{"id":307,"date":"2008-02-10T19:28:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-02-10T19:28:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T19:28:04","slug":"monkey-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/monkey-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>morning rays wrote : &#8220;hi shekhar, when a thinker is silent it could mean 2 things&#8230;&#8230;.a positive&#8230;that you&#8217;re in the midst of ideas &#8230;..and a negative&#8230;.your emotions are bottled up at the moment. when we visit your blog regularly there is a bond with you&#8230;&#8230;.which makes us want to see you HAPPY ! share&#8230;&#8230;. and the good will get better&#8230;&#8230;.and the negatives will get blown away !&#8221;<br \/>\nThank you &#8216;morning rays&#8217;. It makes me feel great there is a community out there that I can share with. Bond with. Honestly ? I am trying to calm the mind down. It has been in what I call the &#8216;scrambling mode&#8217;. Which is what you get into when you make and release a film. You are constantly problem solving amidst a hundred people.  It has been too used now to diversions for so long, it keeps looking for them. I have the script of Paani in my mind, in my heart. Just finding it difficult to getting it down on paper. Trying to calm my mind down. Get used to being alone, and get on with it !  shekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>morning rays wrote : &#8220;hi shekhar, when a thinker is silent it could mean 2 things&#8230;&#8230;.a positive&#8230;that you&#8217;re in the midst of ideas &#8230;..and a negative&#8230;.your emotions are bottled up at the moment. when we visit your blog regularly there is a bond with you&#8230;&#8230;.which makes us want to see you HAPPY ! share&#8230;&#8230;. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monkey mind - Shekhar Kapur<\/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:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/monkey-mind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monkey mind - Shekhar Kapur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"morning rays wrote : &#8220;hi shekhar, when a thinker is silent it could mean 2 things&#8230;&#8230;.a positive&#8230;that you&#8217;re in the midst of ideas &#8230;..and a negative&#8230;.your emotions are bottled up at the moment. when we visit your blog regularly there is a bond with you&#8230;&#8230;.which makes us want to see you HAPPY ! 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