{"id":1611,"date":"2025-11-13T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:40:11","slug":"cycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/cycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fog descends on the ground, the heron drops out of the sky, gliding under the cedar, onto the thin, flowing creek, then out of sight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sit each morning repeating the same prayers, resting my mind, contemplating the teachings. For me it is a slow process of discovery; to recognize the nature of my mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond, beyond\u2026 peeling back my conditioned response. A meditation that drops &#8211; to cut through the watcher and the watched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple recognition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fog descends on the ground, the heron drops out of the sky, gliding under the cedar, onto the thin, flowing creek, then out of sight. I sit each morning repeating the same prayers, resting my mind, contemplating the teachings. For me it is a slow process of discovery; to recognize the nature of my mind. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/cycles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tools4mind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}