Archive for September 24th, 2009
Deliberate appreciation
It is 5.39 am PST as I write this blog. I’ve been awake since about 3 am thanks to my internal EST clock. I took a few days to get away to a meditation retreat here in Mount Shasta. It is my first time here. Strangely enough, and of course universal conspiracy is at play, I found this retreat on ggole when I was looking for pictures of Mt. Shasta for my face book page. The Blue Marble 4LIFE’s ‘gratitude’ earth marbles are made here in Mt. Shasta by Shasta Visions from recycled glass to conserve the environment and save the trees. The mission at Shasta Visions is also to create PEACE through the sales of their products. How I found out about them is a story for another day.
Anyway, I arrived at Medford airport in Oregon and drove 88 miles. It was different kind of driving, mountain driving for a suburbia girl. I had to force myself to focus on the road as my eyes kept drifting to the landscape that absolutely took my breath away, so fresh and new from the silhouette of buildings and building, and more buildings where I come from. Finally I saw Mt. Shasta. I felt humble appreciation for being allowed to be here and just experiencing this magnificent site.
I thought this morning about deliberate appreciation and making it a habit every single day to feel gratitude and appreciation in our lives every single day. I heard once a short piece on YouTube from Abraham-Hicks that gratitude and appreciation is different. My understanding from it is that gratitude is an act and appreciation is a state of mind you get into as you carry out that act of being grateful. I guess you cannot appreciate anything unless you are grateful or thankful. These are just my thoughts.
As I mentioned in my last piece, I have been faced with many challenges and hurdles to jump lately but when I put all of it in perspective, in the third person watching my life, I have to say that I am very fortunate that I am aware of what actually is happening and I have been given the inner strength, the tools and most importantly the grace to handle the situation with calm confidence. It still takes a lot of energy from me as I am still a student in this life journey and I have a lot of learning to do….but…I am still very grateful.
Also, I have been blessed with many connections recently coming my way to expand on how the ‘gratitude’ earth marble can go around the world, and now a good possibility on how I can implement the children’s program ‘Backpack 4LIFE’ into effect. As I said universal conspiracy is at hand and the right people are showing up. The truth of it is like that book called You2 by Price Pritchett states, that quantum leap happens as soon as your vibrational level increases to go to the next level which is not linear climbing but a quantum leap!
So how can you deliberately appreciate your life and everything in it today? Well, just like the words say…make a conscious deliberate decision to appreciate and be thankful for every single thing in your life today that you are able to accept…like the ability to read, to write, to speak, to share….these are all things we take granted for…appreciate them.
Much gratitude
Elizabeth