{"id":41308,"date":"2008-08-05T19:21:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=41308"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T00:22:54","slug":"whats-most-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whats-most-helpful\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Most Helpful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Email to a friend who submitted an article and is working on a book. The article had to do with looking at Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s Last Supper from a yogic point of view. His talk on the topic was excellent.\u00a0\u00a0 I wrote: \u201cYour story of how you were trained to think and how you re-programmed yourself is very powerful.\u00a0 The story itself is a bridge to understanding.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I know many people feel compelled to write and never get anything in print, and I used to be one of those.\u00a0 Getting it published never seemed to\u00a0matter at the end.\u00a0 I finally figured out I just wanted to be a writer and not a bookseller.\u00a0\u00a0 I say this because let&#8217;s don&#8217;t look at this project as: How fast can we produce a book to sell and who would we market it to and etc, etc.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s look at it as, every day as part of your practice, sit with the intention to type for as long as it flows out of you, asking first something like, &#8220;what can I write about that will be most helpful\u00a0in this moment&#8221;.\u00a0 Whatever comes to mind, follow it and see where it takes you.\u00a0 Maybe what is &#8220;most helpful&#8221; one day is simply to write down what you ate and where you biked and how you feel about everyone you know.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe what is &#8220;most helpful&#8221; another time is\u00a0writing about\u00a0the works of other great masters as seen through the yogic eye.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe what is &#8220;most helpful&#8221; another time is to contemplate what areas of your life have been sort of rewritten in history as a result of your later contemplation in light of the yogic view.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whats-most-helpful\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=What&#8217;s Most Helpful?&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whats-most-helpful\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whats-most-helpful\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whats-most-helpful\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=What&#8217;s%20Most%20Helpful?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/whats-most-helpful\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email to a friend who submitted an article and is working on a book. The article had to do with looking at Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s Last Supper from a yogic point of view. His talk on the topic was excellent.\u00a0\u00a0 I wrote: \u201cYour story of how you were trained to think and how you re-programmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41309,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41308\/revisions\/41309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}