EP 019 EMBRACING AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

In this episode, John and Sinclair discuss…

• The real definition of gratitude as a vibration you hold
• Love and gratitude and how they are related
• Getting deeper into feeling grateful when everything is going your way, and when it’s not
• Gratitude and its relationship to plant medicine and psychedelics
• The true source of gratitude as a state of mind that can be cultivated by anyone
• Receiving the message of not feeling grateful or thankful: things being out of alignment
• How plant medicine shifts your understanding of gratitude
• When you choose to fight and struggle, when you choose to be victimized, and get stuck in a cycle of complaining, you’re making a choice to look at things in a negative way
• The duality of experiencing not having, of passing through places of going without or lack
• Practicing going without as a way to understand thankfulness
• Choosing gratitude as a mindset vs. looking to receive good things and THEN being grateful for it
• Becoming aware of what you already have
• The negative thought loop of complaining, perfectionism, and if/then thinking
• Never being satisfied with what already is creates a loop of blocking gratitude
• Getting sick and tired of feeling sorry for yourself as a starting point to creating gratitude
• Finding authentic gratitude where you are right now
• How you create blocks to gratitude by not taking care of what you already have
• Manifesting magic by being grateful NOW, not in the future
• Admitting that you’re dissatisfied, unhappy, you don’t like your life, and sitting with that
• Gratitude comes through having a reckoning with yourself
• Finding the good things in your present situation AND THEN finding gratitude for the uncomfortable and difficult circumstances that are happening so you can learn
• Everyone is your teacher, so you can learn to choose compassion, choose light, and choose to be kind and gentle with the people in your life
• Adjusting your attitude to see that life is happening for you not to you
• Becoming grateful for pain and suffering and transforming your own darkness into light 
• Staying in the shit, sitting with the heaviness, and transmuting it through spiritual alchemy
• Sculpting yourself into the truest and most authentic form
• Returning to the sacred place of knowing exactly who you are
• You don’t need to change who you are, you need to remember who you are
• A simple gratitude practice you can do every day