{"id":350,"date":"2026-01-18T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:58:20","slug":"meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDITATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are being let in on a big secret. This shouldn&#8217;t be a secret, but it is: &#8216;enlightened&#8217; and &#8216;relaxed&#8217; mean the same thing. They are synonymous. We are easing into liberation of the full expression of &#8216;Self&#8217;. If you had the capacity to fully let go, you would literally fall into the full perfect expression of your being. Since enlightenment is so infrequent, the ability to completely relax appears to be very rare.<\/p>\n<p>Asana is helping us to be at ease in our bodies so the body is no longer a distraction. Pranayama is helping create the necessary energy and balance. Now we can start to relax. We can meditate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2937\" style=\"width: 1379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0187web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0187web.jpg\" alt=\"MEDITATION \u2014weight loss through yoga, page 101\" width=\"1369\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0187web.jpg 1369w, http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0187web-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC0187web-1024x727.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1369px) 100vw, 1369px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MEDITATION \u2014weight loss through yoga, page 101<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are being let in on a big secret. This shouldn&#8217;t be a secret, but it is: &#8216;enlightened&#8217; and &#8216;relaxed&#8217; mean the same thing. They are synonymous. We are easing into liberation of the full expression of &#8216;Self&#8217;. If you had the capacity to fully let go, you would literally fall into the full perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,17,5],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meditation","tag-relax","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}