The dictionary gives this definition for appreciation: gratitude; thankful recognition.

What power and freedom is in the act of appreciation.
The attitude of deeply feeling grateful for people and conditions in your life opens the floodgate for more of the same.

It also lifts the countenance of all those around you. There was a report done that showed when acts of kindness were done that the giver and the receiver at once felt good: what is even more incredible is that the same thing happened to those who witnessed the act.

Our bodies create a “feel good chemical” when we engage in acts of kindness, receive them or even witness them. This is so powerful that once we really understand the possibilities we can change the world.

Just think for a moment of a world where people are being kind to each other. Think about the chemical affects on each person as they act with kindness, receive kindness and witness kind acts.

This natural high of good feelings would reach further and further affecting more and more people, filling them with a sensation of kindness as well.

Imagine kindness and appreciation catching on and spreading throughout the land.
Just think how powerful this would be. If each of us decided to act with appreciation and offer acts of kindness to all we come in contact with we could in fact change our world.

Simple things like saying Thank you offer appreciation and the energy of feeling good to all you meet.
Telling the people in your life how talented, loving, and how much they mean to you creates an environment where kindness grows.

When you are in the check out line at the store, take a moment to appreciate the person helping you to make your purchases.

As you drive down the road be aware of opportunities to be kind: let someone get in front of you, smile, offer blessings as you go down the road.

I read recently that “to bless means to give it your best energy, your highest thought, your grandest wish. You send a thing good energy when you bless it. This is something physical that you are doing, not merely
conceptual or philosophical.”

As you go through your day at home, work, shopping, driving through traffic: remember to appreciate, to be kind, to bless all you come in contact with.

To appreciate you must bless; you must offer your grandest, highest thought of well being and goodness. This is always followed with acts of kindness, which have the power to change the world.

Lift up each person today with your highest thought, see the Divine within each, that spark of love and light that always burns within each created being.

Allow yourself to feel love and move in appreciation and follow with actions of kindness.

When each of us dares to live a life where appreciation and kindness are standard each and every moment of the day, we then, change the world and greater yet: we change ourselves.

You will know when your feelings of appreciation are genuine by the washing of love and positive energy that suddenly flows through you and touches those around you.

Appreciate each moment and each person with acts of kindness and lift the world to the highest place where love and joy reign.