Serene Giveaway

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

411) The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington  

 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.

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Serene Giveaway

Starting February 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM PST –

You can get Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace at no cost.  It’s my best seller and some think it’s my best book.

The giveaway ends midnight, PST February 19, 2014.

Go for it => Simply Serene.

Why Get the Book?

The ideas in Simply Serene help you to remove stress and restore health and harmony.

Do you recall that when you’re stressed – when the flight-fight response engages, you stop digesting your food?  You stop repairing your body all the way down to the cellular level.  

If you want your body to heal and repair, to make nutrients available for your tissues, then you need to turn off stress.  Simply Serene shows you how.

It also contains the incomparable Owl Eyes and Owl Ears mindfulness meditation.  You will find you can easily learn this meditation and it works better than anything I have ever seen.

Tell your friends.  Post on Facebook and Tweet.  The material in the book can make a difference in people’s lives.

Get it for yourself => Simply Serene.

Lastly, recall that you don’t need a kindle device to read kindle books.  You can read them on anything.  (Ask if you need help finding the software that Amazon provides.)

May you be serene, peaceful, and instantly alert,

William

P.S. Please write a review after you’ve enjoyed the book.

P.P.S. You can find out more about Simply Serene in the blog post from last year’s giveaway.

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P.P.P.S. A magnificent opportunity if you’re an Amazon Prime member.  As a member you can borrow any of my kindle books at no cost. 

·         Investigate Amazon Prime => Trial Offer for Amazon Prime

·         See my books => My Amazon Author's Page

More of What Works

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

339) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power. Begin now. -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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. 

More of What Works

You may know this aphorism:

Do more of what works and less of what doesn't.

You can live your life from that.  You can have a life you love from that. 

Find things that work for you, and quit doing what doesn’t work.  Simple, sure, but not so easy. 

Take small steps.

I re-titled my book: Do More of What Works to –

Finding Your Own Best Ideas– A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life. This book contains reliable ideas you can apply to your life so that you can live a life you love – body and soul.

Get it.  Read it.  Apply it.  I repeat – take small steps, but keep stepping.

Do this experiment, it works.

Here’s a experiment from Wayne Muller’s exquisite book:  A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough.  You do this every morning and your life will become radiant.  I promise.

What if, as an experiment,  if only for one day, we lived as if we believed that there lived in us some reliable  strength, wisdom, and wholeness? 

What if we were to pretend that, regardless our health or mood, our fortunes or circumstance, we would remain quietly wise, accurate, and trustworthy in our judgments and actions? 

Even more, what if we could actually feel, sense, and know, with unshakable certainty,  that whenever we went, into whatever company or situation we were called, we would  carry with us always this capacity to move with confidence and trust in any situation?

How would we think, act, choose?  How would we respond differently to the world during such a day? 

All the Books By Wayne Muller can change your life for the better.  Get them.

Heads Up for Book Giveaway

Over five days, I will be giving you Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace

Starting February 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM PST – ending midnight, PST February 19, 2014.

Let your buddies  know.

May you be radiant and happy,

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.

P.P.S. Please let your friends know about this.

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P.S. A magnificent opportunity if you’re an Amazon Prime member.  As a membr you can borrow any of my kindle books at no cost. 

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Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway

Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway

 A dear friend heads into heart surgery this morning, another friend’s adult daughter died leaving behind a husband and two kids, I successfully passed through my hip surgery and recovery unfolds well.

So what?

Prayer will transform all three situations.  And building an altar or a shrine puts muscle, creativity, and heart into your prayer as you put your mind and hands to work.

Saturday, December 21^st is winter solstice when we welcome the return of the sun.  This celestial event lends itself to building a shrine for the coming light and the coming year.

In honor of solstice, I’m giving away my Kindle book Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life for one day.

You can download the Altar Making giveaway from 12:01 AM to midnight PST December 21, 2013.

Please get it and tell your friends, Facebook and tweet with abandon.  Consider writing a review.

Go for it => Altar Making

May the light shine on you this season,

William 

P.S. Kindle Devices keep getting better, don’t they – And more affordable.  Check them out here => Kindle Devices.

And you probably know you can read Kindle books on pretty much anything these days.  I read on my PCs.  Sasha reads on her Kindle and her Droid.  People love to read them on their Apple devices, particularly the iPad.

Get the Kindle reader apps for your device here => http://amzn.to/Ae0GtB 

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. 

Go for it => Altar Making

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.

: )  Thanks.

Go for it => Altar Making

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.

Go for it => Altar Making

“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.

Again Go for It => Altar Making

May you be lighthearted and free,

William

P.S. Be sure to post to Facebook and let your friends know about this opportunity.

Go for it => Altar Making

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

 

 

Kindle Invites You to Heaven

Here's the press release for my book. I thought you might enjoy it:

Seattle, WA, USA.  “An invitation to step across a threshold into an unknown place that turned out to be heaven,” Dr. Alexandra Gayek, an early reviewer said.  William Wittmann’s newest Kindle book, Drawing the Sacred will be available for free download until 11:59 PM PST Oct. 9, 2013.

 

“What does that mean?” I asked Wittmann.

 

“This book shows people how to connect to the Sacred by using tricks that artist’s use.  And if you practice these ideas for a bit, you move into the Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus and the Buddha talked about.

 

“It’s pretty cool,” Wittmann said.  “The book has lots of stories, one for each painting or drawing in the book.  They’re there to be illustrations of connection.  Not so much to be illustrations of great art.  In fact I intended them to be simple enough that people could feel safe about trying to draw or paint for themselves.”

 

In my interview with William, he wanted to remind us that people can download  Kindles on any computer, phone, or iPad.  “Amazon wisely provides free software right from the book’s page,” he said.

 

And as Dr. Gayek said, “Drawing the Sacred is the most delicious one yet.”  (This is Wittmann’s 15^th book.)

 

You can get the book here

 

=>  http://amzn.to/1dQBzem

 

Remember the FREE book offer ends Oct. 9th at midnight PST.  Seattle Time.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. Pass this on to your friends, please.
=> http://amzn.to/1dQBzem

Kindle Book Giveaway Active NOW

It’s Here – Go Get Your Free Book Now

: )

Go for it => Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey.

You can get more information on the book here.  Note: this one is for the paperback edition.

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=708

Or

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=713

 

Remember, You Don’t Need a Kindle to Read Kindle Books

The nice boys and girls at Amazon will provide you with software to read Drawing the Sacred on your laptop, your desktop or even your phone.  Certainly, your iPad.

Go for it => Drawing the Sacred

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. Tell your friends about the offer.  Facebook it. Please.

And remind your friends they don’t need a Kindle to enjoy it.

Thanks.

: )

Kindle Book Giveaway

Almost here…

I will be giving away my Kindle book – Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey  starting at 12:01 AM PDT on Saturday Oct. 5^th, 2013 and ending at midnight PDT Oct. 9^th, 2013.

The Book Works for Photographers, Too

One of the books early readers enjoys the book and finds kinship with it as a photographer.

Even if you don’t draw and don’t want to draw you probably carry a camera with you all the time as part of your phone.  Right?

Can you imagine … making each day a spiritual journey of connection to the Sacred using the ideas in the book. 

At 12:01 AM PDT on Oct. 5th the book costs NADA, zero.

 You’ve got nothing to lose and you could see God. 

Seems like a simple choice to me.  Get the book.

Go for it => Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey.

Remember, You Don’t Need a Kindle to Read Kindle Books

The nice boys and girls at Amazon will provide you with software to read Drawing the Sacred on your laptop, your desktop or even your phone.  Certainly, your iPad.

Go for it => Drawing the Sacred

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. Tell your friends about the offer.  Facebook it.  Please.

And remind your friends they don’t need a Kindle to enjoy it.

Thanks.

: )

P.P.S. You can get more information on the book here.  Note: this one is for the paperback edition.

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=708

Or

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=713

About Free Book, She Says, "Here's the best advice I know ..."

My colleague, Dr. Alexandra Gayek, just wrote this review of  Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life for her readers.  I thought you might get value from it.  Enjoy.

 

As of now the book ranks #1 in Happiness books.

This one is absolutely free until midnight Pacific Time, May 8, 2013! 

   -> http://www.on2url.com/lnk?FBsx4U4eDA4%3D 

If there's something in your life that's not working, here's the best advice I know for making it different: Do MORE OF WHAT WORKS (and less of what doesn't!) 

If you're like me, you might, just sometimes, have a tendency to think of your problems in bigger-than-life terms. You know, completely insurmountable, impossible.

And you know where that kind of thinking leads:  

·         discouragement,

·         despair,

·         hopelessness,

·         what's-the-point-in-trying...

·         Then what follows is self-sabotaging behavior--the exact opposite of what would help. 

I like to think I'm above all this, but the truth is, I'm not. I've certainly obsessed about my problems until I'm completely miserable. More than once. You? 

Another tendency some of us have is all-or-nothing thinking. You're either completely in the dumps, or into magical thinking. For example, you want to lose 30 lbs, and you get into believing the promise that some pill you saw online really will make it all disappear in 3 days "without dieting or exercise!" 

You try the magic pill, it doesn't produce the magical results, and you're not only upset about the lack of results, but also  for being so foolish as to waste your money and believe it could have worked. 

What if you tried a different approach to the things that aren't working in your life? 

What if you allowed change to happen a little at a time? 

The thing is, it's exactly that sort of acceptance that paves the way for big, even "miraculous" changes.  

You start by accepting that you are where you are, turning your attention to where you want to go, and being willing to take small steps and look for and applaud small signs that you're heading in the right direction. 

It's not so glamorous or exciting as an "instant cure," but it's much more reliably effective. 

You get to choose: drama or what works. 

I have to laugh at myself for my tendency to choose drama. You know, secretly believing I'm the exception to the rules of the universe.  

So, along comes my dear friend and colleague William Wittmann, with another of his wondrously helpful, practical little books: Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life 

It's so good! It's honest. It made me laugh. It's true. It's full of useful stories and easy tools that feel good instantly when you use them. 

This last part is important: *easy.* Have you noticed that when you're upset, angry, blameful, ashamed, embarrassed, obsessed with your problems, that you can't easily access your own brilliance and wisdom? 

The solution has to be broken down into something easy, or you can't do it. 

Then, there's the *feel good* part. When you feel bad, you don't usually have patience for something that will work eventually. You might be willing to do something helpful, but only if it works NOW.  You know, immediate gratification.

So, here you go. Something easy. No cost. A couple of clicks and you'll be nodding and laughing along with William and everyone else who's already enjoying his book. You can read it digitally whether you have Kindle or not.

   -> http://www.on2url.com/lnk?FBsx4U4eDA4%3D 

Pass on the link to your friends, so they can get it too! 

Enjoy!

With love and appreciation, 

Dr. Alexandra Gayek 

P.S. If you're reading this after midnight Pacific Time, May 8, William's book won't be free any more, but it's still worth getting! 

   -> http://www.on2url.com/lnk?FRsx4U4eDA4%3D 

William:  Alexandra has tons of great offering for you health at her site – Science of Being Well.  Go and harvest.