{"id":1036,"date":"2023-05-08T01:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T01:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2024-02-28T03:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:08:52","slug":"take-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/2023\/05\/08\/take-a-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a moment."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1036\" class=\"elementor elementor-1036\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b86b64 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b86b64\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8dfa3f6\" data-id=\"8dfa3f6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bef48d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bef48d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Take a moment.<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-77ff6fa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"77ff6fa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6f5671d\" data-id=\"6f5671d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cc96fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6cc96fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\">On Saturday, I was able to attend a one day meditation retreat.\u00a0 The theme for the day came from this beautiful poem called Clearing by Martha Postlewaite.\u00a0 Once we started the day, it was one of the first things the meditation teacher read to us.<\/p><p class=\"\"><strong><em>Clearing<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p class=\"\">Do not try to save<br \/>the whole world<br \/>or do anything grandiose.<br \/>Instead, create<br \/>a clearing<br \/>in the dense forest<br \/>of your life<br \/>and wait there<br \/>patiently,<br \/>until the song<br \/>that is your life<br \/>falls into your own cupped hands<br \/>and you recognize and greet it.<br \/>Only then will you know<br \/>how to give yourself<br \/>to this world<br \/>so worth of rescue.<\/p><p class=\"\"><em>Martha Postlewaite<br \/><\/em><\/p><p class=\"\">I will be honest with you I am not much of a poetry buff.\u00a0 However, there was something about this poem that really spoke to me as true.\u00a0 I think that it was the gift of taking time out of our sometimes hectic days to just stop and be at peace.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"\">In our busy lives, it is so easy to forget to stop and take time to relax and let our mind and body be at peace.\u00a0 When we are stressed out or exhausted, we do not make good decisions about ourselves or for our lives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"\">Have you ever had an experience where your life was so busy that you felt exhausted?\u00a0 You wanted to stop but perhaps you didn\u2019t think you had time to just be still for a little while?<\/p><p class=\"\">Maybe finally your body made a decision for you and you just couldn\u2019t do one more thing or you ended up getting sick.\u00a0 Once you stopped and give yourself permission to rest, did you feel better?\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"\">Yes.\u00a0 Once you felt better did you find that your mind came up with new and better solutions to problems for your life?<\/p><p class=\"\">The poem reminds us that our health begins with creating a clearing in our lives.\u00a0 Creating space in our mind to think differently about how to make our health a priority is the game changer most people miss.\u00a0 By always putting our \u201clife\u201d in front of our health, we cause many of the illnesses we\u2019re faced with today.<\/p><p class=\"\">The great news is that we can reverse most of these illnesses like obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure and others, simply by making a clearing in our lives for our health.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"\">If you are ready to make your health a priority, call our office to learn more about how we can help you. We are focused on helping our practice members get their health and lives back.<\/p><p class=\"\">To <em>Your One Sweet Life<\/em>,<\/p><p class=\"\">Dr. Dae<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a moment. On Saturday, I was able to attend a one day meditation retreat.&nbsp; The theme for the day came from this beautiful poem called Clearing by Martha Postlewaite.&nbsp; Once we started the day, it was one of the first things the meditation teacher read to us. Clearing Do not try to save the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/2023\/05\/08\/take-a-moment\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take a moment.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artem-kovalev-fk3XUcfTAvk-unsplash.jpeg",1500,1000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artem-kovalev-fk3XUcfTAvk-unsplash-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artem-kovalev-fk3XUcfTAvk-unsplash-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artem-kovalev-fk3XUcfTAvk-unsplash-768x512.jpeg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artem-kovalev-fk3XUcfTAvk-unsplash-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artem-kovalev-fk3XUcfTAvk-unsplash.jpeg",1500,1000,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/artem-kovalev-fk3XUcfTAvk-unsplash.jpeg",1500,1000,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daemon Jones","author_link":"https:\/\/sixitstage.com\/drdae\/author\/drdae\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Take a moment. 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