{"id":21890,"date":"2023-02-28T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=21890"},"modified":"2023-02-28T19:46:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T00:46:38","slug":"how-do-i-become-more-comfortable-with-being-alone-and-by-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/02\/28\/how-do-i-become-more-comfortable-with-being-alone-and-by-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I become more comfortable with being alone and by myself?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02282023-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02282023-04.jpg\" alt=\"How do I become more comfortable with being alone and by myself?\" class=\"wp-image-21889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02282023-04.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/aw02282023-04-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How do I become more comfortable with being alone and by myself?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d recommend starting with meditation as a way to learn to sit with yourself, but with focus. Among Christians there&#8217;s a long history of silent walking meditation (try walking the labyrinth next to Burns Library), or prayer beads, and in eastern religions there are traditions of breath meditation, meditation with spoken mantras (sometimes with prayer beads), or meditation on loving kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d recommend starting with meditation as a way to learn to sit with yourself, but with focus. Among Christians there&#8217;s a long history of silent walking meditation (try walking the labyrinth next to Burns Library), or prayer beads, and in eastern religions there are traditions of breath meditation, meditation with spoken mantras (sometimes with prayer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/02\/28\/how-do-i-become-more-comfortable-with-being-alone-and-by-myself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do I become more comfortable with being alone and by myself?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21900,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions\/21900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}