{"id":11987,"date":"2015-07-30T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=11987"},"modified":"2015-07-30T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:40:43","slug":"10-mindful-minutes-a-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=11987","title":{"rendered":"10 Mindful Minutes: A Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always liked Goldie Hawn. When I was younger I watched her on \u201cRowan & Martin\u2019s Laugh-In\u201d, \u201cPrivate Benjamin\u201d, \u201cProtocol\u201d (No, dear, I’m not a chicken; I’m an emu.), \u201cWildcats\u201d, \u201cDeath Becomes Her\u201d, and \u201cFirst Wives Club\u201d. I like that her and Kurt Russell are still together after all these years. I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m an expert on all things \u201cGoldie\u201d, I\u2019m just saying it came as quite a surprise to find out that she\u2019s kind of a well-known figure in the mindfulness movement.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Goldie Hawn is an author! She has written an autobiography, \u201cA Lotus Grows in the Mud\u201d, and \u201c10 Mindful Minutes\u201d. Both books ended up on New York Time\u2019s bestselling author\u2019s list! This was all news to me when I was approached to review \u201c10 Mindful Minutes: A Journal\u201d. As you may already have guessed, I never read \u201c10 Mindful Minutes\u201d, so the good news is the journal is effective whether you\u2019ve read the previous book or not. No more talk about the past then, let\u2019s focus on the here and now and \u201c10 Mindful Minutes: A Journal\u201d.<\/p>\n

Goldie Hawn at a book event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"The Journal is authored by Goldie Hawn with Jennifer Repo. I\u2019m not sure how much of whose voice we\u2019re hearing when reading the entries but there is a welcoming warmth in the tone of the writing. The book isn\u2019t focusing on deep, obscure meditation practices. You\u2019re reminded of the basics: sitting comfortably and focusing on your breath. The chapters are divided into specific areas of reflection, such as Discovering Empathy, Transforming Anger, and Cultivating Optimism. In the sections you\u2019ll find meditation exercises, and most important to the book, space to journal your reflections after you finish them.<\/p>\n

\u201c10 Mindful Minutes: A Journal\u201d works at guiding readers towards a daily reflective meditation practice so that after all the pages are filled, hopefully the practice still remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goldie Hawn, on the website, for reals. Okay, we’re talking about a book she wrote, but still…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,20,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}