{"id":209,"date":"2012-12-15T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:43:06","slug":"preparing-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/preparing-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing For Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>The best way to prepare for a Big Shift is to cultivate mental and emotional states that ripen us to be ready for anything:<\/p>\n<p>* a commitment to not getting lost inside our own heads;<\/p>\n<p>* a strategy to avoid being enthralled with the hypnotic lure of painful emotions, past events, and worries about the future;<\/p>\n<p>* a trust in empirical evidence over our time-worn beliefs and old habits;<\/p>\n<p>* a talent for turning up our curiosity full blast and tuning in to the raw truth of every moment with our beginner&#8217;s mind fully engaged;<\/p>\n<p>* and an eagerness to dwell gracefully in the midst of all the interesting questions that tease and teach us.<\/p>\n<p>Everything just described also happens to be an excellent way to prime yourself for a chronic, low-grade, always-on, simmering-at-low-heat brand of ecstasy &#8212; a state of being more-or-less permanently in the Tao, in the groove, in the zone.<\/p>\n<p>by Rob Brezsny<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to prepare for a Big Shift is to cultivate mental and emotional states that ripen us to be ready for anything: * a commitment to not getting lost inside our own heads; * a strategy to avoid being enthralled with the hypnotic lure of painful emotions, past events, and worries about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justapollo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}