TMAC Blog
8 Ways to Curb Impulse Buying
u shop at Costco or at Tiffanys, the strategies for putting a halt to mindless purchases are the same. 1. Browse your favorite store — without buying. Notice what thoughts and emotions bubble up as you scan the shelves. Do you have that “wanting, craving, grasping” feeling? Then notice how you feel after you exit the store empty-handed. Saying no is an empowering feeling. You think, ‘Oh my gosh, I caught myself,’ and you remember that feeling next time you go shopping. 2. Scrutinize the stuff in your house. Take a hard look inside your drawers, cabinets, and closets. Are they crowded with itemRead More
Are You An Impulse Buyer?
07, with the recession looming, President George W. Bush offered what may rank as the worst piece of advice any U.S. president has offered his fellow Americans: “Go shopping more.” There are plenty of behaviors we should engage in more often — smiling, eating mindfully, stretching our hamstrings — but clicking “Buy now” is surely not among them. And yet most of us behave as if the former president was on to something. We shop recreationally, habitually, impulsively, and, in many cases, uncontrollably. In fact, 6 to 7 percent of Americans qualify as “compulsive buyers,” according to a 20-year rRead More
5 Reasons Why Mindful Travel Can Increase Success & Prosperity
ccess and prosperity, both within ourselves and in the life around us, we must be open to take risks, do new things, and face our fears. It is easy to continue with the same old routine every day and stay in our comfort zone, but it takes willpower and character to make a positive change. One way to start living a more prosperous, successful life is getting a new perspective by traveling, be it short distances or around the world. Here are a few reasons why: Mindful travelers choose to live in the moment: If you think of the happiest memories of your life, you’ll most likely find that you wereRead More
Orange Is The New Orange
series “Orange Is The New Black” we see the lives of women behind bars for so many different crimes, and the drama has me on the edge of my seat. In my work as a spirituality teacher at the County Jail it’s no different. In the last seven years, I have heard thousands of stories from women; why they committed the crimes, what they will do differently when they are released, and their realization of some of the hindrances that might throw them off the path and back in jail. What I noticed is that their story’s are no different that our stories around the root cause of suffering, and skillful orRead More
BREAK OUT…of the Prison of Greed and Fear
t article titled ‘Let It Flow’ I discussed the importance of breath and conscious awareness in our bodies. How, when our amygdala’s “flight, fight or freeze” alarm response creates constriction in our bodies, we lose the opportunity to be creative and generous, and we find ourselves locked up in a pattern of suffering that causes harm to us and those around us. In this next series of articles, I will illustrate how the lives of my students incarcerated in the Marin County Jail parallels the poor choices many of us have made in our own lives. I use these illustrations to illuminate the universaRead More
In The News on CBS 5 SF Bay Sunday
INVITATION: Mindfulness Care Center Forgiveness Workshop
any relationship, our relationship with money can be a source of great stress and anxiety. Thursday, July 16th, from 7:00 to 9:00pm Our money anxieties may often lie at the heart of so many of the disruptions from unresolved events we’ve had in life such as; losing a job, having to ask for a raise, enduring a divorce, family learned patterns, fluctuations in the marketplace, or simply struggling to stay on budget. Koorosh Ostowari, MCC Advisory Committee member, mindfulness facilitator, and author of of “The Money Anxiety Cure” along with Rik Center, Co-founder of the MCC and a Mindful/SRead More
Unity.FM Radio Interview
my interview with Reverend Beverly Molander on ‘Affirmative Prayer’ hosted by Unity.FM Listen Here “What’s the Story About YOUR Money Anxiety?” Koorosh Ostowari is a first-generation Iranian who saw his single mother overcome great financial and cultural obstacles to provide her family with the American Dream. He realized his dream was different and started combining money with mindfulness … a Buddhist approach to the material world. If you are held captive by your idea of money, this show is for you. Koorosh shows us how we can shift from scarcity to flow. Read More
Managing Tax Season Stress, Part II
Yourself At Tax Season In the last blog “Managing Tax Season Stress” I offered suggestions for staying calm, clear, focused and organized as a way of life, and especially during tax season. As a gentle reminder, after you read this blog, I’d like you to go back to that blog and see if you are doing all you can to support your mental and physical health as you navigate this tax season. Our body responds to our finances as a natural, biological way to protect us from real or imaginary fear and danger. If we are not in the right state of mind, or able to find an optimal level of safety and peaceRead More
Managing Tax Season Stress
y calm, clear, focused and organized According to the American Psychological Association, 80% of Americans suffer from ‘money anxiety.’ It’s linked to depression, decreased immunity, and is a leading cause of divorce. Tax time, in particular, finds us engaging in poor lifestyle choices – we eat and drink to excess, and are less apt to care for our health than at other times of the year. As it looms ever closer, for many of us the momentum builds into a ‘fight, flight or freeze’ response as we dig into drawers, looking for each and every receipt we can find. In the book ‘The Money Anxiety Cure:Read More
Koorosh Ostowari
Author Koorosh Ostowari has successfully bridged the gap between spiritual and material worlds. He has operated a profitable real estate business in San Francisco for the past 25 years and is trained as a Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma Leader, is a certified somatic therapist, and offers spiritual and communications classes to men and women in the Northern California prison system.His new book, The Money Anxiety Cure: A Path To Financial Wellbeing, offers tools to help those struggling with financial anxiety achieve a new, personally meaningful vision of prosperity.
Koorosh is dedicated to the practice of cultivating mindfulness, alleviating anxiety, and helping his clients and students maintain balance and achieve financial wellbeing.
Koorosh is dedicated to the practice of cultivating mindfulness, alleviating anxiety, and helping his clients and students maintain balance and achieve financial wellbeing.
