{"id":797,"date":"2018-03-15T19:15:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/?p=797"},"modified":"2018-03-15T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:58:48","slug":"contemplative-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/03\/15\/contemplative-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplative Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meditation (guided or silent) has been part of my daily life for the past few years. I found meditation through yoga practice. The aim of my meditation practice thus far has been self-healing (physical and mental). The introduction of a contemplative practice as a pedagogic tool in this course was appealing. I had expected positive results, as I have been successful in using meditation for therapeutic purposes. I did indeed experience a deeper understanding of the material using this technique, especially given the broad scope of this course. However it has had some emotional drawbacks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> In lesson 7 on climate change I found that connecting deeply and personally to the material conveyed some strong feelings of guilt and anger. I felt shame and guilt for living a relatively easy life in a developed country and using more than my fair share of fossil fuel. My place in the world makes me a causative agent in climate change and makes me culpable in the suffering of people in Developing Countries. I also felt anger. Anger is a painful emotion that I try to avoid in my life as I have found it to be ineffectual. But I found myself unable to retreat from this feeling. I am angry with the US and other rich nation\u2019s governments for acting selfishly in\u00a0supporting policy that\u00a0has lined their coffers and induced the ruin of our climate. I am angry with previous generations who indulged in the finite resources of the Earth as if they were unending with no regard for future generations. In my anger I also see the systemic connections of my actions upon people living in DCs. Although I aim to live minimally and eat locally,\u00a0 I am<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>having difficulty, since this contemplation, rectifying where and how I live.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_799\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-image-799\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0899-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0899-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0899-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0899-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0899-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuttgart, Germany.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation (guided or silent) has been part of my daily life for the past few years. I found meditation through yoga practice. The aim of my meditation practice thus far has been self-healing (physical and mental). The introduction of a contemplative practice as a pedagogic tool in this course was appealing. I had expected positive results, as I have been&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/03\/15\/contemplative-complexity\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,35,181,389,388,386],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemplative-practices","tag-anger","tag-climate-change","tag-contemplative-practice","tag-guilt","tag-meditation","tag-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}