{"id":1239,"date":"2016-02-16T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T08:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2016-05-25T19:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T10:41:18","slug":"ive-become-more-confident-and-courageous-through-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve become more confident and courageous through meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right; padding-bottom: 30px;\"><em><strong>The following is a practitioner&#8217;s\u00a0account of experiences from the winter retreat for the new practitioners.\u00a0 As Told By Park, Changgyo(51,M)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em> (Translated by Son, Gyeonghee and Patrocinio D. Rivera)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;\">I<\/span>t wasn&#8217;t until 11 p.m. on the first day that I could concentrate on meditation. Not long after my arms and legs started to move slightly, I stepped into a more intensive dynamic meditation and kept on doing six or seven different motions, practicing dynamic meditation.<\/p>\n<p>I chanted the Taeeulju Mantra in a deep resonant voice, possible due to the dense and thick qi accumulated in the bottom of my abdomen. Furthermore, I didn&#8217;t even feel the cold at all thanks to the strength that I got from the invigorating qi circulating through my whole body.<\/p>\n<p>On the second day, the longer I meditated, the more I became confident, saying to myself, &#8220;I can do anything&#8221;. Around 9 p.m., while chanting the Taeeulju Mantra, I felt warmth around my eyebrows and my vision became bright. Now, I feel I&#8217;ve become more confident. This intensive Taeeulju meditation allowed me to strengthen my abdomen, clear my head and raise my voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chanted the Taeeulju Mantra in a deep resonant voice, possible due to the dense and thick qi accumulated in the bottom of my abdomen. Furthermore, I didn&#8217;t even feel the cold at all thanks to the strength that I got from the invigorating qi circulating through my whole body. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brightness","category-emotional-moment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70zWc-jZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}