{"id":3,"date":"2006-08-14T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2006-09-06T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T20:02:50","slug":"the-day-i-stopped-nodding-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/3\/the-day-i-stopped-nodding-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The day I stopped nodding my head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hopped in a car to ride down the spiritual path at the age of 7. By 10 I was comparing notes with 63 year old physicians on the clinical application of hypnosis for anaesthesia and pain relief.<\/p>\n<p>And off it went from there&#8230; biofeedback, Vedanta, Shaivism, Tai Chi, Aikido, Taoism, Vipassana, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Kabbalah, and Western therapies and workshops of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t just a student. I became a teacher in many of these diciplines.<br \/>\nAnd, no matter where I went, no matter what I did, I would nod my head at the fundamental promise:<\/p>\n<p>If I followed these  teachers and\/or teachings, I would eventually get what I wanted &#8212; happiness, spiritual attainment, peace of mind, awakening, realization, enlightenment. Pick the word, I wanted it.<\/p>\n<p>One day, after 28 years travelling on the path, with no end in sight (and not many examples of people who had reached the goal) I stopped nodding my head and, instead, I began &#8220;tilting my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Almost literally, instead of nodding in agreement, I took on the attitude of &#8220;Hmm&#8230;? What&#8217;s really going on here? Is it true?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since that moment, my life has never been the same.<\/p>\n<p>And, perhaps, when you hear what I&#8217;ve discovered since then, your&#8217;s won&#8217;t be either.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hopped in a car to ride down the spiritual path at the age of 7. By 10 I was comparing notes with 63 year old physicians on the clinical application of hypnosis for anaesthesia and pain relief. And off it went from there&#8230; biofeedback, Vedanta, Shaivism, Tai Chi, Aikido, Taoism, Vipassana, Zen and Tibetan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,2,3,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolutionary-psychology","category-gurus","category-meditation","category-psychology","category-self-improvement","category-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sashen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}