{"id":1897,"date":"2017-11-05T09:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2017-11-05T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:34:17","slug":"ohio-state-university-professor-ruchika-prakash-on-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State University Professor Ruchika Prakash on mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/artsandsciences.osu.edu\/sites\/artsandsciences.osu.edu\/files\/Ruchika%20Prakash%20Photo_1.jpg\" alt=\"Ruchika Prakash\" width=\"218\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to meditate, but never got it to work. I&#8217;ve focused on my breath, let ideas go past unnoticed, and still haven&#8217;t gotten to the peaceful state described in writings about meditation. Serenity now!<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State University Associate Professor of Psychology Ruchika Prakash says that meditation is actually very difficult. She&#8217;ll be the <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandsciences.osu.edu\/research\/science-sundays\">November 12 speaker at Ohio State&#8217;s Science Sundays<\/a>, sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences. The event is free and open to the public, so get a quick overview of it here and then attend. Afterwards, maybe you&#8217;ll find you&#8217;re better than I am about attending to your breath and being in the moment. Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m going to break off abruptly here and stare at the dog with the fluffy tail that just walked past my window.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2164\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1897-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Craft-2017-11-9_prakash.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Craft-2017-11-9_prakash.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Craft-2017-11-9_prakash.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Craft-2017-11-9_prakash.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1897-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Craft-2017-11-9_prakash.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2017-11-9_prakash.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried to meditate, but never got it to work. I&#8217;ve focused on my breath, let ideas go past unnoticed, and still haven&#8217;t gotten to the peaceful state described in writings about meditation. Serenity now! Ohio State University Associate Professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7,459,14,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-ohio-state-university","category-original-craft-productions","category-science-sundays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}