Appreciation as your greatest ally

third (hu)manifestation nugget

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This writing contains one manifestation principle plus: 1) some thoughts to support your deeper understanding; 2) some ways to play with it and practice.

Here’s nugget #3.

TREAT & USE APPRECIATION AS YOUR GREATEST ALLY IN MANIFESTATION.

WHAT THIS MEANS
When you’re …

• struck
• frustrated
• struggling
• trying to figure it out
• having a hard time
• fearing what isn’t happening or working
• making yourself wrong (what am I doing wrong?)
• seeing your life as an impossible puzzle to solve
• agonizing over how you’ll find your way
• [etc.]

… YOU’RE OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR INNER BEING. Other ways to say that: You’re out of alignment with …

• your Higher Self
• your best Self
• Source energy
• your Higher Power
• the truth of who you are
• the fullness of all that you are
• [soooo many ways to say this, so clearly locate what works best for you]

Hey, you can even just call it being out of alignment, period, and drop any name for the pure-essence-can-do-creative-energy you’re out of alignment with!

Is it already clear & obvious to you that you’re not going to step into your life at your most powerful level when you feel like it’s such a struggle and things are kind of stacked against you or you’re doing it all wrong or missing some crucial piece?

Is it equally clear & obvious that when you’re out of alignment, you’re not at ease or feeling your power to generate more of what you want?

What’s the quickest way to come into alignment?

We’ve already looked at feeling good and loving your life on an ongoing basis, or prioritizing feeling better when you can’t feel good. That will keep you aligned and coming back to alignment as you simply care about and manage or take care of how you feel. Really make a project of it. The P-word again: Prioritize it.

But is it also clear & obvious to you that APPRECIATION is the easiest access point to feeling good? To establishing an ongoing feel-good place inside you that you can keep coming back to as an easy touchstone or point of reference?

Let’s look at the practice, or the practical application of APPRECIATION AS YOUR PORTAL TO ALIGNMENT.

HOW TO WORK WITH THIS CONCEPT
Cultivate appreciating anything you can feel good about having and benefiting from in your world, life, home, relationship, work, family, location, etc, etc, all day every day.

Appreciate what you like about your bed and bedroom or sleeping space when you wake up.
Appreciate your access to drinking water and the supplies and utensils to make or buy the hot beverage of your choice.
Appreciate the weather, the yard, the street, the signs of nature all around, the breezes, the temperature, the green, the gray.
Appreciate the clothes you have to wear.
Appreciate each small thing your amazing body allows you to do.
Appreciate good sensations and flavors and smells and movement. Appreciate your five senses, or however many you have access to at whatever level!
Appreciate the food you’re eating. Choose it, take time to prepare it consciously, chew it, taste it, savor it.
Appreciate the faces around you.
Appreciate the energies around you.
Appreciate the silence, appreciate the sounds.
Appreciate your agency, all the minute and huge ways you have choice, your capacity to choose.
Appreciate how you show up.
Appreciate how others show up.
Appreciate time and how it supports you and quit saying there’s not enough of it; quit treating it like it’s working against you.
Appreciate your capacity to NOTICE that you’re functioning right now in a stressful, anxious, irritated, fretting [whatever] way, and your ability to reach for soothing tactics, movement, breathing, pausing, reframing, opting in, redirecting, delegating, asking for help …
Appreciate how you grow, how you’ve grown, how you’re teachable, how amazing teachers, guides, wisdom has come to you.
Appreciate that you do enough, you’ve done enough, this is all enough, for now. You are enough, always.

Is it clear and obvious that I could keep going and so could you?

All that we can appreciate in a life, an era, a season, a day, a moment, one single task, the one that’s ours to do right now—truly, it’s endless. Living in a bottomless pit—okay, maybe a well—okay, fountain, ocean … or how about infinite space of APPRECIATION! Living in ongoing boundless appreciation is not only possible but extremely advisable for feeling good and living in alignment. Bring that to your moment-to-moment everyday life! It can help to write it down, as in the Easy Existing Matches exercise.

The more you appreciate everything as it is here and now ... Wait, there are many ways to say that

• The more you notice all that supports you ...
• The more you notice and believe that things are working for you ...
• The more you see life as supporting you in every way to get to where you’re going ...
  
  

With any of the above, it follows most naturally that

• ... the more aligned you are
• ... the better you feel
• ... the more you like yourself, those around you, your life
• ... the more you enjoy the journey
• ... the better you bring into your life the next things you want or create an upgrade of what you’ve got to date

AN IMPORTANT WORD ON ENJOYING THE JOURNEY
That enjoy-the-journey bit is important, because each arrival, each manifestation, has a whole journey that goes with it and came before. Some are quick, some are long, some are harrowing, some involve lots of fun and adventure … in any case, there’s a journey. Enjoy the journey. Don't miss the journey. (That could be a whole nugget in itself, but we’ll let it piggy-back here onto APPRECIATION AS KEY.)

For those wondering why I’m not talking about GRATITUDE, it’s very deliberate. I was already not a fan when I learned from Abraham-Hicks the greater power of APPRECIATION over gratitude. If gratitude feels amazing to you, keep it! But for many of us, it has a tinge (sometimes unconscious) of you’d better be grateful, or you deserve nothing if you’re not grateful, or it’s all going to be snatched away from you if you’re not grateful. None of that is empowered or aligned.

I’ve written about appreciation vs. gratitude in this post with a recipe for the gratitude-intolerant.
I’ve written here about appreciation as an underappreciated tool for creating your life.

ENJOY CULTIVATING APPRECIATION. It naturally feels good, it easily brings you into and supports you to spend more time in alignment. It gives you easy access to coming back to alignment when you’ve slipped away (and slip we will). It’s truly your best ally in the manifestation game—and the game of life.

Love & blessings, Jaya

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