{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Self Control","description":"What we\u2019re seeking through meditation is also attained through self-control. Meditation isn\u2019t just lying down and dreaming about whatever you want to dream. Meditation is about putting the mind on something and learning to concentrate and hold it there, to get the thinking mind out of the way and the reason it\u2019s so important in our tradition to watch something without controlling it, it\u2019s so in time we can experience the distance between the thinking mind and our actual perceptions. So our awareness, our consciousness is not defined by our thoughts, it\u2019s not defined by our desires and so there\u2019s another way to do desires and sense pleasures and all that kind of stuff, experiencing something that is sensual whether it\u2019s sex or chocolate, a cigarette, loud music or just like some real emotional kind of a thing. It\u2019s just sensual stuff, it\u2019s all cool, it\u2019s all great, we\u2019re human beings. ","author_name":"The Art and Science of Happiness with Turiya Moore","author_url":"http:\/\/yoganandacenter.org\/","html":"