transforming your life. Here’s a sampling of the guidance and wisdom he lovingly offers:

Exercise 38: Take a Bath

Maximize Your Relaxation Time

    Taking time to relax is one of the best self-care methods I know. If you have trouble resting and relaxing, remember — you are doing something when you rest. You are restoring and healing yourself and your life. What helps you to relax and take care of yourself?

    Throughout history, baths have been a universal means of renewal and cleansing. Set aside an afternoon or evening and create a warm, healing bath for yourself, and consider incorporating a soothing bath in your weekly routine.

    Make this bath more than the usual scrub. Incorporate therapeutic herbs, minerals, and bath salts, which can remove your body’s impurities. Add soaps and oils with special scents and aromas to help you to relax.

Candles and soft music are other ways to pamper your senses, and if you can, try an outdoor tub and add the healing sounds and scents of nature. Or, make this bath all about play — fill the tub with bubbles and give your inner child a squirt gun and some rubber ducks to play with. As every kid knows, bath time is play time.

Exercise 29: Let Your Heart Decide

Questions & Answers

    Sometimes we get into a rut and find ourselves constantly tired or depressed, so that even taking time off or resting doesn’t seem to change the way we feel. The reason is that we have stopped paying attention to our feelings and are no longer listening to our heart. Our inner child wants to be heard and do what makes it happy; it wants to burn up its energy and not burn out.

    For this exercise, you will need to meditate. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed so