I am proud of myself for a step I took yesterday. I went ahead and ordered a Zen meditation bench. It was a small and simple step towards better health. I know I really want to start Zen meditation again and make it a daily routine. The small and simple step of acquiring a tool will help tremendously towards establishment of this routine. I feel a sense of accomplishment for doing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyhow, the bench will make it possible for me to sit in zazen<\/em> comfortably for decent periods of time. I am a bit infirm and unsteady at the moment so a tool like this will help to ease the establishment of the routine. I am seriously super excited for its arrival on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think clarity of mind, body, and spirit will unlock all kinds of future opportunities and open doors that could be almost limitless. I am so glad that I watched E-motion 2.0<\/em>. While I don’t agree with everything in the documentary, I am a fan of taking information that jibes with me and running with it. The documentary convinced me of the importance of a healthy mind, body, and spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I see myself doing meditation when I wake up in the mornings. This will start out the day with clarity. I am convinced that I can overcome some of my sickness through taking care of myself at a basic, wholesome level. It’s my hope that through concerted meditation, I can free myself of the burden that life in America can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am proud of myself for a step I took yesterday. I went ahead and ordered a Zen meditation bench. It was a small and simple step towards better health. I know I really want to start Zen meditation again and make it a daily routine. The small and simple step of acquiring a tool […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}