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Greetings!
"Spring - An experience in immortality."
-- Henry David Thoreau
Calling on the words of a fellow Concordian, H.D. Thoreau, spring does fill each of us with wonder about reawakenings, new beginnings. Fresh green sprouting forth from where there was frozen earth only days before...truly an experience in immortality. If we allow it, April may be one of easiest months of the year to be mindful...new opportunities arise each moment in nature. The difficult part is to slow down enough to notice. I wish you a month of reawkening to spring.
Take care,
Pam
Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC
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Meditation Maintenance |
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Spring into renewing your meditation practice this month with joining fellow meditators at Meditation Maintenance Sessions. These sessions are a great way to give yourself a self-care "tune-up" once a month.
Evening sessions meet from 7-9 PM on the second Monday of each month:
- April 13, 2009
- May 11, 2009
- June 8, 2009
Daytime sessions meet from 12:30-2:30 PM on the second Friday of each month:
- April 10, 2009
- May 8, 2009
- June 5, 2009 (Note this session will be on the 1st Friday of the month)
Both evening and daytime sessions will be held at Stress Resources' office (97 Lowell Rd, Concord, MA) this year. It will be necessary to pre-register for sessions this year, as space is limited. I will contact you only if a session is filled. If you do not hear from me, there is space available in the session. Meditation Maintenance sessions are $15 per session. Register by e-mail or by phone (978-369-5243).
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| PBS Frontline: Sick Around America |
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 Health Care: how it is delivered, and how it is paid for is on many of our minds these days. Most of us would admit that our current system of health care insurance is severely flawed. But what do we do about it, who does this affect and how big a problem is it? The PBS Frontline documentary: Sick Around America does an excellent job exploring the tricky issue of health care insurance in the United States today. Let's educate ourselves about this crisis and work together to find a just and moral way of delivering "health" care to all of us. You can click here to watch Sick Around America online, and also join the interactive discussion. I would love to hear your thoughts on this issue. |
| International Conference on Therapeutic Touch in April |
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The first International Conference on Therapeutic Touch  is scheduled to be held in Boston (Cambridge) from April 24-26, 2009. Therapeutic Touch is a holistic form of energy treatment used by nurses and other practitioners as an integrative therapy.
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| Lovingkindness Meditation with
Sharon Salzberg |
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 If you haven't had the opportunity to attend one of Sharon Salzberg's Lovingkindness Meditation workshops, I highly recommend you do. Sharon is one of the most respected and engaging teachers of metta or lovingkindness meditation and has written extensively on the subject. I have included a video interview with her produced in 2006 by Robert Wright. She will be teaching a benefit workshop for the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center on Sunday, April 19 (10 AM-5 PM). Click here for registration information. |
| Letting Everything Become Your Teacher: 100 Lessons in Mindfulness |
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In his new book, Letting Everything Become Your Teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn explore the use of informal mindfulness meditation in our everyday lives. The book draws on his previous books, especially Full Catastrophe Living, to examine how awareness of the present moment, as our lives unfold, becomes our constant teacher. The book will be available in bookstores on April 28, 2009. | |
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