{"id":6292,"date":"2015-02-17T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2015-02-24T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:00:28","slug":"meditation-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/17\/meditation-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-he-c1-meditation-20150216-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>MEDITATION BOOMS AS PEOPLE SEEK A WAY TO SLOW DOWN<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-mary-macvean-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">MARY MACVEAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-54e1628b\/turbine\/la-1852144-he-0503-unplug-kaf3-jpg-20150215\/1150\/1150x647\" alt=\"Meditation\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Participants meditate during a class at Unplug, a new meditation studio in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2014. (Katie Falkenberg \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One hundred fifty people sat in the big meeting room, hands on laps, eyes closed, feet flat on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bring your attention to this moment,&#8221; Janice Marturano instructed. &#8220;Be open to sensations of warmth or coolness, sensations of fullness from breakfast, or perhaps hunger.&#8221; Minutes later, the meditation ended with the traditional strikes of little hand cymbals.<\/p>\n<p>Buddhists? Old hippies? New Agers?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. The room was full of hospital executives and managers in lab coats and scrubs, jeans and sports coats at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. And the teacher was Marturano, once a top executive at General Mills.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of the Institute for Mindful Leadership, Marturano is about as far from woo-woo as the spectrum allows \u2014 and a sign that meditation has snaked its way into every sector of our lives. The hospital employees were learning a practice shared by millions these days: college students, parents and prisoners; soldiers, the overweight and the lovelorn; the Seattle Seahawks, public school kids and members of Congress; Oprah, Chopra and Arianna.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-he-c1-meditation-20150216-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times MEDITATION BOOMS AS PEOPLE SEEK A WAY TO SLOW DOWN By\u00a0MARY MACVEAN Participants meditate during a class at Unplug, a new meditation studio in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2014. (Katie Falkenberg \/ Los Angeles Times) One hundred fifty people sat in the big meeting room, hands on laps, eyes closed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}