{"id":1940,"date":"2024-01-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2024-01-17T23:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:50:12","slug":"january-18-taking-in-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/january-18-taking-in-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"January 18 &#8211; Taking in the good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason sila is a practice rather than a set of rules &#8211; it&#8217;s a way we can explore where we can grow and cultivate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you reflect on sila, maybe you&#8217;re like me &#8211; I tend to notice many of the ways I fall short. To counteract this negativity bias, it&#8217;s also important to recognize all the ways we are already being skillful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick Hanson has written and talked about the practice of taking in the good. For today&#8217;s practice, you might want to check out the meditation and talk from a session Rick led in March 2023.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/rickhanson.com\/meditation-talk-why-do-we-take-in-the-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/rickhanson.com\/meditation-talk-why-do-we-take-in-the-good\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With good wishes,<br>Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, There&#8217;s a reason sila is a practice rather than a set of rules &#8211; it&#8217;s a way we can explore where we can grow and cultivate. When you reflect on sila, maybe you&#8217;re like me &#8211; I tend to notice many of the ways I fall short. To counteract this negativity bias, it&#8217;s also important to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/january-18-taking-in-the-good\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[355],"tags":[161,75,363,224],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2024","tag-eightfold-path","tag-rick-hanson-ph-d","tag-right-livelihood","tag-sila"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}