{"id":637,"date":"2018-03-08T17:04:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/?p=637"},"modified":"2018-03-08T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:04:57","slug":"five-questions-that-left-me-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Five Questions That Left Me Thinking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC8988_watercolor_1000w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-638\" src=\"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC8988_watercolor_1000w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC8988_watercolor_1000w.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC8988_watercolor_1000w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC8988_watercolor_1000w-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC8988_watercolor_1000w-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Westport Wa.\u00a0 September 2016<\/p>\n<p>I was reading a blog post recently and one third of the way through the post I encountered the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One way to begin discovering what kind of unconscious ideals we\u2019ve been constructing in our own lives is to ask ourselves introspective questions like the following:<\/p>\n<p>1) What sort of workplace would my company be if every employee was just like myself?; 2) What sort of home life would there be if every wife\/husband\/child was just like myself?; 3) What sort of neighborhood would this be if every neighbor were just like myself?;<br \/>\n4) What sort of self-worth would individuals have if every person had my self-esteem?; or, 5) What sort of church or synagogue would my congregation be if every member were just like myself?<\/p>\n<p>Questions like these aren\u2019t meant to discourage us but instead to help us realize just how powerful unconscious ideals have been in shaping what we\u2019ve become, both positively and negatively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope someday to be able to answer all these with an adamant yes. For now these sentences may best be an easy way to check my progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westport Wa.\u00a0 September 2016 I was reading a blog post recently and one third of the way through the post I encountered the following: &#8220;One way to begin discovering what kind of unconscious ideals we\u2019ve been constructing in our own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/?p=637\">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":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olympichypnotherapy.com\/communications\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}