{"id":856,"date":"2012-02-10T07:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2012-02-10T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:37:50","slug":"politics-as-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/archives\/856","title":{"rendered":"Politics as Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the USA, there&#8217;s quite the media frenzy of attention on the<br \/>\npossible candidates for president. When you pay attention to it,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s easy to get caught up in beliefs in powerlessness, scarcity<br \/>\nand separation.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I think of it, that&#8217;s probably true for most of the<br \/>\n&#8220;news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great practice in awareness, to just notice what happens to<br \/>\nyour thinking and then how you feel, when you listen to what&#8217;s<br \/>\nbeing said.<\/p>\n<p>Do you find yourself tempted to criticize others?<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to defend your own position, or convince others that<br \/>\nyou are right?<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel worried that something you care about will be<br \/>\ndamaged or destroyed?<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel fear for your safety?<\/p>\n<p>Just notice the feelings, and the thoughts you are believing.<\/p>\n<p>When you remember that it&#8217;s up to you to choose beliefs that<br \/>\nsupport your well being, beliefs that will create the experience<br \/>\nyou really want, ask yourself this: <\/p>\n<p>   Do the beliefs reinforced by the news media<br \/>\n   I read, listen to, and watch support the<br \/>\n   life I want to create?<\/p>\n<p>Something to think about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the USA, there&#8217;s quite the media frenzy of attention on the possible candidates for president. When you pay attention to it, it&#8217;s easy to get caught up in beliefs in powerlessness, scarcity and separation. Now that I think of it, that&#8217;s probably true for most of the &#8220;news.&#8221; It&#8217;s great practice in awareness, to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/archives\/856\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Politics as Practice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-healing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}