Dear Friends, Clients, Business Associates and Neighbors,

In this 27th edition of Eco Lifestyle and Home News, we offer Real Estate & Lifestyle news in 23 pages of content where our contributors address the current monthly theme of “Happiness”, as relates to all areas of our life.

In this edition we offer: 

• Events Around New Mexico
• Take a Hike! with Cecilie Bodman
• February Numerology
• Creating Clarity with Lainie Grimmer
• Sarah Claudia Stout
• Nerium: Age defying products
• Savory Spice of Santa Fe
• Mortgage News with Francis Phillips
• Debbie DeMarais: Home Staging+Design
• Real Estate Market Report Albuquerque
• Albuquerque Real Estate Listings
• Santa Fe Real Estate Listings: Aldea & Las Campanas
• Mobile Real Estate Search App: Free for Smart Phones & Tablets
• Taos Ski Valley Real Estate News
• Dog Treat Recipe of the Month: Standard poodle & service dog, Aeowyn, shares her Dog Treat Recipe
• Free Reports: How Sellers Price Their Homes, How To Sell Your House For The Most Money In The Shortest Possible Time, and more…

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February Theme Editorial: Happiness

Everyone wants to be happy. Yet happiness often escapes us. We get bogged down in our daily lives with responsibilities: planning, wanting, regretting, worrying. Our own personal happiness is often curtailed by the global issues that demand our attention.

Here are some steps to find happiness:

Mindfulness – Be present: “Stress is caused by being HERE but wanting to be THERE.” ~Eckhart Tolle

• Gratitude – Be thankful, cultivate appreciation & love
• Wellness – Cultivate healthy mind, body, spirit
• Compassion  – practice kindness, understanding, awareness, thoughtfulness
• Forgiveness – Let go: freeing yourself from anything that is no longer serving you.
• Connection – Connect with self, nature, other beings, (animals, nature, people). Cultivate empathy.
• Purpose – Find meaning by becoming involved.

Metta meditation is very simple, but a powerful tool in cultivating happiness.

Meditation Metta Blessing to Help Cultivate Happiness:

• May you be free from suffering.
• May you be free from greed.
• May you be free from ignorance.
• May you be free from fear.
• May you have mental happiness.
• May you have physical happiness.
• May you have ease of well-being.

Meditation Instructions:
You progress from sending blessings to yourself, then repeat the blessing to a loved one, then repeat the blessing to family, then repeat the blessing to friends, then repeat the blessing to acquaintances, then repeat the blessing to strangers, then repeat the blessing to all beings- living, past & future beings and send metta to each of them. Remember, all suffering comes from greed, ignorance and/or fear. So cultivating happiness will relieve suffering, worry, anger & fear.

Explore what is happiness? What makes you happy?
What are your obstacles to happiness?
Explore self-reflection and nurture body, mind and spirit.
Cultivate compassion with yourself and others.
Notice how we are all interdependent and start connecting with others.

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Eco Lifestyle and Home News comes to you in its twenty-seventh edition of our Newsletter. The creators of this newsletter are Dianne McKenzie & Cecilie Bodman, real estate associate brokers for Equity New Mexico. We decided to produce a conscious newsletter that has information about some real estate but more about living, playing & working. We also wanted to include our professional friends’ expertise as it relates to home, health, well-being, & lifestyle.Please introduce us to your friends and family for their real estate needs, whether they are considering buying a home or thinking about getting their home sold this year. Many thanks.

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Thank you for reading our newsletter.
– Dianne McKenzie & Aeowyn, Cecilie Bodman & our content contributors