{"id":522,"date":"2015-03-13T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T18:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=522"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:54:55","slug":"meditation-training-the-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2015\/03\/13\/meditation-training-the-bottom-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Training: The Bottom Line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation is cropping up everywhere. Take a look around. Probably your neighbor is doing it, your doctor is recommending it to some of her patients, and your chaplain would like everyone to &#8216;just close their eyes for a few moments&#8217; and give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the media gets involved. And a debate begins to emerge. Some question the practice. Others question its growth. Here are three links to the ongoing &#8216;debate&#8217; about meditation in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Corporations' Newest Productivity Hack | The Atlantic, Joe Pinsker, March 10, 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/m.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/03\/corporations-newest-productivity-hack-meditation\/387286\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Corporations&#8217; Newest Productivity Hack: Meditation&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> by Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, March 10, 2015<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Beyond McMindfulness | The Huffington Post, Blog: Religion, Ron Purser and David Loy, July 1, 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ron-purser\/beyond-mcmindfulness_b_3519289.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Beyond McMindfulness&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> by Ron Purser and David Loy, The Huffington Post, July 1, 2013<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Secular Mindfulness | A Quiet Place, Sept 8, 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2014\/10\/20\/secular-mindfulness\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Secular Mindfulness&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, A Quiet Place, September 8, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation is cropping up everywhere. Take a look around. Probably your neighbor is doing it, your doctor is recommending it to some of her patients, and your chaplain would like everyone to &#8216;just close their eyes for a few moments&#8217; and give it a try. Naturally, the media gets involved. And a debate begins to [&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":[12],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}