“Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.” -Goran Persson During your FIVE MINUTE MIRACLE breathing…why not consider the meaning and application of quotes that touch your heart? …

What is 1%? The FIREDANCE program is designed to increase your performance by about 1% per week in about 20 minutes a day. That would be Five sixty second breathing breaks 10–20 minute Morning Ritual using the M.A.G.I.C. formula Jason hasn’t gotten to the point where he can do all…

Cheo Hodari Coker spit so much wisdom yesterday that I can’t wait to go over the transcript and isolate specific bits of wisdom. One thing was how hard John Singleton’s death hit him. “Twenty five years of movies and he was fine. Three years of working in television killed him.” …

I was asked why “The Green Mile” is a beloved movie I’ll never watch again. OK, I’ll go there. There are two tropes that King uses: the “magical” and “sacrificial” Negro images: a solitary black character who gives his life to ennoble (and sexualize) a white character. But in the…

In two weeks, I’ll start writing the Star Wars novel. Right now, I’ve gone from a stack of index cards to an eleven-page outline. The basic external plot flow is clunky but workable. What I have to do now is re-read it daily, tweaking on paper and inserting the changes…

PROTECT YOUR HEART ## One studio executive said that the strike will end “because writers want to write.” Yes we do. But you have to grasp the paternalistic attitude behind that statement: “you are children. We adults control the playground.” This is the kind of attitude that grows out of…

The Three Gates have limits. There are times it becomes impractical to apply “kindness” without deep philosophical consideration. Under stress, your primary obligation is survival. Applying them to the Three Centers Hmmm. Being out of integrity with the Three Gates strikes me as similar to being out of balance in…

The Three Gates as Diagnostic More thoughts on the relationship between the Three Gates (Is it True? Is it Kind? Is it Useful?)…can we tell anything about those who violate them? I’m honestly not certain. But am sharing my thoughts. IF one’s goals are purely mundane, and devoid of spiritual…

Firedance is rooted in two things: 1) The “Five Minute Miracle approach of sixty seconds of deep, slow diaphargmatic breathing at the top of every hour. 2) A morning ritual of movement, focus, incantantation and emotional flooding. These two are life changing. But we’ve anchored all three major life areas…