{"id":37,"date":"2018-08-16T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2020-08-19T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:14:18","slug":"the-sit-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/the-sit-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"The sit spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The principle of the sit spot could hardly be simpler:\u00a0Find a place outdoors and sit there everyday for at least 15\u00a0minutes. Although it\u2019s generally traced to Native American teachers, this\u00a0ancient\u00a0practise is\u00a0cross-cultural. What modern Pagans call \u2018sitting out\u2019 has a more explicitly\u00a0spiritual\u00a0purpose, but is\u00a0essentially\u00a0the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Mnts-bench_small.jpg?resize=350%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A overgrown wooden bench. Copyright Adrian Harris.\" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Mnts-bench_small.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blue-Mnts-bench_small.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Spending time in your sit spot is a meditation that fine-tunes your sensory awareness. Gradually, patterns in nature become apparent and in time you fall into a&nbsp;\u201ddeepening sense of place\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsandstonehill.net\/greencity.htm\">Patterson<\/a>). Such subtle embodied communion with one chosen place can pattern a sacred relationship to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"references\/\">References<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The principle of the sit spot could hardly be simpler:\u00a0Find a place outdoors and sit there everyday for at least 15\u00a0minutes. Although it\u2019s generally traced to Native American teachers, this\u00a0ancient\u00a0practise is\u00a0cross-cultural. What modern Pagans call \u2018sitting out\u2019 has a more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/the-sit-spot\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embodied-ecology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The sit spot - Body Mind Place<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/the-sit-spot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The sit spot - Body Mind Place\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The principle of the sit spot could hardly be simpler:\u00a0Find a place outdoors and sit there everyday for at least 15\u00a0minutes. 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