{"id":3953,"date":"2019-01-11T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2019-01-11T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:15:04","slug":"you-should-meditate-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2019\/01\/you-should-meditate-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"You Should Meditate Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"link-4cc84bf5\" class=\"css-q2pomr e1h9rw200\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/09\/opinion\/meditation-internet.html\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">You Should Meditate Every Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best way I can describe the effect is to liken it to a software upgrade for my brain \u2014 an update designed to guard against the terrible way the online world takes over your time and your mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I started meditating for 5-10 minutes per day around October of last year (inspired by a talk from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BojjOpTAZ5E\/\">Dan Harris<\/a>), and while I&#8217;ve faltered a little along the way, I do feel better when it&#8217;s part of my daily routine. I had been put off by the apparent spirituality of meditation, but Dan&#8217;s talk helped me understand that I can enjoy the benefits of practicing mindfulness without the spiritual&#8230;baggage.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for mindfulness app recommendations, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/oak-meditation-breathing\/id1210209691?mt=8\">Oak<\/a>\u2014it&#8217;s simple to use and free; a good place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Should Meditate Every Day The best way I can describe the effect is to liken it to a software upgrade for my brain \u2014 an update designed to guard against the terrible way the online world takes over your time and your mind. I started meditating for 5-10 minutes per day around October of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","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":[1],"tags":[218,217],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meditation","tag-mindfulness","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-11L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}