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Transformational Breathing is one of my all time favorite self-help systems.
I lived next to the Optimum Health Institute of San Diego for seven years. This is where I first learned of Transformational Breathing in classes led by Wendy Rudell. I quickly trained up through Level 5 with Judith Kravitz, the founder of Transformational Breath Foundation.

Devotional writing is praying at the computer keyboard. Or we can pray with a pen and a pad of paper.
We express gratitude to God for all the various blessings in our life. We can ask for help in serving God better.

Feeling God’s Unconditional Love can be the most rewarding experience in your life. It’s easier than you might think.
You don’t have to seek happiness in a far off retreat center. You can conduct your own personal retreat at home.

The Sabbath is a day of worship. A Sabbatical is typically a leave taken once every seven years. The leave might last as long as a full year.
However, if you wait too long, it’s possible to experience so much stress that you can totally lose yourself. Your productivity could fade.

Do you feel that there is no way to keep up with all the demands on your time and energy?
We can be overwhelmed with financial demands. We can be overwhelmed with study requirements.

Does meditation go better during periods of isolation?
It did for me.
My friend, Roger, pays $75 a month to rent a tiny, rustic cabin in the high desert area of Joshua Tree, California. Talk about a great meditation environment!!!

What does meditation have to do with hamster wheels?
Quite a bit.
Have you ever noticed that you keep solving problems? And you keep winding up with new ones?

Lack of self-discipline is the Achilles heel of good intentions.
We want to get through that pile of papers. We want to eat healthy food. We want to force ourselves to study so we can do a better job.
Yet somehow we can’t bring ourselves to do it. It isn’t interesting.

You might have experienced that some of the greatest unconditional love comes from our four legged friends. Dogs and cats can be especially loving.
One of my great life experiences was my year with my friend Violet. She was eighteen years old when we met. That was quite an advanced age for a dog. As a [...]

Self Esteem – We have a tendency to beat ourselves up. It’s been said that we’re our own worst enemies.
There is nobody holding us down but ourselves. Mass consciousness can certainly be a limiting factor, especially on the physical plane. It impacts us also on the mental, spiritual, and emotional planes.
We can rise above these [...]