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My first book, A Soul Call from Prison: How Yoga and Taoism Cured My Crises with Cocaine and Christianity, covered how I survived 23 years in federal prison using various forms of meditation to cope with the experience. There, I quoted passages from an obscure book that provided me with many answers I had been seeking. This scripture revealed God in a way I could understand. The words were like a ringing bell rousing me from a deep sleep. It confronted and conquered, the contradictions and paradoxes, I encountered with religion as a child. It provided insight into my suffering, showed me how to start a spiritual quest, and gave practical advice for feeling better. Most importantly, it inspired me. It did then, and it continues to every time I pick it up. The Kolbrin might be the best scripture you've never read. For those receiving their first exposure to the Kolbrin, I feel a father's joy in watching his children unwrap gifts. The world deserves to know about this book, and I hope my small effort will shed light on it. I modeled 365 Meditations after the Daily Bread magazine format, which features Bible verses and accompanying lessons, along with instructions, stories, inspiration, and commentaries. The Daily Bread is designed to help the reader start each morning with a spiritual mindset. Reading a section fortifies you to face the day's hardships. Likewise, this book has been divided into short sections. Each one takes a passage from the Kolbrin and reflects upon it. The book covers meditation, its importance and how to implement it. This book is for the newcomer or backslider to spiritual life. It gives daily insights for one to draw closer to a spiritual awakening. This book will show you how to get started, offer a helping hand when you feel down, and motivate you when you feel lazy. You can read it all at once, in chunks, or place it in the bathroom and read when you are guaranteed a few minutes' privacy.

What does it take to survive 322 months in federal prison? I had to bend over, grab my ankles, close my eyes, and breathe through the pain. That's right!....I practiced yoga. Part humorous memoir, part spiritual self help book, this work highlights the mistakes I made which led to half a life spent behind the razor wire. It also shows how yoga and meditation helped me survive the experience with my sanity in tact and allowed me now to look back on the experience with almost as much gratitude as regret. This is Volume I in the Soul Call Series: a line of books designed to help people overcome difficult situations and learn to live meaningful lives no matter their circumstances or surroundings. I wrote each with the inmate in mind, but these books will help anyone live a more meaningful life, no matter which side of the gun towers they find themselves.

This book focuses on the personal relationship between a convict and his mind, body, and spirit. It teaches inmates how to cope with the stress incarceration places on the individual. Following the advice in my other books, the newly convicted should be able to minimize the threat from other inmates and never make unintentional mistakes that could ignite violence, but this book explains how to decrease the threat from the time itself: the idle hours, the loneliness, the separation from loved ones, the guilt, the regret, and feeling like your life is being wasted. To be clear, I'm not a therapist, MD, or a guru with a glowing halo. This book, as well as the others in this series, are not intended as medical or legal advice Although, I can't offer counseling or provide treatment, I can relate to the experience you face. The techniques and exercises in these three volumes helped me survive twenty-three years in federal prison with my sanity intact. Doing Time the Right Way has a Three-Part Strategy. Volume I focuses on mental health and provides unique advice so you won't make the same mistakes many inmates do concerning idle time, dark thoughts and handling long-distance relationships. A bored mind tends to go negative. An unmotivated mind tends to lose self-worth. Volume II covers an element essential to any proactive routine: exercise. Drawing from my experience as an American Council on Exercise (ACE) certified personal trainer, two decades teaching yoga, and training Keichu Goju Karate for over thirty years, I created exercise routines which take into consideration the limits imposed on prisoners concerning scarce equipment, limited space, and non-sensical rules pertaining to exercise. Physical activity provides benefits in equal measures to the mind and body. This volume gets a little deeper. Most prisoners enter custody dealing with heavy negative emotions. They feel anger, self-hatred, guilt, and tremendous anxiety. Unfortunately, most bottle it up, but they still feel them. They simply choose to suffer in silence. But some, the introspective ones at least, question their lives, where they ended up, and how bad things turned out. These crave a new start. Volume III takes a look at what I used to overcome the guilt I felt for the things I had done. It describes my discoveries regarding how to live a meaningful life in prison. Using these ideas and techniques, I was able to release the self-loathing I clung to as a young convict. With them, I transformed my prison experience into something I now look back on with almost as much gratitude as regret. I understand firsthand how helpless an inmate feels. I also know there are ways to empower a life while in custody, ways to find purpose in that cold place. The concepts discussed here would benefit anyone who applied them, regardless of whether they've ever seen the inside of a federal facility or not. Unfortunately, with spirituality, most people have little interest in it when their lives are going well. It usually takes something like a bad diagnosis, an unfaithful spouse, or a judge banging his hammer before a person decides to look inside. Prisoners meet that requirement in a big way. For many, serving time will be the worst experience they ever face. People in desperate situatio