{"id":56,"date":"2008-09-22T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net?p=56"},"modified":"2008-09-22T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T19:02:00","slug":"3-breaths-practice-all-day-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"3 Breaths Practice&#8211;all day long!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gears.jpg\" title=\"gears.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/monksrollercoaster.jpg\" title=\"monksrollercoaster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/monksrollercoaster.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"monksrollercoaster.jpg\" title=\"monksrollercoaster.jpg\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been feeling like time is just whooshing by. How can it be late September already? I came to Zen 15 years ago in response to that same sensation. Awareness practice really helped time feel normal&#8211;for a while.<\/p>\n<p>For a few weeks now that speeding sensation causes me to feel a little panicky and cranky. It just feels like I&#8217;m on a roller coaster ride and it&#8217;s all I can do to hold on&#8211;much less experience anything.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that out of control feeling. And I sure don&#8217;t want to actually feel it&#8211;so I turn to anger, which works so much better. But today my practice intensifier is to do the 3 Breaths Practice once an hour. I have a vibrating alarm set on my phone, and I&#8217;m also going to try to remember to do it as often as I can&#8211;especially when I feel that irritation come up. And then I&#8217;m going to say, &#8220;What is this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To get just a little closer to the actual thing I&#8217;m feeling. Even if it isn&#8217;t what I expect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling like time is just whooshing by. How can it be late September already? I came to Zen 15 years ago in response to that same sensation. Awareness practice really helped time feel normal&#8211;for a while. For a few weeks now that speeding sensation causes me to feel a little panicky and cranky. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}