Feel Good Stuff & Health & Meditation admin | 07 Mar 2010
I have a short but sweet flowing water meditation for you this week. Don’t overlook trying this one because it’s so simple.
My experience in life is that simple usually turns out much better than complicated.
Anyway, we start with this wonderfully wise Chinese proverb…
Flowing water never goes bad.
Now, let’s put the proverb to use.
Here’s what you [...]
Feel Good Stuff & Meditation admin | 16 Feb 2010
For this week’s meditation, we turn to a wonderful Zen saying…
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Meditate on this observation during the coming week whenever something feels wrong in your life.
Here’s how to do it.
When something seems awry, breathe deeply, pause for a second, and start centering your focus.
Repeat three times or until you’re [...]
Meditation admin | 26 Jan 2010
I have an interesting meditation for you today that also effectively relieves stress. I based this meditation on a point made by Richard Albert, also known as Ram Dass, who wrote…
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram Dass’s insight works great as a stress reducer.
How so?
Keep reading.
Take a long, slow deep breath, hold [...]
Meditation admin | 12 Oct 2009
For this week’s meditation we turn to a wonderfully simple but also richly meaningful haiku by Matsuo Basho, the most famous poet of Japan’s Edo period from 1603 to 1868:
Year after year
… on the monkey’s face
a monkey face.
Ha, isn’t that great?
I promise this week’s exercise will keep you challenged and busy during the coming seven [...]
Meditation admin | 23 Sep 2009
For this week’s meditation we turn to a classic Taoist saying…
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Would you like to experience what it’s like when the universe surrenders?
You would?
Great. Here’s how to have that experience…
Take at least four long, deep breaths until you’ve slowed down and centered yourself.
Now focus entirely on [...]
Meditation admin | 14 Sep 2009
For today’s meditation, let’s learn something important from Maurine Stuart, who writes:
The practice is what you throw yourself into. Unconditionally. The practice is the teacher. Your practice is your teacher.
You might be asking, “What is my practice?”
That’s so easy to answer:
Right now, this very moment, breathe in, hold for a second, exhale and be still. [...]
Meditation admin | 20 Aug 2009
For today’s meditation, let’s turn to American novelist and short story writer, Willa Cather, who tells us how to be happy…
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
You are already complete and great. Right now. In this very moment.
But you most likely don’t realize your completeness and greatness because your constant mind [...]
Books & Meditation & Self Improvement admin | 11 Aug 2009
I’ve been swamped with putting on the final touches of my 21 Days to Health & Beyond detox diet and rejuvenation program the past week, and I’m still buried today in last minute details for tomorrow’s launch.
But I do want to share a quick quote here on the blog to keep the cobwebs from gathering [...]
Meditation admin | 27 Jul 2009
For this week’’s meditation, we visit my wise friend Confucius, who so correctly observed…
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
This week, focus on letting go of all those instances when you were wronged in life by somebody or something.
Here’s a simple way to let go…
Take three or four long, slow, deep [...]
Meditation admin | 13 Jul 2009
For this week’s meditation, we turn to one of the classic Zen masters, Huang Po, who tells us…
Q: What is the Way and how must it be followed?
A: What sort of “thing” do you suppose the Way to be, that you should wish to “follow” it?
Old Huang, he’s great, isn’t he?
Take a deep breath. Hold [...]