{"id":1287,"date":"2011-03-26T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2011-03-26T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T05:26:11","slug":"stress-and-the-single-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/26\/stress-and-the-single-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress And The Single Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was feeling in need of doing something different today from the editing and home bound lifestyle that seems to rule my days so I went into the garden on a warm sunny afternoon and weeded around the roses. I have always known that doing something &#8216;physical&#8217; if you spend most of your life using your brain, and doing something &#8216;brainful&#8217; if you spend most of your time doing physical work, is like taking a holiday. As long as you do not overdo things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But gardening is actually a pleasant if sometimes hard experience. The smell of earth on your hands, the refreshing of a beautiful flower, assisting its growth, tending and harmonising the &#8216;look&#8217; to come in the later months of summer when the roses are in bloom, is extremely satisfying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course if you are a professional gardener and doing this hours and hours a day then I am sure coming into a warm drink and editing your latest book on gardening would have the same effect. It is the difference that takes away the stress. Because stress builds up a little like toxins in the body, until one &#8216;feels&#8217; out of sorts and to propel that feeling into something positive, like planting and weeding, is therapeutic on many levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least that&#8217;s my excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling in need of doing something different today from the editing and home bound lifestyle that seems to rule my days so I went into the garden on a warm sunny afternoon and weeded around the roses. I have always known that doing something &#8216;physical&#8217; if you spend most of your life using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}