{"id":935,"date":"2009-02-19T20:43:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativityandwellness.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-02-19T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:43:31","slug":"creative-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Creative Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever have the feeling that you are doing too much? Are your responsibilities overwhelming you? Is it pull-out-your-hair-time? If so, you are not alone. This afternoon I was hard at work, systematically producing against deadlines and I felt that familiar stretching across my forehead. That&#8217;s my signal, that I need a break. Luckily I could escape phones and computers for 20 minutes. I found a quiet place, closed the door and meditated. I used the simple <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tm.org\/\">TM (Transcendental Meditation)<\/a> mantra that I&#8217;ve used for decades. Immediately a wash of clarity came over me.<\/p>\n<p>While I meditated images and words that I&#8217;d been stuck on in my work &#8212; lifted, regrouped and crystallized. After 20 minutes in silence I stood up, with clear intention on the changes I needed to make.<\/p>\n<p><em>My creativity &amp; wellness message for today is: Take a break when you need to. Stop, sit, breathe and meditate. The world will still be there when you return, what will be different is you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever have the feeling that you are doing too much? Are your responsibilities overwhelming you? Is it pull-out-your-hair-time? If so, you are not alone. This afternoon I was hard at work, systematically producing against deadlines and I felt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?p=935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[200,178],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-wellness","tag-meditation","tag-tm"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}