{"id":8087,"date":"2009-01-29T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T07:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2009-01-29T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T07:16:38","slug":"im-changing-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8087","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Changing My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not happy with where I am with my life.<\/p>\n<p>My economic model, for one thing, is broken.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I am changing. I am pushing myself to do things that are not comfortable to me. For one thing, I&#8217;m doing yoga every day. I&#8217;m doing two meditative yoga practices a day and dragging myself to my yoga center to bliss out and make new friends.<\/p>\n<p>Already, I&#8217;m getting stronger and more flexible. I have more good people in my life. I&#8217;ve had some hot dates with Jewish women. And I&#8217;ve dropped a bad habit.<\/p>\n<p>I have a great therapist. I look forward to seeing her two sessions a week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not serene. I ricochet from elation to despair. When I do something well, or I get an extra burst of attention, I truly deeply feel better than most people. This makes me feel ashamed. I know it is not rational nor is it helpful to me. But when I triumph with something, even if it is just that I feel happier than those around me, I can&#8217;t help but leap inside that I&#8217;m better than those around me.<\/p>\n<p>Then I have a social failure and I feel like I am worse than everyone around me.<\/p>\n<p>This is a major flaw I want to change. I want to be serene. I don&#8217;t want my sense of self-worth constantly bopping up and down on the basis of social successes and failures. I want to feel good from doing good. I want to change.<\/p>\n<p>Satnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not happy with where I am with my life. My economic model, for one thing, is broken. Therefore, I am changing. I am pushing myself to do things that are not comfortable to me. For one thing, I&#8217;m doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8087\">Continue reading <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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2354],"tags":[15931,15932,15928,15929,15368,15930],"class_list":["post-8087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-yoga","tag-bad-habit","tag-hot-dates","tag-meditative-yoga","tag-social-failure","tag-yoga-center","tag-yoga-practices"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8088,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}