{"id":290,"date":"2014-04-18T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-04-18T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T00:32:59","slug":"sit-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2014\/04\/18\/sit-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharing a meditation space with others helps me as a meditator. It actually encourages me to sit, to sit more mindfully. I also feel that it helps soften many of the mental barriers my mind habitually erects between “I” and “Other.”<\/p>\n

Of course, meditating together isn’t always possible. Everyone has a different schedule. So here are a set of audio resources that will help you sit whenever you decide and wherever you happen to be: Sit Now<\/strong><\/a>. These resources include links to guided meditations and simple audio streams that consist solely of a bell, a timed period of silence, and three more bells to close. You can sit now! (And you can also sit again later.)<\/p>\n

>> A Sit Now<\/strong><\/a> link is located at the top every page at this web site. See ‘Sit Now’ next to ‘Resources’?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sharing a meditation space with others helps me as a meditator. It actually encourages me to sit, to sit more mindfully. I also feel that it helps soften many of the mental barriers my mind habitually erects between “I” and “Other.” Of course, meditating together isn’t always possible. Everyone has a different schedule. So here […]<\/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-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}