{"id":462,"date":"2026-08-17T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:51:31","slug":"parable-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/meditations\/parable-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"Parable Parking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260622_130040052_MFNR-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260622_130040052_MFNR-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260622_130040052_MFNR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260622_130040052_MFNR-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260622_130040052_MFNR.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Confuscious says: &#8220;If you spend your time looking for snakes in the grass, you are sure to find&#8230; Snakes in the grass.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confucius#:~:text=Confucius%20(,the%20paragon%20of%20Chinese%20sages.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to hear more about Confuscious <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We often focus on the negative aspects of life and that which we do not like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is important while conjuring or manifesting your future to focus upon the positive changes you do wish to create in your life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/46550\/the-new-colossus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If you spend all your time saying , I don&#8217;t want to be tired, hungry and poor; You will notice how tired and hungry and poor you have become. <\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your mind will be so focused on the negative, you will not notice the next opportunity if it hits you in the face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Duck!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confuscious says: &#8220;If you spend your time looking for snakes in the grass, you are sure to find&#8230; Snakes in the grass.&#8220; Click here to hear more about Confuscious We often focus on the negative aspects of life and that which we do not like. It is important while conjuring or manifesting your future to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,33,10,100],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-fields-of-awareness","tag-hypothese","tag-meditation","tag-parables","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmymindfulness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}