{"id":3313,"date":"2014-04-29T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2014-04-26T21:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T01:39:43","slug":"how-to-move-from-routine-to-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2014\/04\/how-to-move-from-routine-to-renewal.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Move from Routine to Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we think about our lives, it is clear that we do the same things every day. We get ready in the morning. We eat a meal. Perhaps we go shopping. With such repetition, it&#8217;s no time at all before everything about our lives becomes routine.<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the renewal in any repeated action performed unconsciously? Where&#8217;s the fun in just eating again? Sure, it may be pleasurable, but with self-study we can do something more than just trying to please ourselves over and over again in the same old way. We can set an aim to watch ourselves during every seemingly familiar act, and see what delightful new adventures our watchfulness brings us to.<\/p>\n<p>Self-study adds a whole new dimension to our daily experience. Remembering to observe ourselves as often as we can, we are then open to discovering one new world after another \u2014 both within ourselves and in the world going on around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think about our lives, it is clear that we do the same things every day. We get ready in the morning. We eat a meal. Perhaps we go shopping. With such repetition, it&#8217;s no time at all before everything about our lives becomes routine. Where&#8217;s the renewal in any repeated action performed unconsciously?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499,6],"tags":[1907,1904,190,1906,1905,314,1401],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-living","category-new-beginnings-fresh-start","tag-observation","tag-refreshed","tag-renewal","tag-repetition","tag-routine","tag-self-discovery","tag-self-study"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Move from Routine to Renewal - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2014\/04\/how-to-move-from-routine-to-renewal.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Move from Routine to Renewal - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When we think about our lives, it is clear that we do the same things every day. 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