Mental appreciation

Since I posted a blog about the difference between appreciation and gratitude, I have begun to use appreciation instead of gratitude little by little.

Appreciation is a kind of higher and unconditional love compared with gratitude. It has greater power to make our desires manifested in the physical world.

I have practiced appreciation for a long time. but most of the time, I don’t appreciate things or people directly through words or any other physical actions. Instead, I usually mentally appreciate them.

what is mental appreciation?

The below is just my own definition on mental appreciation:

mental appreciation means expressing your appreciation during the process of meditation,creative visualization, or pink love process.

Mental appreciation says that you can say “thank you” or “I love you” in the virtual reality created by yourself. Your mind has absolute freedom, so it is free for you to do mental appreciation anytime and anywhere.

why mental appreciation?

There are some situations that we can’t directly express appreciation, for example:

• the things or people that you want to appreciate are not before you
• the things you appreciate have not happen
• you feel it is difficult or embarrassing to express appreciation directly
• ……

I have said I used mental appreciation more often than directly express appreciation. The reason are mainly because of the above situations.

Generally speaking, I always appreciate mentally before doing important or difficult things.

for example, if I want to visit a difficult custom, I will first perform mental appreciation for the visit. In the mental appreciation, I will appreciate him for his kindness, his help and goodness. I also will appreciate and visualize the perfect result that I hope. And always, the real result is satisfying.

How to practice mental appreciation?

Just like the pink love process, the mental appreciation process is simple. But it still needs practice.

The overall steps for mental appreciation are:

• 1 enter into a calm state
• 2 make clear the things or people you want to mental appreciate
• 3 visualize a warm, harmony, exciting and happy image in your mind, say “thank you” to the things or people in it, say “I love you” to them and give them a warm hug.
• 4 visualize they are saying what you want to you, doing what you desire for you and giving valuable suggestions to you and so on. appreciate the words and acts from them. appreciate the YOU in the image at last.

Isn’t the process easy? The key is the feelings you get from the visualization and the process of appreciation. You can also use pink love process as the extra steps if you like.

when and where to practice mental appreciation?

Although I mention that it is better to come into peaceful state before mental appreciation, you can still do it any time.

You take responsibility for your own state. Once you are aware of this and treat this seriously, you can get peaceful at any time, any place.

Mental appreciation can be finished in just minutes. It doesn’t matter how long the process lasts. One minute-appreciation can works too if only you are really in the appreciation state.

wherever you are, if you want to appreciate mentally, close your eyes and do it. you will find little by little that it is easier to be in the appreciation and love.

Close your eyes, then create your own world in your mind. Open your eyes, and then find your mental image in the physical world.

Bless you, my all dear friends.

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Gratitude & appreciation tip: pink love diffusion

Recently I use a new tip to create appreciation emotions: pink love diffusion.  It makes it easy to show your gratitude to everything around you. It can also make the appreciation procedure more vivid. 

What is “pink love diffusion”?

“pink love diffusion” means two steps:

•  set a kind of color for love. For me, I set the color “pink” as the love’s color.
•  when you begin the appreciation process, every time you think of one thing, you stain it with the love color. that is to say, if I want to appreciate my bed, I will try to see it stained to be a pink bed.

Love color is to make the appreciation process vivid. you can change the pink to any color you like.

Why use “pink love diffusion”?

For me, there are three benefits:

• make appreciation more interesting and vivid
• create appreciation emotions and be in them more easily
• make it easier to show appreciation to more things and people in your life.

How to do “pink love diffusion”?

To make the pink love diffusion practical and realistic, I summarize the “pink love diffusion” process into 4 steps:

Generally speaking, this process can be practiced anywhere and anytime. You can sit in your car, on the bus, on the fly or stand waiting for someone. It is you who decide to do it or not.

But to make it more effective, you can choose the time when you are alert and clear, for example, in the morning just after you get up or in the evening just before you go to sleep.

as to the place, the only key is whether you feel peaceful or not. Here I don’t mean that the place must be quiet, instead, I mean “peace” in your mind.

• select your favorite love color

There is no need to choose the same color with mine. Ask yourself to find what is your favorite love color.

for me, light or clear pink is my favorite color. It makes me feel warm and comfortable. Once beginning the appreciation, I become a designer who redesign the color of all the things around you.

• close eyes, adjust breath and appreciate with the help of love color

Close eyes to use your mental eyes. Adjust breath to make you easily get down into visualization state. Now It is turn to the leading actor: pink love diffusion.

To make the process explained clearly, I take one of my pink love diffusion procedure as example:

I close my eyes and begin diffusing the light pink love from my bed to all the places in my house. Bed, chairs, TV, desk, kitchen and so on are all covered by the light pink one by one.

Once I mentally see the color of something get changed, I say “Thank you” to it and try to feel the love.

The time cost of the whole process is totally depends on my choice. sometimes, I only spend 2 minutes to do it. sometimes, I will spend more than 15 minutes. The more time used, the more things I will show appreciation to.

My “pink love diffusion” tips up to now (keep undating)

• list the things to appreciate in advance
• increase the appreciation time cost little by little
• Pay attention to the feelings of love during the whole process

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