{"id":2998,"date":"2020-09-03T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2020-11-06T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T19:29:27","slug":"emergence-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/emergence-is-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergence is Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergence is a property of life and pretty much everything else in the universe. It is more than the movement from one place or state into a new place or state. It is the creation of something new from components done in a way that the result is different from the sum of the parts.<\/p>\n<p>Economist Jeffrey Goldstein puts it best<br \/>\n&#8220;[Emergence is] the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What does that means in the context of EM?<\/p>\n<p>The practice of deep mindfulness meditation is a process of mental self-organization that can be used to create something new in your life. You can use this emergence in a self-directed way to make changes that will refresh and restart your life. It takes place at the very special moments immediately following deep mindfulness meditation, when inspiration and self-awareness are peaking. In EM you are taught specific techniques to harness the emergence principle to produce the outcomes you are seeking.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond EM we see the same principle when a sprout emerges from a seed, or a snowflake emerges from a falling drop of water, or when a new star emerges from a cloud of cosmic dust and debris. It&#8217;s everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergence is a property of life and pretty much everything else in the universe. It is more than the movement from one place or state into a new place or state. It is the creation of something new from components done in a way that the result is different from the sum of the parts. Economist Jeffrey Goldstein puts it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2999,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-em","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentmeditation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}