These days, I find that more likely than not, something “pops out” at me - something that is just the right thing I needed to hear or see or feel, something that addresses a problem I might be mulling over, or gives me a creative solution to something I’ve been working on.

One of my biggest areas of self-growth these past two years has been along a path of coming to know myself better, and to appreciate and love myself more fully. It’s something that I want very much to share here at the Abundance Journal, and I’ve been gathering together all my thoughts and feelings about this.

Then today, I came across this quote (via the AbeQuotes email list - it’s a wonderful resource that will fill your inbox with daily gems). It speaks to how we block ourselves from self-love and self-appreciation, and best of all, provides a simple little process that will help you start coming to an awareness of how wonderful you really are.

Almost all of you, right from the beginning, relative to self, were taught that you are inappropriate beings, here to prove worthiness to something that moves around so much you can’t even really figure out what the rules are — because everybody has a different interpretation of what’s right and what’s wrong. So, we could put it very simply: The only thing that has been getting in your way, the only thing that has been holding you up, the only thing that has been troubling any of you, is one thing: you have not been appreciating you. You’ve been looking at you, seeing lack and vibrationally closing down the Energy that allows you to get what you want. That has been it.

Can a person who doesn’t appreciate self suddenly start appreciating self? We don’t think so. We see, every time you try, you fall back into these same old ruts. Every time you try to get outside of yourself to look at yourself, what you see is the same thing you’ve sort of trained yourself to see. That’s why you’ve said and you have heard others say, “I can’t see myself as others see me.”

Well, you do see yourself as some others see you. In other words, everybody sees you a little differently depending on where they’re vibrating. A connected one thinks you’re magnificent. A not connected one doesn’t think you’re so magnificent — but it doesn’t have anything to do with you. It has to do with where they’re vibrating as they are perceiving you.

So here is a process. Some say it is a trick that works. It’s not a trick. It’s a utilization of the Laws of the Universe. Remember that your goal is to find an object of attention that makes you feel good while you find it.

Well, some objects are easier than others, aren’t they? Esther looks at her little cat, and she cannot feel other than appreciation for this pure positive Energy beast. You look at someone
misbehaving, and it’s lss easy to find appreciation. So what you are wanting to do is look for objects of attention to which you can flow an Energy of appreciation.

Now, here’s the reason that this is sneaky. By choosing an object of attention that causes pure positive Energy to flow through you, guess what happens to the vessel through which the pure positive Energy is flowing? You thrive. When you try to look back at yourself most of you shut down, because you already have negative thoughts about self that are hard for you to overcome.

So what we would encourage you to do, for about 30 days, is get your eye off of you and get yourself on a blitz of appreciation. Make a decision that you are going to do as much ppreciating in any day as you have physical time and Energy to do.

Abraham-Hicks Workshop
2/26/94

Doing a 30-day blitz of appreciation really does work. And better than that - if you can do this for 30 days, more likely than not, you will find yourself doing it as a matter of course daily, without having to work at it. And with this appreciation will come more self-appreciation. You will begin to see not only the world around you, but yourself, too, through the eyes of love.