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You are a continually expanding Being, and your Inner Being is the culmination of all that you have lived. Your Inner Being not only believes, but knows, the worthiness and value of your Being, so as you choose thoughts that are in agreement with those of your Inner Being [ie gratitude for who you are/loving yourself], you feel the clarity of that knowledge. (Abraham through Esther Hicks, from the book, The Law of Attraction, page 95) - www.abraham-hicks.com

We want you to take so much pleasure in the privacy and clarity and power of your own mind that the physical manifestation is just a natural consequence. No big deal! But you make the physical manifestation such a big deal that you are tormented in the absence of the manifestation that you have chosen instead of enthralled in the vision of what it is becoming.

When you start taking the pleasure in the envisioning, you’ve got it. In other words, what we want you to do is peruse the data, identify what isn’t wanted, identify what is wanted, take all of that data and conclude and choose, and as you do a little bit here - collect data here, here, here, here, the Nonphysical Energy of the Universe has heard you make a lot of statements about a lot of things, and as you are vibrationally projecting Energy about nice people and about beautiful things and about friendly animals and about good flowing traffic and about happy comfortable clothes and about beautiful surroundings and about good food and about delicious relationships ...

Appreciate the flower, appreciate the sky, appreciate the freeways, appreciate the recording equipment, appreciate friends, appreciate the food that you’re eating, appreciate your clothing, appreciate something that is outside of you just until you get in the mode of appreciation, and then, every now and again, slip yourself in there as the object of appreciation and let it flow.

Appreciating is the thing! To be one who flows appreciation is really what you’re after. To be one who gets appreciation is backwards, because it’s almost always done from a lackful place ...

Love and appreciation are synonymous. Appreciation is the feeling of being in love. It is the feeling you have when you see someone and you feel like you are moving through one another. It’s the feeling you have when you are looking at the innocence of a child and feeling his power and beauty.

Appreciation is the vibration of being who you are. It’s the absence of resistance or doubt, fear, self denial or hatred to others. It’s the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good ...

Every time you appreciate something…every time you praise something…every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe: “MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!” You need never make another verbal statement of this intent and, if you are mostly in a state of appreciation, all good things will flow to you.

We are often asked, “Isn’t LOVE a better word that APPRECIATION? Isn’t LOVE more descriptive of the Non-Physical Energy?” And we say that LOVE and APPRECIATION are really the same vibration ...

Practice gratitude in every moment possible. This has been one of the single most powerful things I’ve ever done to attract what is good, right and beautiful in my life. Do not underestimate it. Be thankful that you have food to eat, music to listen to, friends to talk to. I am grateful that the sun faithfully rises to greet me every morning without me having to do ONE thing. What a wonderful gift… Everything else will fall into place.

Safe is a tricky word, isn’t it? It’s a little like gratitude. When you talk about safe, you are pointing right at the issue you are trying to over come.

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Sometimes there are long-standing feelings of gratitude within people that = trip them up, because when you feel grateful you are looking right at the p= roblem that you overcome.

So when you feel gratitude because someone pulled you out of poverty, or yo= u feel gratitude because someone liberated you in some way, that very grati= tude is laced with the vibration of overcoming something unwanted and it is= responsible for some sticking stuff in your vibration.

Gratitude leans resistance-ways, appreciation leans allowing-way ...