Emotional Expedition: A Journey of Healing with Meghan Thomas

Admiration & Reverence EP 18


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I've had a really rough week and it was the kind of week that left me looking for the opportunity to cry. Instead of gravitating towards a movie, I decided to join a kirtan event at a local yoga studio. The live music was played with the lights lowered so you could only see other’s silhouettes while you sit and go through your own internal journey. 

This experience was the opportunity I needed to be free. It was a beautiful moment of reverence. In this episode, we’re unpacking admiration and reverence. I have some fun exercises you can do after you listen that will help guide your relationships, and spot in others what is true about us. 

Admiration often leads us to wanting to improve ourselves. 

Brene Brown defines admiration as when someone's abilities, accomplishments or character inspires us, or when we see something else that inspires us like art or nature. The important thing to keep top of mind is that admiration makes us want to improve. 

Thoughts and lessons shared in this episode: 

  • Ways to communicate admiration to the people you love 
  • How yoga and chanting allow for a deeper internal journey 
  • Dr. John Gottman’s Sound Relationship House and the 7 floors 
  • Admiration and reverence are not the same 
  • The tricky part about reverence is that there is an upside and a negative side to it. In this episode you hear me explain why social media is being held reverent for some people which is dangerous and has mental health issues on the rise. 

    Anything that demands reverence that is not open to being challenged or questioned is problematic.  

    It doesn’t mean that reverence doesn’t appear during a yoga session to bring you to center and calm and beauty in the present moment. I hold many things as reverent, especially nature and religion.  

    Reverence can foster a desire for connection to what we revere. 

    Links for this episode: 

    Atlas of the Heart Book Study with Meg: https://www.meghanthomas.com/atlas-of-the-heart  

    Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown: https://amzn.to/3DT60n8  

    The 7 Principles for Making Marriage work by Dr. John Gottman: https://amzn.to/3EomQMp  

    To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue: https://amzn.to/3tdwXx2  

    Altar Your Life an online course by Saraswati Om: https://digitalstudio.saraswatiom.com/products/altar-your-space  

    Prayers of Honoring by Pixie Lighthorse: https://amzn.to/3hf4JPC  

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