Lasara Allen http://lasaraallen.com …author, educator, advocate. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:09:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 …author, educator, advocate. no Lasára Allen…author, educator, activist, coach. http://lasaraallen.com/about-lasara/lasara-allen-bio/lasara-allen-author-educator-activist-coach/ http://lasaraallen.com/about-lasara/lasara-allen-bio/lasara-allen-author-educator-activist-coach/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:24:17 +0000 Lasára Allen http://lasaraallen.com/?p=754 Topics: parenting, relationships, family, advice, fitness, yoga, health & holistic well-being, gratitude, compassion, and spiritual practice, gratitude games, gratitude journal, science of gratitude, health benefits of gratitude, family, parenting, communication, compassion, spirituality, health, wholism, sustainability, positive globalism, giving, health and fitness, running, fitness, exercise, yoga, Pilates. Nonfiction, self-help, how-to, advice.

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]]> http://lasaraallen.com/about-lasara/lasara-allen-bio/lasara-allen-author-educator-activist-coach/feed/ 2 Topics: parenting, relationships, family, advice, fitness, yoga, health & holistic well-being, gratitude, compassion, and spiritual practice, gratitude games, gratitude journal, science of gratitude, health benefits of gratitude, family, parenting, communication, compassion, spirituality, health, wholism, sustainability, positive globalism, giving, health and fitness, running, fitness, exercise, yoga, Pilates. Nonfiction, self-help, how-to, advice. Thank you for visiting my site! I look forward to interacting with you. Share at The Gratitude Journal. Comment on posts. Check out the articles. Read, comment, reprint, enjoy! Use any of these articles as copy for your blog, website, newsletter or e-zine. Let me know about the reprint by sending a note to Ms.Allen @ LasaraAllen .com. If I find your site compatible with mine, I’ll give you a backlink on our blogroll. Please include all links and Lasára’a bio (below) in all reprints. You’re always welcome to contact me with thoughts, requests for info, invitations to present at e-conferences, teleseminars, seminars, for speaking engagements, or other reasons I may not have thought of! Please drop me a note at: Ms.Allen @ LasaraAllen .com. Bio: Lasara Allen is an author, educator, activist, and coach. Lasara’s first book, the bestselling Sexy Witch (nonfiction, Llewellyn Worldwide), was published in 2005 under the name LaSara FireFox. Lasara is a columnist at Elephant Journal and Identity Magazine, a regular contributor at EnlightenedMindJournal and singledad.com, has been published at eHow.com, eZineArticles.com and much more. Her work has been featured extensively in print. Lasara’s writing covers a range of topics including parenting, relationships, family, communication, advice, fitness, yoga, health & holistic well-being, mental health, gratitude, compassion, and spiritual practice. Over the years Lasara has helped clients and students find balance in their lives and alignment with personal and family-held values. She has taught, spoken, and coached internationally. Lasara is mom to two amazing daughters, and wife to the love of her life. Find out more at www.LasaraAllen.com. Join the Lasara Allen facebook fan page here, or visit my facebook profile here. MORE ABOUT LASÁRA: Read more about Lasara at Wikipedia. Listen to Lasara’s Raising Grateful Children Teleclass here. Lasara’s past podcasting: Yoga Mama Satsangha Some topics: The Quiet Revolution – Beyond Sharing the Housework * The Importance of Daily Practice 
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 * LaSara interviews Anna Getty of the illustrious Getty Family, and founder of Pure Style Living and Pregnancy Awareness Month (PAM). * and more. Wisdom Being in Work Wisdom Being in Work, LaSara interviews Ariel Gore, prolific author and founder and former editor of Hip Mama Magazine. * LaSara interviews Christine Comaford-Lynch. Winner: Hot Mommas Project – mentoring for women and girls; international case study competition, 2008 – 2009 Nominations: Shorty Award, #literary category, 2010
S horty Award, #gratitude category, 2009 Persevering Business Woman of the Year, 2009 California Outstanding Women of the Year, 2009 Neuro-Linguistic Programing Affiliations: Pure NLP/Society of NLP with Richard Bandler; NLP Trainer Training Hawkridge Training Institute with Phil Farber; NLP Master Practitioner Training NLP California with Tim Halbom; NLP Practioner Training Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post on Google Buzz Add this to Mister Wong Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Technorati Post this to MySpace Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on Reddit <p>Topics: parenting, relationships, family, advice, fitness, yoga, health & holistic well-being, gratitude, compassion, and spiritual practice, gratitude games, gratitude journal, science of gratitude, health benefits of gratitude, [...] The Benefits of Gratitude in Family Life http://lasaraallen.com/articles/the-benefits-of-gratitude-in-family-life/ http://lasaraallen.com/articles/the-benefits-of-gratitude-in-family-life/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:38:44 +0000 Lasára Allen http://lasaraallen.com/?p=467 Continue reading The Benefits of Gratitude in Family Life

]]> http://lasaraallen.com/articles/the-benefits-of-gratitude-in-family-life/feed/ 1 Grateful Child Practicing gratitude with your children encourages both humility and empowerment. It offers easy recognition of your family’s wealth and abundance – no matter your financial picture – and a desire to share that abundance with the world. This Raising Grateful Children teleclass recording teaches you how to inspire and instill the practice of gratitude in your child, while honoring her or his experience of life. Cultivating and nurturing gratitude in our children is the beginning of a journey towards health, well-being, fulfillment, and generosity of spirit. Gratitude offers benefits that range from the physical, to the psychological, to the spiritual, and affects both our inner and outer lives. Gratitude practice, in and of itself, bring us into creative co-creation with our day-to-day reality, our family and friends, the world, and colors our experience of all those things. Gratitude-colored glasses make everything look brighter! In this look at why making a psychological and spiritual practice of gratitude in your family is such a good idea, we’ll just scratch the surface of some topics. For a deeper look into the pragmatics of the scientific angle, read The Science of Gratitude. For tips on creating more community- and service-based, interactive gratitude practice with your children, read 5 Ways to Engage Your Kids in Grateful Giving. For ways to bring gratitude, and the practice of it, easily and joyfully into the life of your close community, see How to Host a Gratitude Gathering. If you’re ready to delve deeper into the subject matter, you can find all these articles in one package in the Gratitude Games Pro package. Physical health benefits of gratitude: Gratitude cancels out stress. When your kid is facing some kind of trouble at school, or feeling your stress when you’re stuck in traffic, or feeling guilty for having done something they were reprimanded for, just like any of us, they’ll start thinking about all the reasons it’s horrible that they’re in the circumstances they’re in. If they’re anything like my younger daughter, they’re also very likely to begin thinking of all the other times that a similar thing happened. Thoughts flock together, “…like birds of a feather,” as my mom says. As your kid starts playing free-association with how bad things are, it’s easy enough for them to start thinking, feeling, or even saying, as kids are known to do, “Why does this ALWAYS happen to me?” The thought cycle in a vicious circle, and your kid is left standing, or sitting, stewing in their own stress, discomfort, or sadness. Often it ends in heartbroken tears. All the while, stress chemicals are streaming through your child’s body. Now, in some cases stress can be a positive thing. Stress is designed to get us out of emergency situations. Stress makes it possible for us to run faster, jump higher, lift more weight than we normally could, and see more clearly. Acute stress heightens the senses, and our physical capabilities. When stress chemicals – which produce what’s known as the “fight or flight response” – are put to use immediately, there’s nothing that can stand in for that jolt of dopamine, adrenaline and noradrenaline, and cortisol – also known as “the stress hormone”. Getting out of mortal danger is the most extreme example. More often, it’s less intense moments that benefit by the stress response; making that last sprint in a race, or when well-prepared, stress can even help you finish a test or an exam in record time, without losing accuracy. When prepared to use the process of stress to your advantage, it’s more than helpful; it can be the difference between life and death, success and failure, goal completion or falling short of those goals. However, in the case of chronic stress there’s no benefit. Without fail, the negative effects of long-term stress ravage the system. Stress is bad for the heart, anxiety levels, [...] Gratitude increases health dramatically on all levels; there are health benefits to gratitude on the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual levels. It's been scientifically proven that the regular practice of gratitude can improve [...]