A Mindful Life: A Spiritual Guide to Making Peace with Your Mind, Time, and Space - Softcover

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For over twenty years, Lanna Cairns has been a student and teacher of spiritual practices in New Thought and Buddhist communities throughout the country. Cairns has studied with Jack Kornfield, Greg Mullen, Ruth Dennison, and Genpo Roshi, founder of Big Mind meditation. She has a master’s degree in Religious Studies and currently works as a Licensed Spiritual Counselor for the Napa Valley Center for Spiritual Living (affiliated with United Centers for Spiritual Living). Cairns’ work as an organizer began in 1998 when she created Organized World, a consulting firm specializing in all aspects of professional organization. Lecturing for T.E.C., a company that educates CEOs around the world and many other Fortune 500 companies (see www.vistage.com), her clients include BMW, Kaiser Permanente, Sylvan Learning Centers, Canyon Ranch, MOFO, Harcourt-Brace, Mondavi Winery, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and The Salt Lake City Library. Cairns is the author of "Organizing for Your Brain Type" and "Every Child Has a Thinking Style." Her work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Polish, and Portuguese. She has written for "The New York Times," "The Globe and Mail," "The Christian Science Monitor," "Forbes," "Parenting," "Self," "Cosmo,” "Science of Mind," "Wasatch Woman," and "Child" magazines, and from 2005–2007 she contributed a biweekly column, “Lanna Cairns’ Organized World,” to the "Napa Valley Register." Cairns has been a speaker at several national conferences, including those held by The National Association of Professional Organizers, The National Study Group for the Chronically Disorganized, at colleges, and at several United Centers for Spiritual Living around the country. She has appeared on ABC, CBC, and CTV. A native of Canada, Cairns earned her masters degree from McMaster University. She currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband, two sons and two dogs, Hoodoo and Nina, a rescue dog from Romania.