{"id":523,"date":"2016-11-07T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2016-09-06T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:25:21","slug":"more-life-tip-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/more-life-tip-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"More Life Tip: Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-524 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/11-3-More-Life.jpg\" alt=\"11-3 More Life\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>A wealthy friend of mine is fond of saying, &#8220;its true money does not buy happiness but it is good for solving problems.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the most part having\u00a0money means having options but it doesn&#8217;t determine what option you will choose. \u00a0But I think we can agree that having options is better then not having options.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is the\u00a0same when it comes to Will. \u00a0Having more\u00a0affords\u00a0us more choices in how we act but it does not determine which of the more choices we\u00a0will\u00a0opt for.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All of the traditions have in them practices, some times called\u00a0disciplines, that are about exercising (strengthening) our Will. \u00a0There may be other reasons or benefits from these same practices as well, such as moral development, health, vitality, social bonds and more. \u00a0But we are focusing on the cultivation of Will.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Sample practice<\/strong>:<\/div>\n<div>Choose an action,\u00a0speech or thought you want\u00a0to work with. \u00a0Something you want more of or less of. \u00a0i.e. I want to eat fewer cookies, I want to give more complements to people at work, I want to think fewer self judging thoughts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Having chosen the\u00a0behavior you are going to work with set an intention to shift that\u00a0behavior\u00a0and begin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Keep in mind the goal here is cultivating our Will not changing the behavior. \u00a0To use the\u00a0money analogy again\u00a0the focus in on our ability to generate wealth, not what we spend it on. \u00a0(that comes later!)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealthy friend of mine is fond of saying, &#8220;its true money does not buy happiness but it is good for solving problems.&#8221; For the most part having\u00a0money means having options but it doesn&#8217;t determine what option you will choose. \u00a0But I think we can agree that having options is better then not having options. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhakticlinic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}