{"id":602,"date":"2018-01-21T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2018-01-21T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T20:46:54","slug":"yin-and-yang-of-preserving-our-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/yin-and-yang-of-preserving-our-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Yin and Yang of Preserving our Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yinyang.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"604\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/21\/yin-and-yang-of-preserving-our-soul\/yinyang\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yinyang.png\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yinyang\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yinyang.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-604\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yinyang.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yinyang.png 225w, https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/yinyang-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Ok. I\u2019m a bit dramatic as usual. But it\u2019s a serious consideration. The Soul. What powers it? What preserves its essence. What keeps us going \u2013 in a good way?<\/p>\n<p>I often think of it as Consuming vs. Creating. The less we Create, the less we are taking care of ourselves \u2013 our souls. But, what is consuming and creating? Consuming is watching Netflix for hours a day. Consuming is playing a video game for hours a day. Consuming is taking and not giving. Consuming is making others work for you and doing nothing for them. Consuming is using resources, including time. Whereas, Creating is the Yang \u2013 it\u2019s making dinner, writing, painting, helping others, saving someone time, programming, fixing something, making the world around us better \u2013 well you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>My point? If you find yourselves consuming too much \u2013 you need to take a break from it. It\u2019s too easy. It\u2019s too addictive. Take a break and create something. Set some time once a week. Don\u2019t get so caught up in consuming that you use it to just survive the day. Using your own inner creativity is the better choice. And remember, it is a choice.<\/p>\n<p>This is one soul\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. I\u2019m a bit dramatic as usual. But it\u2019s a serious consideration. The Soul. What powers it? What preserves its essence. What keeps us going \u2013 in a good way? I often think of it as Consuming vs. Creating. The less we Create, the less we are taking care of &hellip;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-9I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}