{"id":1658,"date":"2011-06-28T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2011-06-28T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:50:48","slug":"guidance-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Guides &amp; Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling a little down \u2014 very low energy.\u00a0 There are things I\u2019d like to do \u2014 make more jizos, paint, work on earth &amp; fire, do a little gardening and I just don\u2019t have the energy.\u00a0 Please help me.<br \/>\n<em> Dear Jenny we love you very much.\u00a0 First step is to accept tired Jenny just as she is, and bring compassion to her.\u00a0 Next is to pay some attention to the one who\u2019s upset about \u201cnot doing anything\u201d and bring compassion there too.\u00a0 Actually there are two of them: one who\u2019s scared that her life will be wasted if she doesn\u2019t DO something, and one who just wants to do something with her hands instead of reading not very interesting books.\u00a0 Dear Jenny, it really is OK to do nothing.\u00a0 We suggest a puzzle, and an \u201cashram\u201d day with 20 minutes meditation as one of the activities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely feeling sick, and it may be that that\u2019s making me feel tired and demoralized \u2014 much better word than \u201chopeless.\u201d I planted the bee balm (good for me!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Guides &amp; Guardian Spirits, I\u2019m feeling a little down \u2014 very low energy.\u00a0 There are things I\u2019d like to do \u2014 make more jizos, paint, work on earth &amp; fire, do a little gardening and I just don\u2019t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1658\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-guidance","category-present-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}