{"id":1162,"date":"2011-04-08T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertfagan.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2017-08-10T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T19:46:00","slug":"quick-two-minute-spiritual-check-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1162\/quick-two-minute-spiritual-check-up","title":{"rendered":"Quick Two-Minute Spiritual Check-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2011\/04\/checkupimages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3225\" title=\"checkupimages\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2011\/04\/checkupimages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>When you are spiritually happy, you are closer to your \u201chigher\u201d or best self.\u00a0 When you deviate, you feel angst and your body may evidence \u201cdis-ease.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Things may just not seem to be working for you.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five quick questions that may help you regain your alignment.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Am I avoiding people or fellowship?\u00a0 Often when under what we perceive as stress or duress, we withdraw or let ourselves dwell with negative self-talk.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Am I forgiving of myself and others?\u00a0 All forgiveness is essentially self-forgiveness.\u00a0 Am I holding something back or blocking the flow of love?<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Am I living in the moment or am I worried about the future and still preoccupied by the past?\u00a0 A productive life is filled with a series of \u201cpresents\u201d in both senses of the word.\u00a0 Am I savoring them?<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Am I busy judging others?\u00a0 Judgment is a form of fear that takes you out of alignment, away from you best self.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Am I treating my body with the respect it deserves? \u00a0Motion drives good emotions, am I taking time to relax, exercise, eat, sleep adequately, and drink plenty of water?<\/p>\n<p>The antidotes to each of the five questions should be obvious to you and you instinctively know what if any changes you should be making.\u00a0 So now, what\u2019s holding you back?\u00a0\u00a0 A little detour from your path never spells failure.\u00a0 Enjoy the journey!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are spiritually happy, you are closer to your \u201chigher\u201d or best self.\u00a0 When you deviate, you feel angst&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/commentary\/1162\/quick-two-minute-spiritual-check-up\" title=\"ReadQuick Two-Minute Spiritual Check-Up\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":3225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2107,334,2109,2110],"tags":[3458,3457],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-commentary","category-life-coaching","category-golf-and-beyond","tag-spiritual-health","tag-one24"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2011\/04\/checkupimages.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16654,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/16654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/robertfagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}