{"id":1010,"date":"2010-01-14T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2010-01-14T23:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:02:01","slug":"our-own-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Our Own Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the painful and horrendous things I was imagining were not present, and I realized suddenly and completely that it was my thoughts &#8212; and only my thoughts &#8212; that were tormenting me.  If I stopped my thoughts, <em>the pain stopped.<\/em>  And so it had.  For about nine seconds.  Then it all came flooding back, although from that moment on I understood one very, very important thing, perhaps the most important of all:  learning to work with the pain of a broken heart was about learning to work with thoughts, not about changing any kind of reality.  Because in reality, right this second now, nothing is happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Susan Piver, <em>The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, <\/em>p. 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the painful and horrendous things I was imagining were not present, and I realized suddenly and completely that it was my thoughts &#8212; and only my thoughts &#8212; that were tormenting me. If I stopped my thoughts, the pain stopped. And so it had. For about nine seconds. Then it all came flooding back, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-letting-go","category-life","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}