Grateful for Appreciation

Welcome to the day when you are "supposed to be" grateful.

I'm all for gratitude, but I'm not about the moralization of gratitude. Gratitude is not a gooder or righter way of being than any other way of being.

I prefer to use the word appreciation over gratitude, actually, because it feels less susceptible to moralization.

Appreciation is a term which describes the increase of value.

Appreciation is the reason to be grateful. Appreciation is a practice by which I increase the value of the experience I am having right here and now through the placement of my attention. Appreciation is a practice which increases my perceived and received value of that which I appreciate, both right now and over time.

I hope, today, you feel exactly as grateful as you do feel, without trying to feel more grateful.

I invite, today, that you steward your here-and-now attention to appreciate your own experience of whatever you've chosen to show up for. I invite that you move your body, point your eyes, tune your ears, and curate your thoughts in ways that increase the value of the experience you're having in any now moment.

There's no reason, other than the warm and glowy feeling it brings, to give thanks for the abstractions of things which are not here and now. (This is a plenty good reason, of course.)

There is actual WEALTH available to those who appreciate what IS here and now, using their attention to increase the value of their experience as well as the value of whatever that appreciative attention rests upon.

I don't wish for you snappy comebacks or concise and devastating political arguments to wield against your loved ones. I wish for you the exquisite attention to receive whatever is truly for you of this day and the places you go, the people you spend it with.

You are allowed to receive only and exactly what you LOVE about your loved ones today. If you stay busy with what you love, you won't need a strategy to contend with anything else.