Body & Soul Mentoring from William Wittmann, M.Ed., LMP

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2014-03-21T10:25:00.002-07:00

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Walk in beauty,

William

The Magical Positional Release Technique

2014-03-06T03:00:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

356)

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
You will not find me in stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in Synagogues, nor in cathedrals:
not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me, you will see me instantly –
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
- Kabir (1440 – 1518) translated by Robert Bly

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.

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The Magical Positional Release Technique

Positional Release Technique has the ability to correct physical ailments, even long standing ones, quickly and easily.

You feel better, move with more ease, and discomfort or pain diminishes or vanishes. It seems magical to me. That’s part of why I like it.

Also, Positional Release Technique engages me because researchers have tested its methods for decades to uncover the science that elucidates the fantastic results.

Positional Release Technique targets specialized nerve cells in the joints, ligaments, muscles, tendons, and fascia. The method reprograms your body’s response to trauma. Your body readjusts, vertebrae glide into place, hips move more easily, necks release.

When the therapist guides your body into a position of comfort, the nervous system magic happens. Release takes place, and the body heals. Way cool.

What Kind of Problems Can You Address?

Last week I saw Apollo, a 60 year old man who came in for hip pain. As we cleared the most recent injuries a much older trauma rose to the surface in his other hip. When he was 16, he injured his hip in a knife fight, no stabbing, but he wrenched his hip fighting off the assailant.

A woman, Athena, had some long standing rib pain – it stemmed from a sports injury three decades prior.

A man has open heart surgery and the sternum and chest continued to hurt long afterwards. Positional Release Technique freed it, and he became comfortable.

It works with most conditions you can name. (I haven’t found anything it can’t assist.) And because this technique holistically treats body, mind, and spirit, people find internal organs get better and emotional conditions tied into the trauma move towards resolution.

Although I have been practicing variations on Positional Release Technique for decades, I have recently strengthened and deepened my skills. It’s an art.

Obviously, Positional Release Technique works well with the other methods I use including Life Coaching, CranialSacral Therapy, and Visceral Manipulation. And like all my treatments, the client remains clothed and warm.

You can address:

· Neck

· Back – upper middle and lower

· Hips

· Knees

· Feet & ankles

· Shoulders

· Wrists and hands

· Elbows

· And muscles anywhere in your body.

Contact me to see how this might help you.

· 206.328.2073

· William@BodyAndSoulMentor.com

May you move with pleasure and ease,

William

P.S. If you don’t live in the Seattle area, you can try searching on Yelp or Google for someone to work with.

P.P.S. If you’re in Indianapolis go see Denise Deig, PT. The image above courtesy of www.denisedeig.com .

Walk in beauty,

William

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Serene Giveaway

2014-02-14T03:00:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

411) The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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.

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Serene Giveaway

Starting February 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM PST –

You can get Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace at no cost. It’s my best seller and some think it’s my best book.

The giveaway ends midnight, PST February 19, 2014.

Go for it => Simply Serene.

Why Get the Book?

The ideas in Simply Serene help you to remove stress and restore health and harmony.

Do you recall that when you’re stressed – when the flight-fight response engages, you stop digesting your food? You stop repairing your body all the way down to the cellular level.

If you want your body to heal and repair, to make nutrients available for your tissues, then you need to turn off stress. Simply Serene shows you how.

It also contains the incomparable Owl Eyes and Owl Ears mindfulness meditation. You will find you can easily learn this meditation and it works better than anything I have ever seen.

Tell your friends. Post on Facebook and Tweet. The material in the book can make a difference in people’s lives.

Get it for yourself => Simply Serene.

Lastly, recall that you don’t need a kindle device to read kindle books. You can read them on anything. (Ask if you need help finding the software that Amazon provides.)

May you be serene, peaceful, and instantly alert,

William

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P.P.S. You can find out more about Simply Serene in the blog post from last year’s giveaway.

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This Study Shocked Me

2014-02-12T03:00:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

374) The way cannot be taught in detail, but it can be grasped intuitively. - Miyamoto Mushashi

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.

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Can Standing Like Wonder Woman Trigger Your Power Hormones?

Here’s the question: Can your posture encourage the release of your good hormones? Can it magnify the stress hormone and make you less optimistic?

Can you change your posture and become more confident, optimistic and at the same time become calmer, less stressed?

Yes. But that ain’t all. More in a bit…

First, this isn’t new. Over 100 years ago, William James said this:

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

In more modern parlance we say, “Fake it till you make it.”

Here’s another one:

It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting. —Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity

Cue Wonder Woman

As the quotes above indicate, the tail can wag the dog.

Just stand as Wonder Woman or Superman and good things happen for you. You’ve seen the stance: feet apart, fists on hips, elbows out, chin up, smile. Rocky demonstrates another power pose as he dances at the top of the step in the classic film Rocky – arms up over his head, fists clenched, chin up, triumphant smile.

You become more confident, optimistic and at the same time become calmer, less stressed. Open poses produce this result. Closed postures produce the opposite.

Watch the video below to see more images. Or go to Google to see heaps.

I learned about posture and emotional states years ago in various trainings, and I reveal how you can use smiling eyes as a way to instantly become happier, in my book Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace.

Heads Up: Take advantage of my Simply Serene giveaway starting February 15^th 2014 and lasting for five days.

Enter Science

Even forcing a smile makes you happier. Years ago, researchers found that if you bit a pencil held crosswise in your mouth, thus forcing a smile, you would become happier.

Recently, Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy performed some lovely research on posture and hormones.

Powerful people are more assertive, more confident, more optimistic, think abstractly and take more risks. First, they wanted to know what hormones they might use as a marker for this state.

High power people have high testosterone and low cortisol. Low cortisol means you are less apt to react stressfully to a situation. Obviously, when you relax, you make fewer mistakes. Remember: Both genders need testosterone.

For the study, they tested the saliva of the subjects first to find their levels of testosterone and cortisol. Then they asked some to stand in high power poses you see above and others to assume the low power poses for just two minutes. Then they retested.

What they found shocked me.

In the high power poses, the open ones, testosterone went up. OK. Cool. But what shocked me was that they also enjoyed a 25% drop in cortisol. Way less stress.

In the low power poses, remember those are the closed postures, the subjects endured a 10% decrease in testosterone. And the lower power pose amplified peoples’ cortisol (stress hormone) 15%. Like you need more stress hormones…

Remember this is in TWO MINUTES. Holy poop Batman. TWO MINUTES.

If you can find me a better deal, let me know.

Watch Amy Cuddy’s TED talk see more examples and hear more of the story. Amy reveals her own story in the last minutes. She becomes vulnerable and moves the whole audience including me.

So What? How Can You Use This?

Stand like superman or wonder woman for two minutes every day. You can do deep breathing and you can combine this with the phenomenally powerful owl eyes and owl ears at the same time, as I do. (Simply Serene shows you how.)

I recommend using this technique anytime you go into a scary situation. Usually, when you are going to be in a situation where people will evaluate or judge you qualifies.

You can benefit by using it before

· taking tests
· job interviews
· first visit with a new client
· a trip to the doctor
· a first date.

Or you can use it anytime you want to feel more presence.

See what the video says about the job interview study they did. Wow.

You can find Amy Cuddy’s original research here.

May you be strong, powerful, optimistic, and at ease,

William

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More of What Works

2014-01-30T03:41:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

339) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power. Begin now. -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.

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More of What Works

You may know this aphorism:

Do more of what works and less of what doesn't.

You can live your life from that. You can have a life you love from that.

Find things that work for you, and quit doing what doesn’t work. Simple, sure, but not so easy.

Take small steps.

I re-titled my book: Do More of What Works to –

Finding Your Own Best Ideas– A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life. This book contains reliable ideas you can apply to your life so that you can live a life you love – body and soul.

Get it. Read it. Apply it. I repeat – take small steps, but keep stepping.

Do this experiment, it works.

Here’s a experiment from Wayne Muller’s exquisite book: A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough. You do this every morning and your life will become radiant. I promise.

What if, as an experiment, if only for one day, we lived as if we believed that there lived in us some reliable strength, wisdom, and wholeness?

What if we were to pretend that, regardless our health or mood, our fortunes or circumstance, we would remain quietly wise, accurate, and trustworthy in our judgments and actions?

Even more, what if we could actually feel, sense, and know, with unshakable certainty, that whenever we went, into whatever company or situation we were called, we would carry with us always this capacity to move with confidence and trust in any situation?

How would we think, act, choose? How would we respond differently to the world during such a day?

All the Books By Wayne Muller can change your life for the better. Get them.

Heads Up for Book Giveaway

Over five days, I will be giving you Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace

Starting February 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM PST – ending midnight, PST February 19, 2014.

Let your buddies know.

May you be radiant and happy,

William

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Why I Recommend Poetry

2014-01-23T02:00:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

132) The Zen student asks the teacher, who am I?" The teacher responds with, "Who's asking."

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.

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Why I Recommend Poetry

My friend, Cecily Schuler, expresses.

So what?

Here’s what:

Expression of painful wounding can heal your life.

Expression of joy can increase your love and appreciation of life.

You may have tumbled to the notion that I frequently recommend the reading and writing of poetry to clients and to you. I even co-authored a book – God, Death, and Poetry: A Magically Sacred Way to Make Your Life Rich, Deep, and Whole. I recommend it to you.

Writing poetry can be a challenge, but it can help you to express more deeply and clearly than any other way. Paradoxically, it can help you to express what you can’t put into words.

Sharing poetry can connect you to others. Even unshared, you will feel more in touch with your own inner life. It works.

Cecily uses poetry better than most. I applaud her not so you can imitate her poetry, but so you can feel her courage, wit, and wisdom… She jumps off the cliff and expresses her honest truth. Emulate that.

Bumblebees

Here’s joy, wisdom, and play –

Bumblebees

Putter putter petal pusher
Stumbling through thick curtains of spring breezes,
falling into open mouthed spread legs of flowers,
catching yourself in surprise and subtle delight,

you indelible flirt.

The creation of public

fornication is shameless

and required. A heartbreaking sacred

act of selfless service, you own this. But

really, you own nothing

but what is, so find the fuzzy

softness that best matches

your own. Roll between silky

sheets, in smutty pollen, nuzzle down

snuggle into communion between earth and sun.

Smother yourself in the delightful prospect

of creating something you will

never see, something that will feed

creatures you may never comprehend.

Listen.

Do we ever know the true impact

of our efforts? Do we ever know

the significance of becoming

who we are, who we bumble

to be?

I love the poem. I aim to live my life out of it. It’s what I have been trying to share with clients for years. She articulates and expresses these rich ideas brilliantly.

Watch Cecily playfully express in this youtube video until the moment she hits you upside the head…

=> http://youtu.be/rrJTefe2WnI

Two More for You:

Lithium (Take This): (1:05): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPokrBeR04E
Close Enough (3:02): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa2nkuZmcnM

Cecily’s Books

You can get Cecily’s two books by contacting her directly at sumthn.else@gmail.com.

The Weight of Lies and Water is $10.

Forget Everything They Should Know: You Remember is $5

Plus $2 shipping and handling per order. She will mail you a copy and you can pay her using PayPal.

You’ll like them.

Chakras

You may be familiar with seven energy centers in the body related to nerve plexuses and endocrine glands – the charkas.

You intuitively know the heart chakra, right? You will find the next one in your throat. Further up, the famous third eye.

Often we want to connect our heart to our head, the throat chakra bridges that connection. Writing poetry will help you to link your deepest heart knowing to your head knowing. Without this connection you can act and feel a bit nuts.

Speak your truth.

Medical note: The throat chakra can be related to any throat or dental condition. If you have one of those, think about expressing.

For example: a painful tooth – express some anger. Express vs. acting out. Write a poem instead of punching someone.

Write Poetry

Write poetry. I challenge clients to write poetry. Aim to compress all you feel into 3 or 4 lines as a challenge and to prevent wordy rambling.

You know you’re done when you read the poem and it evokes all the feeling you have in each corner of your soul.

You do not need to share your poems with anyone else although I recommend you share it with God and at least one other person.

You don’t have to memorize your poems. And it can be useful as a way of honoring your inner child, or your creative spirit.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. For more great ideas that work consider reading …

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The Advantages of a Morning Constitutional

2014-01-09T02:55:00.000-08:00

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

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.

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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

P.S. My newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey echoes all these ideas. Go read the description and consider getting it.

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Zen Stories

2013-12-27T00:30:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

101) If your guides claim
That the Kingdom is in the sky,
The birds of the sky will be there before you.
If they say it is in the sea,
The fishes of the sea will be there before you.
The Kingdom is within you and without you.
When you know yourselves, you will be known.
Then you shall know that you are
Sons of the Living Father.
But, if you do not know yourselves
You are in poverty, and you are poverty.

Attributed to Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.

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Zen Stories

I love stories. Stories offer me possibilities of how I could choose to live my life. Most of the important life changes I have made came from listening to living stories told by writers, colleagues, clients, or life coaches.

Back in the 60’s, my brother, John, introduced me to Zen. Then I found Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings either from his guidance or from The Whole Earth Catalog. Naturally, the koans in the book puzzled me, but I loved the 101 Zen stories Paul Reps told.

Note: The idea in Zen is to get direct insight into the mystery of the universe. Not an intellectual understanding but to arrive at the same place that Buddha did. To wake up.

Japanese Zen masters use short stories called koans to nudge the student into awakening. They’re puzzles that can’t be solved from where you are. Your intellect and your ego will grind to a halt or explode trying to manage it. If you wrestle with them long enough, an intuitive leap offers itself to you.

It has that sense like something you know intimately that’s just on the tip of your tongue. And then POW. (See sculpture from the Seattle Art Museum depicting a Zen monk at the moment of awakening.)

Preparing for my total hip replacement surgery, I was hungering for more Zen stories and found this lovely book, Zen Masters Of China: The First Step East by Richard Bryan McDaniel. Bryan has collected stories from Buddhism’s first entry of into China with Bodhidharma through to the Japanese era.

Think of sitting in a coffee shop with your old friend, Bryan, who has just returned from a spiritual journey to China. Bryan tells you stories of the people he met, some of whom you may have read about. Bryan gives you some background, some historical perspective about these masters he met, but he mostly tells you sweet and engagingly useful stories.

I found the stories comforting, which is what I was really seeking. (My surgery went well.)

Recently, I was reporting to my Zen coach, Osho Genjo Marinello, “Currently, I am watching and feeling the breezes. Even when I’m indoors, I look out enjoying the wind moving through the trees bending the ornamental grasses across the street. It helps me come back to the moment.”

Genjo then told me that the Zen master, Joshu used the wind in one of his koans.

I found the story in Zen Masters Of China –

Another monk posed this somber question: “After the body has died and has been reduced to its constituent elements and scattered, is there anything that remains, eternal, non-material.”

“The wind is brisk today,” Joshu (Zhaozhou) replied.

Way cool, yes? Imagine my relationship with the wind now. And with Genjo and Joshu.

McDaniel’s next book in the series of three books stepping east, Zen Masters of Japan, is out now. Bryan is working on book three which will deal with American Zen masters. He posted a wonderful piece about his lovely conversation with Genjo:

May you walk in beauty,

William

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Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway

2013-12-19T23:00:00.000-08:00

Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway

A dear friend heads into heart surgery this morning, another friend’s adult daughter died leaving behind a husband and two kids, I successfully passed through my hip surgery and recovery unfolds well.

So what?

Prayer will transform all three situations. And building an altar or a shrine puts muscle, creativity, and heart into your prayer as you put your mind and hands to work.

Saturday, December 21^st is winter solstice when we welcome the return of the sun. This celestial event lends itself to building a shrine for the coming light and the coming year.

In honor of solstice, I’m giving away my Kindle book Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life for one day.

You can download the Altar Making giveaway from 12:01 AM to midnight PST December 21, 2013.

Please get it and tell your friends, Facebook and tweet with abandon. Consider writing a review.

Go for it => Altar Making

May the light shine on you this season,

William

P.S. Kindle Devices keep getting better, don’t they – And more affordable. Check them out here => Kindle Devices.

And you probably know you can read Kindle books on pretty much anything these days. I read on my PCs. Sasha reads on her Kindle and her Droid. People love to read them on their Apple devices, particularly the iPad.

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Best Gifts

2013-12-11T00:30:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

212) We painted like children in the face of nature. – Henri Matisse

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.

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The Best Gifts

Mostly, I’m a Grinch about Christmas.

You know what helps? Reinventing the holidays.

I hang the decorations I like when I like – origami crane mobiles, red spheres dripping from the jade plant, favorite toys on the kitchen pass-through, displaying the pretty cards people send us. And for me, staying out of the mauls (sic).

But what I like best is giving to charities.

Here are my two favorites:

The Heifer Project

The Heifer Project has their roots in WWII. After the war, people in Europe were hungry and hurting. An Arkansas farmer figured, “What those folks need is a heifer.” He gave them one. And that’s what they’ve been doing ever since.

They give folks in need breeding pairs of animals, fruit trees, bees... And they train folks in how to care for the animals or plants.

The owner doesn’t just eat the animal, they breed them. That then becomes a small business that pays for clothing, medicine, and schools for their children.

The good news continues. The recipient of the animal passes on a breeding pair to someone else and trains them. That family then passes it on and on and on. It’s paying it forward in a big way. Whole villages are transformed this way, lifted out of poverty, becoming self-sufficient and able to help others.

Can you imagine the self esteem and smiles. Look at the website, you can find all kinds of success stories. You won’t see starving kids. You’ll see smiles.

And the best thing is you can give chickens, goats, heifers, ducks, and water buffalo in the name of your friends and family. My Aunt Winnie was so happy when I gave chickens in her name. She didn’t need a thing for herself.

This video says it all in one minute. Watch it.

Trust for Public Land

TPL celebrates 40 years of creating parks and conserving land for people this year.

You know this, but I’ll repeat it, “Parks are good for people. Good for their souls. Good for their mental health. Good for their physical health.”

TPL wants to have a park or a pea patch garden, within walking to wherever people live, especially underserved populations, which, not surprisingly, are the poorer sections of cities. Lack of parks diminishes their lives and their souls, keeping them poor in spirit and in pocketbook. Research shows parks reverse this trend.

Chances are you have a TPL project near you, perhaps one you have enjoyed for years but never knew TPL had anything to do with it.

Because TPL turns the projects over to local city, counties, national parks and the like. You may never know what they’ve done unless you visit their site.

They’re humble people.

Look around their website and be amazed at the heart and savvy behind their work.

And something I like, they win awards for the efficient use of your funds. Almost all of it goes into acquiring the land. I doesn’t go down a sinkhole of mismanaged flabby overhead.

Oh, and they never go into an area and just do good where they’re not wanted. They are always invited in by a grass roots groups of people just like you. I love that.

Think of what fills your heart and do that this season. Do what you like best.

May you be blessed by your choices this season,

William

P.S. I’m giving the trade paperback version of Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey to people this year. You might want to join me in this. It’s pretty and will look good on coffee tables.

More importantly, Drawing the Sacred can put people in touch with what’s holy in this time of holydays.

Go for it => Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey

Alert: Stop Colds and the Flu

2013-12-05T13:05:00.001-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

111) Start a huge foolish project,
like Noah.
It makes absolutely no difference,
What people think of you.
-- Rumi

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Alert: Stop Colds and the Flu

Suzanne’s hairstylist and her massage therapist both said that everyone they saw yesterday was coughing. Sasha brought a cold home from college. A couple of my clients had the cough, too.

Don’t get sick. It sucks.

Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well: How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu Naturally will show you how.

The book reveals the acupressure points I use and that I teach my clients. I have videos that make it easy.

I show you magic ways to protect your body from martial arts methods to eating French clay. From an ancient sinus clearing technique to vitamin supplements.

Have these methods prevented colds and flues for people?

“Most certainly. These methods work,” I say

And I recall what my first CranialSacral teacher said, “It’s hard to take credit for preventing something because the illness never happened. But this work prevents tons of problems down the road for people. Bet on it.”

Get the book. Read it. Use it. Live long and prosper. Tell your friends and family.

At $2.99 it’s a steal => Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well

Because it’s a kindle book, you can be reading it five minutes from now.

Remember, you DON’T need kindle reader to read kindle books. Amazon will give you software to read Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well on your laptop, tablet, iPad, phone, et. Al.

Please pass it on to your friends.

Go for it => Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well

Live long and prosper,

William

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Book Giveaway Is Live

2013-11-23T00:30:00.000-08:00

Book Giveaway Is Live

If You’re Reading This After 12:01 AM PST November 23, 2013 then you can get Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life at no cost…

NOW.

Go for it => Altar Making

You can read more about why you want to get the book HERE.

Heads Up: The offer ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.

Tell your friends.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. You can watch me make a playful altar in my YouTube video

P.P.S. After you download and enjoy Altar Making Be Sure to write a glowing review.

: ) Thanks.

Go for it => Altar Making

Kindle Book Giveaway

2013-11-22T00:01:00.000-08:00

Can Making Your Own Altars and

Shrines Make You Happier This Holiday Season?

Can creating them bring more sacredness into your life?

You can find out for yourself.

You can download Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life at no cost starting –

November 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM PST. The offer ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.

Go for it => Altar Making

“Making an altar may not make all your wishes come true, but it can make you really happy and bring more peace into your holiday season,” William Wittmann says.

Amazon reviews agree.

“This book is a wonderful source of calm and inspiration and I've put its contents into practice in many places in my home, including one on each of my bedside tables. Nothing fancy and all with things I've found outside or already had. An easy, thoughtful way to stay in touch with myself.”

Another reader says, “Altar Making shows you how to bring the sacred into physical form. In easy to understand terms, William helps you create with your spirit, altars in your own personal style using what has importance and meaning to you.”

Remember how much fun it was to build things with Legos or blocks. Just imagine how nurturing it can be to build your own sacred altars and shrines.

When you create your own altar, you feel that same pleasure that you felt as a child. And when you bring in the Sacred, your satisfaction deepens.

You may also find that your connection to the innocent heart of your inner child deepens and sweetens in this sacred practice of altar making or shrine building.

This lovely book will walk you through the whys and hows of altar building. In addition to my insights, I have seven friends, spiritual teachers all, that disclose their private experiences with building altars. Their contributions will feed your heart and expand your horizons. They give you a wide range of surprising insights you will not find anywhere else.

Just imagine how nurturing it can be to build your own sacred altars and shrines. I recommend you get the book and nurture your soul.

Again Go for It => Altar Making

May you be lighthearted and free,

William

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Go for it => Altar Making

Lighthearted & Free

2013-11-12T10:24:00.000-08:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

338)

If you bring forth that which is within you,
Then that which is within you
Will be your salvation.
If you do not bring forth that which is within you
Then that which is within you
Will destroy you.
- Gnostic Gospel

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Lighthearted & Free

Humans make stories that scare us. With the rare exception of fear caused by something in the present, all your fears come from stories you make up or adopt.

Heading into surgery recently, I had a handful of stories that scared me. Here are a few, imagine…

1. What if I wake up during the surgery? A friend gave me this one.

2. What if my practice doesn’t survive being away for a month?

3. What if the spinal anesthetic gets screwed up and I am paralyzed?

Can you see the pictures? Feel the stories unfold from those premises? I can.

To antidote my internal fear poisons, I worked with metta, loving kindness meditations. I looked for phrases that just brought up pictures I wanted.

I came up with this one:

May I be lighthearted and free.

You can feel the freedom and happiness in that, right?

What phrases would you make up to keep you in alignment with the best flows of the universe?

Go back and read the quote for today. It fits.

You Can Help a Complete Stranger. How?

Book reviews on Amazon make the books more visible to browsers. When you review one of my books, it ranks higher and therefore has a greater chance of being found.

If you like my work, and presumably you do as you’re reading this right now, then you can help get these precious ideas out into the world by reviewing my books.

This applies to any of the books that I’ve written, but for right now it applies to Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life because I dropped the normal price.

1. If you’ve already read the book, please review it now. Go here to review Altar Making

2. If you haven’t read the book, you can get it at a reduced price right now of $0.99. Get it, read it, and review it.

3. Wait until Altar Making book giveaway starting on Nov. 23, then get it and review it.

Thanks for considering reviewing the book and helping other readers.

Go here to review Altar Making. Or to read other people’s reviews.

Playful Altar Video

You can watch me make a playful altar in my YouTube video.

Again, Go here to review Altar Making.

May you be lighthearted and free,

William

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Why Make an Altar?

2013-10-31T09:30:00.000-07:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

260) The fastest way to become rich as to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to the become poor is to socialize with the rich. -- Nassim Taleb

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Why Would You Want to Make an Altar?

Why would you want to make your own alter?

First – It’s fun.

Second – You literally get to take your connection to the Sacred into your own hands without the need of an intermediary.

Third – During the process of making the altar, you may learn something about yourself and your connection to the Sacred. You may have insights into the core of what’s happening in your life. Your prayers will become more effectively pointed as a result.

Fourth – Building an altar focuses your intent. It puts muscle into your prayer or into your manifestation. Just wrestling with the design opens up your Buddha brain. And that opens your heart and soul for insight to enter.

Another Book Giveaway

I’m giving away my well beloved Kindle book Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your starting November 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM PST – ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.

Take advantage of this offer and let your friends know.

Here’s how I’m using altar making this week…

I Survived My Surgery

You may know that I had hip replacement surgery on Oct. 21^st 2013. I survived and am healing well. Rehabilitation takes months and I’m walking without a cane now.

After major life events, I find I wonder, “What’s next? Where is my life taking me now?”

You may recall my recent pre-surgery blog post -- Relax, You’re Going to Die.

In that blog I included these instructions:

Relax, you’re going to die.
There is no-where to go
And no-thing to do.

And from that view point ask

What’s the next right thing to do?

I survived. I’m healing. I can relax, I’m going to die. So, what’s the next right thing for me?

During my preparation for the surgery, the idea of making a mobile of origami cranes came to me. After the surgery the image stuck, so I’m creating an altar with cranes. It will be a mobile.

Cranes

Cranes symbolize happiness, good luck, longevity, and peace. As I live into being an elder, these seem like good things.

You can watch this video to learn to fold them here.

Gotta go and create now.

I expect that whilst constructing the mobile, collecting the windfall cedar branches for cross bars, folding the cranes, I’ll have a better sense of the next right thing for me.

May you be light hearted and free,

William

P.S. My newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey echoes all these ideas. Go read the description and consider getting it. It makes a great holiday present. At 8 x 10 inches, the trade paperback version makes a great coffee table book. One with soul.

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Cure Diabetes?

2013-10-16T03:23:00.000-07:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

375) There is a deep-seated misconception that being intuitive is a gift. It’s not. There is no such thing as a gift for intuition. I have finally realized that courage is the true gift, and intuition is sharpened as a result. Either you develop the ability to respond physically to what you are hearing, feeling, and sensing on the inside – or you don’t.

Responding to others takes guts. What determines whether or not you have those guts is self-esteem. It is a strong sense of self. It is a willingness and ability to take charge of yourself.

You don’t need a lot of self-esteem. A little bit goes a long way; suddenly you are generous enough to give up the need to control other people.

You don’t need to become 100% empowered. A 51% to 49% ratio will do this trick. Just get to the point where you’re conscious enough to hold yourself accountable for your own feelings.

Just admit that you’re jealous, or embarrassed, or that you could betray a friend. Just get a little bit honest with your shadow. The moment you arrive there, you can really start dealing with your life. - Caroline Myss: Invisible Acts of Power, Healing the Heart of the World

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Cure Diabetes?

The number one best seller with the unfortunate title: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back To Health by William Davis, MD blew my mind. It may also save your life or more likely prolong your happy years.

These paragraphs from the book set the stage:

After three months [being wheat free], my patients returned to have more blood work done. As I anticipated, with only rare exceptions, blood sugar had indeed often dropped from diabetic range to normal.

Yes, diabetics became nondiabetic. That’s right: Diabetes in many cases can be cured – not simply managed – by removal of carbohydrates, especially wheat, from the diet. Many of my patients had also lost twenty, thirty, even forty pounds. (My emphasis. WW)

But it’s what I didn’t expect that astounded me.

They reported that symptoms of acid-reflux disappeared and the cyclic cramping and diarrhea of irritable bowel syndrome were gone.

Their energy improved, they had greater focus, sleep was deeper.

Rashes disappeared, even rashes that had been present for many years.

Their rheumatoid arthritis pain improved or disappeared, enabling them to cut back, even eliminate, the nasty medications used to treat it.

Asthma symptoms improved or resolved completely, allowing many to throw away their inhalers.

Athletes reported more consistent performance.

All that in three months. Holy Cow.

Later he adds heart disease and other details to the already impressive list of conditions that stopping wheat consumption affects.

I’ve been using the Slow Carb Diet from Four Hour Body for over two months. (See my Blog Post.) In that program, I didn’t eat grains of any kind six days of the week and then I ate whatever I wanted on the seventh day including grains, including wheat. This was not a wheat free diet. Just mostly wheat free.

In a second, I’ll tell you my blood results.

Hi my name is William, and I’m a recovering wheat eater.

Wheat can be addicting. It is for me. When you digest the gluten in wheat, it converts to gluteomorphin, which jumps across the blood brain barrier and attaches to your opiate receptors, just like heroin and other opiates. Yikes.

No wonder that the day after my pizza craving was consummated, I wanted more, even though I was hung over from what I had just consumed.

The wheat you eat today is not the wheat of years ago. And certainly not the wheat of 9000 years ago. About 50 years ago, researchers and scientists started an intense program to hybridize wheat to feed the world. They were successful in that effort.

The mistake was thinking that all that messing with genes wouldn’t effect the nutritional value of the wheat. They didn’t do animal testing or human testing along the way before essentially introducing the new wheat into the world where farmers grow it nearly exclusively.

A Naysayer

A naysayer says that this wheat sensitivity is overstated and only applies to a small number of wheat eaters.

I disagree, but who cares.

It’s easy to test. You just quit eating wheat and every food that contains wheat – and wheat’s in 100s of things. Do that for a few weeks or three months and see how your health improves. If nothing changes, wheat wasn’t your problem.

Back to my Slow Carb Diet. My blood test after two plus months found me more solidly in the happy zone with my sugar levels. My heart risk indicator which is based on my cholesterol profile was the best ever. My triglycerides were perfecto.

Was it wheat? Probably. It was certainly better carbs – substituting legumes for grains, Eliminating fruit and fruit juices.

Test it for yourself. Read the book.

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back To Health

My research staff likes this one:

Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 Recipes to Help You Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

You can find other Wheat Belly books here.

Walk in beauty,

William

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Relax, You’re Going to Die

2013-10-09T13:53:00.001-07:00

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

217) From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone. -- Alice Walker Nov. 5, 2008 in a letter to Barak Obama.

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Relax, You’re Going to Die

“Relax, you’re going to die.”

Death may not be THE challenge, but knowing that you’re going to die is.

Most folks spend tons of time, money, and energy pretending that death will not come to them or their family. People distract themselves with endless addictions and other ways so that they don’t notice the elephant in the room. Each decade marker they cross twinges a bit more.

I found that when I turned fifty, I began to think I might be mortal. I thought a bit more when I turned sixty. In both instances, I watched the awareness of death fade into the mists of denial.

Soon, October 21^st, 2013, I will go into the hospital for my second hip replacement. It’s a generally safe surgery, but just like driving a car, I have no guarantees that I’ll survive the journey. I attend to getting my affairs in order – wills and such. Tell people I love them.

So, I enjoyed the synchronicity of finding this Kindle book – Relax, You're Going to Die at the time I was contemplating death and life. (It was free when I got it. It may still be free when you read this.)

Tai Sheridan, the author, is a Zen Buddhist priest, of course. No one else but Zen practitioners have such a sanguine view of death and life. Indeed, it could be the whole point of Zen.

He has written a dozen or so poems on the subject of living and dying in Relax, You're Going to Die. I found the poems fun, supportive, and comforting stuff.

You have read my favorite Zen aphorism before:

There is no-where to go

And no-thing to do.

I have updated it:

Relax, you’re going to die.

There is no-where to go

And no-thing to do.

And do next right thing?

I’ll leave you with one more of my favorite Zen aphorisms.

Death is certain.

Time of death is uncertain.

How then to live your life?

Relax, you’re going to die. I find it oddly comforting and freeing.

=> Relax, You're Going to Die

Walk in beauty,

William

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Last Day Book Giveaway

2013-10-09T00:01:00.000-07:00

This is the last day I will be giving away my Kindle book – Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey .

Ends at midnight PDT Wednesday, Oct. 9^th, 2013.

I love the book and its 39 paintings and drawings. I reveal my heart and soul in each image.

· If you like art, you might enjoy Drawing the Sacred.

· If you want to learn to draw, this book might inspire you.

· If you want motivation to make pilgrimages to Sacred places, this will inspire you.

· If you want to see the Sacred in the ordinary, Drawing the Sacred will show you some ways.

· If you want to deepen your connection to the Sacred, then by all means get Drawing the Sacred.

Read what the reviews say. They may inspire you. They sure inspired me.

Go for it => Drawing the Sacred.

Walk in beauty, the book will show you how,

William

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My friend, William Wittmann is giving his enlightening Kindle book, Drawing the Sacred, away NOW. http://amzn.to/1dQBzem Retweet.

Please and thank you.

: )

Kindle Invites You to Heaven

2013-10-07T10:34:00.001-07:00

Here's the press release for my book. I thought you might enjoy it:

Seattle, WA, USA. “An invitation to step across a threshold into an unknown place that turned out to be heaven,” Dr. Alexandra Gayek, an early reviewer said. William Wittmann’s newest Kindle book, Drawing the Sacred will be available for free download until 11:59 PM PST Oct. 9, 2013.

“What does that mean?” I asked Wittmann.

“This book shows people how to connect to the Sacred by using tricks that artist’s use. And if you practice these ideas for a bit, you move into the Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus and the Buddha talked about.

“It’s pretty cool,” Wittmann said. “The book has lots of stories, one for each painting or drawing in the book. They’re there to be illustrations of connection. Not so much to be illustrations of great art. In fact I intended them to be simple enough that people could feel safe about trying to draw or paint for themselves.”

In my interview with William, he wanted to remind us that people can download Kindles on any computer, phone, or iPad. “Amazon wisely provides free software right from the book’s page,” he said.

And as Dr. Gayek said, “Drawing the Sacred is the most delicious one yet.” (This is Wittmann’s 15^th book.)

You can get the book here

=> http://amzn.to/1dQBzem

Remember the FREE book offer ends Oct. 9th at midnight PST. Seattle Time.

Walk in beauty,

William

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=> http://amzn.to/1dQBzem

Kindle Book Giveaway Active NOW

2013-10-05T00:01:00.000-07:00

It’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

=> 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,

William

P.S. Tell your friends about the offer. Facebook it. Please.

And remind your friends they don’t need a Kindle to enjoy it.

Thanks.

: )

Kindle Book Giveaway

2013-10-03T06:32:00.000-07:00

Almost here…

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. 5^th, 2013 and ending at midnight PDT Oct. 9^th, 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 of your phone. Right?

Can you imagine … making each day a spiritual journey of connection to the Sacred using the ideas in the book.

At 12:01 AM PDT on Oct. 5th the book costs NADA, zero.

You’ve got nothing to lose and you could see God.

Seems like a simple choice to me. Get the book.

Go for it => Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey.

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,

William

P.S. Tell your friends about the offer. Facebook it. Please.

And remind your friends they don’t need a Kindle to enjoy it.

Thanks.

: )

P.P.S. You can get more information on the book here. Note: this one is for the paperback edition.

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=708

=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=713

Free Book Giveaway

2013-09-24T07:10:00.000-07:00

Today’s Oracle

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

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Free Book Giveaway Coming

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 a Saturday Oct. 5^th, 2013 and ending at midnight PDT Oct. 9^th, 2013.

I love the book and its 39 paintings and drawings. I reveal my heart and soul in each image.

· If you like art, you might enjoy Drawing the Sacred.

· If you want to learn to draw, this book might inspire you.

· If you want motivation to make pilgrimages to Sacred places, this will inspire you.

· If you want to see the Sacred in the ordinary, Drawing the Sacred will show you some ways.

· If you want to deepen your connection to the Sacred, then by all means get Drawing the Sacred.

One reviewer who owns the kindle version and the print version said, “… the artwork works well on my iPad.”

Which reminds me …

You don’t need a Kindle reader…

You don’t need a Kindle reader to enjoy Kindle books. You can read Kindles on anything – laptops, phones, desktops, tablets.

But, What If You Don’t Want to Draw?

One of my beloved readers finds some of the tips translate well anytime anywhere to help her embrace the numinous Present Moment.

A Favor, Please

As a favor get Drawing the Sacred even if you don’t intend to read it. It will help make the book more visible for others to find.

Oct 5^th go get the book.

Or people can subscribe to the blog, and I’ll tell them when they can get the book for free.

=> Go to the top right corner and do it now.

: )

Walk in beauty, draw the Sacred,

William

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: )

P.P.S. You can get the trade paperback version here

=> Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey

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Announcing – Drawing the Sacred

2013-09-04T06:20:00.001-07:00

Today’s Oracle

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

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Announcing – Drawing the Sacred

When my girls were young, we hung their art. Many parents hang their kids’ art on the fridge to honor them. It’s good.

I mounted a favorite painting in the entryway to our office that Sasha did when she was four. I love it. I hope she still feels acknowledged in some way.

I just published the print version of Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey. It honors my inner child in the same way hanging things on the fridge does. It’s a big deal for me. And I’m delighted by the way the book turned out.

Zoe, my oldest daughter, picked the book up and started leafing through it and said, “Where are the pictures?”

“There in the back.”

You’ll find lots of images in the book (39) –I like all of them. You don’t have to. Some hang on my own walls. Some hang in people’s homes. None hang in museums.

Although I colored outside the lines in some of them, I included them anyhow. Why?

Because drawings these profoundly connected me to the Sacred. You may be able to see that when you look at them.

Also, I included them to help my perfectionist self recognize that he’s good enough even when he colors outside the lines.

Communing with the Sacred through Drawing

The first part of the book tells you how you can use drawing to commune with the Sacred. You can even use some of the techniques to commune with the Sacred without ever picking up a pen or pencil. You’ll like these methods.

Everything in the book points to living in the present. It’s a good place to live. It can heal your life, this place.

The Full Description –

You can read the full description HERE. And you can buy the book there too.

Sometime about September 12^th, you can get the book from Amazon too. You pay the same price, but I get a bigger royalty from CreateSpace here.

Right now you can get the Kindle version here and, for a bit, it will only be 99 cents. Why? Because I want to encourage you to write me a lovely review. Please and thank you.

Finally, you can always find all my books on my Amazon Authors Page.

Walk in beauty, draw the Sacred,

William

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2013-08-14T08:00:00.001-07:00

Today’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.

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius.

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Pilgrimage to Stillness

While Sasha and I were hiking at Sunrise on Mt. Rainier, she talked about the deep stillness we could find there. This conversation reminded me of the importance of stillness. Eckhart Tolle thinks of it as a primary doorway into Presence. So do I.

Silence can lead to stillness, but they’re different. You can always find stillness underneath the sounds. You have to listen deeply. Or perhaps feel into it.

So, on this most recent pilgrimage to Eastern Washington, I went looking for stillness. The video shows you what I found. The Columbia river runs deep and powerfully. It flows deep stillness. You can feel when you watch the video. The canyon and the wheat fields flow into the Columbia. They too are still.

Tip: Watch the video twice. Once with the volume on and once in silence.

http://youtu.be/W8IE-h5jzZo

Did you notice a Bald Eagle perched on the bridge over the Columbia. At the other end of the bridge perched an Osprey. In the middle, one of them had a nest – my guess – the eagle.

The bear half way through is for Sasha, ‘cause she likes bears. The haze comes from the nearby wildfires. Climate impacts continue.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. My newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey echoes all these ideas. Go read the description and consider getting it.

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Those Little Things

2013-08-08T06:36:00.000-07:00

Today’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

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 alone see, dear One, aren't by chance.

The sign, the squirrel, the dragonfly; the whisper, the song, the lily.

It's me. I'm always with you. I'll do anything to reach you -- to give you hope, keep you on track, answer your questions.

Look even closer,
The Universe

Yes. This is the gift of being present. You get to walk around in Heaven. Many of my books tell you how to do this. Many of these blog posts do that too.

So, yes, look even closer.

You can get these little Notes from the Universe sent straight to your inbox here.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. My newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey echoes all these ideas. Go read the description and consider getting it.

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