{"id":87975,"date":"2017-02-20T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=87975"},"modified":"2017-02-20T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:18:16","slug":"87975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/87975-87975","title":{"rendered":"Do You Hear The Light?"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>I have been trying out all these different approaches to meditation over the years. Then one day I was on my way to a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Brandon wrote me and asked what \u00a0I was doing. I told him, where I was going. It turned out he was close to my meeting place and I decided \u00a0to go and see him for about an hour before we each had to be somewhere else. As I was about to make \u00a0a move to my meeting, I found out that there had been a misunderstanding and I was not going to go \u00a0anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-87977 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doyouhearthelight1-300x237.png\" alt=\"Risograph print that I had in a group show January 26th and 27th at Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doyouhearthelight1-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doyouhearthelight1-768x606.png 768w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doyouhearthelight1-578x456.png 578w, https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doyouhearthelight1.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I ended up following Brandon who was headed to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/experience\/seminars\">MSIA seminar<\/a>. Brandon and I had recently started \u00a0writing music together and since we had started meeting up, I had felt this really intense energy around \u00a0my 3rd eye. It just wouldn&#8217;t calm down. It was as if it was constantly active; the feeling was kind of \u00a0similar to how it feels when your feet are asleep, but just in a pleasant way. Light simmering.<\/p>\n<p>I have been going to the seminars every week since, and I have been meditating every day since that day. \u00a0This is really interesting, since I have always had a hard time committing to any practice.<br \/>\nBut I have already had some really intense and eye-opening spiritual experiences, and MSIA just \u00a0seemed so familiar to me from day one.<\/p>\n<p>Cecilie Beck<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Learn more about what MSIA is all about, download our free e-book Journey of a Soul, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/journey-of-a-soul\">click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying out all these different approaches to meditation over the years. Then one day I was on my way to a meeting. My friend Brandon wrote me and asked what \u00a0I was doing. I told him, where I was going. It turned out he was close to my meeting place and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":87976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndh-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}