Counseling Santa ClaritaYou Can Flourish!

“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”
― Yoko Ono

The Four Agreements:

A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

(A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Don Miguel Ruiz

Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs, four agreements in life are essential steps on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs are transformed through maintaining these agreements, shamanic teacher and healer don Miguel Ruiz asserts lives will “become filled with grace, peace, and unconditional love.”

 2014 Free Meals for Kids in the Summer on behalf of the City of Santa Clarita.

Please feel free to share this program with others.

2014 FREE MEALS
Kids can have free food while school is out this summer with the USDA SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM being sponsored by the Santa Clarita Valley School Food Services Agency (SCVSFSA).

Additional information:
(661) 295-1574 ext. 113, or ext. 103

A flier with more info is attached.

Thank you,
Public Relations Dept.
Superintendent’s Office

Leap of Faith

Bullying Workshop

The Canyon Country Community Center,   Santa Clarita

June 10, 2014   at   6-7:30pm

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry:

How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path Paperback

by Jack Kornfield

“Enlightenment does exist,” internationally renowned author and meditation master Jack Kornfield assures us. “Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the divine … these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away.”

But even after achieving such realization — after the ecstasy — we are faced with the day-to-day task of translating that freedom into our imperfect lives. We are faced with the laundry.

Drawing on the experiences and insights of leaders and practitioners within the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Sufi traditions, this book offers a uniquely intimate and honest understanding of how the modern spiritual journey unfolds — and how we can prepare our hearts for awakening.

Through moving personal stories and traditional tales, we learn how the enlightened heart navigates the real world of family relationships, emotional pain, earning a living, sickness, loss, and death.

Santa Clarita Public Library —Summer Reading: Paws to Read

Teens Grades 7-12

Summer Luau: Santa Clarita Valley Junior and Senior High School Students

Newhall Community Center

Friday June 6, 2014 at 7 -9:30pm

“How did the rose ever open it’s heart 


and give to this world all of it’s beauty?


It felt the encouragement of light 


against it’s being,


otherwise we all remain too frightened.”


— Hafiz

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Where the Sidewalk Ends Poem

By Shel Silverstein

Open Mind Lecture
Brainstorm
Dr. Daniel Siegel, the best selling author of Mindsight, The Whole-Brain Child and Parenting From the Inside Out, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. Dr. Siegel will discuss his latest book Brainstorm ..The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
7:00 PM Covel Commons, UCLA (see map)
Admission is free but reservations are required.

For questions call 424-214-3851 or vickyg@friendsofnpi.org
Parking is available for $12 Sunset Village (see map)

Maya Angelou – Rainbow In The Clouds

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche 
by Ethan Watters

The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.

What is a Mother?

“[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary–it’s an act of infinite optimism.” —Gilda Radner

“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” —J.K. Rowling

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” —Oprah Winfrey

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~Washington Irving

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. ~Author Unknown

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning tears of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.
~Edgar Allan Poe

From our conception, we are connected to our mother. She is the soil we were grown in, her blood flowed through us until we were born. We have the deepest connection with our mother- even if circumstance led her to having us adopted, or we were mistreated in a real or perceived way, a deep connection remains.

If your mother is alive, Mother’s Day is a great day to call and express love. If she lives close. it’s a great day to visit or have a meal together. If you do things together ;do something.

If there is baggage, make peace with it.

The Emotional Life of Your Brain

by

Richard J. Davidson

Dr. Davidson’s latest book offers a new model for understanding our emotions – their origins, their power and their malleability. He has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional “styles,” including resilience, self-awareness, and attention. Our emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the brain circuits that underlie each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions-if that is what we want to do.

Peace be with you.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful

than the risk it took to blossom.”

― Anaïs Nin

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

by Daniel Siegel MD

Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways. It’s no wonder that many parents approach their child’s adolescence with fear and trepidation. According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel’s New York Times bestseller Brainstorm, if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another.

In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development impacts teenagers’ behavior and relationships. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth, change, and experimentation in their children’s lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage.

Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery.

And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo:

The Amazing True Story of a Young Family,

a Broken Down Zoo,

and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever