{"id":2600,"date":"2008-05-31T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2008-05-31T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T14:55:00","slug":"happiness-in-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/happiness-in-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness in meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really not my place to post this.. But it seemed appropriate for a few.<\/p>\n<p>I have a <i>really<\/i> good friend who&#8217;s been a little stressed and nervous About a major 2 week project she was due to start on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I told her to relax by using a mantra. A personal favourite goes &#8216;along the lines&#8217; of:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pretend your next pint is in London&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can say with all positive assurances that this style of mantra met with complete success this morning.<\/p>\n<p>At about 8:45 I received a G-Note that said her visualization had achieved a depth that compared strikingly to reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2600\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/happiness-in-meditation\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2600\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/happiness-in-meditation\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2600\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/happiness-in-meditation\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/happiness-in-meditation\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really not my place to post this.. 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