{"id":458,"date":"2016-07-05T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:57:29","slug":"more-life-tip-more-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/more-life-tip-more-love\/","title":{"rendered":"More Life Tip: More Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>One of my favorite quotes from my beloved teacher is, &#8220;&#8230;the solution to every problem is more love&#8230;&#8221;<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/bhakti-meditation-center-classes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-459 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/More-Life-July-350x174.jpg\" alt=\"More Life July\" width=\"350\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/More-Life-July-350x174.jpg 350w, http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/More-Life-July-600x297.jpg 600w, http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/More-Life-July.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>This quote says so much to me, one of the ways I make meaning out of it is in the form of my own summary insight into the &#8216;solution to every problem&#8217;. \u00a0For me this has come to mean growth in consciousness is the fundamental solution to every problem. \u00a0This is to say, our reflex to close, harden and polarize into an <em>us vs them\u00a0<\/em>mindset in the face of a &#8216;problem&#8217; could be replaced with a reflex to open, soften and expand into a <em>we<\/em> mindset.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is not to say that there will be no <em>us vs them\u00a0<\/em>situation\u00a0needing our attention and direct action. \u00a0We need to act in our lives but there is no doubt the action taken after\u00a0the &#8216;<em>we<\/em>&#8216; has been located and entered into will be very different than the action taken from the closed, polarized perspective.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Sample practice:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>When a &#8216;problem&#8217; arises notice your\u00a0tendency to solidify into the separate one. \u00a0To ever so slightly bodily contract, to psychologically contract &#8211; perhaps you feel more defined. \u00a0This can feel good, powerful, strong &#8211; we tend to like it. \u00a0Notice this. \u00a0Then try to orient toward what is outside this boundary of self, this contraction. \u00a0Can you\u00a0expand to include more of it, all of it. \u00a0If not, why not, what are the barriers, the resistance? \u00a0If so, how does it feel, what is the effect on the separate and separating one?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite quotes from my beloved teacher is, &#8220;&#8230;the solution to every problem is more love&#8230;&#8221; This quote says so much to me, one of the ways I make meaning out of it is in the form of my own summary insight into the &#8216;solution to every problem&#8217;. \u00a0For me this has come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}