{"id":1144,"date":"2011-07-05T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T15:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2011-07-05T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T15:25:32","slug":"keep-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2011\/07\/05\/keep-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Moving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us spend our lives stuck in office chairs, staring at computer screens. It\u2019s tough on our bodies to sit so much.\u00a0 There are lots of tips on how to deal with the stiffness that results from a sedentary life\u2014for example, get up and stretch at least once an hour, or find isometric exercises that you can do at your desk. But it\u2019s not just our bodies that need to move and stretch; it\u2019s our minds and spirits too!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If you take that five-minute break for your body, think about moving and stretching your mind and spirit too. Try taking your mind completely off work for that same five minutes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Count your breaths\u2014it\u2019s a simple way to think about nothing<\/li>\n<li>Stare out the window<\/li>\n<li>Imagine yourself to be somewhere else, at a favorite place<\/li>\n<li>Listen to a favorite piece of music<\/li>\n<li>OR, put on headphones but don\u2019t listen to music, or anything else. Just enjoy the silence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of silence, many people could use a whole lot more of it than they have now. There is nothing to be afraid of about silence.<\/p>\n<p><em>True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.<\/em> ~William Penn<\/p>\n<p><em>There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.<\/em> ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross<\/p>\n<p>I bet you\u2019ll find your approach to work will improve if you take these refreshing breaks of silence and movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us spend our lives stuck in office chairs, staring at computer screens. It\u2019s tough on our bodies to sit so much.\u00a0 There are lots of tips on how to deal with the stiffness that results from a sedentary life\u2014for example, get up and stretch at least once an hour, or find isometric exercises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-health-care-educational-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}