{"id":158308,"date":"2022-04-13T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T09:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/32058334"},"modified":"2022-04-13T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T09:03:33","slug":"32058334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/32058334","title":{"rendered":"I Try to Make Meditation as Simple as Possible."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guru Made Sumantra and me.Robert HourmontMany people meditate these days, but many more don&#8217;t. Some find it weird or daunting, others have the usual excuse &#8212; no time.I&#8217;ve been guilty of the latter during the last couple of years, but I&#8217;ve managed to get myself back into my mediation mode and it&#8217;s helped me a lot recently.In 2018 I took a mediation teacher training class in Bali, making me a Certified Balinese Meditation Teacher. I was really into it at the time and super happy I took the course.I had a great teacher, Guru Made Sumantra, from Ubud in Bali &#8212; it was a wonderfully enlightening experience.However, work, stress and family issues caused me to slip and neglect my routine for quite some time. As a result, stress got the better of me, which is why I turned back to meditating.I&#8217;m very grateful I did, as moving to two different countries and getting started from scratch (again) during the last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people meditate these days, but many more don&#8217;t. Some find it weird or daunting, others have the usual excuse &#8212; no time. I&#8217;ve been guilty of the latter during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}