Kindle Book Giveaway Active NOW
Posted On Oct 4 2013It’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, …
Kindle Book Giveaway Almost Here
Posted On Oct 3 2013Almost here… I promised to let you know about Free Goodies. Here’s a wonderful one: 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. 5th, 2013 and ending at midnight PDT Oct. 9th, 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 …
Free Book Giveaway Coming
Posted On Sep 23 2013Today’s Oracle 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. My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 395) What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the whole universe. – Jallal al-Din Rumi Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun …
Announcing – Drawing the Sacred
Posted On Sep 4 2013Today’s Oracle 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. My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: Anytime you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. – Alex Haley Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Announcing – …
Pilgrimage to Stillness
Posted On Aug 14 2013Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 139) List three beliefs you find that humans have that seem completely alien to you and that they consider normal. 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. Pilgrimage to …
Those Little Things
Posted On Aug 8 2013Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 8) If not now, then when? If not here, then where? – Rabbi Hillel 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. Those Little Things Those little things that you …
Metalsmith – Story of a Maker
Posted On Jul 17 2013Today’s Oracle 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. My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 185) Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. –Roger von Oech Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Metalsmith – Story of a …
Announcing 99 Cents
Posted On Jul 9 2013You can get my newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey as a Kindle now. I’ve dropped the price from $9.99 to $.99. Why? Because, I want you to enjoy the book and then write a shining review. And yes, if you’ve been paying attention, the book price will eventually drop to zero for five days. Then back to $9.99. Will you help me by getting the book now and reviewing it? Please and thank you. Soon I will publish it as an 8 in. by 10 in. paperback. The print proof …
Timothy Ferriss – YES
Posted On Jul 3 2013I first encountered Timothy Ferriss when I read his excellent book – The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. I recommend this book highly if for no other reason than it will give you permission to re-invent your own work rhythms. Ferriss offers strategies and permission that will free you from your email and phone tyranny. But today, I want you to explore The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. The Four Hour Body I was skeptical about what Ferriss could possibly know about the body, but it …
Walk in Beauty
Posted On Jun 17 2013You may have noticed that I close notes and postings with the phrase – walk in beauty. This phrase came from a friend, a shaman, who closes her emails with the phrase. I loved it and use it. I use it to invite you to walk. Walking lets you breath fresh air, see distances greater than your screen. It lets you get away. Tip: turn off your phone if you really want to get away. I use the phrase to remind you and me that we have a choice about where we walk. I use it to remind you and …
Motivation and Stress Busting
Posted On May 9 2013I have two books for you. I think you’ll find them both easy and fun, and more to the point, useful. The First 20 Minutes If you want motivation to exercise, Gretchen Reynolds delivers tons of cool science that will validate what you’ve been doing or inspire you to take the next step, literally. Walking turns out to be really good for you. Go figure. I love research and love that she found the cool stuff for you and me and distilled it into enjoyable bites. The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train …
She says, “Here’s the best advice I know …”
Posted On May 6 2013My 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. 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, …
Giveaway Happiness Book Bestseller Now
Posted On May 5 2013My giveaway book Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life ranks #2 for Stress Management and #3 for book on Happiness. Consider downloading it while it’s still free — Ends midnight PDT, May 8th . Go for it = > http://amzn.to/149OFkz Full details about the book in the most recent blog posts. Walk in beauty, William P.S. Let people know about the offer. P.P.S. Learn what people are saying – Read the reviews.
Free Book Reveals How to Figure Out Life
Posted On Apr 10 2013Here’s the press release for Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life. I thought it might be fun for you. Seattle, WA, USA . Can you get the benefits of a private life coaching session from a book? Seattle life coach, William Wittmann, M.Ed., thinks he can deliver some of the heartfelt coaching of a private session in his new book – Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life? One of his long time clients feels he has delivered. She says, “It’s just like our time together.” “And …
Do More of What Works: New Book Hot Off the Press
Posted On Apr 4 2013I will be giving away my latest book, Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life starting at 12:01 AM PDT on a Saturday May 4th 2013 and ending at midnight PDT May 8th 2013. One client said reading the book felt like our sessions. That’s the point. I need some help before May 4th. Would you consider getting the book at its bottom $0.99 price, reading it, and reviewing it in the next couple of weeks. I want a bunch of 4 & 5 star reviews before the free release. At 40 pages …
From the Magical Land of Herbal Imagination
Posted On Apr 2 2013Hey, this just in from the land of herbal imagination. My long time friends John and Kimberly Gallagher have released their magical Herb Fairies again. (Kimberly mentored my naturalist daughter, Sasha, for a bit.) You can give this magical mentoring to your kids or grand kids. Or those youngsters you have adopted into your heart family. They have a bunch of stuff to give away => http://bit.ly/KqqnE0 But it won’t be around for long. It all ends April 13, 2013 at midnight. This is yummy stuff for your inner child. The herb fairies will feed your heart. So go play …
Getting Serene, a Story
Posted On Mar 13 2013My friend Dr. Alexandra Gayak of the Science of Being Well website wrote this lovely story about getting Simply Serene. Read on – Yesterday I was having a rare bad day. Really bad. But I had promised my dear friend William to let you know about his book give-away. That meant I promised myself to re-read the book I remembered loving when he first wrote it three years ago, and write a fresh review. To my intelligent side, this would be an obvious solution to the state I’d gotten myself into. To my emotional side, there was no way it …
Want Serenity? This Free Book Has It All
Posted On Mar 11 2013Press Release for Simply Serene Seattle, WA – March 9, 2013. The book, Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace has it all, that is, if you want to reduce stress and feel serene in your everyday life? Author, life coach William Wittmann, is giving the book away for the next five days only. Wittmann is giving the book away free starting today and running five days until 11:59 PST on March 13th. You can download it here http://amzn.to/12cYqxz at no cost. Wittmann says, “I packed this book with …
What’s the Most Import Technology I Have Learned in My Life?
Posted On Mar 10 2013Today, I realized, Owl Eyes takes the tops spot for most import technology I’ve learned in my life. Before I tell you why, let me remind you that I attended high school, college, graduate schools, massage school, and countless workshops. I read numberless books. I have studied with world class spiritual teachers and healers. I have been married for over forty years and had children for over forty years. So, when I say Owl Eyes holds a dear spot in my heart, I mean it. Pay attention. Here’s why: In a brief few moments, Owl Eyes allows me to quiet …
The Reader Bonus Giveaway of Simply Serene Is Live Now
Posted On Mar 9 2013Get Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace now. And tell your friends, please. Let’s get the book out there. They have until Midnight, Pacifica Coast Time, March 13th 2013 to get it. Find out more HERE . Or send them straight to SimplySerene’s Amazon download page. Walk in beauty, William P.S. Go for it. Obviously. Amazon download page. P.P.S. Please post to Facebook, et. Al., and pass on to your friends.
Reader Bonus: I’m Giving Away Simply Serene
Posted On Feb 7 2013I want you to have my Kindle book, Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace. It will help you to live a life you love wholeheartedly – body and soul. Why am I giving this to you? First, it’s a reward for reading my newsletters and blog posts. Second, it will give the book more visibility on Amazon. More visibility means more people get to live a happy life. More people living a happy life makes the world a better place for you and me and our children. Right? …
A Gift – Living With Magicality
Posted On Jan 30 2013My friend Krysta Gibson and I want to give you our inspiring, practical podcast series – Living with Magicality as a Valentine’s Day gift. It responds to the question – “How can I balance my spiritual life with living in today’s world?” It isn’t easy, that’s for sure. But these talks will deliver practical tips and heartfelt conversations that will help you to live a life you love wholeheartedly. These extremely candid podcasts may challenge you and delight you. Krysta and I have been living a spiritual life in the “real world” for over 25 years (four decades in my …
Clearly, Your Life’s Uncertain — You Can Get the Answers
Posted On Jan 19 2013Clearly, Your Life’s Uncertain, but You Can Get the Answers You Need to Make the Right Decision and Navigate Your Life. People need answers to life’s tough questions. Decisions need to be made. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Terrorist attacks along with the surprising worldwide Great Recession will have driven this point home. Both are unpredicted, except in hindsight, of course. So, how do you learn to navigate the global economic, social, political, and spiritual transformations taking place? How do you learn to navigate your life of jobs and relationships. People have always wanted …
Assassins and the Buddha
Posted On Jan 6 2013That’s right, assassins and the Buddha. They kept me company on this sabbatical while I recovered from an amazing flu. The flu sent me to the ER. An IV of Electrolytes, a check up, reassurance then home. The whole thing from onset of symptoms to home in bed was over in three or four hours. Woof. I took walks, rested and read – The Way of Shadows (The Night Angel Trilogy) by Brent Weeks. “For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city’s most accomplished artist…” What more could you ask for? Well, you could ask for Old Path …
Get Your Free Copy of Altar Making
Posted On Nov 30 2012I have decided to make Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life available on Kindle for free for five days to make the book more visible to readers. And as a gift to you for being a supporter of this work. You could really help me kick off this promotional campaign if you invite as many people as possible to go get their free copy at: => http://amzn.to/V8dXX2. Suggest that they tell their friends and announce it on Twitter and Facebook, etc. Altar making is a wonderful way to practice your …
Altar Making Promotional Price
Posted On Sep 21 2012You have heard that I’ve reduced the prices on all my Kindle Books. It’s true. They’re all $2.99. (2.99 Euros or 2.99 Pounds) EXCEPT FOR –… drum roll… Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life As a promotion, I have enrolled Altar Making in Kindle Select and dropped the price even further. It’s now $.99 (.99 Euros — .99 Pounds) And if you have Amazon Prime, obviously, you can borrow it at no cost because it’s in the Kindle Select program. Thank You in Advance Thanks in advance …
Labyrinth Insights Free You
Posted On Sep 15 2012My youngest daughter, Sasha, starts attending Washington State University as a 31 year old freshman this week. Worry is not required, but as a recovering worrier, I worry about her. One of the ways I heal myself, make myself more whole, is by making pilgrimages. Often on my pilgrimages, I find and walk labyrinths. Pullman has a wonderful labyrinth on top of a hill with 100 mile vistas looking out over the rolling wheat fields of the Palouse. Just before dawn, I walked the labyrinth each day I was in Pullman helping her move in. These insights came: “A labyrinth …
The Responsibility of Humor
Posted On Jul 23 2012Again, my goal for you – live a life you love wholeheartedly – body and soul. Remember? You have heard, no doubt, that laughing promotes good health. Today, I will share the youtube Muppet Channel with you. My daughter, Sasha, turned me onto this channel. Laughing produces endorphins – happy brain chemicals that last. Laughing produces other brain chemicals that promote health in other ways. I love the Muppets in general and these videos in particular. Enjoy. Bohemian Rhapsody Ode to Joy with Beaker The Habanera from Carmen Featuring Beaker & the Swedish Chef Wisdom Quotes …
Buddha’s Brain
Posted On Jul 19 2012Want to have Buddha mind? Buddha mind is quiet and still, at one with all. Say, “Yes, William.” You can think of your right brain as the Buddha brain. Why? Because the ceaseless mind chatter doesn’t happen in the right brain. Chatter only occurs in your left brain. When you move from the linear thinking left brain to the holistic right brain, you are in Buddha mode. (See end of article for more neurology.) I got The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World by Gabriel Campanario because I wanted to look at the pictures. I have …
Magic Potions for Handling Fear
Posted On Jul 6 2012I wrote this for The New Spirit Journal. It’s an excerpt from the current book I’m working on – How to Overcome Fear and Stop Worrying. You can see their posting – http://bit.ly/LTcNP1. In the 1930s, English physician Edward Bach discovered a way to work with flowers that will help you gracefully handle your fears. He rendered flowers he found in his countryside into effective remedies. Now called the Bach Flower Remedies, I call them magic potions. I have used them to good effect with my family, clients, and myself for decades, sometimes with astounding results. They can make a …
I Am – Hardwired for Compassion
Posted On May 30 2012You might enjoy the film, I Am by successful Hollywood director Tom Shadyac. After suffering a life changing mountain bike injury, he asks two questions. The question: What’s wrong with the world? And How can we fix it? The title of the movie comes from the philosopher G. K. Chesterton’s response from a century earlier: I Am. Netflix says: Hollywood comedy director Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) gets contemplative in this documentary, which finds him conversing with prominent philosophers and spiritual leaders about what ails our world and how we can improve it. Traveling the globe to conduct his …
Buddha’s Brain
Posted On May 23 2012Want to have Buddha mind? Buddha mind is quiet and still, at one with all. Say, “Yes, William.” You can think of your right brain as the Buddha brain. Why? Because the ceaseless mind chatter doesn’t happen in the right brain. Chatter only occurs in your left brain. When you move from the linear thinking left brain to the holistic right brain, you are in Buddha mode. (See end of article for more neurology.) I got The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World by Gabriel Campanario because I wanted to look at the pictures. I have …
Think of It As a Part Time Job
Posted On May 4 2012She read it. Wow. I recommend Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy – Until You’re 80 and Beyond to a beloved client. She read it and then as sometime happens she showed me something I didn’t get out of my three readings of the book. To be fit and healthy and to gain the benefits of the book, you have to treat your body like the animal it is, and exercise hard. Every day. Think of your fitness self-care as a part time job. That works for her and works for me. It antidotes the poison …
Gather Your Deep Wealth Now
Posted On Apr 24 2012“Do you notice, as I do, that whenever you feel wealthy, money is never a problem? It flows easily. And you have the leisure to enjoy your life.” The Gathering Deep Wealth Program: How You Can Find Authentic Happiness will help you find authentic happiness. More it will help you to live a life you love wholeheartedly – body and soul. Amazingly, you can deepen and fortify your Deep Wealth. I have been helping people live lives they love wholeheartedly for decades. I have distilled the best of that information in this book. You will learn to …
Pilgrimage: a Calling to Your Heart and Your Soul
Posted On Mar 19 2012How, then, can we recalibrate the speed of our lives in such a way that it honors, mirrors, and is readily informed by, the speed of the human heart? If we don’t, how can we possibly imagine ever getting “caught up” to anything sacred, deeply authentic, loving, healing, or sufficient? How will we feel we are ever getting closer to catching up with some quiet contentment, sustained in the gentle pace of the heart, of living at the speed of enough? Wayne Muller from A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough Feeling out of touch with my soul, hungry …
What Good Is Presence?
Posted On Jan 16 2012First Things First Creative Problem Solving, my new book, shows you how to harness the miraculous benefits of Presence. To do that we use an ancient American Indian method called Owl Eyes to trigger your nervous system in such a way that you instantly produce the quickest and deepest connection to Presence. You can get Creative Problem Solving on my Amazon Author’s page as a Kindle book now => http://amzn.to/vXKNbC If you have or get a membership, you can get the PDF format as part of your membership at no extra charge. Consider joining us => http://bit.ly/pHdmQG What Good …
What Do I Want for My Daughters?
Posted On Jan 15 2012“What does a life coach most want for his daughters?” I asked myself. “He wants them to know how to live life to the fullest. He wants them to know how to live a happy life. He wants them to live a life they want. “He wants them to have the skills to achieve happiness and the ability to live a happy life — a life they love wholeheartedly.” Naturally, I want these same things for the people I coach. I want these for you.
One Way You Can Stop Seasonal Craziness
Posted On Dec 23 2011Solstice pushes my craziness. It’s like a giant full moon for me. Dreams that make me shiver. Then add in the various holidays, and I get a bit nuts. How about you? Here’s one simple way to be less crazy. Clean up your clutter. At our home, there seems to be more of it during this season. Or I have less mental and emotional room for it. When I get overloaded in one area, it makes all areas a bit more dodgy. I can’t make the holidays go away. I can’t make solstice go away. I can clear my clutter. …
How to Calm Down
Posted On Dec 4 2011When stress has you whimpering or acting like a troll in some fairy tale, ready to rip off heads, you are not at your best. You are the proverbial toddler who needs a nap and some food. Could anything be more obvious? Announcing Kindle version of Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace. I have just rewritten this classic and made it more streamlined. You’ll like it. Naturally, I am happy to include it in my Three Wise Men Epiphany Kindle Sale. All my Kindle books are marked to …
Multitasking Crashes Your Brain
Posted On Nov 30 2011Research confirms what you already know. Multitasking doesn’t work to save time and it makes you feel even more frantic. It doesn’t make you more efficient. You don’t get more done. And, just between us two, it stresses you out. Multitasking blocks your way to living a life you love, don’t you think? Here’s the Research The brain needs to attend to one task at a time. Surprisingly, when measuring neural activity with people doing two tasks at once, the neural activity decreased instead of what you might think. You might think your brain would be processing twice as …
How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur
Posted On Nov 24 2011Remember when I said, “Don’t get The Wholesome Entrepreneur: How to be a Successful Entrepreneur yet”? Well here’s why… In this season of Thanksgiving, here’s another “THANK YOU” for being a reader. From now, the day after Thanksgiving, to Epiphany, January 6th my Kindle books will be marked down to as low as Amazon will let me — $2.99. Go to my Amazon author page to find the ones you want. http://amzn.to/vXKNbC Epiphany, also known as twelfth night, commemorates the pilgrimage of the three wise men, wizards, and their visit to new-born Jesus. These three wise men have been long …
Top 10 Children’s Books
Posted On Nov 12 2011One of my beloved clients who is also a colleague asked me, “What are William’s top ten favorite children’s books.” Why? Because we were having a conversation about how difficult the holidays can be for people. I told her that I read books to my inner child. I had a wonderful collection of excellent ones. These are all picture books. Many are award winners. Many of these make me laugh, some make me cry. They all heal my inner child and make the dark season deeper and more lovely. May these bless you as well. And the children in your …
Lose Weight and Have More Energy
Posted On Nov 11 2011My beloved naturopath, Amy Hobson, told me about these medical school classmates, Jade and Keoni Teta. They started training people in fitness while still high school students. Then they both went on to study microbiology or the like. After that, they looked around for a medical school that aligned with their research and their experience in training folks. They landed at John Bastyr Naturopathic College. I like these guys and their book — The New ME Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest Watch these Youtube Videos The New ME Diet lectures part 1 …
Don’t Get My Kindle Book Yet
Posted On Nov 11 2011Amazon Kindle has just published my book– The Wholesome Entrepreneur: How to be a Successful Entrepreneur But don’t get this book yet. I’ll tell you why on November 25th. Here’s What Successful Entrepreneur, John Gallagher, Says about The Wholesome Entrepreneur – “I never would have become an entrepreneur without the tools I learned from William years ago. It blows my mind that ANYONE can learn these life saving tips in a manual. “For those of you who WANT to be entrepreneurs, you will learn how to remove the blocks from preventing you from realizing your dreams. Hint: There is one …
Announcing 7 Essential Secrets for a Magical Life
Posted On Oct 19 2011When I first met Otter, she hadn’t learned to play yet… …Or if she had, she had forgotten she ever knew how. Otter felt rushed all the time, always trying to catch up. Always trying to perform better to please THEM. She felt anxious, sometimes helpless. Was she depressed? You tell me. In The Seven Essential Secrets for a Magical Life Program, you get to follow Otter as I help her successfully regain her life. Through seven concisely soulful videos and playful explorations, you will gain what I shared with Otter to help her live a life she loved wholeheartedly …
Your Sweet Heart
Posted On Sep 24 2011As you know, I am a recovering worrywart. And as you have no-doubt heard, worry does not help anything. And as you also no-doubt know, knowing that worry doesn’t help, is not enough to stop your worrying. Right? What does help? This time honored meditation works. Heart Breathing Sit quietly. Phone off etc. Breathe slowly and easily. Feel your fear, your worry. See the images. Now breathe all that into your heart. I know, “Yikes.” But trust me, your heart will be fine. Let your heart soften. And continue to breathe in the worry, the fear, the pain. When …
Breakthrough with this Magical Phrase
Posted On Sep 3 2011I discovered a very powerful phrase to help you create a life you would love to live. Warning: Just because this is SIMPLE, don’t be deceived. This incredibly powerful tool can change your life. Here it is – “I just ask, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if…’, and then I fill in the blank,” he explained. “Then I let go. More often than not, the thing I mentioned comes into my life.” – Chuck Pennington In my generation, the word “cool’ works very well. If cool doesn’t work for you, come up with something else. The idea is to find a …
Elvis Has Left the Building…
Posted On Aug 17 2011After years of providing valuable service to members of Body and Soul Mentor including providing wonderful life Giving Manuals & Programs, special videos, and podcasts the stage has gone dark. Body & Soul Mentor website has closed. You can’t be a member any longer. You won’t’ be able to get any of the products on the open market any longer. Certainly, it’s been a good run. However, it’s time for a new Body & Soul Mentor to arise. In the next few weeks I’ll be putting the finishing touches on the new Body & Soul Mentor member website. The rallying …
Get Your Notes from the Universe
Posted On Aug 11 2011I love these FREE daily emails I get. I love them so much I forward specifically inspiring ones to my girls. I save the ones that move me so I can go back and get another boost. They help to reboot my thinking. Here’s a recently poignant one to me as I work on healing shame in myself and in clients. To some, on other planets, William, you get more done in a single day than they do in an entire year. On this planet, however, getting things done has been confused with worthiness. I guess that pretty much answers …
Altar Making Spoke to His Heart
Posted On Jul 30 2011Richard, 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 …
Sacred Legos
Posted On Jul 21 2011As 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 …
Spiritual Practice & Carnegie Hall
Posted On Jul 8 2011You 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 …
Discover Why She Took A Risk?
Posted On Jun 8 2011Why 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? 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 …
Sacred Oatmeal???
Posted On May 13 2011In 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 …
Snap and Pop Vitality – Where Did She Get It?
Posted On Apr 28 2011Clutter Kills delivers a simple, magical method for clearing your mind, clearing your spaces, and recovering your misallocated energy resources. Freeing you to live a life you love wholeheartedly – body and soul.
In the Deep Stillness, the Desert Canyon
Posted On Mar 25 2011One expects to have transformative experiences on a 5000 km (3100 mile) pilgrimage, right? I did expect and did have those experiences. Death Valley National Park. Need I say more. Perhaps. Watch the very short videos and read the poem that says it all. Music by R. Carlos Nakai. Click Here To Continue => http://bit.ly/g3bkXm Walk in beauty, William P.S. For more on how poetry can reveal the universe to your soul get God, Death, and Poetry: A Magically Sacred Way to Make Your Life Rich, Deep, and Whole. Watch the revealing conversation with my co-author, Char Sundust. Click to …
How To Convert Your Fears To Joy
Posted On Feb 9 2011You have fears. Right? If you don’t think you do, you haven’t been paying attention. All God’s children get scared, feel vulnerable. You can however, convert your fears, your vulnerability to joy. No, it’s not three martinis in rapid succession. That is converting fear to numbness. Clearly, it’s not the same as joy. I have a simple, playful strategy for converting your fears into joy. I have modified this goodie from Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are. Here Are the Bones Speak this aloud if …
Roswell Shame Cure
Posted On Jan 13 2011I’ve been researching shame and its toxic effects on one’s life again. In particular, I’m examining shame and its relationship to fear for the ever expanding Kill the Worrywart Program. Quick Overview of Shame You need healthy connections. You die without them. Shame is the certain belief that there is something wrong with you. And that if people knew, they would disconnect from you. You’re not good enough to be loved. Shame is universal. Everyone has some. Same underlies all your really damaging fears. Now for the Roswell Shame Cure Roswell is a small, wiry, black and white dog. She …
Sabbatical Fruit
Posted On Jan 5 2011You may know I believe in Sabbaticals instead of vacations. Why? Who wants to just vacate when you could connect to the Sacred? Sabbath comes from the Hebrew and means: rest. This rest was intended for pleasure and for connecting to the Sacred. Or the pleasure of connecting to the Sacred. I take road trips to Heaven every eight or nine weeks. I always use the principles you’ll find in my Get Wealthy First Program. On Sabbaticals, I spend even more time doing Gathering Deep Wealth. (http://bit.ly/e90Xje) In May of 2009 my daughter Sasha, Suzanne, and I drove 1000s of …