You’re riding your bike at a good clip through the early fall grayness and suddenly, you glance a swath of glorious green, sun light illuminating the ridge, just there…
“Wow…”
For a moment, you’re speechless, everything stops and you’re in heaven. You feel deep serenity. You experience the peace which passeth understanding.
“Oh this is cool, I should tell people about this…” your mind is back and chattering again.
But even with the renewed chatter that inevitably comes, everything has changed by this intervention of the Sacred upon the mundane.
Your ego mind can’t let this peace stand too long. It will reassert itself with its familiar chatter. But for this brief moment, the veil between you and Heaven drops and you see clearly.
You look upon everything with a renewed eye, perhaps, for the rest of your life. Maybe just for this morning.
Do you know what I’m talking about?
How often does this happen to you? Daily?
Want more? I aim at experiencing this Heaven multiple times a day. It is part of why I do the work I do.
Want to know how to have these experiences on demand?
You can touch Heaven any time by utilizing spiritual practices that bring you into the present.
Painting, Taiji, drawing, making love, and meditation are all ways to get there. Cooking and gardening work for clients of mine. Drinking a cup of tea in silence will do it.
SIMPLY SERENE has four beautiful and easy ways you can do it.
Get some Heaven => http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x
Blessings,
William
P.S. Pass this blog on to anyone who you think would enjoy
these wonderful insights.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Three Iguanas
True.
Imagine standing in a huge noisy, florescent-lighted hall after an exhausting cross Pacific flight. You creep forward slowly in line at U.S. customs.
You’re getting closer to the head of the line.
Slow.
Maybe you’re sweating a bit. After all you have three live, endangered iguanas hidden in your prosthetic leg.
What!
Yes! Three iguanas. Alive!
You get to hear about this because the heinous Jerome Jameson was caught smuggling them.
No one asked him what his goals were, of course. Anyhow, he might have limply replied, “The money, of course.”
And they would have left it at that. But what did he want the money for?
Although I deplore his actions, I applaud his willingness to go the extra mile to achieve his goals.
What do you want money for? Hint – you want stuff because of the way you think the stuff will make you feel. Right?
Get clear on what you want.
Then take action.
What action steps are you willing to take to get what you want?
Obviously, you can get great help uncovering what you really want in The Magic Formula - How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want
Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2
And the iguanas? Happily, the iguanas are making iguana love in a breeding program.
Blessings,
William
P.S. Pass this newsletter on to anyone who you think would enjoy
these wonderful insights.
Imagine standing in a huge noisy, florescent-lighted hall after an exhausting cross Pacific flight. You creep forward slowly in line at U.S. customs.
You’re getting closer to the head of the line.
Slow.
Maybe you’re sweating a bit. After all you have three live, endangered iguanas hidden in your prosthetic leg.
What!
Yes! Three iguanas. Alive!
You get to hear about this because the heinous Jerome Jameson was caught smuggling them.
No one asked him what his goals were, of course. Anyhow, he might have limply replied, “The money, of course.”
And they would have left it at that. But what did he want the money for?
Although I deplore his actions, I applaud his willingness to go the extra mile to achieve his goals.
What do you want money for? Hint – you want stuff because of the way you think the stuff will make you feel. Right?
Get clear on what you want.
Then take action.
What action steps are you willing to take to get what you want?
Obviously, you can get great help uncovering what you really want in The Magic Formula - How to Magically Attract the Life You Most Want
Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/28gmm2
And the iguanas? Happily, the iguanas are making iguana love in a breeding program.
Blessings,
William
P.S. Pass this newsletter on to anyone who you think would enjoy
these wonderful insights.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Romantic Arias and Mozart
Here’s an Exactly-50-Word Mini-Saga –
Romantic arias and Mozart’s sacred choral music replace the Beatles and Bossa Novas at home. Golden Baroque trumpet music replaces the omnipresent sounds of pacific surf at my office. Yellow and red leaves skitter across our driveway as I walk up from the beach. I become more interior in autumn.
I wonder what changes for you, dear reader, as your seasons change?
Blessings,
William
P.S. Feel free to let people know about these insights.
P.P.S. Members can find out more about 50-word mini-sagas in the members section of Body & Soul Mentor.
Romantic arias and Mozart’s sacred choral music replace the Beatles and Bossa Novas at home. Golden Baroque trumpet music replaces the omnipresent sounds of pacific surf at my office. Yellow and red leaves skitter across our driveway as I walk up from the beach. I become more interior in autumn.
I wonder what changes for you, dear reader, as your seasons change?
Blessings,
William
P.S. Feel free to let people know about these insights.
P.P.S. Members can find out more about 50-word mini-sagas in the members section of Body & Soul Mentor.
Monday, September 24, 2007
“The Spiders Are On My Tomatoes!”
“The spiders are on my tomatoes!” she cried, “and my husband is in front of the TV watching football... ”
The seasons change. Here in the northern hemisphere my patient laments the coming of winter, the loss of her garden signaled by the spiders, and the loss of her husband to televised sports until spring. He does emerge in the spring along with her flowers.
What is your lament about the season change?
How can you ritualize the loss of the last season?
What can you get excited about in the season to come?
You can make your seasonal transitions beautiful when you look with an artist’s eye or a poet’s heart.
And remember Ecclesiastes’ wisdom text.
To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
The rest goes on in this fashion. I am fascinated by the pairings. (You can read it all here.)
Dive into the seasonal changes.
My goal is to enjoy the loss of each season, and celebrate the new season.
Farewell summer,
William
The seasons change. Here in the northern hemisphere my patient laments the coming of winter, the loss of her garden signaled by the spiders, and the loss of her husband to televised sports until spring. He does emerge in the spring along with her flowers.
What is your lament about the season change?
How can you ritualize the loss of the last season?
What can you get excited about in the season to come?
You can make your seasonal transitions beautiful when you look with an artist’s eye or a poet’s heart.
And remember Ecclesiastes’ wisdom text.
To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
The rest goes on in this fashion. I am fascinated by the pairings. (You can read it all here.)
Dive into the seasonal changes.
My goal is to enjoy the loss of each season, and celebrate the new season.
Farewell summer,
William
Monday, September 17, 2007
Do You Keep A Nature Log?
Do You Keep A Nature Log?
Do you keep a nature log?
I recommend it. It is part of your Simple Is Sophisticatedplan and part of your deliberate living program.
Here’s What You Do
Just make notes in log weekly or daily. It tunes you intothe seasons. I am just completing my first year in the newhome.
I am keeping my log in MS Word so I can keep enteringthings in the rhythm of the year. What I mean is, as theseasons repeat, I can insert the new information inside themonth of January cyclically and not sequentially. All theJanuary notes will go together. All the September entrieslikewise go together.
Are you with me?
I am not just tracking events and cool sightings butwanting to feel into the rhythms of place.
Then I can say things like, “The purple martins will beback any day now.”
Or with a sigh, “The ospreys will be leaving soon.”
I want to feel the presence of these events and rhythms inmy marrow.
Notice the ordinary and the glamorous. Admittedly,fledgling Bald Eagles impress, but all of nature ispotentially as amazing if you only see rightly. • The spider webs dripping with dew on cool sunny Septembermornings catching the light in ways that make you say,“Wow!”
• The osprey flying with his prey back to the nest.• The last leaf blowing away in the winter storm.
• Unidentified scat on the rocks below the seawallfascinated me for months.
• The first crocus.
Keep your entries simple enough so you’ll be inclined to doit regularly, and detailed enough to be useful. I stillhave the nature log I kept in 1980 in our underground solarhome on the edge of a forested ravine in Ohio. Theone-line notes still bring back the smells and the light ofthose woods.
I make entries on Sundays trying to recall the week. Some seasons stay fairly stable for weeks so I skip some weeks.
I challenge myself by seeing if I can tell when theswallows or the ospreys leave. I find it hard to noticewhen something is gone. Much easier to notice the arrivalof the swallows in May.
Watching nature this clearly trumps the old suggestion tostop and smell the roses wouldn’t you say. Stopping andsmelling the spiders doesn’t sound as good though, does it.
Keep a log. Dive into presence. Feel the rhythms. Fallin love with it all – that’s the promise.
If you want to see my Duwamish Head Nature Log, let me know.
***Paradigms engaged in this article:
• Simple Is Sophisticated• Presencing• Spaceship Earth• Upgrade Your Right Brain
http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com/
August 14th, 2007 – An black eagle landed on a branch 20feet below an adult in our “eagle” tree.
It fell off while still holding on with its talons. Yikes!
It flapped and screeched to get back up on top of thebranch, barely succeeded. Woof!
Because of her clumsiness and her complete blackness, Isuspect she is a newly fledged bald eagle that I heardbegging for food at the nest last week. – fancy version of my entry in my Duwamish Head Nature Log.
Do you keep a nature log?
I recommend it. It is part of your Simple Is Sophisticatedplan and part of your deliberate living program.
When you pay attention to the rhythms of nature, invariablyyou engage in life more completely, with more presence. Your engagement will immerse you into your heart-felt life. I promise.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone otherthan oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates hisattention— on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem,an idol, or the True God— that he completely forgets hisown ego and desires, he is praying. – W. H. Auden
Here’s What You Do
Just make notes in log weekly or daily. It tunes you intothe seasons. I am just completing my first year in the newhome.
I am keeping my log in MS Word so I can keep enteringthings in the rhythm of the year. What I mean is, as theseasons repeat, I can insert the new information inside themonth of January cyclically and not sequentially. All theJanuary notes will go together. All the September entrieslikewise go together.
Are you with me?
I am not just tracking events and cool sightings butwanting to feel into the rhythms of place.
Then I can say things like, “The purple martins will beback any day now.”
Or with a sigh, “The ospreys will be leaving soon.”
I want to feel the presence of these events and rhythms inmy marrow.
Notice the ordinary and the glamorous. Admittedly,fledgling Bald Eagles impress, but all of nature ispotentially as amazing if you only see rightly. • The spider webs dripping with dew on cool sunny Septembermornings catching the light in ways that make you say,“Wow!”
• The osprey flying with his prey back to the nest.• The last leaf blowing away in the winter storm.
• Unidentified scat on the rocks below the seawallfascinated me for months.
• The first crocus.
Keep your entries simple enough so you’ll be inclined to doit regularly, and detailed enough to be useful. I stillhave the nature log I kept in 1980 in our underground solarhome on the edge of a forested ravine in Ohio. Theone-line notes still bring back the smells and the light ofthose woods.
I make entries on Sundays trying to recall the week. Some seasons stay fairly stable for weeks so I skip some weeks.
I challenge myself by seeing if I can tell when theswallows or the ospreys leave. I find it hard to noticewhen something is gone. Much easier to notice the arrivalof the swallows in May.
Watching nature this clearly trumps the old suggestion tostop and smell the roses wouldn’t you say. Stopping andsmelling the spiders doesn’t sound as good though, does it.
Keep a log. Dive into presence. Feel the rhythms. Fallin love with it all – that’s the promise.
If you want to see my Duwamish Head Nature Log, let me know.
***Paradigms engaged in this article:
• Simple Is Sophisticated• Presencing• Spaceship Earth• Upgrade Your Right Brain
http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.com/
Friday, August 10, 2007
Why You Need a Paper Route
“I’ve noticed,” Mom said, “ever since you got your paper route, you haven’t been sick.”
Having a paper route in the middle of the last century meant delivering papers to people’s homes seven days aweek, 365 days a year in rain, snow, summer dog days, and excellent weathers. It meant, in my case, exercising hard for 45 minutes up to an hour and a half on snowy Sunday mornings in the dark.
“Where have I heard this before?” you inquire politely.
“That’s right – Younger Next Year and Harry’s rules. Thefirst rule is exercise hard six days a week. Exercising triggers the rebuilding and healing processes in yourbody.”
“But you were just a kid, so you would have been healthy anyhow,” You challenge.
“That’s the point. I was not healthy. I was a sickly kid in some ways. My new standard of health, post paper route,was noticeable because of the massive contrast.”
Since the beginning of the year, eight months now, I have been exercising hard seven days a week -- How’s my health been?
Conclusion – I have been much healthier than my norm. Thatis no colds and flu – more energy and good spirits. I have increased my exercise just enough to get this benefit. Iwas exercising hard already, just not enough to reach thetipping point.
I will see how this plays out in the future.
Here’s a question for you:
On my Sabbatical to Walla Walla, Washington, I noted thatWhitman College has just built a shinny new Fitness Center. What do you make of the name – Fitness Center. What’s themessage they are giving to the students, faculty, alumni,and Walla Walla with that title.
Is Fitness in?
Having a paper route in the middle of the last century meant delivering papers to people’s homes seven days aweek, 365 days a year in rain, snow, summer dog days, and excellent weathers. It meant, in my case, exercising hard for 45 minutes up to an hour and a half on snowy Sunday mornings in the dark.
“Where have I heard this before?” you inquire politely.
“That’s right – Younger Next Year and Harry’s rules. Thefirst rule is exercise hard six days a week. Exercising triggers the rebuilding and healing processes in yourbody.”
“But you were just a kid, so you would have been healthy anyhow,” You challenge.
“That’s the point. I was not healthy. I was a sickly kid in some ways. My new standard of health, post paper route,was noticeable because of the massive contrast.”
Since the beginning of the year, eight months now, I have been exercising hard seven days a week -- How’s my health been?
Conclusion – I have been much healthier than my norm. Thatis no colds and flu – more energy and good spirits. I have increased my exercise just enough to get this benefit. Iwas exercising hard already, just not enough to reach thetipping point.
I will see how this plays out in the future.
Here’s a question for you:
On my Sabbatical to Walla Walla, Washington, I noted thatWhitman College has just built a shinny new Fitness Center. What do you make of the name – Fitness Center. What’s themessage they are giving to the students, faculty, alumni,and Walla Walla with that title.
Is Fitness in?
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Yummy Water? Fun Electrolytes, News from the Universe, Save the World
Are you sweating? It may be summer now where you live. If not, remember this for when it’s sweating season.
When you exercise six days a week as I have been recommending, you will sweat. You need to replace the fluids you sweat off. You can lose as much as a quart in a hard workout – drink water. Lots of it.
Don’t like water? Can’t stand the stuff? Hang on…
What else do you lose? If you peeked at the title of today’s piece you know. You sweat off electrolytes. Lick some sweat – it’s salty.
What are electrolytes, you ask? Mr. Dictionary says – 2. Physiology. any of certain inorganic compounds, mainly sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, and bicarbonate, that dissociate in biological fluids into ions capable of conducting electrical currents and constituting a major force in controlling fluid balance within the body.
The purveyors of sports drinks like Gatorade suggest you will benefit greatly by using their products. Others say just drink water and your diet will handle the rest. The researchers are undecided.
If you don’t replace your electrolytes what happens? Since electrolytes affect your muscles, heart and nervous system, horrible things can happen. But not likely for most people.
If you do replace or maintain your levels of electrolytes, you will most likely feel strong and vital. You will feel peppy even in the swelter. It’s a good thing.
My favorite way to boost my intake is to use Emergen C, a powdered product that fizzes when you add it to your water. It contains the alphabet of electrolytes and one gram of vitamin C in each packet. My naturopath recommended 1-3 packets a day for my general health. I do fairly well at complying.
Suzanne mixes one packet into quart bottle of water and finds this makes the water yummier. Improving the flavor of water with a tiny bit of glucose, researches say, gets you to drink more water. And that’s a good thing. Try it.
(I get the Lite version of Emergen C with even fewer carbohydrates.)
Vitacost is my favorite place to get Emergen C They have the best price, selection, and service. You can find it everywhere though.
Since table salt, NaCl, is the big player in your electrolyte soup of your body, you have a simple solution to loss of electrolytes -- add more table salt to your food.
Be salty this summer,
William
P.S. We get 90% of our vitamins and nutritional supplements from Vitacost.
See for yourself => http://tinyurl.com/j5fcw
______
NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSE
One of my delightful clients reported how much she enjoys getting the News of the Universe. It reminds her and inspires her. I agree. It is one of the few things I read faithfully.
If you aren’t enjoying the News from the Universe daily, you can have it emailed to you on a daily basis at no cost. Read my review.
Mike Dooley has just redone his site. It looks good.
Here’s one I got recently that might inspire you –
Funny, {!firstname_fix}, how when one links job satisfaction to financial compensation, they're never paid "enough." Yet, when they see work as a way to dance with life, meet new people, and unleash the creative tiger within, they become very rich, indeed.
Every kind of rich, {!firstname_fix}.
The Universe
Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/rcy3j
* * * * *
SAVE THE WORLD – ONE MORE LYTE
You probably know you can save a bunch of money by converting to compact flourescent light bulbs. You may know that if the USA as collective converted we would have no oil worries. You also probably know the quality of the light was sickly at best.
Well no more. Save the planet. Stop oil wars. Have good light.
Popular Mechanics designed a test pitting seven common CFLs against a 75-watt incandescent bulb. To gather objective data, we used a Konica Minolta CL-200 chroma meter to measure color temperature and brightness, and a Watts up? Pro ammeter to track power consumption. Our subjective data came from a double-blind test with three PM staffers and Jesse Smith, a lighting expert from Parsons The New School for Design, in Manhattan. We put our participants in a color-neutral room and asked them to examine colorful objects, faces and reading material, then rate the bulbs’ performance.
Read the article and uncover the winners.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/home_improvement/4215199.html
Blessings,
William
P.S. Forward This Blog To Anyone You Like Who You Think Might Welcome News On Breakthrough Healing Methods.
When you exercise six days a week as I have been recommending, you will sweat. You need to replace the fluids you sweat off. You can lose as much as a quart in a hard workout – drink water. Lots of it.
Don’t like water? Can’t stand the stuff? Hang on…
What else do you lose? If you peeked at the title of today’s piece you know. You sweat off electrolytes. Lick some sweat – it’s salty.
What are electrolytes, you ask? Mr. Dictionary says – 2. Physiology. any of certain inorganic compounds, mainly sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, and bicarbonate, that dissociate in biological fluids into ions capable of conducting electrical currents and constituting a major force in controlling fluid balance within the body.
The purveyors of sports drinks like Gatorade suggest you will benefit greatly by using their products. Others say just drink water and your diet will handle the rest. The researchers are undecided.
If you don’t replace your electrolytes what happens? Since electrolytes affect your muscles, heart and nervous system, horrible things can happen. But not likely for most people.
If you do replace or maintain your levels of electrolytes, you will most likely feel strong and vital. You will feel peppy even in the swelter. It’s a good thing.
My favorite way to boost my intake is to use Emergen C, a powdered product that fizzes when you add it to your water. It contains the alphabet of electrolytes and one gram of vitamin C in each packet. My naturopath recommended 1-3 packets a day for my general health. I do fairly well at complying.
Suzanne mixes one packet into quart bottle of water and finds this makes the water yummier. Improving the flavor of water with a tiny bit of glucose, researches say, gets you to drink more water. And that’s a good thing. Try it.
(I get the Lite version of Emergen C with even fewer carbohydrates.)
Vitacost is my favorite place to get Emergen C They have the best price, selection, and service. You can find it everywhere though.
Since table salt, NaCl, is the big player in your electrolyte soup of your body, you have a simple solution to loss of electrolytes -- add more table salt to your food.
Be salty this summer,
William
P.S. We get 90% of our vitamins and nutritional supplements from Vitacost.
See for yourself => http://tinyurl.com/j5fcw
______
NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSE
One of my delightful clients reported how much she enjoys getting the News of the Universe. It reminds her and inspires her. I agree. It is one of the few things I read faithfully.
If you aren’t enjoying the News from the Universe daily, you can have it emailed to you on a daily basis at no cost. Read my review.
Mike Dooley has just redone his site. It looks good.
Here’s one I got recently that might inspire you –
Funny, {!firstname_fix}, how when one links job satisfaction to financial compensation, they're never paid "enough." Yet, when they see work as a way to dance with life, meet new people, and unleash the creative tiger within, they become very rich, indeed.
Every kind of rich, {!firstname_fix}.
The Universe
Go for it => http://tinyurl.com/rcy3j
* * * * *
SAVE THE WORLD – ONE MORE LYTE
You probably know you can save a bunch of money by converting to compact flourescent light bulbs. You may know that if the USA as collective converted we would have no oil worries. You also probably know the quality of the light was sickly at best.
Well no more. Save the planet. Stop oil wars. Have good light.
Popular Mechanics designed a test pitting seven common CFLs against a 75-watt incandescent bulb. To gather objective data, we used a Konica Minolta CL-200 chroma meter to measure color temperature and brightness, and a Watts up? Pro ammeter to track power consumption. Our subjective data came from a double-blind test with three PM staffers and Jesse Smith, a lighting expert from Parsons The New School for Design, in Manhattan. We put our participants in a color-neutral room and asked them to examine colorful objects, faces and reading material, then rate the bulbs’ performance.
Read the article and uncover the winners.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/home_improvement/4215199.html
Blessings,
William
P.S. Forward This Blog To Anyone You Like Who You Think Might Welcome News On Breakthrough Healing Methods.
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