{"id":188,"date":"2016-05-02T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/wp\/?p=19"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:04:43","slug":"stop-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/02\/stop-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Thinking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you stop thinking? Most people would say no.\u00a0 Yet, it can be done.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 Your mind seems to churn out a continuous stream of thoughts.\u00a0 The harder you try to stop thinking, the more active your mind becomes and the more you think.\u00a0 You can\u2019t force your mind to stop thinking.<\/p>\n<p>In order to stop thinking you need to train your mind to relax first.\u00a0 Training your mind to relax requires a discipline.\u00a0 The more you practice the discipline the deeper the relaxation becomes and the more you can tune in to the sensations that accompany a relaxed mind.\u00a0 Those sensations are part of a complex bio-chemical-neurological process, which is largely involuntary.\u00a0 It\u2019s all part of the relaxation response.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With experience you can become familiar enough with those sensations to learn how to consciously invoke them.\u00a0 It is similar to breathing.\u00a0 Breathing is involuntary.\u00a0 Yet, you can also exert some conscious control over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you stop thinking? Most people would say no.\u00a0 Yet, it can be done.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 Your mind seems to churn out a continuous stream of thoughts.\u00a0 The harder you try to stop thinking, the more active your mind becomes and the more you think.\u00a0 You can\u2019t force your mind to stop thinking. In order to stop thinking you need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mind-power","post_format-post-format-image","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}