{"id":790,"date":"2019-05-14T22:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2019-05-14T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:36:11","slug":"today-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/790","title":{"rendered":"Today Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My kids, like all kids, are moment to moment peeps. If they are in the middle of a game, or need to put five cars in a bag, or plait their hair before going someone, those things take priority over and above the consideration of being on time and potentially missing something that they really don\u2019t want to miss. No matter how much I explain, the movie won\u2019t wait for us, the party will already be started&#8230; using things that would be important to them \u2018in that moment\u2019 none of it is going to take them out of THIS moment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It drives me absolutely potty AND I want to be like them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today Only<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was talking with my incredible homeopath &amp; friend, running through the anxieties that were causing me physical and uncomfortable symptoms. ALL of them were anxieties about the future. Do I need to do x now in order for y to happen then?&#8230; what if I don\u2019t feel like this when that happens?&#8230; etc<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And she reminded me so beautifully that every choice that I am pondering and worrying about is a day to day decision. Today, does it feel right to be in no contact with my mother?; today, does it feel right to be cosleeping with my children?; today, does it feel right to be living in this country?; today, does my relationship feel right?; today, am I doing the best that I can for myself and my choices?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those are the only decisions I can consider. The future it unknown. Life happens. And suddenly I feel the energetic release from my body as I realise I don\u2019t have to know who I will be in 20 years from now, nor even tomorrow.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All I can do is Today Only.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids, like all kids, are moment to moment peeps. If they are in the middle of a game, or need to put five cars in a bag, or plait their hair before going someone, those things take priority over and above the consideration of being on time and potentially missing something that they really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today Only&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[77,23,71,42,219,220,222,198,218,221],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holistic-health-emotional-healing","category-personal-moments","tag-anxiety","tag-balance","tag-childhood","tag-children","tag-choices","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-presence","tag-today","tag-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soulreflection.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}