{"id":513,"date":"2012-07-27T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-07-27T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:48:11","slug":"what-is-the-true-purpose-of-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/27\/what-is-the-true-purpose-of-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the True Purpose of Meditation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.promotehealthwellness.com\/purpose-of-meditation\/\">What is the True Purpose of Meditation?<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Posted on:<\/em>\u00a0November 13th, 2010 <em>by<\/em>\u00a0Rakesh Sethi<\/p>\n<p>This is a decent article about meditation, but I do not think the author has gone far enough, so I added my comments:<\/p>\n<p>I have found that meditation calms the mind, brings inner peace, stillness and CLARITY. \u00a0It is with this clarity that I have been able to see the truth that sets me free to perfectly enjoy and love ALL that life has to offer. \u00a0For instance, I can see that virtually all the stress I experience is a product of MY REACTIONS to what life is offering: my thoughts and then my habitual emotional reaction to those thoughts. \u00a0A thought is really nothing more than an electro-chemical impulse traveling along the neurons of the brain and it cannot hurt me, it is only my reaction to the thought that can cause me stress or pain.<\/p>\n<p>So I have changed my practice to include practicing positive emotional reactions to ALL thoughts. \u00a0So most of my &#8220;meditations&#8221; now focus in on practicing happiness, joy, love, peace and feeling freedom. \u00a0All of these are inner experiences and ENTIRELY a function of habit, which can be changed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the True Purpose of Meditation?.\u00a0Posted on:\u00a0November 13th, 2010 by\u00a0Rakesh Sethi This is a decent article about meditation, but I do not think the author has gone far enough, so I added my comments: I have found that meditation calms the mind, brings inner peace, stillness and CLARITY. \u00a0It is with this clarity that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,115],"tags":[97,81],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthemotional","category-understanding-ourselves","tag-love-2","tag-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}