{"id":47232,"date":"2016-12-07T04:17:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=47232"},"modified":"2016-12-07T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T08:23:30","slug":"be-in-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/be-in-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"be in the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of white little hairs stand on end in Mobi&#8217;s ear, they&#8217;re part of a delicate Japanese brush that&#8217;ll never be used, but will only be washed, gently, by a soft paw. I look at the never-ending coat of fur, covering her entire body. Each hair is perfection. <\/p>\n<p>If you really are attentive, genuinely are in the here and now, it is impossible to ignore the impact of everything that surrounds you &#8211; unless you&#8217;re in a coma or you shut everything out. It can burst right open, shine and sparkle right in front of you, this world. My body&#8217;s drawing the blood out of my stomach, I&#8217;m experiencing pure joy, happiness, wonder, fear, angst. Real attention is exhaustive. It burns you. <\/p>\n<p>So go on, bite the apple. <em>Mindfulness has gained worldwide popularity as a distinctive method to handle emotions.<\/em> What do these people mean? Handle <em>what<\/em>? Do\u00a0they even know what they&#8217;re saying? How perverse it is? What kind of minding is that anyhow, when life, the full monty, is crashing right through you? Handle emotions, <em>while it causes them<\/em>? What kind of twisted logic is that? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick-in-the-stomach, take a deep bow before the abyss.<\/p>\n<p><!--- What mindfulness means, is to be sick-in-the-stomach, to take a deep bow before the abyss. ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of white little hairs stand on end in Mobi&#8217;s ear, they&#8217;re part of a delicate Japanese brush that&#8217;ll never be used, but will only be washed, gently, by a soft paw. I look at the never-ending coat of fur, covering her entire body. Each hair is perfection. If you really are attentive,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/be-in-the-moment\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47232"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47241,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47232\/revisions\/47241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}