{"id":432,"date":"2017-10-24T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/?p=432"},"modified":"2017-10-25T07:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T07:26:36","slug":"painful-processing-rough-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/10\/24\/painful-processing-rough-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Painful Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not an individual who is terribly connected to my own spirituality and self-awareness. So when we started the contemplative practice portion of this class I was hopeful that this would be an enlightening and profound spiritual experience. Rather than achieving such metaphysical enlightenment, I have discovered more about my own physical limitations.<\/p>\n<p>In most of my classes I am typically so engaged in taking notes or moving between classrooms that I rarely find the time to sit and reflect on how I am feeling in the moment. So when I began the contemplative practices I became more aware of a lower back pain that I typically ignored over the course of the day. During our first contemplation session I didn&#8217;t make anything of it but as our classes have progressed I made the connection that this might be indicative of a larger bodily problem. It was because of this that I went to the doctor and discovered the greater problem at hand. As it turns out I have severe scoliosis that has been progressively getting worse over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_439\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-439\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-439\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22813042_1715209511825383_1221235908_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22813042_1715209511825383_1221235908_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22813042_1715209511825383_1221235908_o-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22813042_1715209511825383_1221235908_o-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22813042_1715209511825383_1221235908_o.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An X-Ray of my spinal column [Oct 16th 2017]<\/p><\/div>10 years. How is it that I managed to ignore such a personal affliction for nearly half of my life? Thinking back over the last 10 years I can think of so many warning signs that should have clued me in to the stress that my body was under but I was so engrossed with my plan for the future and what I wanted that I refused to listen. This led me to the realization that if I am so readily able to ignore a problem of such immediate personal relevance, imagine the breadth of issues that I unconsciously or consciously ignore when I don&#8217;t perceive them to be of personal relevance. That is a terrifying concept for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not an individual who is terribly connected to my own spirituality and self-awareness. So when we started the contemplative practice portion of this class I was hopeful that this would be an enlightening and profound spiritual experience. Rather than achieving such metaphysical enlightenment, I have discovered more about my own physical limitations. In most of my classes I am&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/10\/24\/painful-processing-rough-draft\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,60,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemplative-practices","category-week-4-contemplative-practices","category-week-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}