{"id":1231,"date":"2011-03-10T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2011-03-10T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:00:23","slug":"looking-for-happiness-try-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Looking for happiness? Try mindfulness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s enlightening when you look closely at it, the balance between outer paradises and inner bliss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A sunny, warm, comfortable day in the surf is certainly a gift in many ways. <\/strong>Yet it&#8217;s how I perceive such outer circumstance\u00a0<em>inside of me, <\/em>that means anything.<\/p>\n<p>If unhappy (or ungrateful, dark, self-centered, greedy, fill in the blank) inside &#8211; <strong>there&#8217;s no way an external paradise beach will make me fulfilled. <\/strong>Take it from one whose lived on that beach, wanting to die.<\/p>\n<p>But when I am grateful for the blessings I have been given in my now, this moment &#8211; and there are such abundance of blessings to count, and be aware of &#8211; I am in Paradise inside. I can even just close my eyes and imagine blessings that I wish for, and be happy. Because <strong>happiness is always inside of me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How big is that for a choice?!\u00a0How challenging, yet possible, is that for a living?!<\/p>\n<p>In that, we are all truly free. That great practice of living. Of Yoga within.<\/p>\n<p>This lifetime is <strong>so full of learning<\/strong>, no wonder we need 8 hours of sleep at night to restore!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1232\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/?attachment_id=1232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1232\" title=\"krishna-judge1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/krishna-judge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/krishna-judge1.jpg 543w, https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/krishna-judge1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/krishna-judge1-270x267.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s enlightening when you look closely at it, the balance between outer paradises and inner bliss. A sunny, warm, comfortable day in the surf is certainly a gift in many ways. Yet it&#8217;s how I perceive such outer circumstance\u00a0inside of me, that means anything. If unhappy (or ungrateful, dark, self-centered, greedy, fill in the blank) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[71,70],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-happiness","tag-mindfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlewing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}