Great post and thank you especially for the links! I'm going to get that One-Moment Meditation book.

Thanks for the wonderful links! Happy New Year!

You're welcome! It was a lovely Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoyed yours as well. Onward to December, wowza!

4. The simple, rejuvenating joy of a cat-cow flow. Thanks for this post! I'm thankful for your blog. And I like to think I'm pretty adept at finding the good; my friends consider it one of my more admirable (and rather freaky) traits. :)

I love this idea. I'm in physical therapy right now for a mild but pesky hip/pelvic pain, and I've scaled back all my other exercise, including yoga (although luckily some of the moves/stretches they've given me incorporate yoga). But I can't seem to stop myself from doing cat/cow and downward facing dog most days. I really like these two poses with the chair, I may have to give them a whirl!

Thank you for this awesome idea and chance for a giveaway! I just did this exercise today and here's what came up for me: I need to do this more often! In fact, I'm going to heed your note: "If you're looking for life-changing results, try doing this every day. Awareness -- it ain't for wussies." I've been wanting to start a daily meditation practice for months and months, but I keep putting it off, or getting derailed. Well, why not start small, with 5 minutes to begin with? So I'm committing (right here in public) to take a minimum of 5 minutes a day to focus on my breathing. The other thing it seems I needed to know was that I should not schedule this time at work (which is where I did the exercise today). So I can do it in my car, outside, at yoga class, or in my home. That's still a lot of options! Thank you again!!