{"id":191,"date":"2008-07-04T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T20:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-07-04T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T20:22:56","slug":"clear-walking-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/clear-walking-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear (Walking meditation)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried meditation. A bunch of times.\u00a0 It helped, if for nothing else that for sitting sans computer in the quiet and kindness. But I couldn’t relax, couldn’t focus on meditating, focused on the noise I was making, the meditation I wasn’t doing, racing, racing thoughts.<\/p>\n

I went for a one-on-one with the leader of the class, who suggested I try walking meditation. I liked the idea. But I didn’t try it.<\/p>\n

A few months later, work launches a stairclimbing challenge. Simultaneously and separately,\u00a0 my sweetie and I decide to start walking on the paths behind his house or the city streets toward the Mall near mine. I am walking, more and more, beyond my walks to and from work.<\/p>\n

And it is working. Beyond strong calves I feel calm coming in. Clear. Zen.<\/p>\n

It is the most beautiful color of all.<\/p>\n

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Note: Happy 4th to all!!! I have also added a few posts to X365<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried meditation. A bunch of times.\u00a0 It helped, if for nothing else that for sitting sans computer in the quiet and kindness. But I couldn’t relax, couldn’t focus on meditating, focused on the noise I was making, the meditation I wasn’t doing, racing, racing thoughts. I went for a one-on-one with the leader of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[659,660,662,138,638,681,50,23,25,726,745,603,41,46,1245,765],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x365","tag-calm","tag-calves","tag-clear","tag-climbing","tag-colors","tag-exercise","tag-love","tag-meditation","tag-mental-health","tag-peace","tag-stairs","tag-walking","tag-thats-how-dc-rolls","tag-writing","tag-x365","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}