{"id":2093,"date":"2014-09-13T00:53:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T04:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2014-09-13T00:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T04:53:45","slug":"why-being-near-the-ocean-can-make-you-calmer-and-more-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/13\/why-being-near-the-ocean-can-make-you-calmer-and-more-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Being Near The Ocean Can Make You Calmer And More Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wallace J. Nichols, a marine biologist, believes that we all have a &quot;blue mind&quot; &#8212; as he puts it, &quot;a mildly meditative state characterized by calm, peacefulness, unity, and a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life in the moment&quot; &#8212; that&#8217;s triggered when we&#8217;re in or near water.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/09\/12\/mental-benefits-water_n_5791024.html'>Why Being Near The Ocean Can Make You Calmer And More Creative<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallace J. Nichols, a marine biologist, believes that we all have a &quot;blue mind&quot; &#8212; as he puts it, &quot;a mildly meditative state characterized by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[70,129,355,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}