{"id":1404,"date":"2015-02-16T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2015-02-16T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:49:58","slug":"sharon-salzberg-meditation-challenge-day-16-begin-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/sharon-salzberg-meditation-challenge-day-16-begin-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Salzberg Meditation Challenge- Day 16 Begin again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Begin Again<\/p>\n

How is sit-sit-sitting
\ngoing to help?
\nWhen all I wanna do
\nis yell-cry-yell!<\/p>\n

Okay okay okay
\nI’ll try again anyway.<\/p>\n

I take a deep breath,
\nnotice where my attention goes,
\nfind I’m feeling grateful
\nfor my amazing nose.<\/p>\n

But then I remember
\nso much work to do,
\nand I’m not limber,
\nand I’m mad at you.<\/p>\n

“Notice, simply notice,”
\nthe calm voice says,
\nand I start to realize
\nthe power in my head–<\/p>\n

when I simply notice,
\nname, and let go,
\nthis future-tripping
\nfalls away like snow.<\/p>\n

This judging and anger–
\nit’s ok they’re there,
\nbut they’re not the same as me,
\nand I am everywhere.<\/p>\n

Another deep breath
\nas my hands begin to warm,
\nand I forget to worry
\nabout my lack of perfect form.<\/p>\n

None of us are perfect,
\nand that’s okay.
\nSomehow each and every moment
\ncan be the start of a new,
\nperfectly imperfect day.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -Signed, Meditating Poet.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Some days we want to never end, some days we may count down the minutes.\u00a0 The moments contained in each of those days is precious in its own way, and possibly informative if we can stay present.\u00a0 Each breath can be a resetting of the clock to signal a new beginning, even if only to get through a moment of difficulty.\u00a0 Starting anew, beginning again is a way for us to refresh ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Begin Again How is sit-sit-sitting going to help? When all I wanna do is yell-cry-yell! Okay okay okay I’ll try again anyway. I take a deep breath, notice where my attention goes, find I’m feeling grateful for my amazing nose. But then I remember so much work to do, and I’m not limber, and I’m […]<\/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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YyuX-mE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mymindfulwayoflife.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}