Why Appreciation Works

Kris gave a very helpful explanation tonight for why appreciation, or thanking your problems, works. He and other 'dead guys' have told us often that appreciation is powerful medicine.

If we can find something to appreciate in any situation - it doesn’t even have to explicitly be about ourselves. If we can find a way to appreciate ANYthing in a difficult situation, the whole thing will turn on a dime in response to the change in energy we are expressing.

Kris explained that the reason was because when you appreciate your life in that way, or thank your problem for being meaningful and significant, you are moving to another layer of consciousness where you are not simply the focal awareness anymore, but are observing this focal awareness and expressing appreciation for its mechanisms.

By expressing appreciation for things that we seemingly have no direct control over, such as our problems, we are automatically viewing our lives from a much broader perspective than simply what we see looking out of our own eyes every day.

We are now looking out of many, many eyes, and while ours remain unique and heartfelt and special, so are all the others, and there is no conflict or judgement, just many, many eyes. [I’s]

It becomes obvious from this wider perspective that you are now able to see alternate beliefs and influences to the ones you find yourself holding in this particular reality. When you appreciate your problem, you completely undermine it, render it helpless, and even embarrass it a little bit.

Even the most horrific potentialities lose their edge and menace when they are thanked and then expectantly, almost cheerfully, explored for their gifts of understanding. [A proper monster is quite unnerved at being appreciated. It throws it off it’s stride. This is not the usual script at all!]

Even more than the delight of embarrassing our limitations into leaving us in peace, we have the new vision that comes from wider awareness. From this perspective, or more properly, straddling both this perspective and our usual point-of-view as a focal expression, we naturally can see more options for any given set of circumstances. [go up on a hill and you can still see your home and the fire burning in the hearth, but you can also see the next valley and beyond]

Understanding and accepting that we have engineered an experience for ourselves for the good it can do us, is a life-changing perspective. From this point on one cannot help but look at life differently. Especially any kind of problem or difficulty, or ‘disturbance in the force’.

The bottom line, of course, is that this means more choices, more freedom, and more native ability discovered and expressed to consciously create what we really want.

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A brief note from tonight’s radio show. [btw - Kris changed the name of the radio show from “Kris Radio”, to “Reality by Design, a Kris Radio Show”.] We enjoyed an extended metaphor of a symphony orchestra, with us being the conductors. The show is well worth listening to, not least because I got to ask a couple of questions.

I asked Kris to recall that he has said that acquired beliefs were a limitation. He agreed immediately that this is what he had said. I asked, since they are always a limitation, if we could get by on just prime beliefs and do away with acquired beliefs altogether.

He said ‘no’ because we use acquired beliefs to generate the explorations that interest us. Beliefs are reality creation tools that we are meant to pick up and put down as desired - as we wish. It is the believer of these beliefs who is in charge here.

All acquired beliefs are a limitation, yes, but we do not come here as a blank slate. We come with a host of passions and interests and questions we want to explore. We choose acquired beliefs precisely because of the limitations they create. This is how we ‘steer’ our focal awareness into the areas we want to explore, by choosing acquired beliefs, with the behaviors that go along with them.

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Kris has said, under separate cover, so to speak, that we create an arena here in this physical dimension for us to have the experiences we want. We create that arena by an intricate interplay of opposing and allowing energies. [remember, if we create our own reality, we would have to allow whatever we find ourselves opposing in the first place, or it wouldn’t be there for us to oppose!]