{"id":618,"date":"2013-02-20T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=618"},"modified":"2013-02-20T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T10:18:08","slug":"the-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/20\/the-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m struggling to stay motivated. Two week ago I did a mad, long run of 15 miles, in three stages, to break through my sense of dullness. It probably did more harm than good as I was in moderate pain for a few days after. This morning I went out before 6:00 am and ran just over a mile in just over 12 minutes. It was cold and wet and raining a little. My ankles and knees ached a bit while I was running so I kept it short. The challenge was not the run but getting up and getting out in the first place. A cold shower and a short japa meditation completed my morning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S\u00c4\u0081dhan\u00c4\u0081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sadhana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. One of my personal challenges this year is to run a thousand miles and to spend a thousand hours on my sadhana or spiritual practice, which includes running, meditation and yoga. I have barely started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m struggling to stay motivated. Two week ago I did a mad, long run of 15 miles, in three stages, to break through my sense of dullness. It probably did more harm than good as I was in moderate pain for a few days after. This morning I went out before 6:00 am and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/20\/the-first-step\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,49,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}