{"id":1599,"date":"2013-09-18T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2013-10-16T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T17:21:04","slug":"allowing-deeper-discovery-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/allowing-deeper-discovery-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing deeper discovery moments!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1598\" alt=\"New Insights Discovery copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/New-Insights-Discovery-copy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/New-Insights-Discovery-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/New-Insights-Discovery-copy-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/New-Insights-Discovery-copy-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/New-Insights-Discovery-copy.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It is interesting to notice what is going on around us, albeit so often we are absorbed in our own thoughts. Or thoughts that someone else has triggered.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the picture, there is an empty path, wonderfully dappled with the early evening sunlight. A light that has is \u2018heavier\u2019 and has more depth than the strong sunlight at noon.<\/p>\n<p>For once my mind was a little less busy and I noticed just how the light was playing between the trees. How the freshly cut grass was standing upright, and looking lush after a few days of rain. It was one of those moments when all else seemed to have less importance, one of those moments when a pause or space has been created, one of those moments to savour.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing in particular had caused the time to feel as if it had stopped. I had just taken a little time out to walk and be detached from everything else going on in life. It also seemed that forces around me had conspired to make some space too.<\/p>\n<p>As I walked I did wonder what I would discover around the next bend, as it was so uncharacteristically quiet. What insights would capture my attention?\u00a0The path meandered round following the river I was next to, and all remained quiet and undisturbed. All allowing me to make a deeper discovery of the pleasure of quiet space.<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough the tranquility was broken by a friendly greeting from a passing stranger. But it had left a question floating around in my mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How often do I step out of my own thoughts to just take in the simple pleasure of noticing what nature has in store?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And perhaps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When was the last time you were present in the moment?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmm, interesting!<\/p>\n<p>My best wishes,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Peter<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to notice what is going on around us, albeit so often we are absorbed in our own thoughts. Or thoughts that someone else has triggered.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the picture, there is an empty path, wonderfully dappled with the early evening sunlight. A light that has is \u2018heavier\u2019 and has more depth than the strong sunlight at noon.<\/p>\n<p>For once my mind was a little less busy and I noticed just how the light was playing between the trees. How the freshly cut grass was standing upright, and looking lush after a few days of rain. It was one of those moments when all else seemed to have less importance, one of <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/allowing-deeper-discovery-moments\/\">Allowing deeper discovery moments!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-reflection","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}