{"id":46985,"date":"2022-06-05T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46985"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:07:16","slug":"stop-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/06\/05\/stop-spinning\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop spinning."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>You can\u2019t think yourself out of a depression.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t think yourself into love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t think yourself out of worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t think yourself into peace, or happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you still try, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking, thinking, thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you say that\u2019s a deliberate choice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does it make much sense to keep doing something when you know from experience that it will not work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the Mind Carousel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always spinning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always captivating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always churning out new problems that need new solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Round, and round, and round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, it might stop for a second, but it will always move again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Round, and round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because it&#8217;s almost always moving, you\u2019ll never find anything stable and sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no firm ground in your thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet that\u2019s what you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasting peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasting trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lasting happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if it\u2019s not in the mind, and if it\u2019s not in stuff, where is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:marnix@woedend.nl\">Mail me.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @aka_opex for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t think yourself out of a depression. You can\u2019t think yourself into love. You can\u2019t think yourself out of worry. You can\u2019t think yourself into peace, or happiness. But you still try, right? Thinking, thinking, thinking. Would you say that\u2019s a deliberate choice? Does it make much sense to keep doing something when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[99,102,97,96,117,100,105,115,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46987,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46985\/revisions\/46987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}