{"id":21139,"date":"2020-08-12T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/?p=21139"},"modified":"2020-11-12T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:07:30","slug":"memeditating-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/memeditating-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"#MeMeditating \u2013 Dan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to our new\u00a0#MeMeditating series! Hear from our students as they share their real-life stories of\u00a0how Vedic Meditation supported them during lockdown.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 April 2020 \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><strong>I’m Dan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have been meditating for six years this June.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>The idea of meditation had fascinated me for years \u2014 mostly\u00a0because\u00a0I was interested in spiritual development and personal growth. I tried many\u00a0different\u00a0forms of\u00a0meditation but none of them really did it for me \u2014 until I discovered Vedic Meditation.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Since I started to meditate regularly I’m calmer, happier, and more stable. I feel less compelled to try and control every aspect of my life, and more prepared to see how things turn out. I also feel very strongly that I\u2019m undertaking an important spiritual journey towards a more compassionate and awakened state.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>I’m spending lockdown alone in a 2nd-floor flat on the border of Brighton and Hove, just a few minutes\u2019 walk from the beach.\u00a0In many ways, I\u2019m actually enjoying the time alone. I\u2019m a freelance writer so my working life hasn\u2019t changed. Now, however, I feel I have more time to really luxuriate in my meditation. I’m also surrounded by mountains of books and movies to keep me occupied.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>For me during this time, meditation is helping me to stay calm and to live, as far as possible, in the present moment. It\u2019s helping me to be patient and accepting while looking forward to the day I can see my friends and loved ones again.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our new\u00a0#MeMeditating series! Hear from our students as they share their real-life stories of\u00a0how Vedic Meditation supported them during lockdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22071,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions\/22071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonmeditationcentre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}