Bringing peace and well being to the workplace
I recently read a short article about a Buddhist monk who counsels on how to increase your productivity through offering mindfulness workshops in the California area. Too far to travel for first hand instruction I read carefully what he recommended in hopes that I can keep calm throughout my day.
Here are a few of his pointers:
When feeling overwhelmed, which I feel every time my supervisor adds another task to my list, he recommends firmly planting both feel on the ground for a moment and actually feel that solid base on your skin. This act establishes a strong physical foundation and when you breathe, offers you a sense of balance.
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An Evening of shopping that will benefit:
The Mental Health Association’s Listen to Children Program:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH
4PM – 6PM at
172 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach, FL
10% of Proceeds bought throughout the store benefit the children!
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month. Visit:
cdc.gov/cancer/ovarian for more information and see your doctor today.
October is National Bullying Prevention Month: The End of bullying Begins with You! Here are some web sites to help identify and prevent bullying:
www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/index.asp
www.prevnet.ca/
www.pacer.org/bullying/bpaw/index.asp
www.safeyouth.org/scripts/topics/bullying.asp
www.eyesonbullying.org
The Woodstock Foundation and Call my Driver request your presence for a special event. They are producing a fund-raising event called New York, New York A Tribute to The Rat Pack at 51 Supper Club and Lounge (www.51supperclub.com). You’re invited to share an evening full of entertainment, camaraderie, network and Silence Auction. This non-profit organization is very dear to our hearts. The foundation’s goal is to provide monetary and volunteer support for national charities in their local efforts of assisting children and the elderly. We’re helping children live normal lives, through donations to CASA, Shriners Hospitals for Children, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and others. We’re helping seniors live gracefully, through donations to The Alzheimer’s Association, Meals on Wheels and Disabled American Veterans. Woodstock Foundation, Inc. is approved by the IRS as a fully tax exempt 501(c) (3) Corporation.
This event will benefit The Horses Healing Hearts: http://horseshealingheartsusa.org in Wellington. For more information about the Woodstock Foundation you can log in: www.woodstockcares.org.
You can also watch these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18poHUaIBIU, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXM6eZJ7Kh4&feature=related
If you were looking for an opportunity to volunteer and impact the future of your community, become a mentor (Listener) in your community. As the Program Coordinator (and past mentor) for the Listen to Children Program of the Mental Health Association, I can tell you one hour a week will greatly change your life and that of a young child.
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Whether we choose to believe our children will make poor decisions or not is up to us and our personal belief systems BUT, maybe it’s time we have certain conversations with our kids…just in case.
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I recently came across this snippet in O Magazine and thought it should be shared among the goddess sisterhood. Bob Greene, who has long been Oprah’s trainer had the following to say.
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So many women, more than I can count, walk around dissatisfied with how they look and feel that their look defines them in a less than favorable way. I’m here to shout….’Stop the madness! I know of more beautiful women than not but their beauty is not in the color of their eyes but what I see within those eyes. And it’s not be the size of their breasts but by the love and compassion in their hearts.
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Do you have one of those friends that goes on and on about herself, never coming up for air- allowing you to speak? You love her but just can’t get a word in edgewise.
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I’m often asked what we as parents can do to prevent or stop bullying in our child’s life. I don’t have the definitive answers but here are some suggestions in which we can be part of the solution.
1. Model the behavior you want of your children. Model empathy and tolerance for others. Teach them that through our differences of race, religion, politics, sexual orientation, etc. we’re all children of the universe.
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