{"id":353,"date":"2014-05-08T05:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2014-05-08T05:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T05:15:40","slug":"realisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Realisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have just had a very calming qigong session. I stood in meditation outside in a cool breeze and realised how far I&#8217;ve actually come in the last year, let alone the last 2 years. In the last year I have stopped drinking coffee, stopped drinking any alcohol ( I didn&#8217;t drink often) , I&#8217;ve gone vegetarian and almost vegan and I&#8217;ve made some very positive steps towards dealing with my Cyclothymia. There&#8217;s a long way to go bit generally I&#8217;m in a better place. I&#8217;ve also started exercising regularly too which is a huge help as I can release tension and stress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruce Lee said &#8216; Don&#8217;t ask for an easy life, ask for the strength to endure a difficult one&#8217;. I think he was right. My life isn&#8217;t so easy, but it&#8217;s not as hard as lots of other people&#8217;s either, so I need to remember that and be grateful for the loving family I do have and how good things are in my life. \u00a0Life really is ok. It&#8217;s as easy or hard as we make it barring others interfering in it. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m going to have a good day today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just had a very calming qigong session. I stood in meditation outside in a cool breeze and realised how far I&#8217;ve actually come in the last year, let alone the last 2 years. In the last year I have stopped drinking coffee, stopped drinking any alcohol ( I didn&#8217;t drink often) , I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Realisations<\/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-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}