{"id":22450,"date":"2012-12-02T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=22450"},"modified":"2012-12-02T07:20:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T12:20:56","slug":"the-gym-helps-me-practice-the-discipline-of-staying-focused-despite-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gym-helps-me-practice-the-discipline-of-staying-focused-despite-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"The gym helps me practice the discipline of staying focused despite distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like a new person having showered and washed hair after a decent early workout: arms, back, shoulders and abs got it today. It&#8217;s so funny, I go to a gym to focus on my body, and they have a dozen tvs lining one wall and pop music blaring from the speakers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like they want to distract me from the fact that I&#8217;m working out! I want to ENGAGE my muscles and bones, I want to COMMUNE with the connective tissue and all the cells of my body as I am working them. So, going to the gym becomes a yoga as well, practicing my discipline of staying focused despite cacophony and chaos.<\/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=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gym-helps-me-practice-the-discipline-of-staying-focused-despite-distraction\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The gym helps me practice the discipline of staying focused despite distraction&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gym-helps-me-practice-the-discipline-of-staying-focused-despite-distraction\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gym-helps-me-practice-the-discipline-of-staying-focused-despite-distraction\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gym-helps-me-practice-the-discipline-of-staying-focused-despite-distraction\/\" 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=The%20gym%20helps%20me%20practice%20the%20discipline%20of%20staying%20focused%20despite%20distraction&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-gym-helps-me-practice-the-discipline-of-staying-focused-despite-distraction\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like a new person having showered and washed hair after a decent early workout: arms, back, shoulders and abs got it today. It&#8217;s so funny, I go to a gym to focus on my body, and they have a dozen tvs lining one wall and pop music blaring from the speakers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22451,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22450\/revisions\/22451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}