Today’s Oracle

My software angels chose and especially appropriate oracle quote for you today:

192) Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. – Voltaire

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. 

Morning Constitutional

I’ve just returned from my morning constitutional – a morning walk.  Healers a century or two ago would have recommended it.  These days, we don’t even talk about our constitution or take steps to build it.  In that way, the idea is as quaint as your building character.

Constitution refers to your physical status including your vitality, health, and strength.  It includes your ability to shrug off disease and recover from injuries.  After 40 years of working with mind/body healing, I find that your constitution relates to your character and both reflect your deepest heart.

I suggest you take a morning constitutional in order to build your constitution and you character as well as feeding your soul.

I rise early and workout with kettlebells, eat, drive to work, meditate, then I wait for the sun to come up so I can take my morning constitutional.

Walking Meditation

I use this time to quiet my mind and connect to the day.  I listen to sounds – both human and animal.  I hear the rustle of leaves and my own footfalls.  I see deeply into the distance and widely into my peripheral vision.  I center myself in my environs.

Play with those ideas for yourself.

When your mind worries at your problems, return to simply seeing what’s around you in the here and now.  And listen to the sphere of sound around you.  And feel the movement of your body internally and through space.

Your morning walk can be aerobic, but keep it on the bottom end of the heart rate zone.  Try to mosey instead.  The morning constitutional builds mind/body health and character.  We’re not shooting for sweaty aerobics here.  Do that some other time.

You can walk with other people if you want.  I’m an introvert, so I can walk with one person, not two.  And most of the time I prefer to walk alone.  Keep it intimate.

Do turn off the phone.  Really, let yourself get away for 20 minutes.  I enjoy knowing that no-one really knows where I am for that time.  I am completely free.

The morning constitutional gives you an opportunity to connect with the world and come into the full presence of the Sacred.  Each day.

How Long, When, and Where?

Generally, it takes 20 minutes for your mind to shift out of monkey mind.  So, I’d recommend at least 20 minutes.  I aim from between 30 to 45 minutes.  You can walk farther, longer.

Daylight strengthens us like other nutrients that’s why I wait until first light to take my walk.  Walk in the light. 

On most days, that’s the only outdoors time you or I will get.  Not so long ago, we each spent hours outdoors every day – in this lifetime as a child and historically as a species.

Go out in all weathers, it will strengthen your constitution – your immune system will build muscle.  And you’ll build character.  Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.  Wear what works.  I have learned to love the ripple circles that rain makes in puddles.

You can walk anywhere that pleases you.  Consider – the easier it is to get to places to walk the more likely it will be that you’ll do it.  Explore and discover what feeds your heart and soul.  Have a variety of routes if that helps.  It helps me.

When I travel, I love to explore routes in places I’ve never been.

May you be lighthearted and free.

William

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