Belly Breathing: A Simple Tool for a Better Life
Regardless of where you get the information, learning to breathe from your belly is one of the healthiest practices you can develop.
Regardless of where you get the information, learning to breathe from your belly is one of the healthiest practices you can develop.
Back to reading, The Seeker's GuideThe Seeker's Guide
, and I've entered the Landscape of the Heart. Lesser encourages to face the world with an open heart, to not close our eyes to suffering and tragedy.
All right.
One of my tweeps, Rev. David P. Smith, has two books on spirituality that I am really looking forward to reading: Under an Expanse of OaksUnder An Expanse of Oaks
and Honoring the Sacred Earth
Honoring the Sacred Earth
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Have you ever read a book that just launched into information about which you knew almost nothing?
The Great ShiftThe Great Shift
is one of those books for me. I bought it several months ago and was inspired to pull it off the shelf this weekend. I read my first couple chapters on Tuesday, beginning with the editor Martine Vallée's Introduction and diving into the section by Lee Carroll & Kyron.
To celebrate signing the lease with new tenants and a major appliance move that has opened up loads of space in our back hallway (where we were storing a fridge, stove, washer and dryer from previous tenants) I decided to treat myself to Andrew Harvey's new book, Heart YogaHeart Yoga
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I'm reading Ó Murchú's book and he is discussing Chaos theory and the collective shadow with respect to patriarchy and religion and it is super-awesome philosophical stuff. Buuuuttt... there is this little part of my brain that has now accepted Martha Cilley's definition of CHAOS as Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome.
To celebrate completing my Embodied Wisdom course last week, I bought myself a couple of books that have been dogging me over the past month.
I've finished 3 of the 4 required books for my awesome (at least, I'm assuming it will be awesome) Embodied Wisdom course that begins on Monday. Today I finished Marion Woodman's Leaving My Father's HouseLeaving My Father's House
and read Robert Johnson's The Fisher King & The Handless Maiden
The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden
from start to finish. It was only 100 pages with lots of white space, so not as exciting as it sounds.
In case you missed it on 60 Minutes, this is what Andy Rooney thinks about women over 40: