{"id":2068,"date":"2021-08-31T21:52:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/being-myself-book-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:52:43","slug":"being-myself-book-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/being-myself-book-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Myself Book Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Being Myself<\/em> is a contemplative exploration of the essential nature of our self.<\/strong> Everyone has the sense of \u2018being myself,\u2019 but not everyone knows their self clearly. In most cases, our sense of self is mixed up with the content of experience and, as a result, its natural condition of peace and happiness is veiled. Through investigation and analogy, the meditations in this collection take us back to our true nature again and again, until we begin to find our self naturally and effortlessly established there, as that. In time, experience loses its capacity to veil our being, and its innate peace and joy emerge from the background of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enter for your chance to win a free copy by clicking on the banner below!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gleam.io\/GGgrw\/being-myself-giveaway-meditation-magazine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sep21-728x90ad-MeditationMag-BeingMyself-NewHarbinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51486\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Myself is a contemplative exploration of the essential nature of our self. 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