{"id":1449,"date":"2017-02-19T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2017-02-21T23:59:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T23:59:24","slug":"lets-meditate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/lets-meditate\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Meditate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-512x293.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-512x293.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-32x18.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-100x57.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-250x143.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1-500x286.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Yoga-Breathing-1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\u201cAre you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a\u00a0means of getting there? Stress is caused by being \u201chere\u201d but wanting to be \u201cthere,\u201d or being in\u00a0the present but wanting to be in the future. It\u02bcs a split that tears you apart inside. To create\u00a0and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody is doing it doesn\u02bct make it\u00a0any less insane.\u201d Ekhart Tolle, the Power of Now\u00a0Here are a few reasons to practice mindfulness meditation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stress Relief<\/li>\n<li>Quiet Mind<\/li>\n<li>Improve concentration<\/li>\n<li>Emotional balance<\/li>\n<li>Compassion<\/li>\n<li>Peace of mind<\/li>\n<li>Pain Management<\/li>\n<li>Deepen insight<\/li>\n<li>Resilience to change.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen faith<\/li>\n<li>Healthy body and mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cYou are successfully meditating if you meditate. If you take one moment to see what\u00a0is occurring inside your own mind \u2014 without getting involved in its contents, without\u00a0engaging in the dialogue, just looking \u2014 you are doing it right.\u201d Jon Kabat-Zinn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAre you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a\u00a0means of getting there? Stress is caused by being \u201chere\u201d but wanting to be \u201cthere,\u201d or being in\u00a0the present but wanting to be in the future. It\u02bcs a split that tears you apart inside. To create\u00a0and live with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.just-breatheyoga.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}