Appreciation Techniques

By Sheryl Schlameuss Berger

Inspirational and motivational experts encourage us to incorporate a gratitude and appreciation practice into our lives. This helps bring us into a very positive state of awareness and receiving.

As we appreciate the good in our lives and focus on it, the exhilarating positive vibrations that we give off serve to draw more of the same to us! Understanding and using this concept can greatly enhance our life by supercharging our sense of accomplishment and self-worth.

Appreciation is a great tool that can be used to heal virtually any relationship – and both people do not have to be involved in the appreciation process! Just one person, using the exercises below can create positive changes on their own, often to a surprising degree.

The first way to use appreciation to heal a relationship is to consider one of the most common ways that relationships can become “broken”. When you fall into disagreement with someone, or you begin drifting apart from them, you usually start focusing on everything you don’t like about them (or at least … read more

Here’s another super-simple way to begin an appreciation and gratitude exercise daily – just start thinking and speaking your appreciation for everything you see all day. Start with the things in your immediate vicinity when you wake up in the morning.

“I appreciate this bed. I appreciate these slippers. I appreciate having a cozy home to live in.” As you continue with your day, deliberately focus on your appreciation for everything and everyone you encounter.

Appreciation is such a powerful tool for shifting your focus in a positive direction. One of the best ways to use appreciation is to help remove your focus from everything that’s going wrong.

Many of us get caught up in obsessing about the negative stuff and all day long our thoughts go something like this: “I hate this job, it would be so much easier if they would just let me do my work instead of bothering me constantly with meetings, change this, do that…ugh! Oh, here comes Ms. Annoying again, what terrible tales of woe does she … read more

Sometimes it can be challenging – REALLY challenging – to get into a state of gratitude when you’re just not feeling it. Maybe you’re upset about something that’s going wrong, or angry at someone, or feeling so empty that you truly can’t summon a genuine feeling of gratitude at the moment.

The following exercise is going to share an easy way to start feeling grateful in a general sense, and once you reach that stage you should be able to apply your feelings of gratitude to specific situations in your life. Before you start the exercise, be sure you … read more