{"id":53,"date":"2022-03-16T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=53"},"modified":"2022-03-16T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:10:16","slug":"2022-3-16-ezsvf29oixu5flid2wlgk7uahkge1q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The technique of the witness is to merely sit with the fear and be aware of it before it becomes so consuming that there\u2019s no space left. The image I usually use is that of a picture frame and a painting of a gray cloud against a blue sky. But the picture frame is a little too small. So you bend the canvas around to frame it. But in doing so you lost all the blue sky. So you end up with just a framed gray cloud. It fills the entire frame. <\/p>\n<p>So when you say &#8216;I&#8217;m afraid&#8217; or &#8216;I&#8217;m depressed&#8217;, if you enlarged the frame so that just a little blue space shows, you would say \u2018ah, a cloud.\u2019 That is what the witness is. The witness is that tiny little blue over in the corner that leads you to say, \u2018ah, fear.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ram Dass <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technique of the witness is to merely sit with the fear and be aware of it before it becomes so consuming that there\u2019s no space left. The image I usually use is that of a picture frame and a painting of a gray cloud against a blue sky. But the picture frame is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}