{"id":100,"date":"2014-03-15T06:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T06:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2014-03-15T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T07:46:50","slug":"clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a moment of absolute clarity last night whilst reading in bed. I sat there and was fully present. I think I&#8217;ve not been that present since being on retreat at the end of January. Sitting here typing I feel pretty present too. I&#8217;ve been doing mind exercises for over a year using CBT techniques to be more present. Also the meditations I&#8217;ve done for years will of helped too. I guess I need to just keep going with it all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to feel clarity again. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d call it normal because most normal people are caught up in monkey mind.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading a book on working through Techniques to help control Cyclothymia, it&#8217;s called &#8216; The Cyclothymia workbook&#8217; \u00a0so far it&#8217;s pretty good. It&#8217;s suggested keeping charts of moods, emotions, sleep etc. I already have started a diary covering it along with exercise and diet too. Anything to keep some clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a moment of absolute clarity last night whilst reading in bed. I sat there and was fully present. I think I&#8217;ve not been that present since being on retreat at the end of January. Sitting here typing I feel pretty present too. I&#8217;ve been doing mind exercises for over a year using CBT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clarity<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}