{"id":42,"date":"2014-03-02T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-03-02T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T15:36:46","slug":"feeling-more-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Feeling more human?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not written since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday it took until 1:06pm until I realised I actually felt quite present. The morning head spent with racing thoughts, at times quite aggressive thoughts, thoughts of feeling down and feeling a little like a victim too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve realised that when I am very present I feel how I imagine most people feel most of the time, human. \u00a0When I&#8217;m feeling good I feel superhuman, when I&#8217;m feeling down I feel like the scum of the earth and worthless. I liken this to high ritual magic and the seeking of conversation with ones holy guardian angel.<\/p>\n<p>what is it to feel human or for that matter to be human?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;be been a vegetarian for over 8 months, almost vegan, coffee free and alcohol free for that long too. I think that has helped me start to come to terms with how my mind is slightly different. \u00a0I feel like I have more control now too, to a degree. \u00a0Meditation and Qigong have helped hugely. \u00a0I&#8217;ve meditated for years and years now. The more I meditate the more I start to understand myself. \u00a0I seek enlightenment in this life too. \u00a0Maybe by understanding myself much more I get much closer to it.<\/p>\n<p>life never ceases to amaze me in both respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not written since Friday. Yesterday it took until 1:06pm until I realised I actually felt quite present. The morning head spent with racing thoughts, at times quite aggressive thoughts, thoughts of feeling down and feeling a little like a victim too. I&#8217;ve realised that when I am very present I feel how I imagine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=42\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feeling more human?<\/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-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}