{"id":431,"date":"2014-10-30T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:20:13","slug":"meditation-will-help-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2014\/10\/30\/meditation-will-help-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation will help you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way or another, meditation can help you, but I can&#8217;t tell you exactly how. So here are four possibilities based on stories that friends and family have sent me in the past week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a grip on heart disease. Researchers at Brown U. have found an association between mindfulness and cardio health. Read more at\u00a0<a title=\"Mindfulness associated with better health | News from Brown, Oct 23, 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/news.brown.edu\/articles\/2014\/10\/mindful\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/news.brown.edu\/articles\/2014\/10\/mindful<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Heal the Red-Blue divide. Washington DC powerbrokers are sitting down together for a little shared quiet time. Who knows what will come next? <a title=\"Meditation sessions become a hit, NY Post, Page 6, Oct 25, 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2014\/10\/25\/meditation-sessions-become-a-hit-in-dysfunctional-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2014\/10\/25\/meditation-sessions-become-a-hit-in-dysfunctional-congress\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Keep brain scientists in their labs (and off the streets). Scientific American reveals what neuroscientists are learning about the effects of meditation. <a title=\"Mind of the Meditator, Scientific American, Oct 14, 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/scientificamerican1114-38\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/scientificamerican1114-38<\/a> (paywall)\n<\/li>\n<li>Prevent the Robot Revolution. Famed Zen Buddhist D.T. Suzuki once wrote, &#8220;We must realize that modern civilization is thoroughly oriented towards dehumanizing humanity in every possible way; that is to say, we are fast turning into robots or statues with no human souls. Our task is to get humanized once more.&#8221; Meditation could be part of how we recover our humanity. <a title=\"Humanized Once More, Tricycle, Summer 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tricycle.com\/parting-words\/humanized-once-more\" target=\"\">http:\/\/www.tricycle.com\/parting-words\/humanized-once-more<\/a> (paywall)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way or another, meditation can help you, but I can&#8217;t tell you exactly how. So here are four possibilities based on stories that friends and family have sent me in the past week: Get a grip on heart disease. Researchers at Brown U. have found an association between mindfulness and cardio health. Read more [&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-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}