Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Ending Stress Review


Product Description


Do you want to eliminate stress in your life?

You can do it with this manual!
This highly practical guide shows you clearly and directly how to remove stress, anger, fear and worry by becoming more realistic, using 2,500 year old meditation and therapy tools and inspired by masters of nondual and Buddhist wisdom traditions including Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Zen, Madhyamika, Advaita and Tao. Jonathan Harrison teaches nondual and Buddhist meditation and psychology.
The guide explains how mental stress is created and how to remove it from your life in all its forms including anger, anxiety, disappointment, discontent, dissatisfaction, dread, envy, fear, frustration, guilt, humiliation, impatience, insult, misery, mistrust, regret, tension and worry.
Jonathan Harrison shows how, in order to see how stress is created, you need to understand three things:
˃˃˃ The way you think about things:
You see the world as structured, split into separate parts which may be in conflict. Your particular mental structures consisting of your personal opinions and concepts is the result of many factors including your genetic makeup, parental upbringing, social and cultural environments and the way you have perceived, internalized and acted on your experiences. These mental structures develop and change throughout your life. The world as you see it is largely a reflection of your mental history. What you think is an original creation of your mind.
˃˃˃ The way things really are:
Reality, the world as it is, is neither inherently split (dualistic), nor unified, neither structured nor unstructured. It just is. This is so simple that most people do not understand it.
˃˃˃ Ending stress
It is enough to grasp deeply how things really work. The past has gone, is unalterable, the future is non-existent except as your present expectations, and “now” is already here. Within this realization, true rest occurs naturally. This is non-meditation, natural meditation or “resting in natural awareness” as Longchen Rabjam, the renowned Tibetan yogi and Dzogchen meditation master, put it.
By recognizing the nature of reality you are able to live, love and benefit yourself and others more easily, as you no longer experience the frustration of trying to grasp at imagined parts of your experience or trying to remove them.



MarksvilleandMe reviews Ending Stress

written by
Jonathan Harrison

I am a Christian so this book is a bit hard to take in some places but for the most part is very good at teaching you how to meditate. After each chapter or so it takes you through a meditation session but doesn't really give how long you should stay with in meditation. 

It has chapters about using meditation to rid your body of stress, eliminating worry, overcoming anxiety  and fear, as well as minimizing pain. Later in the book you learn ways of improving your decisions and living a fulfilling life with meaningful relationships, while feeling completely free. 

For me it was mainly to refresh my memory on meditation practices and the sessions within the book helped. This book would be good for anyone wanting to know more about meditation and what it can do for your life, and inner being. 

You can buy Ending Stress on Amazon.

You can find our more about Jonathan Harrison here.

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MarksvilleandMe reviews Coobie Bras


A while back I wrote about the Coobie bras. You can read my first post here

I was able to pick out two bras to review. Below you will see the two styles I ordered.



Since at the time they didn't have a bra large enough for me to try personally I enlisted my oldest daughters help in trying them out. She runs and was looking for a more supportive bra and these fit the bill until she lost weight and then they became to big and has downsized and passed these on to her younger sister for when she reaches this size, if she ever does.  

She loved that they were soft, easy to put on, and super easy to care for. She just tossed it in a wash bag and washed with her regular clothes.


Above you can see the pictures of how the Coobie bras looked when we received them. Since I wrote the original post they have added many new items to their store, but sadly still no sizes big enough for me, but they do come pretty close. For us larger women we still have to look other places but for those up to 42 DD you are covered at Coobie. 

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Disclosure: MarksvilleandMe was provided free products from Coobie in exchange for our honest review. If you would like MarksvilleandMe to review a product or service please contact us at marksvilleandme@gmail.com.

Monday, October 13, 2014

MAM $25 Gift Pack Birthday Bash

Welcome to the #MommyMeBirthdayBash Hosted by Mommy By Nurture This is one of 22 prizes up for grabs this month!

 To see all 22 prizes and their active dates to enter you can view the Mommy & Me Birthday Bash Event Page.




 This giveaway is sponsored 
by MAM 
for our guests of honor Nichole and Davin of Mommy By Nurture.

 Event coordinator for the #MommyMeBirthdayBash is Tales From A Southern Mom with Co-Host to this giveaway being Stellar Manic Mom One lucky winner is going to receive a surprise gift box valued at $25 or more!!! It is a complete surprise. You do however get to choose the gender. To see a few items that could possibly be in this gift box read the Starter Cup/Trainer Bottle Review and Teething/Toothbrush Review from Mommy By Nurture. The box could possibly be valued at even more! Perfect for any new Mom or save as a great baby shower gift!


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Sunday, October 12, 2014

$100 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

$100 Amazon Gift Card Event 10/12-

Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card 10/12-11/5

Thank you for joining us in this spectacular giveaway event!

We're giving away $100 to Amazon! This giveaway is hosted by: MyPoshMedia | PoshonaBudget | PlusSizePosh | Freebies Codes Coupons and Deals | West Coast Mama | Dividing By Zero | Coupons and Freebies Mom By now, you already know all about Amazon.com and how easy it is to find what you are looking for while shopping there.

What would you do with $100 to Amazon.com?

I would buy some things from my wishlist for sure. I have a pretty good share of my families wants and needs in there. Amazon is one of my favorite online stores. MarksvilleandMe wishes everyone who enters Good Luck!

Disclosure/Disclaimer: This site or any other site associated with this event has in no way been compensated for the preceding information. This giveaway is valid where allowed by law, open to anyone in the United States who is over 18 years of age. One winner will be randomly selected on 11/6/14, notified via email, and will have until 11/9/14 to reply. If there is no reply another winner will be randomly selected.