{"id":1219,"date":"2021-07-25T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2021-07-25T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T01:16:12","slug":"hack-your-vagus-nerve-with-the-tree-of-life-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2021\/07\/hack-your-vagus-nerve-with-the-tree-of-life-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack your Vagus Nerve with the Tree of Life badge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We added guided breathing to our badge. Whether you use it to control your heart rate, raise your kundalini or simply de-stress, that&#8217;s up to you. But the badge now includes three levels of guided Vagus breathing. Just follow along with the pretty lights, sync yourself up, and get ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vagusdemo\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYPrUCdB8-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I first learned how profoundly breathing can affect the mind and body when I encountered a book in the 80s called <em>Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality<\/em>. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that has pretty much instant results, and makes you want to come back for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was recently reminded when reading <em>Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World that&#8217;s Losts its Mind<\/em> by Jamie Wheal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d bring this to the badgelife folks for consideration and feedback, so we included it in our badge for this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And no, the Vegas\/Vagus puns are not lost on us at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We added guided breathing to our badge. Whether you use it to control your heart rate, raise your kundalini or simply de-stress, that&#8217;s up to you. But the badge now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2021\/07\/hack-your-vagus-nerve-with-the-tree-of-life-badge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hack your Vagus Nerve with the Tree of Life badge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badges"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}