{"id":649,"date":"2012-02-07T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/?p=649"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:46:01","slug":"meditation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/2012\/02\/meditation-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy,<\/p>\n<p>Today I sat and meditated.\u00a0 For fifteen minutes I thought about normal things; like the garlic festival I will be going to and how garlic is supposed to be great for your health.\u00a0 I then pondered how many weeks it will take to get the smell out of my pores.\u00a0 Next I remembered something in the liquor store; they actually sell tequila in bottles shaped like rifles and hand guns.\u00a0 I know these might be cool at parties but what kind of message are they sending?\u00a0 After all, how accurately can you shoot when drinking?\u00a0 I started to think about the dinner I had with someone\u2019s elderly mother.\u00a0 The woman is in an assisted living facility but they don\u2019t shave her face.\u00a0 She has whiskers almost a half inch long but I don&#8217;t think she has a clue what the cat pose is.\u00a0 Do the workers leave this grotesqueness there to spite her since she is mean to everyone?<\/p>\n<p>What are you supposed to think about during meditation?\u00a0 Is there a right and wrong? Am I twisted?\u00a0 I pay attention to my breath but my mind wanders elsewhere pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy, Today I sat and meditated.\u00a0 For fifteen minutes I thought about normal things; like the garlic festival I will be going to and how garlic is supposed to be great for your health.\u00a0 I then pondered how many weeks it will take to get the smell out of my pores.\u00a0 Next I remembered something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23,55,15,12],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","tag-breathing","tag-focus","tag-meditation-2","tag-what-is-yoga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thoughts for meditation - 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