{"id":1501,"date":"2024-09-25T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2024-09-25T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:24:15","slug":"daily-reading-from-recovery-days-september-20th-by-chris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Daily reading from Recovery Days September 20th by Chris B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-ef09045cdd219b2a7794e6aaf0c7fbc8\"><strong>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094027278120\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2bd5614927128f26d3fa407bb29fd2f4\"><strong>Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@recoverydays\">Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays <\/a>   <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1de678ba8b384877d849a4d4bf2fddd1\"><strong>Remember Mindfulness \u2013 breathe slowly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8a52cb339febc663195a0b0aac892ded\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3d6629b1581ecff4ae4113f0c500fb54\"><strong><br><em>I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.<br>If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident,<br>or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat<br>blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one<br>mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter\u2014we<br>never need read of another<\/em>.<br><em>Henry David Thoreau.<\/em><br>Thoreau wondered if we could become addicted to<br>news. What would he have made of twenty-fourhour<br>news channels? He died in 1862 after a<br>remarkably unconventional life. He was first to<br>conceive the idea of civil disobedience and spent<br>two years living very simply in a hut in the woods to<br>experience the essential facts of life and to gain<br>enlightenment. He was practising mindfulness<br>before the word was invented. Can I benefit from<br>mindfulness by using the example of others?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-9bc3847a6552c11d35e97c4337411944\"><strong><br>Thoreau described moments of peace when his mind<br>had: The calmness of the lake when there is not a<br>breath of wind, and without an effort, our depths are<br>revealed to ourselves. I can aspire to such moments<br>using meditation. Today I give thanks for the peace<br>that comes through mindfulness.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View VIDEO on Facebook&nbsp;&nbsp;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=A100094027278120 Follow on TikTok Videos at&nbsp;Tiktok.com\/@recoverydays Remember Mindfulness \u2013 breathe slowly I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident,or one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/?p=1501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,31,20],"tags":[11,28,27,30,32],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction-recovery-2","category-behavioural-addiction-2","category-daily-inspiration","category-living-skills","tag-addiction-recovery","tag-castle-craig","tag-connection","tag-daily-inspiration","tag-recovery-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverydays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}