What Are You Hungry For?

Sometimes, I find it hard to tell when I’m really hungry for nutrients as opposed to being emotionally hungry.

I have been on a long journey to heal some early wounds around eating. I am much recovered. Because I like to explore my edges and live outside my comfort zone, I still find it difficult. Obviously, living outside your comfort zone, can trigger emotions.

I found this list from Mindless Eating comparing physical hunger to emotional hunger, helped me, you might find it useful, too.

Physical Hunger

Builds gradually
Strikes below the neck, e.g. growling stomach
Occurs several hours after a meal
Goes away when full
Eating leads to feeling of satisfaction


Emotional Hunger on the other Hand…

Develops suddenly
Above the neck e.g. a taste for ice cream
Unrelated to time
Persists despite fullness
Eating leads to guilt and shame

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The Body and Soul Mentor web site humongous UPGRADE continues…

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And so are my lovely manuals including Simply Serene - Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace (http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x).

Members love this huge benefit.

One of the really cool things about the internet is you get to meet people from all over the world. I now have members from –

· Netherlands
· UK
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· South Africa
· USA
· Canada
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· Dominican Republic
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Is that cool or what?

If you want the inside track on information for becoming a member and to get on the no-obligation waiting list, go to The Journey Begins

http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/journeybegins.html

I’ll keep you posted and you get the wonderful podcast with Beverly Cook talking about pilgrimage. It’s cool.

Blessings,

William

P.S. Stay tuned for more news about the goodies to come on the web site. Remember you can’t join until 6:00 AM PDT, July 24th, 2008 when the doors open for one week or until 200 new members join us. Why only 200? I want to be sure I can take care of people on the site before I let any more in. Smart, huh.

The Journey Begins

The Journey Begins

The doors are closed to new members on Body and Soul Mentor web site.

Woof!

Now I’m into the huge, Humongous UPGRADE. Double woof! I have tons of work to do.


OPENING THE DOORS

I’ll be opening doors for new members for one week starting, 6:00 AM PDT July 24th.

I will close them on Midnight August 1st 2008 EDT.

HEADS UP:

I will close the doors when I have 200 new members if that happens before the August 1st cut off.

And I reserve the right to close the doors for any reason that I can’t foresee now.

Why the limit of only 200 new members? I am only one guy here in Seattle maintaining a private practice, running a real life, and I want to be sure I can truly help the members and not be overwhelmed. I won’t reopen the site to new members for at least a month or two after we see how it goes.

Fair enough?


HERE ARE THE GOODIES YOU’LL GET

I have great plans, and I’m sure more will be added as members make suggestions.

Here are the goodies I know you’ll get.


ONE

I’ll be adding podcasts on a regular basis that you can download and listen to in your car or while you’re doing the laundry and such. Or listen to on your computer. These will mostly be revealing conversations with amazing people on the journey, too.

You will be amazed who I know. One friend said about me, “He talks to giants.” I humbly submit, it’s true.

The first one is with Beverly Cook about her pilgrimage to the holy route in Spain. See below for how to get it today.


TWO

I’ll be adding videos, because some things are much better explained with pictures. You’re smart so you know this.

Have you ever said, “Hey, let me just show you… It will be faster.”

I have.

Now, I can just show you. I’ve mastered the Flip Ultra video camera which makes it a snap.

The one for how to stop headaches is quite useful. One viewer with a headache saw it, applied it, and Poof no more headache. Too cool!

You’ll be delighted with the usefulness of these videos.

Oh, and they’re short. The headache one is 1:21 minutes. This helps me to honor the 17 minutes a day promise, right?

“Give me seventeen minutes a day, and I'll show you how you can get a life you love – Body & Soul -- or your money back."


THREE

All my books, manuals, and Laser Focused reports will be free to members. YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE.



IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

Since everything on my site relates to being on a quest, a hero’s journey, a heroine’s journey, what better introduction than to listen to a conversation with Beverly Cook, LMP, a real heroine on a real journey –.
Get on this waiting list. I won’t obligate you to joining, just keep you informed.

When you get my Conversation with Beverly podcast, I’ll keep you up to date on how you can get access to the goodies by join the membership of heroes and heroines on the journey.

People who were present at the conversation with Bev were blown away, inspired, and moved.

What is the value of pilgrimage in your quest for the sacred in your life?

You get to listen to Beverly and me talk about her recently completed Camino pilgrimage, the ancient pilgrim route in northern Spain known as El Camino de Santiago.

By the way, this podcast is a good example of what you’ll find on the web site every day for free, exclusively to members.

It’s free.

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

How Do You Mix Ho’oponopono with Tolle?

Emily, a reader of Amazingly Content (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp), asks this great question. I thought I’d share it with you.

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Dear William,

I am reading your ebook Amazingly Content. I already knew about ho’oponopono from Joe Vitale and Dr Len but it's great to hear the inspiring stories in your ebook and more information about how to apply it.

I have some questions on using ho'oponopono.

Recently I have been looking into the material of Eckhart Tolle and others who teach being in the present, in the now. I would like to continue to do ho'oponopono but am unsure how to do that whilst tuning into space and silence. Perhaps it's not necessary to be saying the phrases all the time?

I also find it difficult to clean at the same time as talking to someone or doing something that requires concentration. I would be very grateful if you could answer these questions for me.

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Emily from the UK

***

Good question, yes?

The truth is that all of these methods are art forms, like jazz. You have a theme, and then you improvise.

It is not necessary to use the four phrases of ho’oponopono all the time. It just helps. Presence is your big goal. Here’s why.

When you are present, you love. When you are present, you are reconciled with all that is. That’s the way presence works. You get Presence and you get love, gratitude, reconciliation. And aren’t these the goals of Ho’oponopono – to love God and be reconciled with everyone and everything?

So being present, in any way you can manage it, is one’s primary task. Tolle says that explicitly in A New Earth. Be conscious, be present then do any work in the world you want from that place. The Tao Te Ching said the same thing 2500 years ago, right?

Having said that, when I am angry, resentful, jealous, spiteful, complaining or obsessively needing to be right, ho’oponopono is the best I can manage. It brings me back to sanity. Remember one of the primary virtues of ho’oponopono is you don’t need to know what to do, you don’t have to believe anything, you just humbly invoke the process, say the phrases, and it does the work.

You may notice that sooner or later ho’oponopono returns you to the present.

Having said that, being present before you use ho’oponopono, makes ho’oponopono work better. One could use the methods in Foolproof Relaxation (http://tinyurl.com/6zotq9) or any other presencing technique to cool down and get present, then slide into some ho’oponopono.


RULES OF THUMB:

If you can be present, then that’s what you do first. If when you are present, your entire disharmony fades, then you’re done.

If you can’t be present easily, use ho’oponopono.

If you have fear, use presencing techniques.

When you want to pray for someone, use ho’oponopono

I can repeat -- I love you – all the time.


CLEANING WHILE DOING

Saying the phrases of ho’oponopono while being with someone can be difficult. Practice.

Saying the phrases of ho’oponopono while performing a task can be difficult. Practice. I use it while doing complicated cranialsacral therapy all the time. You can learn to use the phrases while working, too.


When it gets in the way of you’re being present to someone or something, just be present and listen to them, see them. Presence trumps everything.

Ho’oponopono is an attitude as well as a process. Just listen with love and respect and you will be doing ho’oponopono even if you’re not uttering the phrases.

You can mix your tools to get the job done. Experiment and you will gradually learn what works best for you and in which situations.

Thanks Emily.

Blessings,

William

P.S. LAST CHANCE. The special offer of a month’s membership to Body & Soul Mentor without cost when you get either Foolproof Relaxation or Amazingly Content, ends Midnight July 9, 2008.

You can get them here.

Go for it –

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Obviously, Not True…

A reader wrote this about my Laser Focused report Amazingly Content. http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp


Since this Ho’oponopono thing is so obviously not true,I'm going to have to take advantage of your guarantee.If it is true, then prove it by using it yourself to change my mind about asking for this refund. See, it ain't true!

Isn’t that sweet? I smiled and cheerfully refunded his money. I didn’t try to change his mind. Amazingly enough, I am content.

But the truth is, I understand what he’s saying. Ho’oponopono, the method in the report, is obviously untrue. How could it be otherwise? When I read Dr. Len’s miraculous story, I thought, “Hmmm.”

I trusted Joe Vitale who told me about it. You can read his famous email in the report.

Part of Joe’s story is that he didn’t believe it either. He researched it at length. He had telephone conversations with Dr. Len. Eventually, they met. Still it took Joe a long time to get it.

Even though I trust Joe, I researched it, too. I think I read everything that Joe wrote about it, and yet I was still skeptical. Because I don’t understand it, I am still skeptical. I do note that it works. I don’t let my skepticism get in the way of receiving the benefits of being in love with everyone and everything.


I Test Everything

Did you know I graduated in Engineering and Applied Physics from Harvard? I like to test stuff.

You may know that before I tell you to try anything, I have tested it first in my own life. Then I refine the tests in the laboratory of my friends, family, and patients. If it passes those tests, I tell you. It passed all those tests and I wrote Amazingly Content for you. (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp)


Now, I travel around being in love with everything and everyone. And I feel Amazingly Content. (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp)

And don’t let Suzanne Burroughs know that it’s not true, it’s working too well for her. See below for her report.

Obviously, not true?

What Was Revealed – 100 Day practice

What Was Revealed – 100 Day practice

This isn’t the most powerful question in the world –

Is today a good day to die?

This is –

Is today a good day for Suzanne to die?

Holy Poop! If I have any doubt about the nature of life and death, this question will flush it out. If I have any doubt who my wife, Suzanne, truly is, this question will slap me awake.


A Refresher –

My friend and colleague, Kim Ivy challenged me and her students with maintaining a practice for 100 days. It’s a traditional Taoist idea.

I took it on.


My Practice

My practice was to show up every morning at the beach on Lake Washington or on the Salish Sea, practice Taiji (Tai Chi) or something similar in order to be present enough to be able to say wholeheartedly, “Today is a good day to die!”

In order to be able to say that wholeheartedly, you have to be present. No mind chatter. The grasping, clinging ego never thinks it’s a good day to die. When you’re present, the ego is gone. You are free to say, “Today is a good day to die!”

My beloved Zen teacher, Genjo, said, “That’s all well and good William, but how about a good day for Suzanne to die?

“#@$%** you and the horse you came in on,” I said.

Genjo just laughed, of course.

I found this second question – Is today a good day for Suzanne to die? – most revealing. If you ask my ego, there is never a good day for Suzanne to die.

You may have guessed that someday it will be the day that Suzanne dies. I may be lucky enough to be there. We have been married for nearly four decades. We’re likely to be married until death do us part. So this practice has a point to it, doesn’t it.

In order to say – Today is a good day for Suzanne to die -- wholeheartedly, I have to be deeply present. I have to know who she is at the deepest levels.

I showed up every day for the 100 days just like the US mail – through rain, wind, cold. Some days were a tad sloppy, others fully transcendent as you might expect.

One day slipped my mind completely due to a change in routine.


The Surprises I Discovered

At some point, moving through my morning forms, I would open to the vast magic of life unfolding in the present moment, and I would find Suzanne right there, in the infinite moment.

One day she was in the curvature of the earth. Another in the Lombardy poplar, another in the cherry blossoms. Each day she appeared. Each day she appeared in a different guise. Obviously on each day, I could say, “Today is a good day for Suzanne to die.”

Blessings,

William

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Colonoscopy Fun

I had the scoping today, an easy procedure, and as you may know, now being recommended for everyone starting at age 50.

In my face as I waited, I read a plaque that announced, colorectal cancer has the 2nd highest high kill rate amongst cancer patients, BUT if detected early by colonoscopy people have nearly a 100% chance of survival. It’s one of the good news stories and a no-brainer.

Dear One, when your doctor recommends it, GET A COLONOSCOPY .

Luckily, you can prepare by reading hurmorist, Dave Barry’s -- A Journey into My Colon and Yours – before you get yours.

I was fortuanate enough to read this a couple of days before mine. I laughed ‘til I couldn’t breathe. I laughed ‘til tears came. My laughter drew inquiries from the Mysterious Madam Ling from three rooms away.

OK. You turned 50. You know you're supposed to get a colonoscopy. But you haven't. Here are your reasons:

1. You've been busy.
2. You don't have a history of cancer in your family.
3. You haven't noticed any problems.
4. You don't want a doctor to stick a tube 17,000 feet up your butt.

Let's examine these reasons one at a time. No, wait, let's not. Because you and I both know that the only real reason is No. 4. This is natural. The idea of having another human, even a medical human, becoming deeply involved in what is technically known as your ''behindular zone'' gives you the creeping willies.

Read the rest here http://www.miamiherald.com/418/story/427603.html

The good Mr. Barry goes on to talk humorously of embarrassment and other such things. He doesn’t skip the real-as-death reasons for getting checked.

I have a friend dying of colon cancer. Five years back I lost Paul. My buddy lost his father to the disease. And others … I don’t want to lose you. Get checked. If you let the inner child out, you can even have fun with it all.

Certainly, I will die of something, but today it appears that it won’t be colorectal cancer. If you’re over 50, get checked.

Blessings,

William

P.S. All the way through the prep for the procedure I used the easy method you can find in Amazingly Content to be content, obviously. I tested myself by asking, “Is there anywhere you’d rather be?”

I could honestly answer, “No.”

I was in love with all I saw and heard. Amazing.

Amazingly Content -- How to Be in Love with All You See & Hear,
And Be in Harmony with Family, Friends & Work works magic.

You can find out more here. Go for it http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp

Which Is Sacred? (A 50-Word Mini Saga)

Which is sacred – The fast-food box floating at the lake edge or the swallows zooming over the surface hunting? Practicing Taiji, my bliss in the present moment deepens while I dance with the darting swallows. The Styrofoam interrupts. How to find the sacred even there? Bobbing beautifully, dazzling light – Ah.

Can you hear the heavenly choir in the lawnmower? Can you hear it sing in the leaf blower? (The big park lawn mower was swooping around me as I practiced my morning Taiji as it does each Monday morning.

Can you find the Sacred Present in litter floating in the pristine lake?

After all, you spend more time with these things than in the so-called Sacred places. Wouldn’t it be useful to learn to find the Sacred anywhere any time?

You can. Just listen to the sounds of the lawnmower. Just be with them. Without judging. Without resisting.

I often tighten up when I hear unpleasant sounds and research shows noise pollution amongst the worst forms of pollution regarding the effects on human and animal health.

When I just listen, relax the cringing, the Holy Angels sing inside the lawn mower and even the leaf blower.

The Styrofoam? As I removed it from my lake, I was mesmerized by the beauty of the light on it and the way the wavelets caressed it and the way the Styrofoam played at the very top surface of the water. My mind was quiet. I was as peaceful and full of light as the most serene meditation.

So, where is the sacred? Find some trash and be with it.

Blessings,

William

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