{"id":222,"date":"2006-01-30T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petitefreespirit.com\/2006\/01\/mind-body-disconnection\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:47:22","slug":"mind-body-disconnection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/30\/mind-body-disconnection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Body Disconnection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-size: 14px;\" face=\"arial\"><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"\" align=\"justify\">\n<b>Category:<\/b> Sports <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not athletically inclined at all! In school, I was always smart (and painfully skinny) so I naturally shied away from anything vaguely resembling sports. However, after having vacationed in Miami a couple of times and Jamaica once, I realized I needed to learn how to swim. I gave it a couple of tries and always ended up being so afraid of drowning that I proceeded to do just that &#8211; almost drown.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, I finally signed up for private lessons and saw progress! I was able to get in the water, follow directions and swim. I wasn&#8217;t ready for Olympic competition but I was out there doing my little thing. Then my instructor was fired\/dismissed\/no longer worked at the place where I was learning to swim. I lost my momentum and enthusiasm and soon stopped the classes.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I just went to my first class and find that the zen or mind-body connection that I once had is now gone. I despair not because I plan to persevere until I once again am zipping about confidently in the water. <\/p>\n<p>After all, I have some ocean swimming to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tune in later for my swimming adventures.<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"\" align=\"justify\">\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Category: Sports I&#8217;m not athletically inclined at all! In school, I was always smart (and painfully skinny) so I naturally shied away from anything vaguely resembling sports. However, after having vacationed in Miami a couple of times and Jamaica once, I realized I needed to learn how to swim. I gave it a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/30\/mind-body-disconnection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mind Body Disconnection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace-archive"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Category: Sports I&#8217;m not athletically inclined at all! In school, I was always smart (and painfully skinny) so I naturally shied away from anything vaguely resembling sports. However, after having vacationed in Miami a couple of times and Jamaica once, I realized I needed to learn how to swim. 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