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What style of appreciation can transform your life? It's appreciation that consists of two vital
elements, gratitude and valuing. It is this combination of gratitude and valuing that gives
appreciation its remarkably powerful energy.
Gratitude

Gratitude fills your heart with receptive energy You feel or express gratitude after something
pleasing has happened. A friend helps you out of a scrape, you are grateful. You notice the
beauty and good things in your life and the world around you, you are grateful.

Valuing

The valuing aspect of appreciation is what introduces its phenomenal energy. When you find
yourself valuing something or someone, you use your mind to think of it, or them and why it or
they matter to you, what it is worth to you. In the commercial world, when something
appreciates, it grows in value. The same is true in our lives and relationships with others.
A house is just bricks and mortar until it is filled with the people and possessions you cherish, and
then it is a home.

Later in the session, we will explore meaningful appreciation, that take your simple “thank you’s”
beyond mere platitudes. The essence of sincere meaningful appreciation is contained in one
word . . . “WHY”. Why am I grateful?
“Thank you for my flowers”

“Thank you for my flowers, they really came at the right moment, I was feeling sad about
something and they really cheered me up”

Can you see the difference? You didn’t just say thank you, you went on to say how the gift
made you feel. A little thought and a few sincerely meant words are extremely powerful in
bringing happiness to the lives of others and as a result, to you too.

Consciously choosing to express appreciation of the value of the people and things in your life is
what makes it possible for you to use this energy of appreciation positively. The good news is
that you can choose to value someone or something before they have contributed anything at
all to your life.

Positively valuing and consciously expressing appreciation transforms gratitude from an after-the
-event expression of feeling to a before-the-event deliberate and positive application of energy.
Appreciation as Energy

You will recall the session on energy talked in some detail about the power of appreciation. You
may wish to flip back to the Power of Energy and the water experiments of Masaru Emoto to
remind yourself of the scientific basis for viewing appreciation as an accepted source of human
energy.

When you start to think of appreciation as an energy you can use intentionally and proactively,
to increase the levels of happiness you want in your life, it becomes a whole new concept.

You can continue to consider appreciation as you may always have done, as a response to
something you are grateful for, or you can embrace its potential and see appreciation for what
it really is, an energy source that can be harnessed for any number of uses, such as: