I didn’t breathe for two months. First a fierce cough, and then pneumonia and a fierce cough, kept my breathing tiny and shallow and kept me at a low level of functioning. Even after my physical symptoms were gone, my breathing was inadequate. I’d fallen...
I want to share with you this letter from a member of the Breath and Water Club. I share it with you as encouragement to continue or return to your Breath and Water practice. Dear Jett, I turned 70 this year, and I’ve been spending some time reviewing my life...
Breathe: 15 minutes of intentional breathing twice a day. Breathe with appreciation, making no attempt to control your breath in any way. Allow and appreciate. Notice how you feel when you’re done with your 15 minutes of breathing. Drink: 8 glasses of water a...
This is my mea culpa issue. I have neglected this Newsletter. I hope you haven’t neglected your Breath and Water practice. I was afraid, when I began sending the weekly Tenacity Notes newsletter, that this one would suffer. It has. I apologize. But you know,...
“Walking on water wasn’t built in a day.” ~Jack Kerouac Why are we doing this? Do you remember why we began this Breath and Water Club? This is from my December, 2004 invitation to form a club:”Some of you may remember the following suggestion...
Remember Icky Rice? A reader suggested that I remind you to re-read the issues on eating and drinking: Imbue and Imbibe, #16 Intentional Eating, #27 and Intentional Eating, #28 Icky Rice #44 I re-read them, which got me to talking with friends and acquaintances about...