The trick to improving our relationship with money, says Kristi Nelson, a financial and fund-raising consultant based in Hadley, Massachusetts, is to put your wallet where your values are. “Without our values—the guidelines or touchstones for how we relate every choice, every moment, to money—we become the victims in our own financial plotline,” she says. The place to start is simply to notice your own reactions to money. What drives you from the inside?...
A recent post from the ABA law blog tells the story of one lawyer who used mindfulness meditation to help him cope with his melonoma diagnosis. The blog then touched on some of the recent developments in bringing mindfulness into legal practice, including mentions of law schools with mindfulness components to their programs, and the various bar associations that include some sort of mindfulness component in their operations. To read the blog post, “Mindfulness in legal practice is going mainstream,” click here....
Money. We may not be loaded, but it is—with all kinds of baggage. We have to deal with money every day, in ways small and large, pleasurable and stressful. How do we cultivate perspective? It’s no small challenge. Because money is bound up with concepts of success, self-worth, and entitlement, we often approach it with confusion. We may know intellectually that we are not what we own, and that our lives are not equal to what we earn, but the conditioning we experience goes deep and is reinforced regularly....
Alternatives therapies seem to provide both emotional and physical relief for many types of medical ailments, according to the findings, which were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Nearly 40 percent of Americans use some form of complementary and alternative medicine, according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey. These practices include meditation, yoga, and acupuncture, among others. And now, many are receiving the support of conventional doctors who have seen apparent benefits in some of their patients....
And for all you moms out there, just send the link to this post to your hubby’s email as a little “hint, hint!” We recruited the ever-so-talented Erin, creator & design genius behind Strawberry Mommycakes {you HAVE to check her out… ah-maz-ing} and boo-yah! The Magic below happened! Did you SEE all of that printable eye candy above?!? Can I just say that doesn’t even BEGIN to share what is in this 37-page Mother’s Day printable pack?...
