{"id":480,"date":"2009-11-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=480"},"modified":"2009-11-09T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T11:30:00","slug":"meditation-training-in-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/meditation-training-in-the-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Training in The Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SvdYX66qtuI\/AAAAAAAABzM\/q6NLP8_OzmQ\/s1600-h\/meditation_army.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401883446029760226\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SvdYX66qtuI\/AAAAAAAABzM\/q6NLP8_OzmQ\/s400\/meditation_army.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>Some recent articles on meditation training in the US Army. One of my teachers <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/In-Search-of-the-Warrior-Spirit\/Richard-Strozzi-Heckler\/e\/9781583942024\/\"><strong>Richard Strozzi Heckler <\/strong><\/a><strong>pioneered this apporach in the 80&#8217;s. I have yet to hear of UK Army using meditation &#8211; if you have please contact me.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>&#8220;It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that if you told U.S. troops to meditate, you ran the risk of being <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=2htuO07UAUoC&amp;pg=PA46&amp;lpg=PA46&amp;dq=%22men+who+stare+at+goats%22+meditation&amp;source=web&amp;ots=EDWc3O3X1A&amp;sig=y1KAxCwtgUZIeiZ4nmw21cYSAvg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=2&amp;ct=result#PPA45,M1\"><em>called a kook<\/em><\/a><em> \u2014 or worse, a hippie. Today, it\u2019s becoming increasingly-common advice, for soldiers and marines looking to deal with battlefield stress, and prep for war.<br \/>At Camp Lejeune, &#8220;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/warriortraining.us\/\"><em>Warrior Mind Training<\/em><\/a><em>,&#8221; supposedly based on ancient samurai techniques, are being offered to marines with mental health issues.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Full article<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2008\/10\/samurai-soldier\/\"> here.<\/a> This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1920753,00.html\">Time article <\/a>is on the same subject and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1T4HPEB_en-GBGB250GB253&amp;q=battlemind\">Battle Mind<\/a> is related.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some recent articles on meditation training in the US Army. One of my teachers Richard Strozzi Heckler pioneered this apporach in the 80&#8217;s. I have yet to hear of UK Army using meditation &#8211; if you have please contact me. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. &#8220;It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that if you told U.S. troops to meditate, you ran the risk of being called a kook \u2014 or worse, a hippie. Today, it\u2019s becoming increasingly-common advice, for soldiers and marines looking to deal with battlefield stress, and prep for war.At Camp Lejeune, &#8220;Warrior Mind Training,&#8221; supposedly based on ancient samurai techniques, are <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-7K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}