{"id":7625,"date":"2014-10-24T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/24\/breathe-deeply-and-slow-down\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:58:52","slug":"breathe-deeply-and-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/24\/breathe-deeply-and-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathe Deeply and Slow Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Dave Bagwill referred me to this entry from <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/more\/\" target=\"_self\">Zen Habits<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you feel overwhelmed, breathe. It will calm you and release the tensions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you are worried about something coming up, or caught up in something that already happened, breathe. It will bring you back to the present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you are moving too fast, breathe. It will remind you to slow down, and enjoy life more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Breathe, and enjoy each moment of this life. They\u2019re too fleeting and few to waste.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Much good comes from daily, mindful, <em>deep<\/em>&#0160; breathing.&#0160; It is essential as a preliminary to meditation, but is also valuable throughout the day.&#0160; Just remember to do it.&#0160; In these hyperkinetic times, it is important to have at the ready various techniques for slowing done.&#0160; For more on this theme, see my category <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/slow-down\/\" target=\"_self\">Slow Down!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One needn&#39;t subscribe to the metaphysics of Zen Buddhism to make good use of its techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Bagwill referred me to this entry from Zen Habits: Breathe. If you feel overwhelmed, breathe. It will calm you and release the tensions. If you are worried about something coming up, or caught up in something that already happened, breathe. It will bring you back to the present. If you are moving too fast, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/24\/breathe-deeply-and-slow-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breathe Deeply and Slow Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,376,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-slow-down","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}