{"id":200,"date":"2016-08-08T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/wp\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-10-24T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T22:13:58","slug":"anderson-cooper-misses-the-point-of-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/08\/anderson-cooper-misses-the-point-of-mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper Misses the Point of Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning mindfulness doesn&#8217;t require spending thousands of dollars to go to a Jon Kabat-Zinns mountain top retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Learning mindfulness in a group setting can be very effective when group think takes over. You&#8217;ll find yourself swept up and willing to accept whatever the &#8220;guru&#8221; wants you to believe. It&#8217;s great while you are at your retreat.<\/p>\n<p>What happens after you leave and you are on your own? Without the group support, how well can you maintain the practice?<\/p>\n<p>Too often these programs are cloaked in mysticism and magic. The guru holds the key but never quite lets go.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that mindfulness is a natural ability that everyone has and anyone can learn. No need for a guru. Isn&#8217;t it better to rely on your own powerful mind than a powerful guru.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KDxIBQT7F54?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;showinfo=0\" style=\"border: none\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning mindfulness doesn&#8217;t require spending thousands of dollars to go to a Jon Kabat-Zinns mountain top retreat. Learning mindfulness in a group setting can be very effective when group think takes over. You&#8217;ll find yourself swept up and willing to accept whatever the &#8220;guru&#8221; wants you to believe. It&#8217;s great while you are at your retreat. What happens after you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-em","category-mind-power","category-mindfulness","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}