{"id":794,"date":"2009-06-01T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/06\/01\/rooted-in-the-present\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T00:28:57","slug":"rooted-in-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Rooted in the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being in a state of deep Appreciation is a surefire way to keep us rooted in the present.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after years of facilitating Appreciation exercises, we&#8217;re convinced that when you&#8217;re in the act of appreciating someone, something, or yourself, all worries about the past and anxieties about the future evaporate.  You&#8217;re only attuned to what is good in the here and now.  And that&#8217;s a great place to be.  A common thread of multiple world philosophies and religions is the profound value of being in the moment or fully present.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rick Foster &#038; Greg Hicks, <em>Choosing Brilliant Health,<\/em> p. 155<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in a state of deep Appreciation is a surefire way to keep us rooted in the present. Now, after years of facilitating Appreciation exercises, we&#8217;re convinced that when you&#8217;re in the act of appreciating someone, something, or yourself, all worries about the past and anxieties about the future evaporate. You&#8217;re only attuned to what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}