#39 Prostrate yourself

Are you practicing gratitude during your breathing time? Here’s a way to deepen your experience. Prostrate yourself. By now, you likely know that I am uncomfortable in hot weather. I’ve never been in such hot weather as this summer in North Dakota! Whew. Well, it...

#40 Hitch Itch and Dry Eyes

How Are You Doing? Are you breathing for 15 minutes twice a day? Are you breathing for longer? Are you drinking plenty of water? Feeling gratitude every day? Really, I want to hear from you. Take a moment to write so we can all know how you’re doing. A couple of...

#41 There is a Field

I have a book, 365 Days With Rumi. Today, October 3, has my favorite Rumi saying: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. Are you breathing? 15 minutes morning and evening. You’ll find that field there, in your...

#42 Inspiration

A reader asked: How is it that you so often say exactly what I need to hear? It’s uncanny how often that happens. I actually hear that question pretty often. So I’ll tell you one explanation for why that happens. The intent behind these newsletters, my...

#43 Appreciation

In Minnesota, it’s snowing. In Texas, it’s 72 and sunny. I’m in Texas, remembering the thrill of walking in my neighborhood park after a 6-inch snowfall. Ah, winter wonderland — there’s nothing like it. But for this Minnesotan, 72 and sunny in...

#44 Icky Rice

Icky Rice Over the years of the Breath and Water Club, several of you have suggested that I look at Masaru Emoto’s Messages In Water. Although I haven’t read his book, I did recently see his DVD. I got quite excited by the report of an experiment that a...

#45 Amazing True Story

Sorry for the long span between this issue and the last one. I am recovering from a too-long bout of the flu, and hoping that it’s the last in a series of challenging experiences. Whew, what a wild couple of months it’s been. What would I have done without my...

#46 The Gift

The Basics Stay with the basic practice: * Immerse yourself in your breath for 15 minutes, morning and evening. * Drink plenty of water. What you liked * You liked the story of my friend and his sister’s music. It made you feel hopeful, glad, awed, shocked, peaceful....

#47 The Question

Suffering I was suffering from ennui. Then I was led, through a series of misadventures, to learning this: there is only one thing I need to do in order to live the life I suspect is available to me. I need to ask a question. Only one question Does this fulfill or is...

#48 Dont Bother Me!

Someone said, when she called recently to make an appointment for a reading: “There are lots of times when I’d like to talk to you about something, but the issues seem like such small things to be bothering you with. I tell myself I don’t really need...