{"id":602,"date":"2018-01-21T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2018-01-21T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:46:54","slug":"yin-and-yang-of-preserving-our-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/yin-and-yang-of-preserving-our-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Yin and Yang of Preserving our Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ok. I’m a bit dramatic as usual. But it’s a serious consideration. The Soul. What powers it? What preserves its essence. What keeps us going – in a good way?<\/p>\n

I often think of it as Consuming vs. Creating. The less we Create, the less we are taking care of ourselves – our souls. But, what is consuming and creating? Consuming is watching Netflix for hours a day. Consuming is playing a video game for hours a day. Consuming is taking and not giving. Consuming is making others work for you and doing nothing for them. Consuming is using resources, including time. Whereas, Creating is the Yang – it’s making dinner, writing, painting, helping others, saving someone time, programming, fixing something, making the world around us better – well you get the point.<\/p>\n

My point? If you find yourselves consuming too much – you need to take a break from it. It’s too easy. It’s too addictive. Take a break and create something. Set some time once a week. Don’t get so caught up in consuming that you use it to just survive the day. Using your own inner creativity is the better choice. And remember, it is a choice.<\/p>\n

This is one soul’s opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok. I’m a bit dramatic as usual. But it’s a serious consideration. The Soul. What powers it? What preserves its essence. What keeps us going – in a good way? I often think of it as Consuming vs. Creating. The less we Create, the less we are taking care of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}