{"id":244,"date":"2010-01-13T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:28:03","slug":"joy-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Joy Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/reflection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-245\" title=\"reflection\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/reflection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/reflection.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/reflection-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><small>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/profile\/kgreggain\">kgreggain<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Many a spiritual fable ends with the lesson of meeting the universe half-way on the road to your dreams. In that spirit, I have made a &#8220;Joy Therapy&#8221; list: things that are within my power to bring joy back into my life. And I leave all the serendipitous synchronicities\u00c2\u00a0up to the universe. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angel&#8217;s Joy Therapy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laugh<\/li>\n<li>Exercise<\/li>\n<li>Dance<\/li>\n<li>Walk in the sunshine<\/li>\n<li>Garden<\/li>\n<li>Yoga<\/li>\n<li>Meditate<\/li>\n<li>Pray<\/li>\n<li>Journal<\/li>\n<li>Write<\/li>\n<li>Blog<\/li>\n<li>Pet the dogs and cat<\/li>\n<li>Sing<\/li>\n<li>Eat healthy food<\/li>\n<li>Connect with family and friends<\/li>\n<li>Read joyful books and blogs<\/li>\n<li>Listen to joyful podcasts<\/li>\n<li>Spread love<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by kgreggain. Many a spiritual fable ends with the lesson of meeting the universe half-way on the road to your dreams. In that spirit, I have made a &#8220;Joy Therapy&#8221; list: things that are within my power to bring joy back into my life. And I leave all the serendipitous synchronicities\u00c2\u00a0up to the universe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joy Therapy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}