I voted other.
To me this is a linear way to ask the question... Yes/no/other. But I get that is easiest on a poll.
For me a more meaningful way to ask the question to generate discussion is "What is the state of your spiritual health at this time? How do you usually experience the divine or what feeds your soul? How has it changed over time? Where are you in your faith development process?"
While I respect that others experience the divine via cultivating a relationship with The Judeo-Christian god, or other gods of other paths? That isn't my adult experience.
While this comes from a pagan lens, if I had to put myself on the triangle somewhere it would "raised red as a kid, but really somewhere between blue and yellow as an adult."
http://proteuscoven.com/triangle.htm
The state of my current spiritual health is good. The divine for me is a sense of wonder, a sense of joy, hope.
I resonate most with the divine most often via journal writing, reading, being out in nature, yoga, living out my values. Occasional worship in community like attending a church service or ritual. Those are my fav spiritual health practices. Journal writing my whole life, even as a child. Body practice like yoga is an adult thing. Other things too but those are the top ones. I like solo endeavors for the most part. Not surprising because I am an introvert! But those are the kinds of things that feed my soul and get me in touch with the joy of living.
When my soul is well fed, I am more like to get to feel that
joie de vivre, that exultation of spirit or "high on life" vibe. More likely to feel like I am one with the universe, and love it all for what it is, as it is. Good things happening in the world, bad things happening in the world...
everything.
Not sure if my development will lead to me swinging somewhere else as I continue to age or what my spiritual health experience will be as I near death. Will I continue on there yellow-blue side of the triangle with my beliefs? Or will I find more comfort in the red side with an embodied type god?
I believe we return to earth when dead, I do not believe in an afterlife or reincarnation. I believe organized religion is one possible spiritual practice one can choose to participate in or not, but I do not believe it is the only thing that helps feed one's core self/soul/spirit/whatever-you-call-it.
In short, regardless of path or tradition, I think people could go through
faith development milestones in their spiritual health just like people experience physical development milestones in the unfolding of their physical health. Or the ones in mental health, or emotional health.
Unlike physical health and physical development, which happens on autopilot, I think spiritual or faith development past childhood is on the individual to cultivate. They can live ok without spending much time on it. People will be in poor spirit or in good spirits anyways. Life happens.
I think knowing myself and what resonates with me helps me endure difficult times when I am in poor spirit better because I know how to tend to myself to help return to balance. And it is nice to know how to extend or linger over it when I am in good spirits. Then I can experience my life as the captain of my own ship rather than experiencing it like life happening to me where I flit about like a leaf in the wind.
As kids when our parents guide us through their lens of experience is one thing. What we want our values and core beliefs to be, how we chose to express them, or where we choose to take it as adults is another thing because what we as adults find meaningful or resonate with will vary.
What people resonate with at different stages and ages could be different too. Not just different than my parents, but different than me at 10, or me at 20, 30, 40... Many kinds of ways to go. Even in the same person across a life time.
Galagirl