Be present, mindful and honor your feelings and life. Be in appreciation.
Love and appreciation have the same feeling and energetic vibration. Appreciation is vibrationally aligned with who you really are. Reach for thoughts that make you feel better. That feeling of being in love, seeing the beauty of the love for a child, significant other or pet emits a higher vibration. When you focus your attention to it and bask in that feeling for as long as you can, it elevates your energetic vibration, attracting more like appreciation energy.
“Appreciation is focusing on what makes you feel good and the absence of everything that feels bad,” according to law of attraction expert, Esther Hicks. When you are present in appreciation, you see the world differently. You start attracting like vibration into your life, you see the beauty in all things, your neural pathways in the brain change because you are changing or upgrading your thoughts. Thoughts create more of what you focus on, so focus on positive thoughts that make you feel good.
Be mindful of the thoughts that you think, the words that you say to yourself and others. They are very powerful and can create illness and disease at the cellular level.
Be present, mindful and honor your feelings and life. Be in appreciation.
When you sit in appreciation and truly feel it at your heart center, it will radiate from you and make your day flow more easily. It does take some practice, but if you choose to make it your focus this month, you will see the many ways that it will benefit all of those around you as well. Focus on creating thoughts that empower and inspire you and allow that energy to rule your day.
Here are some easy appreciation exercises that you can do on a daily basis and focus on helping others to feel good, too.
1. Practice Appreciation of Solitude
Whether it is through praying, meditating or taking time to center yourself with deep breathing, just a few minutes in the morning before you get up and right before you go to bed to focus on your heart center will change your energetic and neural pathways in the brain. Doing this allows more like energy and vibration to come your way.
Make lists of your favorite things, the positive aspects of what you love and enjoy. Lighten up. Be blissful.
Think about or list out all the things you are appreciative for and allow it to keep flowing for a few minutes. Truly feel it in your heart! It’s easy to continue to think about and list all of the greatness that surrounds you on a daily basis. If you have a hard time listing or thinking of what you appreciate, then try keeping an “Appreciation Journal” by writing out all that you are grateful for and reading that list before bed.
After several minutes of focusing on truly feeling appreciative, smile and feel it in your heart center and through your whole body.
2. State Positive Empowering Affirmations Daily
Affirmations can be said daily for a few minutes or repeat ones that resonate with you. It has been shown that by stating affirmations, feeling them and being consistent with stating them daily for 21 days, the neural pathways start to change in the brain. You start to change the way you think, you will notice how your viewpoints on life and its experiences change. You will also attract more like vibration people and situations. It is very powerful. Here are some examples of gratitude affirmations: “I am focused on making a difference today. I share my gifts and talents with all I come in contact with. I love my healthy body, mind and spirit. I radiate joy, happiness, love and light to all through my heart center. I am love and appreciate that I have my partner, family members, good friends and my pets in my life on a daily basis. I love to experience the beauty that nature and the earth provides,” etc.
3. Spend Some Time in Nature
Take five to15 minutes sitting outside or walking in the forest. Take your shoes off and plant your bare feet on the ground, sit under a tree or near a mountain or on a rock. Take the time to observe every detail that surrounds the space. Really look at, listen to, and feel all the beauty that surrounds you feeling appreciative for the air we breathe, the earth’s nurturing and grounding abilities and how it provides for us and all the life on the planet. Grounding is a great stress reducer and immune booster. It can often bring you more mental clarity as well.
4. Take a Bliss Shower
Close your eyes, take a few clearing deep breaths to center yourself, and place your hand on your heart. Visualize a light color shower flowing over you. It can be any color of light you wish. Allow that water to cleanse you and allow any negativity, tension, stress, other people’s emotions and darkness to roll off you and go down the drain. When the water is visually clear and you feel lighter, take that clearer energy with you for the day.
5. Perform Random Acts of Kindness or Give Back to Others
By being kind to others, those little acts of kindness can go a long way and make someone’s day a little brighter. Do something unexpected to help a loved one, volunteer at your favorite charity, let someone go in front of you in line, call or meet up with an old friend, bring someone flowers or donate money to a worthy cause.
Focus on appreciation daily this month of November as we give thanks. In appreciation and thankfulness, I am so grateful and blessed to be able to share my gifts and talents as a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist with others. I am so grateful to assist people in their transformation to optimal health improving the mind, body and spirit. It brings me so much joy and happiness to be able to do what I love to do, while creating a ripple effect that spills over into improving people’s lives, health and outlook on life. FBN
By Christina Kovalik
Dr. Christina Kovalik NMD, LAc, The Vitality Doctor, is a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist specializing in hormone optimization, optimal health and vitality. She is a new Flagstaff resident, practicing since 2004, and opened her second location in Doney Park in 2020. For more information, visit thevitalitydoctor.com or call 928-863-6086.