Comments for Wizard of Ease http://wizardofease.com Wisdom and practical tools for living and working with ease Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:43:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Overwhelmed? Try these quick remedies by Barbara http://wizardofease.com/2011/08/31/overwhelmed-remedies/#comment-748 Barbara Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:43:47 +0000 http://wizardofease.com/?p=1526#comment-748 I've just checked in after a somewhat stressful session of scheduling around 20 of my mother's poems to be published in my blog tomorrow afternoon (Fables and Myths According to Ernestine). All keyed up as a result. Your advice for overwhelmed people was just what I needed. I'll have a glass of Ensure, turn on the classical music channel, and finally finish George Elliot's Middlemarch. Thank you, Pat! I’ve just checked in after a somewhat stressful session of scheduling around 20 of my mother’s poems to be published in my blog tomorrow afternoon (Fables and Myths According to Ernestine). All keyed up as a result. Your advice for overwhelmed people was just what I needed. I’ll have a glass of Ensure, turn on the classical music channel, and finally finish George Elliot’s Middlemarch.
Thank you, Pat!

]]> Comment on Declare your independence by What’s your leap? | Wizard of Ease http://wizardofease.com/2011/07/05/declare-independence/#comment-691 What’s your leap? | Wizard of Ease Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:12:16 +0000 http://wizardofease.com/?p=1434#comment-691 [...] the day!  Just as Thanksgiving gives you an excuse to be thankful… and Independence Day gives you an excuse to appreciate freedom… let Leap Day be your excuse for bounding into new [...] [...] the day!  Just as Thanksgiving gives you an excuse to be thankful… and Independence Day gives you an excuse to appreciate freedom… let Leap Day be your excuse for bounding into new [...]

]]> Comment on Easy Gentle Yoga: The Yoga of Relaxation by Yoga and peace | Engaging Peace http://wizardofease.com/services/easy-gentle-yoga/#comment-550 Yoga and peace | Engaging Peace Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:04:18 +0000 http://wizardofease.wordpress.com/#comment-550 [...] Daniel, Managing Editor of Engaging Peace and Kripalu Yoga Teacher Share this:SharePrintEmailStumbleUponFacebookDiggReddit This entry was posted in Commemorating [...] [...] Daniel, Managing Editor of Engaging Peace and Kripalu Yoga Teacher Share this:SharePrintEmailStumbleUponFacebookDiggReddit This entry was posted in Commemorating [...]

]]> Comment on The natural connection by kathiemm http://wizardofease.com/2011/08/19/the-natural-connection/#comment-507 kathiemm Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:50:32 +0000 http://wizardofease.com/?p=1519#comment-507 Providing a lap for a cat even when you are or especially when you are stressed out can be very soothing. Providing a lap for a cat even when you are or especially when you are stressed out can be very soothing.

]]> Comment on Driving the speed limit by Pat Daniel http://wizardofease.com/2011/07/08/driving-the-speed-limit/#comment-479 Pat Daniel Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:40:34 +0000 http://wizardofease.wordpress.com/?p=166#comment-479 Betsy, what wonderful insights you offer. Thanks for making the connection between emotions and driving patterns, and for the lovely descriptions of what you notice along the road. Next time I'm at the Braintree split, I'll keep an eye out for that hawk! Betsy, what wonderful insights you offer. Thanks for making the connection between emotions and driving patterns, and for the lovely descriptions of what you notice along the road. Next time I’m at the Braintree split, I’ll keep an eye out for that hawk!

]]> Comment on Clarity creates ease by Betsy Disharoon http://wizardofease.com/2011/07/12/clarity-creates-ease/#comment-476 Betsy Disharoon Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:10:44 +0000 http://wizardofease.com/?p=1475#comment-476 Pat, Thank you so much. I am sharing this with a family member who is in a very uncomfortable life situation presently. Betsy Pat, Thank you so much. I am sharing this with a family member who is in a very uncomfortable life situation presently. Betsy

]]> Comment on Driving the speed limit by Betsy Disharoon http://wizardofease.com/2011/07/08/driving-the-speed-limit/#comment-475 Betsy Disharoon Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:06:10 +0000 http://wizardofease.wordpress.com/?p=166#comment-475 Pat, I will look for you as a fellow nonspeeder on the road because we are rare! I have lived both ways: I went for years holding onto a lot of anger and it came out in my driving style as speed and abruptness. As my emotional life became healthier I slowed down my driving. Now I, too, enjoy the speed limit, the view and the higher fuel efficiency numbers that my control panel gives me in my Passat. I have also incorporated Eckhart Tolle's idea of focusing only on natural objects, not anything made by humans, while driving. Well, he doesn't state the driving part...that's my addition. I'm not saying that I don't pay attention to other cars; they are all on my "radar screen" but I'm not missing the shades of color in the morning sky or the silhouettes that the trees make against the clouds, or the hawk whose favorite lookout is that light post at the Braintree split on 128. It all calms me so much and I can't say that about looking at the other cars. Betsy Pat, I will look for you as a fellow nonspeeder on the road because we are rare! I have lived both ways: I went for years holding onto a lot of anger and it came out in my driving style as speed and abruptness. As my emotional life became healthier I slowed down my driving. Now I, too, enjoy the speed limit, the view and the higher fuel efficiency numbers that my control panel gives me in my Passat.

I have also incorporated Eckhart Tolle’s idea of focusing only on natural objects, not anything made by humans, while driving. Well, he doesn’t state the driving part…that’s my addition. I’m not saying that I don’t pay attention to other cars; they are all on my “radar screen” but I’m not missing the shades of color in the morning sky or the silhouettes that the trees make against the clouds, or the hawk whose favorite lookout is that light post at the Braintree split on 128. It all calms me so much and I can’t say that about looking at the other cars.

Betsy

]]> Comment on Overwhelmed? Try these quick remedies by Beth Tener http://wizardofease.com/2011/08/31/overwhelmed-remedies/#comment-150 Beth Tener Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:31:15 +0000 http://wizardofease.com/?p=1526#comment-150 I find the practice of writing three pages of freehand text first thing in the morning to be helpful in the times of overwhelm (Julia Cameron suggests this technique in her book The Artist's Way.) A list of things to do surfaces as I write though it also allows me the chance to vent or express the overwhelm. Usually after seeing the items on paper I can prioritize and clarify what really needs to get done that day or what can wait. Talking to a friend like Pat is also extremely helpful! I find the practice of writing three pages of freehand text first thing in the morning to be helpful in the times of overwhelm (Julia Cameron suggests this technique in her book The Artist’s Way.) A list of things to do surfaces as I write though it also allows me the chance to vent or express the overwhelm. Usually after seeing the items on paper I can prioritize and clarify what really needs to get done that day or what can wait. Talking to a friend like Pat is also extremely helpful!

]]> Comment on Overwhelmed? Try these quick remedies by Mary http://wizardofease.com/2011/08/31/overwhelmed-remedies/#comment-129 Mary Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:32:33 +0000 http://wizardofease.com/?p=1526#comment-129 Thank you Pat! I needed this reminder today! I am off to take a 10 minute walk in the sunshine. : 0 ) Mary Thank you Pat!

I needed this reminder today! I am off to take a 10 minute walk in the sunshine.

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Mary

]]> Comment on Declare your independence by Cheryl Conner http://wizardofease.com/2011/07/05/declare-independence/#comment-44 Cheryl Conner Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:07:46 +0000 http://wizardofease.com/?p=1434#comment-44 Hi Pat, Thank you for sharing the chorale for the Declaration of Independence! It is wonderful to see the link to the music here on the Wizard of Ease blog. And, thank you for highlighting the important connection between our individual declarations of independence, in which we claim dominion over our own deepest selves, with our collective declarations of freedom from outside forces. Each of the two processes informs the other. Happy belated 4th! Hi Pat,

Thank you for sharing the chorale for the Declaration of Independence! It is wonderful to see the link to the music here on the Wizard of Ease blog.

And, thank you for highlighting the important connection between our individual declarations of independence, in which we claim dominion over our own deepest selves, with our collective declarations of freedom from outside forces. Each of the two processes informs the other.

Happy belated 4th!

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