{"id":1953,"date":"2024-01-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2024-01-20T01:09:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T07:09:53","slug":"january-20-energy-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/january-20-energy-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"January 20 &#8211; Energy audit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, I will share one of the reflection questions from the eightfold path class I took through BCIMS a couple of years ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do an energy audit. Ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What am I choosing to put effort\/energy into in my life ?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What inspires and energizes me? What blocks or dissipates my energy?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do I most value &#8211; where do I really want my energy to go?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<cite>Rachel Lewis and Adrianne Ross, January 2022<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a person who over-efforts on many occasions, I find this poem a reminder to balance the efforting with space, so that what&#8217;s most important has the opportunity to emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Clearing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not try to save<br>the whole world<br>or do anything grandiose.<br>Instead, create<br>a clearing<br>in the dense forest<br>of your life<br>and wait there<br>patiently,<br>until the song<br>that is your life<br>falls into your own cupped hands<br>and you recognize and greet it.<br>Only then will you know<br>how to give yourself to this world<br>so worthy of rescue.<\/p>\n<cite>by Martha Postlethwaite, as found here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindfulnessassociation.net\/words-of-wonder\/clearing-martha-postlethwaite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.mindfulnessassociation.net\/words-of-wonder\/clearing-martha-postlethwaite\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With good wishes,<br>Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, Today, I will share one of the reflection questions from the eightfold path class I took through BCIMS a couple of years ago: As a person who over-efforts on many occasions, I find this poem a reminder to balance the efforting with space, so that what&#8217;s most important has the opportunity to emerge. Clearing Do not\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/january-20-energy-audit\/\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[355],"tags":[161,337,366],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2024","tag-eightfold-path","tag-martha-postlethwaite","tag-right-effort"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}