{"id":194,"date":"2024-06-08T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/?p=194"},"modified":"2024-06-02T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T14:48:59","slug":"finding-the-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/2024\/06\/08\/finding-the-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193 \" src=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Quiet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"302\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quiet Sunday morning on the Austin&#8217;s Acre back porch is just what was needed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week I wrote about trying some new things that can add joy to your life as you drift through Dysautonomia&#8230;or any chronic condition. One suggestion included the use of meditation.<\/p>\n<p>While this is helpful to me, it might not be everyone&#8217;s cup of tea. Focused breathing might be distracting, rather than healing. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, I have a probing question for you: When was the last time you sat in silence for 10 minutes? No music. No T.V. No words. No phone. No games. No tasks. No planning. Just sitting. Quietly.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the birds sing. The children play. The cars drive past. To the quiet.<\/p>\n<p>I would venture to say that just as an alcoholic craves drink, as a gambler yearns for the casino, the smoker his pack, we are addicted to noise, activity, movement. And as an addict uses their substance to numb pain, we use distraction to keep us from finding truth. Allow silence to come into you and shape you, whatever it might reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote about trying some new things that can add joy to your life as you drift through Dysautonomia&#8230;or any chronic condition. One suggestion included the use of meditation. While this is helpful to me, it might not be everyone&#8217;s cup of tea. Focused breathing might be distracting, rather than healing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}