{"id":16275,"date":"2019-01-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/01\/15\/you-should-meditate-every-day\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:00:00","slug":"you-should-meditate-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/01\/15\/you-should-meditate-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"You Should Meditate Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/09\/opinion\/meditation-internet.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, January 9, 2019 (New York Times by Farhad Manjoo): Because I live in Northern California, where this sort of thing is required by local ordinance, I spent New Year&#8217;s Day at a meditation center, surrounded by hundreds of wealthy, well-meaning, Patagonia-clad white people seeking to restore order and balance to their tech-besotted lives. In the past, I might have mocked such proceedings, but lately I&#8217;ve grown fond of performative sincerity in the service of digital balance. It&#8217;s the people who haven&#8217;t resigned themselves to meditation retreats who now make me most nervous, actually. Which brings me to my point: It&#8217;s 2019. Why haven&#8217;t you started meditating, already? Why hasn&#8217;t everyone?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a technology journalist for nearly 20 years and a tech devotee even longer. Over that time, I&#8217;ve been obsessed with how the digital experience scrambles how we make sense of the real world. Technology may have liberated us from the old gatekeepers, but it also created a culture of choose-your-own-fact niches, elevated conspiracy thinking to the center of public consciousness and brought the incessant nightmare of high-school-clique drama to every human endeavor. You&#8217;ve heard about the benefits of mindfulness before. It&#8217;s the subject of countless books, podcasts, conferences, a million-dollar app war. It&#8217;s extolled by C.E.O.s and entertainers and even taught in my kids&#8217; elementary school (again, it&#8217;s Northern California). The fad is backed by reams of scientific research showing the benefits of mindfulness for your physical and mental health &#8212; how even short-term stints improve your attention span and your ability to focus, your memory, and other cognitive functions. <\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, January 9, 2019 (New York Times by Farhad Manjoo): Because I live in Northern California,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}