{"id":3140,"date":"2011-11-28T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2011-11-28T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:22:07","slug":"monday-evening-oh-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/11\/28\/monday-evening-oh-snap\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday evening – Oh snap !"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I made a pledge to myself to stop worrying.. .. about all sorts of stuff… but mostly about what I want to be when I grow up.. And.. I must admit.. <snap> it didn’t work. As much as I would try and practice\u00a0 mindfulness to turn off the worrying voice.. it still would creep back in and take me somewhere <snap> or somewhen\u00a0 <snap>\u00a0 (why isn’t somewhen a word ?)\u00a0 else.. when I should be here and now.<\/p>\n

So.. now I have a different strategy.. it’s a little goofy I know.. but it seems to be working.. I’m wearing a rubber band on my wrist.. and when that monkey mind starts going.. I give it a vigorous snap <snap> or 2.. or generally 3.. And tell myself to let go of the worry. I’ve seen peoeple resort to mechanisms like this to give up smoking, or over eating.. <snap> .. but never worrying.. <snap><\/p>\n

But it <snap> seems to be working <snap, snap, snap> ..<\/p>\n

at least a little<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite Sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago I made a pledge to myself to stop worrying.. .. about all sorts of stuff… but mostly about what I want to be when I grow up.. And.. I must admit.. <snap> it didn’t work. As much as I would try and practice\u00a0 mindfulness to turn off the worrying voice.. … Continue reading Monday evening – Oh snap !<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[332],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-oh-snap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}