{"id":20654,"date":"2024-09-02T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=20654"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:19:39","slug":"a-little-peace-and-quiet-in-the-middle-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/a-little-peace-and-quiet-in-the-middle-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Peace and Quiet in the Middle of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Meditation Room by Bart Everson, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/editor\/10968968306\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7397\/10968968306_b891e9db44.jpg?resize=500%2C108&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Meditation Room\" width=\"500\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development invites you to join us for a regular group meditation. We'll meet each Wednesday afternoon throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. Drop in when you can.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>What to expect?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>As the meditation room is located directly beneath the bell tower, we are using the bells in our meditation. They chime quarterly, so our period of silence begins at 2PM and ends at 2:15.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>But I've never done this before!<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>You needn't have any experience with meditating; just stop by and give it a try. There's no commitment and no pressure.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Why meditate?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Meditation has numerous well-documented benefits, including stress management, improved emotional balance, increased focus and awareness and increased responsiveness to student needs.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>All welcome<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is open for everyone in the Xavier community, for people of any faith or no faith.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Date:<\/b> all school year (whenever classes are in session)<\/li>\n<li><b>Time:<\/b> 2 - 2:15 PM<\/li>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b> Meditation Room, St. Katharine Drexel Chapel<\/li>\n<li><b>Sponsor:<\/b> CAT+FD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><small>Photo credit: Bart Everson<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development invites you to join us for a regular group meditation. We'll meet each Wednesday afternoon throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. Drop in when you can. What to expect? As the meditation room is located directly beneath the bell tower, we are using the bells in <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/a-little-peace-and-quiet-in-the-middle-of-the-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"A Little Peace and Quiet in the Middle of the Week\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[75,204,524],"class_list":{"0":"post-20654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-integrative","7":"tag-contemplation","8":"tag-meditation","9":"tag-quarter-of-quiet","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-5n8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9815,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/a-quarter-of-quiet\/","url_meta":{"origin":20654,"position":0},"title":"A Quarter of Quiet","author":"Bart Everson","date":"June 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development invites you to join us for a regular group meditation. 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