{"id":153,"date":"2015-05-18T05:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-05-18T05:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:12:40","slug":"is-mindfulness-actually-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Is mindfulness actually good for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MindfulCoast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-154 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MindfulCoast-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"MindfulCoast\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MindfulCoast-300x272.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MindfulCoast-165x150.jpg 165w, http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MindfulCoast-200x182.jpg 200w, http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MindfulCoast.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This blog has tried to focus on the science behind the claims of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation.\u00a0 But as in any scientific area, it is important to occasionally step back and ask questions about the research.\u00a0 This is still a fairly new area of research, but it is growing rapidly.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/allinthemind\/is-mindfulness-actually-good-for-you\/6462670\" target=\"_blank\">This article from ABC looks at some of the research and asks the question &#8220;Is mindfulness actually good for you?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has tried to focus on the science behind the claims of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation.\u00a0 But as in any scientific area, it is important to occasionally step back and ask questions about the research.\u00a0 This is still a fairly new area of research, but it is growing rapidly.\u00a0 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=153\"> 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":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientific-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}