Three Practices That Always Work
First, you suffer, I suffer all God’s children suffer – that is, we get caught in our mental habits of being right or wrong, making other people bad or better than us depending on the flavor of you craziness. Me? I’m just not good enough.
Buddhism has a set of four vows, one of them says:
The number of delusions are infinite. I vow to penetrate them all.
When I feel crazy or delusions hit, these three practices always work to restore me to peace and wholeness.
1. Riding a bike – as long as I’m not trying to go somewhere. I ride my bike; I get sane.
2. Meditating – obviously, this works. Even when my mediation has lots of internal noise, eventfully, I remember.
3. Sketching – the point of my newest Kindle book: Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way to Savor Your Life and this GIVEAWAY.
Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: a Magically Potent Way to Savor Your Life will be free starting 12:01 AM (midnight) Sept. 27th, 2014. Offer ends Midnight October 1st, 2014. Pacific Time.
Sketching, even amateur sketching, will bring you into the present moment. Clearly, it’s a lovely mindfulness practice.
When you then add a poem to your sketch, you get to deepen your experience of the now. Again, the quality of the poem doesn’t matter, it’s the awareness you bring to the moment that brings you peace, serenity, happiness, and joy.
Remember you don’t need a Kindle reader to enjoy Kindle books. You can read them on your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.
Read more about the book here
=> http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=882
This blog post reveals the initial inspiration and has some sketches with poems from the book => http://www.bodyandsoulmentor.net/MentorBlog/?p=834
Get your free book here => Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment
May you walk in beauty,
William
P.S. Feel free to let others know about the giveaway. In fact pass this on to everyone.
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P.P.S. You’ll love the print version. It’s pretty and makes a wonderful gift.
=> HERE
A favor, when you buy the print version, use this link even though you can get it on Amazon. Same price for you, more money for me.
=> HERE
