{"id":319,"date":"2019-01-16T09:47:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T09:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/2019\/01\/16\/link-post\/"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T09:47:52","slug":"link-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/link-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Calm Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just how easy is it to live in the present? I had begun thinking about this a few weeks ago. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s easy to be in the present when things are good\u2014when there\u2019s no family\/ friend drama when you enjoy your job when you\u2019re in a healthy relationship when you can be on parent autopilot. But what about when life is hard? We want out as soon as possible. We want to go back to when things were easy. We look ahead to when life will be good again, indeed, hoping it will be good again. Then, only then, will we go back to living in the present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"s1\">Life is always changing, ebbing and flowing, growing and shifting, and by living in the calm, my goal is to accept things as they come and live presently through them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How do we\u00a0<i>live in<\/i>\u00a0the present but not\u00a0<i>hold on<\/i> to the present? How do we cope with the highs and lows of life so that we can enjoy the highs, but feel prepared for and learn how to get through the lows? <\/span><span class=\"s1\">A few weeks ago, I made a goal to \u2018live in the calm.\u2019 By living in the calm, I hope to gain a better awareness of my present situation and to not get too attached to the easy moments in life, but also to not fall into the trap of thinking the more challenging, stressful moments are going to last forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Source: ourbodybook.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is always changing, ebbing and flowing, growing and shifting, and by living in the calm, my goal is to accept things as they come and live presently through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[7,9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nwyrk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}