Aug 10, 2007
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...
Sep 10, 2007
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...
Oct 3, 2007
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...
Nov 2, 2007
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...
Dec 6, 2007
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...
Jan 6, 2008
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...
Mar 10, 2008
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...
Apr 24, 2008
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....
May 10, 2008
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...
Jun 4, 2008
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...