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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Would You Like to Live a Magical and Practical Life?
Posted On May 6 2011How Would You Like to Live a Magical – and Practical – Life? Obviously, you’d love it. But do you know how? In four wonderfully revealing conversations, Krysta Gibson and I tell you how you can live a magical life while fulfilling all your practical needs in the real world. We call it Living with Magicality! Click to Continue => http://goo.gl/uLpMI Krysta Gibson and I have been colleagues for over 20 years and we have both actively been exploring how to live magical lives. And we have been coaching others for decades. We decided to record four conversations. They were …
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 …
Picture This — A Cosmic Meditation
Posted On Oct 6 2010Picture this – a three year old running, jumping, swinging with endless energy and curiosity – mindless, un-self-conscious, pure Tao expressing, river flowing where it will.
Here Is What Happened To Matisse…
Posted On Oct 29 2008Here is what happened to Matisse the first time he took up brush to paint – “When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise.” He’s talking about flow. He’s talking about the right brain. He’s talking about the Buddha brain. He’s talking about conscious action. He’s talking about presence. Art of any sort has the ability to put you into the graceful state of flow. When you are in flow, you enjoy what you’re doing. You lose self-consciousness. Your sense of time changes. It disappears completely. It stops dead in frozen, perfect moments. Or it …
How Do You Mix Ho’oponopono with Tolle?
Posted On Jul 8 2008Emily, a reader of Amazingly Content (http://tinyurl.com/6ybefp), asks this great question. I thought I’d share it with you. *** 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 …
Which Is Sacred? (A 50-Word Mini Saga)
Posted On May 22 2008Which 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. (50 words.) 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 …
Insightful Awareness Experience
Posted On May 8 2008I have a very insightful, a bit spooky, fun video for you. It will give you some insights into awareness itself. If you have been paying attention, you will have noticed that I think awareness matters. Enjoy = > http://www.dothetest.co.uk/ Blessings, William P.S. To deepen your awareness more, dip into SIMPLY SERENE – Four Amazingly Powerful Ways to Be Instantly Alert and at Peace. It will give you four ways to become more deeply aware. I talk about the famous Owl Eyes in depth in this one. Go for it = > http://tinyurl.com/mbd4x
Announcing Foolproof Relaxation
Posted On May 3 2008Today, I happily announce a Laser Focused Report – Foolproof Relaxation. Taa-ta! It can show you How to Relax, Become Present, And Be At Ease Anytime and Anywhere You Want. No kidding! How? Read these stories… Yikes! Demons and Worries Three AM and the demons of worry are here. Yikes! Toss and turn. Get up and pee. Get a drink of water. Back in bed, the fears wait for you. Still no sleep. Thoughts racing and repeating… What to do? Obviously, you use the methods you learn from Foolproof Relaxation. With Foolproof Relaxation, you will know what to do when …
Your Buddha Brain
Posted On Apr 16 2008If you’ve been paying attention, you know one of the Four Alluring Paradigms that I have is: Upgrading Your Right Brain (http://tinyurl.com/34del4) Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. Watch this wondrous, passionate video => http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229 Briefly, the …
Regain Your Sanity Instantly
Posted On Mar 27 2008Obviously, you’d like a technique that can restore you to sanity and help you to regain your perspective instantly, right? I have a technique wherein you can instantly shift your perception and become sane and grounded and whole. Well, not quite true. There’s a catch. The shift happens instantly, but you have to be in the right frame of mind to flip the switch. The good news is that if you practice this before you need it, it becomes so fast for you that even when you’re nuts you can go to your special spot and flip the switch to …
How to Make Difficult Decisions
Posted On Mar 20 2008Here’s how you can use your body to make decisions. Hold the question in your mind. Recently, I was wrestling with what price to set for my private membership monthly subscription rate. In this example I ask, “Is $9.97 a good price?” I then feel my body’s responses. I mostly feel my belly. You can experiment to find the place in your body that responds best. Just scan your whole body top to bottom. Close your eyes. It helps. My body “smiles” with the price of $9.97. Now I try the other side of the …
How the Traveling Wilburys Can Show You the Way
Posted On Feb 13 2008This oddity of contemporary rock and roll demonstrates playful creativity and gives you permission to hop onboard and play. I’m talking about the Traveling Wilburys. You may have bumped into stories about them or heard their music. I recommend, in addition to listening to the music, that you watch the DVD that comes with the 3 disk set. The behind the scenes section is a master class on playful creativity. I’ve watched it three times. What they do is so beautiful, their relationships so loving, I am moved to tears each time I see it. The story starts with …
Chuck Ling Ferret Studio
Posted On Jan 16 2008“What’s the name of your studio?” I gently inquire. “Huh?” you wonder. “What’s the name of your studio? What do you call the place where you do your creative work? “You do have a place to do art and to work on creative projects don’t you?” If you want to build your right brain, and I assure you that you do, then you need to have a studio. It needn’t be more than a flat surface in the corner of a room stocked with cool pens where you can doodle. But setting aside space gives this aspect of your life …
Cool Way to Stretch Your Storytelling Muscles
Posted On Dec 6 2007Write an exactly 50-word mini saga. I hear this can become quite addictive. I enjoyed writing this one, it’s a memoir — Orion Predawn, on the dock, overlooking the Sound, I see Orion rising over the hill behind our condominium for the first time this season. I recall this was Dad’s code name during the war – the hunter – recovering looted Nazi art. I am saddened I never heard those stories from my father. (50 words.) Certainly, you can write your mini-saga longhand. The more intimate the saga the better it lends itself to handwriting. Handwriting may also bring …