{"id":2720,"date":"2011-06-02T19:18:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2015-02-18T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:48:32","slug":"mindfulness-in-the-morning-300511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/02\/mindfulness-in-the-morning-300511\/","title":{"rendered":"mindfulness in the morning (30\/05\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it happens without any planning- although you may or may not realize that you&#8217;ve actually spent all your life preparing for it- the unexpected idea, conversation, song- bursting forth almost fully formed from something within you that is greater than yourself.<\/p>\n<p>In this specific case we&#8217;re talking about an acute sense of mindfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Spend longer in the shower than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Be late for work without any sense of urgency, be out of cigarettes and not notice it- comfortable, detached.<\/p>\n<p>Read a magazine (June\/July issue of Esquire, 2011) and notice that immense amount of effort and attention invested into the litle details.\u00a0Consider the nature of preconscious perception.<\/p>\n<p>Feel a sense of flow.<\/p>\n<p>Recall a subtle exchange of text messages where a friend tried to coerce you into meeting, appealing to guilt and gratitude for favours granted in the past.\u00a0Recall, detachedly, having felt a sense of frustration. Contemplate the complex nature of interpersonal relations. Recall Robert Greene&#8217;s 13th law of power <em>(Appeal to self-interest, not to mercy or gratitude)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Contemplate self. Get reacquainted with the extent of the influence of fear, guilt, insecurity and weakness on the human psyche. Feel a little more comfortable in one&#8217;s own skin.<\/p>\n<p>Read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/william-petit-case-0611?src=rss\">a man whose wife and daughters were brutally raped and murdered.<\/a> Feel a sense of perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Notice improved ability to breathe deeply following a watershed half-marathon run.<\/p>\n<p>Detached. In awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it happens without any planning- although you may or may not realize that you&#8217;ve actually spent all your life preparing for it- the unexpected idea, conversation, song- bursting forth almost fully formed from something within you that is greater than yourself. In this specific case we&#8217;re talking about an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-memoirs-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-HS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10057,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}