Book Giveaway Is Live

Book Giveaway Is Live

If  You’re Reading This After 12:01 AM PST November 23, 2013 then you can get Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life at no cost…

NOW. 

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You can read more about why you want to get the book HERE.

Heads Up: The offer ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.

Tell your friends.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. You can watch me make a playful altar in my YouTube video

P.P.S. After you download and enjoy  Altar Making Be Sure to write a glowing review.

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Kindle Book Giveaway

Can Making Your Own Altars and

Shrines Make You Happier This Holiday Season? 

Can creating them bring more sacredness into your life?

You can find out for yourself.

You can download Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life at no cost starting –

November 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM PST.  The offer ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.

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“Making an altar may not make all your wishes come true, but it can make you really happy and bring more peace into your holiday season,” William Wittmann says.

Amazon reviews agree.

 “This book is a wonderful source of calm and inspiration and I've put its contents into practice in many places in my home, including one on each of my bedside tables. Nothing fancy and all with things I've found outside or already had. An easy, thoughtful way to stay in touch with myself.”

Another reader says, “Altar Making shows you how to bring the sacred into physical form. In easy to understand terms, William helps you create with your spirit, altars in your own personal style using what has importance and meaning to you.”

Remember how much fun it was to build things with Legos or blocks. Just imagine how nurturing it can be to build your own sacred altars and shrines.

When you create your own altar, you feel that same pleasure that you felt as a child. And when you bring in the Sacred, your satisfaction deepens.

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.

This lovely book will walk you through the whys and hows of altar building.  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.

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May you be lighthearted and free,

William

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Lighthearted & Free

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 

338)

If you bring forth that which is within you,
Then that which is within you
Will be your salvation.
If you do not bring forth that which is within you
Then that which is within you
Will destroy you.
         - Gnostic Gospel

You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it.

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius. 

Get the Wizard's Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. 

 

Lighthearted & Free

Humans make stories that scare us.  With the rare exception of fear caused by something in the present, all your fears come from stories you make up or adopt.

Heading into surgery recently, I had a handful of stories that scared me.  Here are a few, imagine…

1.       What if I wake up during the surgery?  A friend gave me this one.

2.      What if my practice doesn’t survive being away for a month?

3.      What if the spinal anesthetic gets screwed up and I am paralyzed?

Can you see the pictures?  Feel the stories unfold from those premises?  I can.

To antidote my internal fear poisons, I worked with metta, loving kindness meditations.  I looked for phrases that just brought up pictures I wanted.

I came up with this one:

May I be lighthearted and free.

You can feel the freedom and happiness in that, right?

What phrases would you make up to keep you in alignment with the best flows of the universe?

Go back and read the quote for today.  It fits. 

You Can Help a Complete Stranger.  How?

Book reviews on Amazon make the books more visible to browsers.  When you review one of my books, it ranks higher and therefore has a greater chance of being found.

If you like my work, and presumably you do as you’re reading this right now, then you can help get these precious ideas out into the world by reviewing my books.

This applies to any of the books that I’ve written, but for right now it applies to Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life because I dropped the normal price.

1.       If you’ve already read the book, please review it now.  Go here to review Altar Making

2.      If you haven’t read the book, you can get it at a reduced price right now of $0.99.  Get it, read it, and review it.

3.      Wait until Altar Making book giveaway starting on Nov. 23, then get it and review it.

Thanks for considering reviewing the book and helping other readers.

Go here to review Altar Making.  Or to read other people’s reviews. 

Playful Altar Video

You can watch me make a playful altar in my YouTube video.

Again, Go here to review Altar Making. 

May you be lighthearted and free,

William

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Why Make an Altar?

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

260) The fastest way to become rich as to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to the become poor is to socialize with the rich. -- Nassim Taleb

You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it.

 

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius. 

Get the Wizard's Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. 

Why Would You Want to Make an Altar?

Why would you want to make your own alter?

First – It’s fun.

Second – You literally get to take your connection to the Sacred into your own hands without the need of an intermediary.

Third – During the process of making the altar, you may learn something about yourself and your connection to the Sacred.  You may have insights into the core of what’s happening in your life.  Your prayers will become more effectively pointed as a result.

Fourth – Building an altar focuses your intent.  It puts muscle into your prayer or into your manifestation.  Just wrestling with the design opens up your Buddha brain.  And that opens your heart and soul for insight to enter.

Another Book Giveaway

I’m giving away my well beloved Kindle book Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your starting November 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM PST – ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.

Take advantage of this offer and let your friends know.

Here’s how I’m using altar making this week…

I Survived My Surgery

You may know that I had hip replacement surgery on Oct. 21^st 2013.  I survived and am healing well.  Rehabilitation takes months and I’m walking without a cane now.

After major life events, I find I wonder, “What’s next?  Where is my life taking me now?”

You may recall my recent pre-surgery blog post -- Relax, You’re Going to Die.

In that blog I included these instructions:

Relax, you’re going to die.
There is no-where to go
And no-thing to do.

And from that view point ask

What’s the next right thing to do?

I survived.  I’m healing.  I can relax, I’m going to die.  So, what’s the next right thing for me?

During my preparation for the surgery, the idea of making a mobile of origami cranes came to me.  After the surgery the image stuck, so I’m creating an altar with cranes.  It will be a mobile.

Cranes

Cranes symbolize happiness, good luck, longevity, and peace.  As I live into being an  elder, these seem like good things.

You can watch this video to learn to fold them here.

Gotta go and create now.

I expect that whilst constructing the mobile, collecting the windfall cedar branches for  cross bars, folding the cranes, I’ll have a better sense of the next right thing for me.

May you be light hearted and free,

William

P.S. My newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey echoes all these ideas.  Go read the description and consider getting it.  It makes  a great holiday present.  At 8 x 10 inches, the trade paperback version makes a great coffee table book.  One with soul.

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Crane image courtesy of Anusorn P nachol / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

 

 

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.

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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. 

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.