EP 055 | THE ART OF APPRECIATION

In this episode, Sinclair discusses:

• Getting bogged down in stuckness on the spiritual path, especially after starting to work with medicine
• Asking yourself “Why did I choose this?!?” is totally normal
• Managing your expectations, letting go of timelines, and allowing things to unfold as they are
• Getting discouraged and feeling stuck is part of the path, sometimes it gets worse before it gets better
• It doesn’t happen overnight, awakening is a messy process of evolution
• Allowing things to be a mess, putting down the resistance, the perfectionism, the expectations
• The more we resist things we don’t like, the longer they stick around
• The best version of yourself has flaws
• One of the quickest ways to bring yourself out of a funk, a stuck place is appreciation
• The fallacy of the cause and effect order
• What happens when you focus on the vibration of lack  
• The more you worry about not having, the more fear you have in your body
• Appreciation is a special state of awareness and being to shift your thoughts and attention
• How medicine snaps us out of this feeling by showing us a felt experience of love, connection, and what matters to you
• Moving you out of your head and into your heart
• Stop looking at what you don’t have, and start putting your attention on what you do have
• Savoring what you have, thinking about waking up and just reveling in everything that is going your way
• Appreciating the little things in your life
• We are here to appreciate what is, to engage and interact and experience our humanity 
• It’s possible to appreciate something you don’t love 
• Growing in appreciation of my body, its wisdom, how it’s always talking to me, how it’s always sharing what it needs
• Putting some gentle discipline around my body and my health
• Sometimes appreciation is putting in time and energy and effort into caring for something
• Action that comes from appreciation vs. action that comes from lack
• Too blessed to be stressed is a vibe, it’s a way of being 
• Being in a place of hope, solution seeking, being open to the fire that’s in you that’s ready to change
• Using triggers to your advantage
• 3 questions to ask yourself when you feel stuck and spun out in the “how”
• Appreciating your own patterns and perceived flaws
• Appreciation is a way to be soft externally and internally
• Self-appreciation, talking sweet to yourself, celebrating your wins
• Appreciation as a catalyst for creativity
• It’s the fastest way to get yourself in a positive mindset for receiving   
• Looking at Nature to teach you, and appreciating being alive and everything that has come together to make this all possible
• Gratitude vs appreciation