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 …
Why This Poem?
Posted On Jun 29 2011My co-author, Char Sundust, performed a lovely wedding last week. Each of the 170 attendees received a little beautiful scroll tied with a ribbon. And Char says, “I took one and opened it. Inside was your wonderful Love Poem For Mature Hearts. My heart was so moved…” Love Poem for Mature Heart Love is foolish. Certain loss waits for you. So what!? Throw yourself away, And love. Why would someone choose this poem? Would you? Why would I write this for a couple in their 50s getting married? How is this a blessing? Can you perceive why I designated “for …
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 …
Old Fogies
Posted On Dec 10 2010“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were.” – Satchel Page
Two Doors to Joy
Posted On Oct 23 2010Today, I recommend two on-line courses for your appraisal. They are valuable in their own right – extraordinary in fact. But I recommend them to you as ways to be more present in your daily life.
I recommend them as ways to increase joy and love in your life.
Use Passwords for Transforming Your Life
Posted On Oct 15 2010Think of a phrase or phrases that inspires you. Check out the Potent Quotes Oracle for some you might love. Hermes today’s for instance
94) How can you think and hit at the same time? –Yogi Berra.
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 …
Announcing the Launch of The Wholesome Entrepreneur
Posted On Oct 1 2008When I was putting my affairs in order for my surgery last winter (when doing major surgery there is always a chance, however small, of not making it), I updated my wills and I wrote like mad to finish The Wholesome Entrepreneur. I wanted to leave it as a legacy for my daughters, both entrepreneurs, and to the massage profession. I finished it before I went under general anesthetic. Obviously, as we all expected, I survived. And I have this Life Giving Manual for you now. I launch The Wholesome Entrepreneur, on October 2nd at 6:00 AM PDT. The subtitle …
What Are You Hungry For?
Posted On Jul 14 2008Sometimes, 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 …
Obviously, Not True…
Posted On Jul 4 2008A 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 …
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 …
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 …
Tolle Trick for Presence in the Office
Posted On May 1 2008Here’s another trick from Eckhart Tolle to get present when the phone rings. It’s especially useful if you work in an office setting. Studies show that a ringing phone bugs people — too many rings in the day creates a stressful hazard. Here’s the antidote… When your phone rings, don’t answer it. That is a radical choice right there. I have used this effectively in the past to create vast realms of freedom. Experiment with this one. But that’s not Tolle, that’s me. Here’s what he suggests: Let it ring once, twice, or thrice while you listen to it fully. …
Magic with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle
Posted On Apr 3 2008I struggle with my own craziness all the time. When I’m crazy, I am living inside of my mind listening to a strident voice harangue over a tinny radio urging me to blame my closest friends and my wife for my troubles. If I take the time to get present — and I know lots of ways to do that – I return to a connection with the Present and Presence. I become sane. I am happy and serene. Eckhart Tolle who penned the best seller The Power of Now wrote a follow up book – A New Earth. He is …
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 …
Easy Way to Benefit Your Finances and Spaceship
Posted On Feb 27 2008If you use a word processing program, you can save some of your money and spare some vital resources with a simple step. Set the default margins on your paper to a smaller setting. Word and others have a default setting that looks good but wastes valuable paper. My version default is 1.25″. I changed it to 0.75″ on the right and left. If you use metric, change your default to 1 cm less. In MS Word 1. go to File then click Page Setup. 2. You’ll see the margins there. You can change them all. I just changed the right and …
Expand Your Limits the Fun Way February 20th
Posted On Feb 17 2008Every once in a while something comes along that lets you break out of your mundane, day to day perspective. This event is free. And it won’t be repeated for three more years. You want to catch this one. Perspective: Here’s a news flash. You live on a sphere in a solar system. You and I live on Spaceship Earth. How cool is that! It’s the heart of simplicity just look at the moon and watch the sphere of the Spaceship Earth block the sun’s beams of light from caressing the moon. Yes, it’s a total eclipse of the moon …