{"id":452,"date":"2013-07-29T03:55:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/the_comeback\/?p=452"},"modified":"2013-07-29T04:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T04:24:29","slug":"fifty-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/the_comeback\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been exploring mindfulness, thanks to the excellent website Raptitude<\/a> and a particular post of his that explained how to stop worrying what people think of you.<\/a> He (Raptitude’s David) refers to a book on mindfulness and meditation called “Wherever You Go, There You Are,” by Jon Kabat-Zinn which I immediately sought out at the library, despite the title which reminds me of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension<\/a>, which in turn reminds me that I used to be a person who cared so much what people thought of me that I sat through that whole movie. (I might have fallen asleep at some point.) <\/p>\n

It’s an entrancing book. At first I had trouble jumping in but now I’ve made space for it in my day and I carry it around with me and one of the things Kabat-Zinn says is to resist the urge to talk about and analyze and brag about your mindfulness practise so I will not! <\/p>\n

I have come to realize that writing is a manifestation of mindfulness for me, at least the writing I do in the morning, and in the past two months, the writing I do here. I expect nothing of either space other than that I should be able to occupy it until I am finished.<\/p>\n

It’s why I keep coming back, I guess.<\/p>\n

\"Eli<\/a>

Eli found this balloon on the street today and brought it home. It’s a fundamentally true balloon.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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