{"id":738,"date":"2022-04-27T04:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T00:18:28","slug":"mindfulness-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-739 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220421_153253-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Colors of Red, Yellow, and Green\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220421_153253-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220421_153253-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220421_153253-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220421_153253-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220421_153253-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">I saw this sight on a drizzly chilly afternoon here in Blenheim NZ, and had to walk back out into the rain to take this shot.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">How could you not? For me, THIS is mindfulness. Just taking the second it takes to acknowledge the beauty around you.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Make it a practice to notice, to appreciate scenes like these when they are given.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>Autumn in wine country<\/em><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>Layers of color collide<\/em><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>Olives drip from the branches in an early evening rain.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>Leaves leave their tri-colored flag on the floor<\/em><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em>a stoplight of red, yellow, green.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindfulness means being aware of your surroundings, appreciating the sights and sounds and smells around you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":739,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220421_153253-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kBci-bU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}