Where did it
come from? Well, it came from an exploding star.

That same star created every atom in your body.

If you see clearly, everything in the universe
works in harmony to bring you your breakfast. You
are very special. And you are one with
everything.

Find out how the Living with Magicality Program
can benefit you.

Go for it => http://goo.gl/uLpMI

Be sure to listen to the sample on the page.

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And let your breakfast bless you,

William

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Would You Like to Live a Magical and Practical Life?

How Would You Like to Live a Magical – and Practical – Life?

Obviously, you’d love it.  

But do you know how? 

In four wonderfully revealing conversations, Krysta Gibson and I tell you how you can live a magical life while fulfilling all your practical needs in the real world.  We call it Living with Magicality!

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Krysta Gibson and I have been colleagues for over 20 years and we have both actively been exploring how to live magical lives.  And we have been coaching others for decades.

We decided to record four conversations.  They were conversation of exploration.  That means, neither of us knew where we would go or what we would find. 

We expected to discover or uncover treasures that we couldn’t predict from our day to day travels.  And beyond what we already knew.

We succeeded. 

Listen in as you hear us discover treasures.  You can tell by the tone of our voices that we find delight in the discoveries.  And you can hear us pause as a new light of awareness starts to glow.

So what?

You can learn right along with us how to live with Magicality.

It’s cool.

You can adopt the ideas you resonate with and move closer to living a magical life you love.  Or enhance the magical life you are already living.

Join us.  Discover with us.  You’ll be delighted too.

You can find out what gets explored on each of the podcasts here…

Go for it => http://goo.gl/uLpMI

Obviously, the program is guaranteed.

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Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. You can listen to a sample from the last of the four podcasts.  It will help you decide whether you want to journey with us. 

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P.P.S.  Please, pass this on to friends who you want to bless with cool things.  Thank you.