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Greetings!
February is a month where we pay attention to "heart matters", both our blood pumping mechanism and our metaphorical heart. In this month's newsletter I have included items highlighting the physical heart, as well as the hearts of compassion, busyness and change. Perhaps you want to spend some time with self care, strengthening your "heart of compassion" or you want to learn some new tools of work-life balance to help your pounding "heart of busyness" to slow down a bit. Or maybe it is time to allow your "heart of change" to guide you in a new direction. Give yourself a Valentine this year, by taking some time to think about the many manifestations of "heart" and how you can keep them all as healthy and balanced as possible.
Wishing you peace, love, and compassion,
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| Evening Meditation Maintenance |
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Give yourself a Valentine
Give yourself a valentine of compassion for self this month by joining others in exploring ways to continue our real life practice of mindfulness meditation
These are drop-in sessions for students who have some previous experience with meditation and want to deepen their informal and formal practices. Each month will include practice, and discussion of challenges and insights in our practices.
Drop-in fee is $15 per class. Note that there will be selected Mondays AND Thursdays offered during Winter 2008.
EVENING MEDITATION MAINTENANCE SESSIONS:
- Mon, Feb 11 (7-9 PM)
- Thur, Feb 28 (7-9 PM)
- Mon, Mar 10 (7-9 PM)
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NEW Daytime Meditation Maintenance |
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Time for you in the busyness of the day
Join others in Stopping, Taking a Breath, Observing and Proceeding in the middle of the day. The daytime meditation maintenance group meets monthly on Fridays from 12:30-2:30 PM at my Concord office located at 97 Lowell Rd.
The format of these sessions will be the same as the evening sessions, with the intent to deepen your meditation practice and discuss your insights and challenges in a friendly, small group setting. Because of limited space, preregistration is necessary. Cost of the remaining 3 sessions will be $45 for the series (prepaid) or $20 per drop-in, if space is available.
DAYTIME MEDITATION MAINTENANCE SESSIONS:
- Friday, March 7
- Friday, April 11
- Friday, May 2
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| Stress and the Heart |
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 What can you do?
New research has been focused on stress and how it may influence heart disease in both men and women. While there are no conclusive data indicating stress as a primary risk factor in heart disease, there are many findings correlating high levels of perceived stress with known primary risk factors for heart disease in both sexes.
Women have not been as thoroughly studied as men in regard to heart disease, and gender differences are becoming apparent. For instance, women seem to be at a significantly greater risk for a condition called Stress Cardiomyopathy, also called Broken Heart Syndrome, which is thought to be precipitated by a massive surge in the stress hormones following a traumatic event. Click here to learn more about Broken Heart Syndrome.
It is key for both men and women to become more aware of the risk factors, as well as ways to mitigate these risk factors as best we can. While we do not have control over our genetics, we can control many lifestyle factors and actively work to make some small changes, such as increasing stress resiliency, diet and exercise to give ourselves the best possible outcome we can. I have been very impressed with the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign in educating women, especially young women, to be "heart healthy".
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| TeleResources for Nurses |
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 Nurse Entrepreneurship: Building a Business on a Budget
Are you interested in the growing field of nurse entrepreneurship? Join other nurses from around the country in an interactive session of practical, accessible how-to tools to launch and grow your dream business. This is a conference call group format, with time for individual questions and answers. A CD of the specific TeleResources class participants attend is also included in the registration fee. TeleResources for Nurses Seminars are designed and taught by Pam Ressler, nurse entrepreneur and founder of Stress Resources, LLC. Online registration is now open.
Upcoming Times for: Nurse Entrepreneurship: Building A Business on a Budget
- Sunday, March 2 8PM (EST)
- Tuesday, March 4 11AM (EST)
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Stress Less @Work |
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2-hour workshop designed for the busy professional on March 13
 In this two-hour workshop, specifically tailored to the needs of busy professionals, you will learn easy to integrate tools of stress managment, relaxation, and meditation to fit into the demands of a stressful workday.
Stress Less @ Work, developed by Stress Resources, has been very positively received at many corporations, non-profit organizations, and healthcare institutions by providing beneficial tools for increasing employee job satisfaction, as well as increasing productivity and creativity.
Stress Less @ Work will be offered in the Boston area on Thursday, March 13 from 7:00-9:00 PM through Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education.
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