{"id":261,"date":"2014-04-06T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=261"},"modified":"2014-04-06T10:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:45:49","slug":"mindful-fuzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2014\/04\/06\/mindful-fuzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Fuzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Oregonian featured a multi-part series, <strong>Mindfulness in policing<\/strong>, on a <a title=\"MBRT | Hillsboro Police Dept\" href=\"http:\/\/yogahillsboro.com\/hillsboro-police-departments-mindfulness-based-resilience-training-begins-here\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mindfulness-based resiliency training (MBRT)<\/strong><\/a> program that the <strong>Hillsboro Police Department<\/strong> has been operating for its officers. As Hillsboro Police Lt. Richard Goerling put it, &#8220;being a cop kills you.&#8221; So he worked with fellow officers and local meditation experts to develop a program that is intended to help officers manage stress and also become better police officers. According to Goerling, &#8220;mindful cops are better listeners and make better decisions. They are more mentally healthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Mindfulness in policing | Oregonian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/hillsboro\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/mindfulness_in_policing_hillsb.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hillsboro cops look inward to keep the peace (first in a series) (Apr 3)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mindfulness in policing | Oregonian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/hillsboro\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/mindfulness_in_policing_hillsb_1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hillsboro cops forge revolutionary path with meditation training (Apr 4)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mindfulness in policing | Oregonian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/hillsboro\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/mindfulness_in_policing_the_co.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The cost of building resiliency in Hillsboro cops (Apr 4)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mindfulness in policing | Oregonian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/hillsboro\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/meditating_marines_inspire_hil.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meditating Marines inspire Hillsboro Sgt. Rohn Richards to try the practice (Apr 5)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Mindfulness in policing | Oregonian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/hillsboro\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/mindfulness_in_policing_medita.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meditation brings &#8216;old-school&#8217; Hillsboro cop, Sgt. Bruce Kelley, tranquility (Apr 5)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Oregonian featured a multi-part series, Mindfulness in policing, on a mindfulness-based resiliency training (MBRT) program that the Hillsboro Police Department has been operating for its officers. As Hillsboro Police Lt. Richard Goerling put it, &#8220;being a cop kills you.&#8221; So he worked with fellow officers and local meditation experts to develop a program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}