Quote by Dawn,

"And it seems to resolve much more quickly with an attitude of gratitude than an attitude of grumpitude."

I really like this quote! Hope that you don't mind if I use it with some of my friends!

Megan; Appreciation is a good start, but gratitude is an essential principle of the Science Of Getting Rich! Wally speaks of gratitude throughout the book, he has a chapter on gratitude and the last word in the book is gratitude. If you havn't already you might consider beginning a gratitude journal that you write in daily! It has helped for many on these forums!

How are you all defining gratitude and appreciation? I personally see appreciation as even better, perhaps a step up the scale. But since the two are being contrasted and compared here, let's define our terms.

What do you mean when you use one word or the other? What's the difference in them to you?

Megan, appreciation has to be a start. Start where you are. And maybe one day you can find ONE thing that you are truly grateful for and add to it.

Go for it Tom.

Megan,

I think,… don’t downplay the value of appreciating. I remember a story years ago, where a man just really appreciated a certain piece of property. Then, later, without any conscious planning on his part, things, out of the blue, just ‘came together’ so that he ended up acquiring the property, easily and effortlessly.

It also seems to me that it may be just semantics, whether you’re appreciating or expressing gratitude. For example, am I grateful for my eyesight, or do I appreciate it? It’s both.

I can appreciate I live in a free country, and also be grateful that I do. And so on, with enough food to eat, arms, fingers, toes and legs intact, hot and cold running water, a decent place to go to sleep, uplifting and empowering books to read, enough decent food, however many moments of inner peace, calm, well being or ease I experience, etc., and also the wherewithal to work through ‘issues.’

In any case, here’s an A-H quote on appreciation.

“Are you understanding that appreciation and self-love is the most important tool that you could ever nurture, that the appreciation of others and the appreciation of yourself is the closest vibrational match to your Source energy of anything that we have ever witnessed? When you are appreciating or when you are loving or when you are acknowledging the value of something, you are in that moment a vibrational match to the Source that is truly you.” - Abraham-Hicks -

I think it all starts with appreciating oneself.

Phil

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GWhen I'm around people that express gratefullness, I feel a sense of awe in them, like they're really trust they're being guided/taken care of by a power greater than themselves.

With appreciative people, it seems like they're happy that the thing happened, like it may be some good luck they've run into.

Megan