http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog ---Don't we all want a map with a big arrow that says, "You are here!" Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:29:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am often asked to suggest a book about the Medicine Wheel. I have not yet found a book that gives a good treatment to the Medicine Wheel as I understand it. I have been doing some writing myself and this blog offers a little taste of what ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=103 Even before I met Joseph Rael, the magic began; a hummingbird visited my campsite that morning. It was not content to merely buzz around me while I was cooking my breakfast on the open tailgate. While I shaved it came through the open door, into the cab of ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=81 On Monday, October 26, 2009, about 5:30 PM, I found a four-leafed clover on the lawn beside the flag stone path, just a short distance from the patio. It displayed itself about six feet away; it was standing up by itself as proud as could be. I ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=72 Before the Eastern sky has warmed with even the slightest hint of a new day, I go to the woods to walk.  In the heaviness of the dark I feel a comfort, a being held, swaddled in the weight of the cold and damp air along the noisy creek.  The ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=68 I recently was asked this question:  During the Medicine Wheel workshop you said foxhole prayers were good. O.K. How do I get away with praying for that when it's God's will anyway? "God, I don't want my business anymore. Please take it away" and then follow it with "but your ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=57 My daily spiritual practice consists of prayer, meditation and self-examination. This is the East, South, and West of a medicine wheel which has the blessing of balance in the North. Each morning I give myself an hour of spiritual practice when I rise. I have found that starting my ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=46 The Medicine Wheel has wheels within wheels and one of these is my wheel of spiritual practice. I try to live a life based on a practice of prayer, meditation and self-examination, an East, South and West which gives me a North of balance. In the Wheel of the 12 ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=35 I recently read Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food – an Eater’s Manifesto,"  and I am reminded of how food fits on the Medicine Wheel and how I use this as a guideline in choosing what food to eat.   GUIDELINE NOT RULE - this is picking food, not ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=24 Byron Katie’s idea to love our thoughts like they are our children fits into my understanding of the wheel perfectly.  We don’t scold our thoughts, nor try to push them away just for being thoughts, we accept them as they are and guide them to right action. Thoughts are not ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=12 HeyO, I am finally starting a blog.  I have a lot to say, I have been described as "opinionated but loveable" so you know that some of my ideas have been noticeably my own and not always shared by those around me.  What I post here needs to be read ... http://www.malvernsweatlodge.com/blog/?p=3