{"id":2837,"date":"2017-05-11T09:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:14:49","slug":"meditations-calming-effects-pinpointed-in-brain-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/11\/meditations-calming-effects-pinpointed-in-brain-scientific-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation&#8217;s Calming Effects Pinpointed in Brain &#8211; Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/meditations-calming-effects-pinpointed-in-brain\/\">Meditation&#8217;s Calming Effects Pinpointed in Brain &#8211; Scientific American<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During yoga pranayama exercises people practice controlling the breath, or prana, to induce a state of calm and focus. Paying attention to breathing and slowing down respiration is a core component of many mindfulness practices. Research suggests the practice has multiple benefits\u2014it induces an overall sense of well-being while reducing anxiety and improved sleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Meditation&#8217;s Calming Effects Pinpointed in Brain &#8211; Scientific American &#8220;During yoga pranayama exercises people practice controlling the breath, or prana, to induce a state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}