#9 Smile, Tips

How are you doing? Do you remember the format of this practice? 15 minutes of breathing, twice a day, and 8 glasses of water a day. Remember the Hug your Heart breath? Alternate nostril breathing? Reverse it breath? Good, glad you remember. Keep reading. And do you...

#10 6-month Milestone

It’s the summer solstice! The Breath and Water Club started just about 6 months ago. 6 months of breathing for 15 minutes twice a day and drinking 8 glasses of water a day. Congratulations. You’ve created a daily practice for yourself. I know, you...

#11 Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude

As you recall, in the last issue I asked to hear from you about changes in your life in the past six months, how you feel about the Breath and Water practice, if you want to continue and deepen the practice, and if you want the newsletters to continue. I have heard...

#12 Gratitude and More

Hello everyone, how’re you doing with your Breath and Water practice? Someone wrote: *I have one suggestion for the next breath and water newsletter. I was wondering if you could include a sentence or two about the basic guidelines in every issue—maybe like a...

#13 Generosity, where gratitude takes us.

Remember that abundance knocks on gratitude’s door? (See newsletter #11) It’s true that gratitude brings us an awareness of abundance, but it also attracts abundance. That may be useful to remember as you practice the next Breath and Water Club assignment....

#14 Generosity and More Generosity

Your daily practice You are practicing Intentional Breathing for 15 minutes twice a day. You are drinking 8 glasses of water daily. Your 15 minutes of breathing at least sometimes includes 5 minutes of gratitude and 5 minutes of some other quality of energy...

#15 The Year in Review

I began the Breath and Water Club last year, as we left town for the winter for the first time, our 5th wheel trailer in tow. And now it’s come around again, time to leave town for the winter. Wow. Seems like a good time for a review. Here’s how it all began I’d been...

#16 Imbue and Imbibe

First of fi –>First of all, thanks for your referrals Several of you have referred others to me for readings. Thanks for that. I’m always glad for referrals. Word of mouth is the way my practice stays vital. *Your readings have always been beneficial....

#17 Rapturous Love of Life

For [hu]man[s], the vast marvel is to be alive. As for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. . . . The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours...

#18 Your Chest, My Name

I was at a healing drumming ceremony in San Antonio last night, and the topic was survival. Of course, breath and water are basic to survival, survival on every level — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Breath and water are essential to survival. Especially...