{"id":2589,"date":"2018-11-29T18:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2018-11-29T18:36:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:36:51","slug":"sankalpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/sankalpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sankalpa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Sankalpa<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanskrit\">Sanskrit<\/a>: \u0938\u0902\u0915\u0932\u094d\u092a) means an intention formed by the heart and mind &#8212; a solemn vow, determination, or will.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sankalpa#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In practical terms a\u00a0<em>Sankalpa<\/em>\u00a0means a one-pointed resolve to focus both psychologically and philosophically on a specific goal. A sankalpa is a tool meant to harness the will, and to focus and harmonize mind and body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been using the <a href=\"https:\/\/insighttimer.com\/\">Insight Timer<\/a> app to close out the day and prepare for a good night&#8217;s sleep and one of the guided meditations has an instruction that I really, really like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Set your sankalpa. Ask yourself,\u00a0 in your life right now what is your deepest most heartfelt desire. Think of your sankalpa as a little seed you&#8217;re planting into your time in the world of sleep. State your sankalpa 3 times aloud, give thanks, and then let it go&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also love the concept of &#8220;being breathed&#8221;, I&#8217;ve never considered a distinction between my inhalation and exhalation and &#8220;being breathed&#8221; by something larger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s Yoga Nindra for Sleep by Jennifer Piercy and it&#8217;s great. I tried to listen to it on my run earlier in the week and it didn&#8217;t quite work.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sankalpa\u00a0(Sanskrit: \u0938\u0902\u0915\u0932\u094d\u092a) means an intention formed by the heart and mind &#8212; a solemn vow, determination, or will.[1]\u00a0In practical terms a\u00a0Sankalpa\u00a0means a one-pointed resolve to focus both psychologically and philosophically on a specific goal. A sankalpa is a tool meant to harness the will, and to focus and harmonize mind and body. I&#8217;ve been using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}