I am about to start beta testing my new program for detoxing the body/mind complex from the effects of over-information. My audience is primarily busy business people, especially those for whom creativity, innovation, and imagination are important to productivity and success. I am playing with a 21-day program (3 steps of 1 week each: awareness/fasting/integration) or a 10-day program (1 3-day awareness exercise and 1 week-long fast).

Watch this space for a lot more information in the coming weeks. Ultimately, I’m going to turn this experiment into a book, but for now I just want to see if the idea has legs. I’ve been so inspired by my entrepreneurial friends who have taught me you have to test the waters with your ideas early and often.

If you are interested in having a healthier, happier mind in just 10 days…or 21…stay tuned.

I’ve been re-exploring the practice of walking meditation recently. One of the instructions from the Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hahn, that stuck with me this time was to walk for someone else, on behalf of someone else. This has deepened the practice for me. I walk now not for my own benefit, but for those who cannot walk. I imagine someone I know or have heard about who for reasons related to physical condition, old age, or some other restriction, cannot walk along a park path. It’s February, but I do not feel cold. I can only appreciate the sensations that are unique to the experience of being free to walk in nature without a destination, without a goal, simply in a state of appreciation. Walking for someone else is a service I can provide easily. It makes my walk matter even more than it did when I was doing it to feel good, to calm down, to ground myself for my own purposes.

In walking, in life, in work, having a worthy recipient in mind takes the action to the next level. As a researcher, I spend a lot of time helping brands envision their audience–the people they do what they do for. When the intent of that bringing-to-life exercise is to better know the person so they may be better served, the results are overwhelmingly positive. When the intent is to better understand the recipient in order to manipulate them, the results are disastrous for everyone. Just something to consider as you walk your walk.