Sculpting Project 15: Centering Moments: Week 1

Sculpting Project 15: Centering Moments: Week 1 On a cold afternoon in February 2008 I had one of the most amazing discoveries of my life. I found a ‘mental mute button’. My mind is an out of control 2 two-year old. Racing about, pulling topics off the shelf and spilling them all over, shouting, helpless…

Sculpting Project 12: Posture Matters: Week 2

Sculpting Project 12: Posture Matters: Week 2 If posture can affect my hormones and moods and thus behavior, does it also affect my prayers? It seems that it must. Prayer affects posture and posture affects prayer. Is there a way to use posture to enrich my prayers? This is a new question for me. New…

Sculpting project 12: Posture Matters: Week 1

Sculpting project 12: Posture Matters: Week 1 Q: How can you change your hormonal balances from stress hormones to confident hormones in 2 minutes? A: Change your posture. Several years ago as I was out on a walk I realized that there were a few things that I kept hearing over and over from God….

Thoughts on Mono-tasking

Sculpting Group Thoughts on Mono-tasking Anthony Bloom (Medical Doctor/Orthodox Archbishop): “You can simply be completely concerned with the person or task that is in front of you, and when you have finished you will discover that you have spent half the time doing it . . . yet you have seen everything and heard everything.”…

Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 2

Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 2 Time is never my problem. Sculpting Projects don’t take time. OK, a little time, but so little it is barely measurable. The issue for me is not time, it is intention followed by choice. Choosing to sculpt takes grit. Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Grit, a…

Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 1

Sculpting Project Seven: Flash Prayers: Week 1 Macrina is softly snoring as she lays on the shearing table. She wakes from time to time suggesting I should give her another bite of grain and then settles down to rest some more. Shearing is a slow process at my house. I use care and a good…