{"id":537,"date":"2013-11-08T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=537"},"modified":"2013-11-08T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:34:09","slug":"peace-silence-and-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Peace, silence and kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, I\u2019ll be away till just after Christmas and I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I\u2019m looking forward to further exciting and moving explorations and reflections in 2014. You continue to amaze me with your courage, inspire me with your hard work, delight me with your insights, and touch me with your kindness and generosity.<\/p>\n<p>You keep restoring my faith in the human species.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I will leave you with this wise, ancient Chinese proverb:<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Grant yourself a moment of peace,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/strong><strong> And you will understand<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong> How foolishly you have scurried about<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Learn to be silent,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong> And you will notice that<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong> You have talked too much<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Be kind,<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong> And you will realise that<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong> Your judgment of others was too severe<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you need help surviving this intense season go to the \u201cChristmas survival tips\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise just enjoy it or endure it. It\u2019ll all be over soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, I\u2019ll be away till just after Christmas and I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I\u2019m looking forward to further exciting and moving explorations and reflections in 2014. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/?p=537\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-therapy-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicalpsychology.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}