1,664 thoughts on “Appreciation, Appreciation, Appreciation…..”

1. Wow I love re-visiting this blog and being inspired by the power of appreciation, and it seems so do others seeing as there is nearly 2000 comments here – now that is something to appreciate too.

2. Simplicity is our path back to our Soul.. a great reminder that if things feel complicated and difficult then we’re off track.. dealing with things without delay frees up space within and around us for more to flow through us and be delivered. What’s amazing about getting on with things and completion is that we actually feel more energised, not drained, when we fully commit.

3. I really dislike the energy that drives us to be judgemental and what I realise is that being judgemental doesn’t just happen, it is a result of not appreciating, not observing, valuing and cherishing how amazing we all are.

4. When we’re in that state of appreciation, everything else feels more in proportion, more manageable, less dramatic.. appreciation brings a perspective that relates to the whole. It’s like it brings us back to who we truly are and not the other stuff like distraction and complication that can muddy that clarity.

5. Just reading the title of this blog is powerful. Once you have lived and felt the immense power in appreciation you know that it is inseparable to evolution.

6. Appreciation is a movement of confirmation. Definitely, part of our repose.

7. It is clearly evident in the blog how appreciation completely removes judgement and comparison.

   1. It sure does Joshua and I found myself being judgemental the other day and I realise how often I go into this. From the very subtle forms of judgement to the more noticeable ones and this is great to be aware of. I then asked myself, how I can eliminate judgement and the answer is appreciate, appreciate and appreciate.

8. I love reading this blog and feeling the power of appreciation, there is so much to appreciate it’s incredible to think that we can miss it.

9. ‘I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.’ Our body can give us clarity about ourselves and what happens in the world when we start to be absolutely honest, truly something to deeply appreciate in our way forward.

10. The deeper we appreciate the more we realise that there is so much more for us to appreciate.

11. A great blog for me to read today, as i feel appreciation has been lacking in my life lately and what a great difference it makes when I can appreciate who I am and what I have been given to live and reflect to others. ” Thus I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it. ”

12. One of the best things to appreciate is those aspects of life that are beyond the physical and psychological.

13. We divinely come back to who we are when we appreciate.

    1. So simple isn’t it? Appreciation is so confirming, expansive and deeply loving. We certainly need more appreciation in our world because currently it is infested with judgement, comparison and jealousy.

14. ‘I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.’ Our bodies speak and feel volumes. The body speaks in nothing but adoration when we honour it and nourish it. The love which can be felt from the body when it receives loving choices is beyond amazing.

    1. Yes, the body very much repays looking after it. Very much.

15. Appreciation is a very beautiful activity and I realise that our relationship with this is revealing, always developing and transformative when embraced.

16. Appreciation offers us the opportunity to continue to deepen and explore the depths of who we are, confirming all that we are to which there is no end, a body of love through which the light of God can shine on earth through all we do. For with our every move we can deepen our relationship with our awareness of our multidimensionality, and the more we appreciate this the more we live the authority of God’s love.

17. ‘I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live’ – how true does this statement feel. We are a constant beacon to others, and that livingness is important in showing others that there is another way to live – if we chose to observe that reflection.

18. Appreciation and consolidation, the building blocks to be ready for more.

    1. Absolutely Kim – and there is always more to live, such is the endless inspiration always on offer.

19. There’s so much to appreciation Jacqueline and writing it down and claiming how your life has changed is both very confirming and inspiring.

20. With appreciation, we confirm, consolidate and lay the path for the next step on offer.

21. Jacqueline I love what you say about family being now more for you than simply being bold related. Appreciation very much supports us in all relationships and help us realise that they all matter.

22. Thank you Jacqueline, I really enjoyed your blog, there is indeed so very much to appreciate. I found your words about honesty really supportive “The more I nourished from honesty (instead of contraction), the more certain foods dropped away, and my body shape changed to express more of my true beauty and my true essence.” I enjoy being honest but I hadn’t quite looked at it as a way to nurture myself so that more of my true beauty and essence can be expressed – yet that is exactly what honesty can do! Thank you Jacqueline, you are a gem!

23. A beautiful appreciation of all there is to appreciate when we know who we are.

24. I have come to understand that appreciation is a way of being and not just something we do when we feel impulsed. I used to live a life of self-deprecation, putting myself down at every turn, believing that being meek and falsely humble was God’s will. Today, I find that His Will is that I know the amazing being that I am, and the amazing beings we all are equally so, and live in the appreciation of this fact.

    1. You have summed up the difference Richard of thinking we know God (being falsely humble, meek and self depreciating) and actually living God which is the knowing of who we are and what we come from and how amazing that is.

25. Very beautiful to read your words of your outstretched hand. The beholding of love is constant and consistent.

26. “The more I nourished from honesty (instead of contraction), the more certain foods dropped away, and my body shape changed to express more of my true beauty and my true essence.” Jacqueline, I love this sentence. It exposes that we only receive nourishment from what we eat. We can also be truly nourished through how we are with ourselves.

27. Appreciation is an expansive rhythm that continues to grow, expand and nurture who we are via our movements. it is then from these movements of appreciation we are not only confirming ourselves but confirm the all.

28. I have just spent the past two days bathing in appreciation and thus, I can appreciate your contribution even more for its candour and grace.

29. Appreciation rocks! The more we appreciate the more there is to appreciate. It’s an endless well that nourishes our body and soul.

    1. It certainly is Lucy, it nourishes everyone when appreciation is regularly expressed and deeply felt. I have found jealousy, comparison and judgement can very quickly creep in if I haven’t been appreciating myself and others. Appreciation is key to life, without it our relationships can easily wilt and die.

30. ‘Yes, I can fully appreciate my commitment to healing my old ways, and then feeling how much I resisted delaying the truth: I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God….’ the correct order to first appreciate your commitment to healing and then the honesty of how you have been living. The other way around we start with bashing ourselves and will never come to the truth of appreciation as the way to change our movements.

31. It’s great to explore appreciation at this time of year, we can look back at our year and really appreciate what’s taken place and what we’ve been offered and what we’ve accomplished. I feel like that gives us a really steady platform upon which to say yes to what’s next.

32. The presentations from Universal Medicine have also completely changed my life. Appreciation wasn’t even on my radar now I know there’s ALWAYS something to appreciate and confirm about how amazing I am, my life and those I live life with. It’s not always my focus but that doesn’t mean it can’t be, thats my choice.

33. When we don’t build consistent appreciation in our lives we are susceptible to the ideas and beliefs of what is ‘going around’. Much like how if we are run down we are susceptible to cold, flues etc. Appreciation is a builder for our body and being.

    1. I love what you have shared Jen, I have been lacking appreciation lately and I have been feeling quite un well, the remedy, appreciation a builder for my body and being.

       1. Appreciation is medicine for our body to support us to reconnect and develop a consistent living way with our being.

34. ” Thus I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it. ”
    This is true and one of the keys I find is to realise what one is receiving is what one is in truth , one is just receiving back who they are in truth.

    1. Yes John and it feels amazing to receive this confirmation and feedback of who we are in truth which is deeply supporting to keep saying Yes to what’s next, to keep growing and expanding.

35. It really is part and parcel of our healing Jacqueline. What you have illustrated is how, once you start it is a very deep well and it offers support, love and healing like no other. Why would we want to live from the shallowness of self-critique, or the darkness of comparison, when we can feel that well of love we are from that has no borders or walls?

36. Appreciation is just oozing off this page Jacqueline. I am bathing in its lusciousness and feel very inspired by your sharing. Thank you.

37. Appreciation is the pathway to true change.

38. This morning I am beginning to appreciate that it is how I move that will determine the quality I align to; either my spirit that keeps me in old patterns, thoughts and behaviours, or my Soul in which I can feel my Godly presence. And I deeply appreciate my awareness that I can feel the difference, and bring myself back to the flow of receiving all the support and love that is endless…

39. The only way to truly stop something from either happening again or happening over and over would be to change what you put in. Similar to a recipe or relationship or anything. If you don’t like the look or the feeling of what is going on then we need to change what we are putting in. So often the world critiques every part of us and this list goes on and on, what if we were to change how we are in it, how we are with ourselves would this have the power to change anything else? You can only try it for yourself and map the feelings from there if you choose, for me there has been a world changing change to how things are when I have made the choice to have a continued deep look at my input. No more is life crushing or heavy because I no longer bring this to myself and as I heard someone say, ‘live light and be light’.

40. Jaququline, this is such a yummy breakfast to have. Eating bucket loads of appreciation is the only way we can return to walking our true body shape that is full of all the love we are.

    1. Love this Kim, eating bucket loads of appreciation for breakfast what a great way to start the day. Yes and being full of appreciation, we are able to walk all that we are.

41. When I appreciate someone, love just flows with ease and undisturbed between us.

42. Appreciation is a very powerful value that helps us see the bigger pictures in life and the energies at play. When life throws us curve balls and we may wobble, appreciation helps us stay steady, knowing that who we are remains and does not change. It helps us see that these curve balls are presented for us to know and show the more of who we are and are never meant for us to shrink away or make ourselves less.

    1. Beautifully expressed Jennifer, I am appreciating how much appreciation supports us in life and how powerful it is.

43. When we learn to express appreciation for our bodies and all that we share, we would not want to ignore what our bodies share with us. I also offer appreciation for the wonderful teachings of The Way of The Livingness and the presentations of the Ageless Wisdom both presented by Serge Benhayon.

44. This is a perfect blog to read to remind one that great healing is on offer when appreciation is lived. And boy oh boy there is a lot to appreciate when one starts to look.

45. Appreciation is the pathway out of holding onto our regrets in life, so that we understand the reason why life has brought certain things our way.

46. The power of appreciation is in its expanding and evolving way, which opens us up to greater and deeper levels of love not able to be experienced with out this foundation as part of our lives.

47. Could we ever speak highly enough of this important value…appreciation? It truly is foundational to our wellbeing, the wellbeing of our relationships and how we travel through life. There is no end point to appreciation, it is a constant.

48. We, well I have spent a lot of time and energy trying to make life what I want and need it to be. If at any point I didn’t like something or it didn’t go well then I would change it, it was complicated with a lot of twists and turns. When you read this, life is simple at it’s core, “Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy. I created my life from the energy I aligned to.” So I use to think I was in control or at least try and control life and yet that was the trick. It’s an alignment to an energy that then from there produces all else, simple and yet it’s not what we make it.

49. I was at a presentation yesterday where the subject of death and dying was touched upon and how many people have regret or things in their life, and also go into reminiscing in an attached way before dying or at a late stage in life. It was offered that instead of going down that track we instead appreciate hugely the gifts we have been given and the evolutionary steps we have taken in for example letting go reactions, letting love in and letting it out, living harmoniously, and being in conscious presence. It was beautiful to feel this appreciation.

50. Appreciation is so, so underrated – we live for the most part with a watered-down understanding of it. I joke not when I say we need to develop a deep appreciation of appreciation and all that it can bring and support.

    1. I agree Victoria. Appreciation is super powerful. I am realising how it holds me steady through difficult times. It helps me see that the difficulties are their for me to see more of who I am and bring that out. If I didn’t have appreciation as a foundation then I would be swamped and overwhelmed by the challenges of life.

51. Appreciation is such a key part of the truth of who we are and where we are from.

52. When we align to truth, appreciation is unbounded.

53. Awesome blog Jacqueline, I love reading this again, it reminds me of how much there is to appreciate in life. I am exploring the wonders and magic of appreciation more and more.

54. Appreciation is food for the Soul, as it bring us back to the core of our being and the real values we hold.

55. Appreciation is a movement that allows us to confirm the absoluteness of who we are and to open us up to receive the volume of the universe.

    1. Beautifully said Francisco.

56. All hands are the hand of God – appreciating this is massive and can support us all to re-connect to our divine essence. A moment without this connection is a moment that we say no to divine love.

57. For far too long we have cultivated a culture of criticising each other and ourselves, which only serves to keep us and others less, and sadly this has become the norm. Our newspapers, magazines, social media, TV reality shows all present a put down energy of gossip, and sniping at people in a petty way. With appreciation, all of the above does not have to be taking place, and it feels far more loving to appreciate others than it does to put them down.

    1. Very true Julie…the ‘culture of criticism’. There is nothing about criticism that supports another or ourselves. We are all human and all make mistakes, sometimes a lot. But we are no less for making a mistake. Criticism puts us in the corner, blocks us in and stops us from knowing and connecting to who we are. I always wonder if we are on criticise mode then how are we feeling about ourselves. Always a good place to begin.

58. Being able to appreciate encompasses many of what you have shared, it isn’t an affirmation, but an inner knowing that we are more that flesh and blood. That it is more that just words to oneself, it is and has to be in our movements, as this then can dictate, in a good way, what other choices are that we make.

59. Beautifully shared Jacqueline, appreciation is the key to our expansion and evolution, I have been slow in developing appreciation, but when i do feel it I feel so much joy and expansiveness in my body, I love this line “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.”

    1. Feeling to expand on that Jill, feeling more spacious within, the impulses from my Soul can be easily felt. I have just moved a few days ago, which was another opportunity to clear and discard the old, which leaves my feeling light and spacious – and in this new space I am receiving so much!

60. The quality of relationship we hold with our bodies is key to being aware of what quality of energy is moving us. Although it can be confronting initially to realise what we are allowing, our willingness to being honest is what develops our awareness so that we can feel when we are moved by our Soul or by our spirit. Our bodies are the gateway to living and bringing the light of who we all are in essence here on earth, as they were they were divinely designed to do. Yes there is so much to appreciate, of who we are, and how much we are truly held to return to living our true and unified way.

61. Wow there are over 1800 comments in this blog, it is obvious that the subject of appreciation is worth talking about, and many are inspired by your blog Jacqueline and the power this quality brings to our lives when truly lived.

    1. I noticed that too. Appreciation is so easily taken for granted, yet it’s the very thing we are all deeply missing.

    2. I spotted that too and it is of inspiring significance that so many are interested in exploring the quality of appreciation.

62. Appreciation is a foundation in life that brings steadiness and rock solidness.

    1. It sure does Esther – appreciation confirms the vibration of truth and love, the qualities of light which we all are in essence. There is nothing more ‘rock solid’ than that.

    2. Absolutely Esther, it is the glue that binds us to all we are.

    3. And if we understand this we will know that all it takes to have true confidence is appreciation which then confirms all that who we are and what we bring.

63. “The more I nourished from honesty (instead of contraction), the more certain foods dropped away, and my body shape changed to express more of my true beauty and my true essence.” This sentence helped me to get to the understanding that true nourishment is not the food we put in our bodies but the quality from which we make every movement and choice. Our food will simply reflect this quality – whatever it is.

    1. Love your understanding and expansion on this Lucy. True nourishment is the quality in which we move our bodies; are we moving with all of us or are we moving in rush mode, in drive or have to achieve mode, or having to please others mode, or in lack of self-worth mode, and many more, which do not activate quality but the very opposite.

       1. Our movements then either activate or cement whatever quality we’re moving in, further. I love this expansion of the word nourishment into a way of being and moving, not just an an activity.

64. Appreciation naturally paves the way to greater expansion, both within and around us. It ignites the light within us, which your photo beautifully reflects.

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66. There is so much to appreciate about ourselves, but how many actually do so? I know it is still a work in progress with myself, I am learning more and more each to appreciate. Because when we do, it opens up not only ourselves to evolve, but it fosters that in others too.

67. It’s no accident that self-appreciation is not nurtured or encouraged in most countries and societies – for when we do self-appreciate, when this becomes part of how we simply are with ourselves, we catapult our evolution. We cannot truly evolve unless we truly appreciate who we are.

68. It is amazing how challenging a compliment can be for us. I was in meeting recently where a beautiful and brilliant woman could not quite handle the honest description I was giving of her writing abilities and intelligence. The beautiful thing was that she was aware of the fact of it being challenging and nominated that so we were able to go from there with it and have a great conversation about the images of ourselves that sabotage us.

69. The reason I feel I read this today was this ‘I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom’ and to ask myself have I truly surrendered and live by the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as much as I could? For I know the truth, love, integrity of these teachings and that basically .. this is it. The answer is no and from reading your blog today I got to feel this, therefore I can now surrender to these teachings, held within my body, even more. Thank you

70. When we do not appreciate we depreciate. Thus, appreciation is the only way to initiate a movement that allows us to leave behind our choice of depreciation as our chosen way.

71. We have so much appreciation for who we are when we except who we are, for then we can not help but feel the grandness we come from and that it is continually flowing through us.

72. Thank you Jacqueline – appreciation is powerful. It is easy to focus on the things that upset us or the things we want to change. Appreciation is the road less travelled which is strange because it is a highway to heaven.

73. Such a beautiful post, “can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth.” Appreciation is key to evolving and becoming more of who we truly are.

74. Appreciation is beautifully expansive and very nourishing. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.”

75. The more I appreciate the changes I am making the more I recognise that there are always deeper layers of appreciation to unfold.

    1. So very true Helen, a deeper layer has just unfolded. This very morning I was appreciating how tender I was with myself yesterday which felt truly loving and supportive. I had had a very long day at work ( too long, actually) the day before. First thing when I woke yesterday, my body communicated; ‘be tender with yourself today’. I heard, I listened, I obeyed. Now being hard ( my old way of being) and being tender are polar opposites, so as I write, I can feel the huge shift I have made and how far I have come, that not only do I feel blessed to be in this amazing vehicle of light that communicates with me- my body, I feel it’s a miracle!

       1. I love what you share. Appreciating our body is huge. Many would focus on the fact that they felt tired etc and curse their body – you appreciate what your body communicates and listen to it. Beautiful.

76. ‘Yes, I can deeply appreciate how far I have come, and where I am going, and say YES to all that my Soul lays before me.’ It is inspiring to feel your appreciation for your journey of return and how willing you are to appreciate all the different elements that have contributed to turning your life around.

77. Appreciation is enormous. We don’t live with appreciation anywhere near enough. I, myself never even considered it something worth contemplating until attending Universal Medicine events. I didn’t know that I was worth appreciating, I thought appreciation was about things and other people. Nope. Appreciating myself is the biggest work in progress of my life, but it’s growing, and as it does, my appreciation for others is also expanding.

78. It’s amazing when you genuinely look at how hard we can be on ourselves. Take away how we are with others and just focus on ourselves. It would seem it’s no wonder at times that we don’t like what we see in the world. There are some horrible things that happen around us while at the same time how often do we genuinely appreciate what we see or how something feels. Even the smallest thing can be appreciated. It may seem small but from experience it has the power to change your view of things.

79. Appreciation is endless . . . and powerful.

80. Its a great way to approach life, from a point that the glass is nearly full, not almost empty. A chef that I work with during a busy shift sometimes just says this word out loud three times, appreciation, appreciation, appreciation! It always makes me stop and smile, I find it a very sweet word. I have always been hard on myself, since I was a kid, its sad that so many of us were taught and accepted this way of being as normal. Slowly I am undoing these beliefs and seeing how amazing I actually am, it can be a long path of return from self critic to self love but one I would never have embarked on had I not been so inspired by Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.

    1. ‘I have always been hard on myself’, this was my experience too Sarah. I have always made myself ‘wrong’ and made myself less, all my own doing of course, but for as much as I wanted to change, and knew deep down there was another way to be and to live in this world, all my old ingrained and entrenched patterns behaviours and beliefs kept me trapped, unable to move in any direction. But there came a turning point in my life, that I had been waiting for and the key to unlock my own prison came in the form of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and through these courses and presentations I have cleared and healed so much of my ‘old ways’, which has created so much space in my life for truth, for grace, for simple living and most of all to just be myself, and to not be afraid to shine my light in this world.

81. I massively appreciate and love life, but appreciation of who I am is probably one my biggest downfalls, so I really enjoyed reading your blog. It’s so easy to be self critical, instead of celebrate who we are and how far we’ve come, and I’m sure that appreciation is the key for confirming where you are so that you have the foundation from which to step forward from.

82. True appreciation keep that inner realm open to the beauties of the universe and to the fact that every heart no matter what form from the same place. Making the space for this to happen assists greatly defeating the hold the astral plane.

83. Appreciation is so supportive for us all. The more we appreciate the more we can see and feel the joy and love within us and all around us.

84. So often we can go through lives not really knowing the value of who we are and what we have to offer, we settle for function instead of looking to bring out all that is within and live with a vibrancy and joy for life.

85. Yes, there is so much to appreciate and the presentation by Serge Benhayon about spirit and Soul is right up there as a most liberating and empowering teaching that makes sense of the whole mess we see in the world and in ourselves at times!

86. Wow – this is a stunning appreciation of appreciation.

87. If we think we haven’t aligned to either prana or fire, love is not love, then we are fooling ourselves. In not making a choice we are making a choice to align to prana – that which is not love.

88. Appreciation is the new black. It is forever classic and in style, it is what deepens the love we are in feeling and embodiment, it is the coolest practice well worthy to commit to. The effects and results are only felt when it is lived.

    1. Appreciation is expansive. Every time I fully embrace appreciation I feel this expansiveness and feel deeply loving. I agree Adele, appreciation is pretty cool and so, so worth committing to everyday.

89. Appreciation is absolutely essential if we are ever going to break the cycles that keep us trapped in thoughts of ‘not being enough’. To claim back the loveliness we already are appreciation is the essential support.

90. Appreciation Works!

    1. It sure does Lyndy – applied consistently it works miracles.

    2. Appreciation Rocks 🙂

       1. Appreciation knocks off your Socks

       2. ha ha Lyndy that gave me a good laugh and blows your wig off too!

91. True appreciation for me comes either in great appreciation for any human being showing consideration towards another, or often with looking back and seeing how universal law has worked through and in the unfoldment of events – this for me is truly heart-melting appreciation.

92. What I also find interesting is that without both appreciating our spirit and soul we can’t begin to understand why we have certain patterns, beliefs and ideals about our choices past and present and how appreciating both sides of the human way can strengthen our reconnection to the loving way of the soul’s true heartbeat.

93. Just the word appreciation makes joy flow through my body. I love appreciation, it’s the joyful love juice that nourishes our very being.

94. A beautiful invitation to appreciate all there is and let go of the criticising and the need of betterment. To see life as it is in all its aspects.

95. Appreciation accelerates evolution. Perhaps this gives us a clue as to why we are so doggedly caught up in self-loathing, for true evolution is about returning to the love that we are (our Soul) – our true self that we as human spirits made the choice to withdraw from long ago.

96. As a whole humanity we do not appreciate nearly enough the magic that blesses our everyday that founds the wisdom of our tomorrow.

97. Jaqueline, your blog beautifully amplifies the enormity of what we can appreciate daily. There is so much on offer and so much we say yes to. All is worthy of deep appreciation.

98. You write how much your body surrenders to appreciation – a feeling I have experienced too. It’s absolutely deliciously effortless.

99. True appreciation opens us up to the wonders of the Universe and the ‘more’ that is in us just waiting to be lived – this I can clearly feel in the gorgeous quality of your writing Jacqueline. The spirit also has its own version of ‘appreciation’ which it uses to bask in so as not to expose itself and the creator of its own misery, living in separation to Soul. This is how many of us get caught up in the fervor of spirituality at great expense to the true gold (the wisdom of our Soul/God/the Universe) that lays beneath it just waiting to be tapped into.

100. You inspire me Jacqueline at the start of my day to truly appreciate me and my choices and to very simple confirm and nurture myself.

101. Our level of appreciation can always be deepened so beautifully – appreciation of the stars, the cycles, the rhythm of our days, the fullness of the moon, the evolutionary nature of our friendships, the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom presented by the world teacher, the giggle of a toddler, our ability to remain steady and observing in any situation, the discernment to know what is ‘circulation’ (harmful) speech – all this and a millionfold more is there as the most precious gift of Life.

102. Appreciation is a vibration that we can choose to align to, so it makes perfect sense that if our movements hold this quality consistently then our choices will be naturally supportive and confirming of who we truly are.

103. I love it when I feel a deep appreciation welling up inside me for someone. It feels so complete and enriching. And the same goes for self-appreciation. It fills the space – which otherwise would be colonised by self-doubt – beautifully.

104. This one word has the power to change our every movement if we choose to live and feel all that it offers. It’s one word that I am only just starting to feel the power of, and just starting to embrace the love that it offers. It is not just a word but a vibration that can be lived in all we do. My love for humanity grows more and more as this word is lived and embraced in my everyday.

105. To nourish from feeling and appreciating us is so very different and it allows us to feel and see we are whole, we have it within us and then it’s about how we express it with ourselves and our bodies. This is huge and something that is offered by the teachings of Universal Medicine, you already are it, there is nothing to seek, it’s just about living and expressing who you are and letting go all those things which are not you and allowing yourself to deeply nourish.

106. I so loved this Jacqueline, a blog that bathes all who read it in appreciation. A powerful tool in life we should all study.

107. Well today I appreciate my ability to stay connected to that true part of me that is not ever lost.

108. With what goes on around us appreciation is not only an action worth doing but one worth doing regularly and consistently. For me there is a ‘that’ll be enough switch’ where you take things to a point and then rest. Appreciation should be held everyday and I don’t mean just saying the word to yourself in your head. Life is a physical action and appreciation needs the same activity. I work with it daily but this wasn’t always my choice but now it’s one to ‘appreciate’ because of how it supports me. It maybe appreciating the little things, the details that you may never have seen but are always there. Life tends to take us away into the big lights and appreciation supports me to stand back and up and not just be blinded by what is in front of me, a daily ritual well worth the action.

109. Appreciating oneself and others is a little like putting the best fertiliser on your favourite rose bush – what was already totally beautiful can only expand and share more.

     1. That is beautiful Lyndy and so true. Appreciation allows for expansion very naturally.

110. It’s come down to a call for moment to moment appreciation, confirming that what is before me and what is ahead is for All. That self plays no part in the true purpose of why we are here, yet if I drop the appreciation of who I am as I am the self takes over. This isn’t a riddle it is my understanding of what the Ageless Wisdom means. We are called to live and appreciate the absolute fullness of ourselves as we are from our essence and shine this out equally for All in all our movements. If I doubt any part of this the then self takes over with thought and my connection to true purpose is temporally dis-connected. This feels very heavy to walk with, so the moment to moment appreciation supports the continued connection.

111. When I am in appreciation, I feel the spaciousness of my body and it feels like what I am appreciating is nothing personal to me, it feels beautiful yet stilling. I agree – there’s so much to appreciate.

112. Appreciation has been an extra-ordinary opportunity for me. It turned around the negative self battering, into quiet moments of reflection and appreciation. I have then been able to appreciate so much more about the wonderful and I really mean wonderful people and opportunities in my life. Not all of them on the surface ‘look’ great, but I learn from each and every one of them and for that I am deeply appreciative.

113. The more simply I live the more I appreciate life. No longer do I allow complication to blind me to what is there to be lived.

114. ‘I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate’ – this beautiful Jacqueline, thank you for sharing .

115. I found that appreciation is the key to being completely honest with one’s self about what is going on but without self-judgement.

116. “Oh goodness” was my thought on reading the title – that old thing appreciation that keeps getting pushed aside. I know that so much lies in appreciation yet I seem to think it is so hard to go there.

117. It is very true that there is so much to appreciate even when I feel exposed and admit that I feel raw as often these moments can get overlooked as they can feel uncomfortable but they are certainly worth appreciating the fact that I am willing to see and feel what is running in my body that is not true.

118. Appreciating our life now and our experiences thus far allows us to see and feel how we are always unfolding, undoing and learning through life and how that then returns us to the love we are and have always been.

119. The amount of appreciation here is glorious. I am only just beginning to appreciate the true power of appreciation. It consolidates and confirms and allows us to expand. Without appreciation we leave ourselves open to energies that can take us away from our true path. Without appreciation of what is true anything else can look tempting and tantalising. When we appreciate the true value of what we know and what we live, nothing else comes near, and we are less likely to stray.

120. As you say, Jacqueline, “I genuinely appreciate I could not write or claim this 4 years ago” I can relate to this so well. As with you, if it were not for the presentations of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon I would still be in the wilderness of confusion and angst with the world and myself. Now instead my relation with myself and the world is one of ever deepening love and appreciation.

121. Jacqueline this is stunning and a beautiful reflection of you and choice to live your Soulfulness. There is no doubt that through honesty we come to know the truth of who we magnificently are and are here to live. And every day the opportunity returns to choose to walk in surrender to our Soul, or in resistance to all that we are. As in-truth our Soul never leaves us as it is that inner-knowing that is ever-present always reminding us of our origins, through which the hand of God patiently awaits to be held. Yes there is much to appreciate.

122. Your appreciation and love here Jacqueline is so beautiful to feel and that for Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness that has transformed your life and that of many others shared here with so much joy and strength. Appreciation Appreciation Appreciation …

123. Appreciation is something that naturally lives in us. We only have to allow it to emerge from our inner most as it is one of the most powerful gifts to ourselves and to others to support us in our return to Soul.

124. I always love returning to your blog Jacqueline and being reminded of the power of appreciation and how beautifully you have embodied this and how deeply inspiring your reflection is to men and women equally.

     1. Thank you Anna for your lovely confirmation.

125. Thank you Jacqueline, we can only appreciate.. It is the expression that we are part of all of that heaven that is with and in us.

126. It is such a beautiful part of life to appreciate where we have come from, how we have lived and the choices we make that lead us to the life we now live. There is so much to learn, appreciate and inspire us always and it all begins with our choice to appreciate how truly amazing we all are.

127. Appreciation is utterly divine. I have just received an email of appreciation from someone and it was beautiful to feel and observe. Also recently when my daughter was up visiting with her toddler daughter, we had a few hours one afternoon with just the two of us talking together while my grand daughter was napping, discussing life and sharing. It was one of the loveliest, most full-of-grace afternoons I have ever had. We both expressed our appreciation of our relationship together and how it has grown to a new level. It is a brilliant topic Jacqueline and you have written about it so well.

128. Thank you, Jacqueline, for sharing such profound lesson. We must appreciate. Even appreciate ourselves in our past choices and deeply understand where we have come from – is the greatest healing. From there all will be taken forth.

129. Appreciation is one of the most important building blocks of living a loving life. It is our way to confirm our union with God and the divinity that we represent. It is this magnificence that may be magnified over and over, there is no end goal.

130. The word simplicity carries with it such power; your blog is a wonderful reminder to keep life simple, thus allowing the soul to communicate and us to respond;
     “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates”.

131. When we really allow appreciation to enrich us and sink in, there is a significant difference felt from our every movement. We have a greater depth of confidence and love for all that we are and bring to the world and it is so greatly needed today.

132. I loved reading your inspiring blog Jacqueline, reminding me how far I have come, and how much I have to appreciate my self and then in others, a powerful reminder.

133. Appreciate, appreciate, appreciate; I can feel the power of this word also Jacqueline. What a gorgeous reminder to move into the day appreciating all that is love, life and truth.

134. I appreciate also the fact of what I have always known. It hasn’t always been so clear but regardless it was always there. As a child and for as long as I can remember I have felt more than I have seen with my physical eyes and yet the world around me doesn’t reflect this. I need to continue to do my part, ever growing the appreciation for what I feel and then receive from around me. This has a knock on effect as then you see more and more. Appreciation can expand on itself, it grows with the more you bring. Why would you stop? That’s a choice and a personal question for us to ask ourselves, why do I stop? Simply because I bring the world back, I shrink it to be about me and what I need.

135. Living appreciation is a constant deepening with a full acceptance of the steady holding love that is the soul. When I look up appreciation in the dictionary it is listed as a noun, however could appreciation physically lived be a true verb?

136. I’m just starting to realise (or remember) how nourishing appreciation is and how when I fill myself with the appreciation of simply being me, there is no room for anything that is not me. Like thoughts and behaviours that do not have my body or wellbeing at heart.

137. The appreciation expressed in this blog can be deeply felt and is a beautiful reminder that every life can be lived this way. I loved your comment Jacqueline – ‘I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates. Thank you.

138. A wonderful reminder to Appreciate all at all times!

139. There is a common theme to various blogs I have been reading about appreciating our lives, connecting with the glory we all have within, and the way of living that supports living that on a consistent basis. The word that keeps coming up is ‘simple’. As a guiding principle, just this answers so many questions and provides a lode stone for how we make decisions that help us stay connected.

140. Thank you Jacqueline for the inspiration to appreciate all there is to appreciate when we choose to be who we naturally are in the way we live.

141. Creating an appreiacting for yourself I find very similar to creating a foundation for yourself.

142. Gorgeous blog Jacqueline. True appreciation has to be felt and come from my body otherwise it is empty.

143. So gorgeous Jacqueline, I feel completely surrendered to the gorgeousness of me after reading your many points of appreciation. There is much to appreciate when we give ourselves permission to see all the beauty around us.

144. Appreciation is potential to expand and enjoy the many opportunities to move from love. Very cool indeed.

145. Hello Jacqueline and it’s great to read this blog again. As I read I watch and listen to my thoughts and ask why at the first part isn’t there just appreciation for what is there. Is this how I/we move in the world? Looking for critique and perfection first? I wonder why we don’t just appreciate, what are we afraid of or what do we think may happen? As you are saying Jacqueline with the alignment of energies and spirit and soul. The critique or perfection look we don’t need to quantify but simply read the energy. From the thoughts and there quality this to me is the spirit talking, critical, judgemental, looking for the worst, worried about itself only. There is another part to the thoughts that speaks about what was there, appreciates what is said regardless but in full view of everything else. It doesn’t seek perfection or hold you to a word or sentence but looks at everything and appreciates it all. We aren’t perfect as human beings nor are we meant to be. Why then would we focus on a small part and make it all about that (spirit) rather then take in everything and appreciate all that is there (soul). The spirit will always take things down, make then smaller, in a paragraph it will focus on a word, in a day it will focus on a minute whereas the soul looks at it all in a day it will see a life, in a paragraph it will see a story. It is our choice to live in the grandness or make it less. Thank you Jacqueline.

146. Whether you believe what is written here or not appreciation is very much needed in this world and in our lives. As you can see here appreciation grows, it expands and doesn’t put walls on how or where you should speak or be. Appreciation breaks all boundaries on the world we live and has the power to change your view of the world almost immediately if you allow it. The key is the consistency of the appreciation because like anything if you leave it on the shelf and don’t use it it will become dusty. If you want things to shine then the constant care and detail to them is always important and appreciation is well worth the attention. Thank you Jacqueline and for me the way you have written this blog in this day and age is very brave.

147. There is no doubt that we have to appreciate how far have we come. And we should celebrate it all the way in spite of the fact that we are not even near where we could naturally be. That means that we are still fighting our grandness and not surrendering to it. Appreciating? yes by all means. Surrendering? Yes by all means too.

148. I love coming back to this blog and being reminded of the power of appreciation in our lives to deepen the relationship with not only ourselves but with everyone around us.

149. So gorgeous to read Jacqueline, you sharing brings me to tears with a deeper understanding and appreciation that we are indeed the Sons of God made in His image returning to our love within, reflecting this glory in all our livingness. Appreciation is ever expanding and evolving.

150. Thank you Jacqueline, I had an important realisation reading your blog, I cannot beat myself up for any self loathing / rejection, it was the energy I first chose which allowed that, so I am not addressing the cause and just compounding a symptom in doing this. The choice is to choose a different energy, to choose love.

151. Appreciation allows us to connect to the grandness of the Universe and to know the part we play in the divine plan.

152. ‘I created my life from the energy I aligned to’ – a very powerful statement and one that I did not want to know because this meant that I had to take responsibility for all that unfolded in my life. The choices we make mean that we work in co-creation with the Divine or we hand our power over to the driven-ness of the spirit. I too, deeply appreciate my growing awareness and responsibility I am now choosing in my life and the teaching of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the Ancient Wisdom Teachings.

153. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates”.
     Appreciation, of ourselves and others, is such a powerful lesson Jacqueline, thank you for highlighting this and for sharing your experiences and your wisdom.

154. Appreciation is confirming the grandness that we innately are.

155. I agree this is a beautiful article Jacqueline and an inspirational one . To continue growing in appreciation each day for all we have and all we connect to in this world and especially the Teachings of Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness.

156. Yes Linda I do have a truer relationship with myself, but there is always more love to be felt, allowed and expressed, for it just feels I am dipping my toes in the water!

157. Appreciation is one of the most powerful actionings that we can choose on earth. It forms the foundation of being able to live and express in our own power and the actual fact is that if we do not appreciate ourselves ad others we will never have a society that works! Brilliant article Jacqueline.

158. In a world where giving yourself a hard time for poor choices made is common, it is lovely to read of someone truly appreciating themselves like you are. When life starts reflecting the loving choices we are making, it’s really important to appreciate that we started saying yes over and over again to a different energy and each yes and the embodiment of each yes needs to be appreciated deeply.

159. Its great to revisit this blog Jacqueline. I am appreciating the fact that I am getting better at appreciating myself.

160. There is so much to appreciate about what Serge Benhayon is bringing to humanity. His presentations have changed my life and continue to do so. Your blog has been a great reminder to appreciate the many changes I’ve experienced and chosen for myself.

161. Appreciation was a word that was never used as I was growing up unless it was in the negative sense, as in not appreciating what was given to me, Only now am I allowing the word appreciation to come into my life and to really understand its true meaning. I can feel the joy that appreciation brings not only to myself but to those I am with.

     1. Alison, with reading your words; with not appreciating what was given to me, I could feel how much I have not appreciated what I have been given; this heavenly fully functioning body that has two legs to take me everywhere and two arms to support myself and all others – along with a powerful engine, my two lungs to take care of all my humanly needs and to breathe God’s breath on earth and two eyes that can shine all the light that I am and come from… oh no I did not appreciate at all in the past. As Melinda writes below: There is so much to appreciate about what Serge Benhayon is bringing to humanity.

162. I really feel the power of appreciation through your expression here, Jacqueline. This claiming of our power is what paves our way back to who we truly are.

163. There is much to appreciate about this blog. There is much to appreciate about life itself. And of course ourselves. But we struggle so much as we have chosen (mostly) to live by the energy of the spirit, and that does not appreciate. So one of the keys to living more aligned to the soul-full energy, is to appreciate. I am going to take that into my day today, thank you for the reminder Jacqueline.

     1. There is so much to appreciate about life itself – gorgeous Sarah and very true. I have moved recently from living in a city to now living in the east coast of Scotland, and actually on the coast. Every day I take my walk, my eyes feast on the natural beauty that surrounds me and all the glorious space….. and the heavenly healing blues of the sky and the silent, but calming waters.

164. You can’t take the next steps if you have not appreciated the ones you have already taken

165. A great sharing Jacqueline. I am appreciating how amazing it feels to accept and appreciate all of me. Now that’s some transformation.

166. Jacqueline, I can feel the changes and steps you’ve taken in how you are with your body and how that has absolutely changed your life. And all we do comes from a choice of which energy we choose and then ‘this was the energy I allowed to run my body’ comes into play for us all – it’s so useful to have this understanding as it allows us to observe and see the outplay without going into condemnation or judgement on ourselves something I am learning is so important on our evolutionary journey, and I appreciate having access to that understanding from all I’ve learned with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.

167. Gorgeous to read Jacqueline, I so appreciate what you offer in your blog, reminding me how much there is in me and in life that is just waiting to be appreciated.

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169. I have to say Jacqueline, that I deeply APPRECIATE your reference to the body/your body here. Since coming to the teachings and work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I can also appreciate how amazingly and extensively my relationship with my body has changed.
     I never felt I ‘disliked’ my body, but over the years, did get in touch with a deep disdain, which for me relates to a rejection of being incarnate, i.e. in ‘life’, and in a body and engaged in life at all… Transforming this relationship has been amazing, and I can feel how it continues on – yet, by holding it all in deep appreciation, truly seeing from where I’ve come with self-abusive habits and lack of care, and appreciating just how much this transformation in coming to love and nurture my body and being has supported my expression in every way in life, I have to say, WOW. Without the inspiration of Universal Medicine, I’d say that by now in my late 40’s, I’d not be doing so well health-wise, my body would be suffering. Instead, I feel more energised, vital and truly, gorgeously delectable and lovely as a woman in this body than I ever have. Amazing.

170. Bam! What a powerful blog Jacqueline, thank-you. For a long time, I’ve felt that I’ve only touched the very, very tip of what true appreciation could mean in my life. It is deeply inspiring to read this. I get the sense you could have gone on… More please!

171. A great claiming from the start till the end Jacqueline, thank you!

172. Without appreciation I feel life becomes stagnant. Appreciation is the confirming and celebrating of where we or another is at so we can take the next step toward ourselves/love.

173. What you have written here Jacqueline is very inspiring and supportive of us to go deeper in our appreciation of ourselves and others;
     “I totally appreciate the understanding I have of myself, my life and my choices – with no judgement, criticism or self-bashing, but rather from a place that I have evolved to (self-love) through the lifestyle changes I have made”.

174. ‘I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God…’ This is beautiful Jacqueline. This is why separation with people feels so awful, and why contraction away from connecting with people and expressing love creates so much tension in our body and hurts. We were designed for connection and so when we do connect it feels simple, expansive, beautiful and complete.

     1. I still have the memory Simone of how I lived life in disconnection to myself and then to all others, and just how complicated and lonely my life was…. We are indeed designed for connection, and the more we allow our hearts to express, the more love can flow into all our relationships, which feels ‘ simple, expansive, beautiful and complete’.

175. Thank you Jacqueline for reminding me of the need to appreciate all that I am and all those around me and in my life. With appreciation for the wonderful clear teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I love the fact that you mention in one of the comments not to label anything ” good or bad” therefore not bringing in complications, therefore staying” open and connected to our bodies”!

176. “I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.” Deeply inspiring Jacqueline, thank you.

177. Such an important blog to re-read Jacqueline. “The more I nourished from honesty (instead of contraction), the more certain foods dropped away” – Being honest is key, and then being able to not reject what we then see but be appreciative of what we have exposed and now have the opportunity to change. Stunning blog. Thank you.

178. ‘I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.’ Beautiful Jacqueline I will take this into my day and appreciate what will come my way and feel me in everything I do, me bringing my tender and delicate me.

     1. ‘ appreciate what will come my way’ today, is a great way to start the day Annelies, and the important thing is not to label anything good or bad during our day for if we remain open and connected with our bodies, we have constant access to the wisdom within which provides a loving response to people and for everything that comes our way in each day. With this way of living, the old struggle and complication has dropped away.

179. ‘I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.’ Thank you Jacqueline for your blog, for this line. I could feel how I do find it normal my life has become more simple but l know it is not ( and at the same time it is normal) and I should appreciate all the steps I have made and still make to simplify my life.

180. Rereading your blog this morning Jacqueline, I can see how my appreciation muscle is still in need of work. Starting right now I am going to appreciate the fact that I’m not being so hard on myself when I don’t perform to my expectations.

181. Appreciation is so important and something that I rarely go to as my default, which is why having read your blog Jacqueline, was such a wonderful and timely read. To go deeper in my own appreciation and making that more of a focus in my daily livingness.

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183. It is one of the most important point in life when we stop along our path and look back over the mountains and valleys we have journeyed over, and appreciate just how far we have come.

     1. I love your insight and expression here Naren. In this past year, I have travelled over quiet a few mountains and valleys, and it does feel so apt and timely to take another stop, to reflect on my learnings and my growth, and to really appreciate myself for all the support I have allowed and in the willingness to let go. If I consider how much I used to hold onto, I have indeed come a long way.

184. Life is a constant appreciation, and the more we live this way the more normal it becomes as it is our innate right to live in the flow and simplicity of the divine.

185. Life has changed dramatically since becoming aware that there are two energies to choose which give us our life force. Even just considering the fact that life is energy was massive, as previously I was living in a way that allowed me to know only what I had been told, but never acted on or expressed my feelings.

186. “something I had always known, but had lost in the same way you lose a treasured book and find it again. ” yes Jacqueline, this is something to appreciate about Soul. We can choose a lot of things that will keep us away, but the natural pull towards our Soul is in every moment and situation. It is a light that clears away all of the muck, judgement, hurt and pain; because only joy exists in the light of the soul.

187. This is a profound prayer of appreciation Jacqueline: ‘With the new found awareness of my true essence, I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God…’ Thank you!

188. This is such a healing blog Jacqueline! While looking at the AllRise statistics for cyber-bullying for 2015, (http://www.allrisesaynotocyberabuse.com/2015-global-survey-results/) I was wondering how we could practically go about re-educating the world not to bully of be bullied. What immediately came was the introduction of relationship ‘classes’ in school where children got to express their appreciation of themselves and each other. The act of expression in this way, takes one to a deeply beautiful place and opens up doors to true magnificence.

189. I love how you appreciate so much in your life Jacqueline, very beautiful and inspiring. A great lesson in appreciation.

190. How my life began to change when I appreciated all those in my life that have supported and inspired me along the way. When you truly appreciate everything about your self, your life and all your relationships – you begin to feel more expansive and joyful.

191. A lovely reminder today, over the ‘ dusting away’, as I find with one relationship, there are many years if not lifetimes of thick dust that has caused much separation. This relationship has needed a lot of dusting away of the old, but slowly and surely, the light is beginning to shine bringing much possibility of re-imprinting this relationship and then with all other relationships.

192. Absolutely Brendan, a perfect reminder for me today as currently I find myself making a big step in my life which requires me to deeply trust…I have much space today to stop, reflect and ponder on the miracle that has occurred in how far I have come.

193. Beautiful to read Jacqueline, So much depth and wisdom in your sharing. I can so relate. I am also choosing soulfulness. And the transformation is beautiful to feel. Anxiety has lost its grip, as is living from fear and disconnect to self and others. Life is more joyful and flowing.

194. Appreciation is the only way that changes become absolute. I might make a change in my life; something I eat, the way I move, a relationship, the way I observe, express…whatever….BUT – unless I fully embody an appreciation of that change, then I will always be prone to slipping back to the old ways. Appreciation makes it an absolute. That is it’s power and importance. And to think – before I met Serge Benhayon – I thought appreciation was just saying something nice to someone!

195. Appreciating the people in our lives is so important and I love to express my appreciation to others especially to my children. I expressed appreciation to my husband yesterday, (something I am learning each day) and he responded with love and gratitude. I am realising more and more the beauty in this and ‘Yes’ this comes from a foundation built on appreciation for myself. I adored this blog Jacqueline, thank you.

196. Thank you Jacqueline, and appreciation can be so simple, especially when expressed to partners and friends, and it can be quite contagious ☺

197. I agree Joan, when I feel appreciation, there is no trying, it just wants to spring out spontaneously just as you describe. It is a very delicious feeling and it’s hard to keep it in.

198. Rereading your blog this morning Jacqueline, I got to appreciate how I am seeing friends and the people I work with as part of my family too. Slowly I am seeing the value and the importance there is for us to all look out for and take care of each other. By this I mean in simple ways like asking ‘how are you?’ or making someone a cup of tea; taking time to notice if things don’t seem right with them; making a call to someone you haven’t spoken to for a while; telling someone how much you love having them in your life. This has definitely stemmed for me being more appreciative of myself and making appreciation a daily habit.

     1. Indeed Debra, it is those small simple things that people most appreciate and can make all the difference. It was lovely to tell my daughter the other day, that I loved to have her in my life also as my friend. For she brings her own wisdom and we have this beautiful relationship without any cords or attachments which allows us to express freely and deeply support each other in each of us coming to our own truths or decisions to be made.

199. I love revisiting your blog Jacqueline and feeling my whole body expand with the love and appreciation expressed. Building appreciation more and more into my life I can feel how it has become my daily medicine now and continues to build and evolve each day not only for myself but for everyone I meet.

     1. Very True Anna; Appreciation is all encompassing.

200. To also ‘use’ this point as not only a confirmation but as a step, not a step up necessarily but a step down, deeper within yourself and how you feel. There is no end point, so appreciate the “confirmation of the building of love you feel in yourself” absolutely important, but then what’s next?

201. It is almost too obvious to ask – how can we value what we don’t appreciate?

     1. Hello Deanne and yes they go hand in hand. Everyone has a value, no matter how big or small it’s perceived there is always a value at their core. We have said it many times over, take time to appreciate what goes on around you, what goes on in front of you and watch how you world will look different. What eyes are we truly looking at the world with?

        1. Very true Ray, thank you for this beautiful reminder.

202. It is appreciation of oneself that helps to dissolve judgement, criticism and self-bashing. So I am fascinated by the relationship between appreciation, awareness, understanding and acceptance and how interrelated they all are.

203. That is so true Brendan. I can feel how I do that and it does not feel good. It is important to stop and appreciate ourselves for all that we are, all that we bring and all the little steps we take in love.

204. The hand of God is all around us and I appreciate what I see and feel every day. A beautiful and affirming sharing, Jacqueline.

     1. Oh yes Anne, the hand of God is all around us, and I feel I am only just beginning to appreciate how far and wide that reaches, how omniscient, how omnipotent and omnipresent that hand is. It just blows me away. There is nowhere to hide and thank heavens for that.

        1. I too love the fact, Lyndy, that there is nowhere to hide as I have been hiding all my life. Something else to appreciate!

205. It’s wonderful to have such marker of the the source of our thoughts and actions. To know that Soul will never impulse an expression of anything less than love and that spirit will is a liberating fact to know and live from. The present underlying stumbling block and consequent tragedy for humanity is that most people do not know this yet.

206. “I have observed and deeply appreciate the importance and attention I now place on family and relationships and how the notion of family has expanded to include those that are not blood family” likewise the word family has taken on a whole new meaning in recent years, its something that perhaps I don’t appreciate fully and reading your blog asks me to reflect on the incredible relationship I now have with family and appreciate that its not blood lines that make up true family.

207. Hello Brendan and I agree. It’s not that we appreciate how far we have come but more ‘use’ appreciation to build to the next moment. As you say the “world often encourages us to just go from one thing to the next to the next” and so in this way we are set up at some point to trip and possibly fall. In other words appreciate what you feel and see in every moment and you build for yourself a foundation to support you. That way any bump in the road is looked at with different eyes, your world doesn’t crash you merely see another point to appreciate. It also allows you space and so days don’t roll into weeks and then into years. Appreciation, there is far more to it then meets the eye.

208. I have been having very negative thoughts the past few days. Jacqueline your blog has reminded me to switch my perspective to looking at my life and all situations that occur, with appreciation for what they are reflecting to me. We can appreciate everything, even if it is not all that comfortable, for everything is a reflection from which we can either confirm ourselves or use to evolve.

     1. Hello Jeannette and as they say “every thought has an action” and so if your thoughts are taking you in a certain place then what are your actions or your movements. To often we move in a certain way that then will give us a range of thoughts. It’s like a school when we were told to ‘sit up straight’, far enough the way it was used wasn’t spot on but the message is clear. Your posture at different points, your movements, will give you thoughts. In other words how you sit has a big say in what you think or what you hear. Every movement is the same and so if you thoughts are betraying you then your movements have changed their quality. So don’t go to the thoughts and try and change them, just like a school change the way you move and everything else flows from there.

        1. So true, just sitting straighter, or pulling our shoulders back a little or lifting our heads a bit shifts the way we feel. What a simple way to reclaim our presence and lightness of being. Makes me think Ray Karam, how this could be incorporated into a support for people suffering low mood disorders, and well why not even into our education system.

        2. Hello Jeannette, thank you and I agree. In a world that seems to crave the quick fix this is a simple and quick one. The only thing is you possibly couldn’t make money out of it because it is so simple. We will often walk away from this type of support because of that very reason saying, ‘it can’t be that easy’. Life is simple and if complicated the reflection is you are on the wrong track.

        3. No money and no complication and powered by self – sounds ideal. I think at this point to turn your back on such a simple remedy entails a big lack of self-responsibility. Our spirits are exposed here as utterly wayward.

        4. Hello Jeannette and we have set things up in a way where in that “lack of self-responsibility” we can see everything as being ok or good even great or normal. The world doesn’t support simple, so appreciate the simple things we do.

209. Surrender and appreciation go hand in hand, as we surrender to who we really are we naturally appreciate ourselves, others and all that is around us. When I surrender and let go and trust divinity is felt.

210. In the past I would appreciate myself once or twice a week but I found it was not easy and I would only be able to come up with a few things and usually the same ones. I put myself on an appreciation program about 6 weeks ago and this has been a game changer for me. To commit each day to appreciation for myself has bought more joy, confidence, and a deeper love towards myself and all my relationships. It feels the more I appreciate myself and what life offers it is absolutely endless what is within and around us to appreciate.

     1. Hello Anna and great to touch on consistency. Like anything we need to build appreciation and the program sounds great. I agree and there seems no end to what we can appreciate all around us and how then this supports you back. Appreciation is not only a “game changer” but a world stopper. In other words appreciation gives us space to see everything around us and Monday doesn’t become Sunday in the blink of an eye.

        1. There is no end to what we can appreciate, very true Ray, but sometimes it is all too easy to appreciate what we call the ‘good things’ that come our way, as we do not so easily appreciate the things that life delivers that we find challenging or super difficult. I am learning more and more to appreciate those lessons and reflections that on the outset appear confronting or difficult, (initial resistance) and as I do, the reflections and the learnings keep on coming, as life supports us back, inviting us to expand our awareness, thus there can be no end to appreciation….and no end to my learning, which is something else to appreciate!

        2. Hello Jacqueline and while I agree and understand what you are saying there is truly no difference between “good things” and “challenging or super difficult” things. To me this may reflect the depth of appreciation you have and a point to go deeper. All things no matter what there flavour have a point to appreciate and your ability to see that is a reflection of the foundation of appreciation you have build. So see a challenge or difficulty and you need to go deeper with appreciation. It may sound ‘silver lining on clouds’ but it’s true, don’t force yourself to appreciate to ‘make things better’ but truly appreciate what’s in front of you.

        3. Hi Ray, there is no force at all, only appreciating my openness to learn and as I do, the reflections and learnings keep on coming, thus there is a continuous cycle of learning and appreciation of that learning which brings even more…

        4. Hello Jacqueline and as you are saying at every point there is a reflection, something has cycled to you. You have a choice, appreciate all that is there or justify, argue, stand your ground etc. It is much simpler and wiser to appreciate what any moment reflects, otherwise it is just cycling around again.

        5. Keeping it simple and I like simple, I’m appreciating all the support coming my way which is a big turn around in my life.

        6. Hello Jacqueline and yes I agree, simply I agree.

211. Appreciation is the soul’s true herald of return to our one and only connection to self and all equally so.Thank you Jacqueline I love returning to this blog.

212. Well I can feel the appreciation oozing from you too. To much to contain, too much to keep to yourself, too strong to hold back but in no way too much to receive. Appreciation is the bomb Jacqueline and you are the living proof.

     1. Laughing and smiling at your comment Jeanette, love it; appreciation as a bomb, a light bomb going off everywhere we travel, and as you say, ‘too much to keep to oneself’. I get this picture now of the thousands of light bombs going off everywhere as students/people walk their appreciation…..

        1. I can see it Jacqueline, little explosions of light and love and appreciation sparking off all over the world and building in numbers and size like a fireworks display until the final crescendo when one huge one, seemingly containing all the others, lights the sky

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214. “All I have to do is trust my heart”….I just melted when I read that, thank you.

215. It is beautiful to feel the deep appreciation you have for yourself Jacqueline and inspiring to read of the changes the decision to align to your soul has brought to you. I am sure the reflection you offer to those around you has inspired many.

216. “This is Love”, very true joanchristinecalder, it then becomes like the chicken and the egg scenario – which comes first, love or appreciation, where to start first! My experience is that I have tried to appreciate myself from my head and now realise that the only way to truly appreciate myself is to feel it from my body, and this comes from a deeper connection to myself.

     1. So true Sandra.Through the body is the only way to go otherwise things, whether it be appreciation or any other expression, stay very three dimensional and lack the richness and resonance of the heart.

217. ‘Yes, I can deeply appreciate how far I have come, and where I am going, and say YES to all that my Soul lays before me.’ – beautiful Jacqueline

     1. I really resonated with what Jacqueline wrote here to Jenny, it is very beautiful and inspiring. I to am saying yes to all that my soul lays before me, what a divine gift and responsibility.

     2. That is a great excerpt, Jenny.

218. ‘I can appreciate the fact that, for as long as I can remember, I have been looking for this wisdom, knowing deep within me there was another way to live, another way to be that would initiate my path of return.’ I felt I didn’t quite know what I was searching for, although at some level I’m sure I did, but search I did, until I came across the teachings and work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Since that point, I appreciate the desire to search has gone, I had finally found what I knew and had been craving deep inside.

219. “I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live.” This is a beautiful appreciation, as to overlook this one is to deeply undervalue oneself, and to do so also excuses us from the responsibility of our own choices.

220. Yes Joan, I can feel how much love wants to be expressed, and who I am to hold this back……all I have to do is trust my heart.

221. I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty. I agree Jacqueline. As I listen to my body’s wisdom, pay attention and make different choices, my life has and is changing. My body then reflects back to me how much it appreciates my new choices. Appreciation all round!

     1. Gorgeous Sue, and yes, appreciation all round, and if appreciation was a shape it would be a circle, round and all encompassing and forever moving spherically.

     2. Hello Sue, yes I agree and confirms ‘you get out what you put in’. Life, like all things goes in cycles and so if you don’t like what you are seeing then change the way you are. As you say when you truly appreciate it comes back to you in many ways.

222. The more and more I am truly learning about life the more I realise the importance of appreciation is for ourselves in all we are and that brings this for others also. Thank you Jacqueline for this beautiful sharing and the absolute love and appreciation it brings to everyone.

223. Take stock and appreciate what you have and who you are every single day and you will know the glory of true joy.

     1. This is beautiful Adam, ‘Take stock and appreciate what you have and who you are every single day and you will know the glory of true joy.’ I can feel that when I do appreciate my life and myself that life feels very joyful, so feeling like this consistently everyday would be amazing, I’m feeling to write in my diary everyday about appreciation to bring this consistency.

     2. Just love your one liners Adam, keeping things simple, clear and hitting bulls-eye!

        1. Speaking of one liners, I just wrote this in another comment which I feel to share here:

           ‘I am blessed to still be here walking this earth’.

     3. Adam, I love the simplicity of your words. This is just beautiful and so true. Appreciate what is right in front of us, here and now.

     4. So so simple but yet so so effective Adam. “Take stock” or take time to reflect “and appreciate” are hugely important but often the first things to go if we loose are way, get busy, have pressuring deadlines etc. Build this into your every day, your every moment and your feet will never walk you away again, thank you Adam.

     5. maybe, or make them worse. The truth is living a live of inner joy is actually quite simple. So, by virtue of this fact, we need to consider the possibility that perhaps it is not something we actually wish to connect to. In short, we resist love as individuals, as a society, and as a humanity. So, it would make sense that as more people connected to love and showed how to live according to its impulse, the resistance would rise – thus the rise in illness, disease, war, etc.

        Also on the note of disease, yes I know what you are saying, however, the fact is that joy is independent of such things. You can have an illness or disease, even cancer, and still live in joy. Indeed is it worth considering that connecting to true joy may bring on illness and disease as a way of allowing the body to be more attuned to the love we have connected to. As such, disease is not something to judge or see as a failure, or get caught in as being representative of one who does not live love, or know joy. Sometimes disease is in itself a marker of the fact that someone is actually connecting deeper to their own innate love.

        Joy is simply the confirmation of our own innate love, a love which extends beyond the boundaries of physicality and what we call human life.

224. I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God…. Reading these words this morning Jacqueline I can completely relate. Now also appreciating my commitment to returning to living lovingly with my body, and claiming myself as son of God.

     1. I am smiling reading your words Anna, as my body is smiling at the word commitment too, as through my renewed commitment to life, to service, and to the all, all the cells of my body rejoice for the huge power boost it received and felt!

        1. Gorgeous Jacqueline, the love in my body also deepens with this word, and with the activity of it. I just completed my 6th month in a new job. A full time position and the first full time job I have had in a long time. It feels so wonderful to go to work each day knowing it is about bringing all of who I am (without perfection), and who I am is simply love, and all I need to do is express this, in my movement, my words, my activity. I am loving this practice, but most certainly there is room for more appreciation…to take it to the next level. Thank you for your brilliant blog. I cannot get enough of it.

225. “ I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit – especially the dishonesty, the self-rejection, the lack of nourishment, and the deep, debilitating anxiety I carried that goes hand in hand with the alignment to this energy.” It has taken me a long time to get to fully embrace and appreciate fully the grandness of the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom. I knew from the start everyone else was a son of God but had trouble valuing myself enough to feel I am son of God. I now know without a doubt that I am an equal son of God and feel a part of humanity. Self- love, self-nurture and conscious presence has supported me to claim my true self the authentic woman that I am in my essence, and express and emanate my love.

226. “ I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviors and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit – especially the dishonesty, the self-rejection, the lack of nourishment, and the deep, debilitating anxiety I carried that goes hand in hand with the alignment to this energy.” I can’t say I did all that from the first moment I came to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, in fact I stuffed around and dabbled in it, testing things like how many glasses of alcohol I could have before I could feel I wasn’t present, living run by my spirit, knowing I had a healing coming up and would get cleared and centered again. I now see the disrespect I had for myself and for the teachings.

227. True Rosanna, it is deeply confirming to feel and know in our every particle the connection we have with all and with the source of all.

228. Jacqueline, wow nourishing ones body from honesty, expressing how much your body appreciates absolute honesty and how energy that isn’t love promises so much but only delivers poison. I’m really starting to appreciate this too and your writing is certainly confirmation of what I know already.

229. Exactly Mary, we make and build our own prisons of protection and comfort which keeps us locked in a very small space….this way of living at some point becomes unbearable, and then we are ready to find our own key to free ourselves and then walk out of that self made prison into the glorious sunshine.

230. Jacqueline I find your blog so nurturing, this was my second read and in every line I could feel the deep appreciation I have for myself, Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon and family and all who walk beside me on the path back to soul. Your blog is a true healing for all who wish to feel the love of God. Thank you for sharing.

     1. Thankyou kimweston2 for your gorgeous comment, and there has been so many. It feels truly wonderful to have this topic open up and expand and unfold with every-one’s sharing of the power of appreciation in their lives which is available to everyone…. it is only ourselves who put the limits or constraints on how much we can appreciate, for the more we appreciate the more appreciation boomerangs straight back to us, in other words love comes back to greet and meet us and how much love can we handle is perhaps how much we can appreciate?

        1. Well said Jacqueline, your comment beautifully confirms how love is spherical.

     2. Beautiful Kim Weston, I can feel all you express here to be true which is a healing for all to read.

     3. Beautiful. It is lovely to appreciate the commitment and dedication of all those who walk with us on this path of return.

231. “I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.” To read your words today Jacqueline is a great way to totally celebrate the day I was born (today) and appreciate what this truly means. Yes I too commit to representing heaven on earth as the angel I am. Being born and choosing this is definitely worth tons of joy-filled appreciating.

232. Appreciation of people and of the life that breathes through us is part of the fabric of life itself, without this one’s perspective can become tainted with misery and regret. It takes work and dedication, but appreciation is not something unachievable, it is in fact very normal and fundamental, and it comes to you as simply as making the choice.

233. ‘With the new found awareness of my true essence, I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God…’ This is simply gorgeous Jacqueline, I deeply appreciate your expression.

     1. I feel the simplicity of God’s love in these words – ever-present, omnipresent, eternal.

     2. Yes, there is so much love in these words, and true brotherhood. It is very soothing and confirming to read.

     3. We are equal in love. That is the truth we must all return to.

234. I agree Brendan, this blog and the comments are a beautiful platform now for healing many. So much appreciation felt here.

235. Leave judgement and condemnation by the roadside for just one day and replace it with appreciation of yourself and others and see what happens. You may be surprised.

     1. The sun begins to shine from within and we get to feel once again the warm embrace of being held by the loving arms of grace….. thank you Adam.

        1. ‘The sun begins to shine from within and we get to feel once again the warm embrace of being held by the loving arms of grace’ … I can’t move past your comment, Jacqueline, without sharing how much I deeply appreciated your words – how you are expressing appreciation is so incredibly beautiful.

        2. Thank you Jacqueline, I love your comment and feel the true love within the words.

     2. I like this, Adam, this feels freeing and open in the heart.

     3. Such an experiment really shows how much we have normalised reacting which in fact is a rejection (and lack of appreciation) of oneself. Such awareness is a great starting point to heal by bringing our focus back to appreciating and loving ourselves and others.

     4. Thank you Adam, the road would open up to all the glory of who we are and there would be no looking back.

     5. Yes, and if we are fully appreciating ourselves from the deep connection with our essence it is easy and simple to leave judgement and condemnation by the roadside Adam, for it no longer belongs to us and there is none of it in appreciation. If the thoughts try to invade, flicking the light switch on again and appreciating just one thing about ourselves or someone else relegates them immediately to where they belong, in the past and of no more use. They are dead energy and appreciation is alive with a vibrancy and inclusiveness and joy.

     6. Gorgeous Adam, Appreciation is heavenly there is no doubt. I am loving my new practice of it and looking to deepen it more and more each day. It is certainly changing my life.

     7. Adam we should have a World Appreciation Day! 1 day when millions of us commit to appreciating and confirming each other. Imagine that!

        1. I can imagine Jeanette, sounds wonderful. Now only have to decide which day?

        2. Well Jacqueline how about today? Why waste any more time on self-loathing, jealousy and comparison.

236. Yes Anna the truth at times can be difficult to accept, but as you say it does offer us the possibility for evolution if we choose to remain open to feel what is there. Without truth there can be no love….and no evolution.

237. “I can appreciate the fact that, for as long as I can remember, I have been looking for this wisdom, knowing deep within me there was another way to live, another way to be that would initiate my path of return.”

     We hold within us the seed to our self salvation, when we stop seeking and searching outside of ourselves, and re-turn back to our godly nature, glorious is this return as it quenches the thirst of many lifetimes as we come home to what we have rejected, and ran away from.

     1. Beautifully expressed Thomas, love the truth you deliver here for yes we all hold the seed to our own self salvation. When I started to water my seed, the search to seek outside of myself stopped, then and only then could I begin to nourish and nurture that little seed with my very own hand.

     2. Yes Thomas and yet the steps of return are so very simple that it could be easy to question, I know that I have done just that for a while in the thinking that it can’ t be that easy.

     3. Beautiful Thomas, your words were like a warm bath for me this morning.

     4. Gloriously expressed and claimed Thomas.

238. “I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.”

     This is gorgeous to read Jacqueline, and a huge transformation from how you described your life to be, once we begin to choose the energy of fire, self love, service to others our life’s start to unfold back to a truer way of being, the drama’s, stresses and anxiety we create, drops away, and we return to a simpler more loving way of living, creating heavens glory here on earth.

     1. That is what happened in a nutshell Thomas!

239. “ I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviors and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit – especially the dishonesty, the self-rejection, the lack of nourishment, and the deep, debilitating anxiety I carried that goes hand in hand with the alignment to this energy.”

     When we as a humanity don’t appreciate and accept our grandness, divine origins and that we are all sons and daughters of god, its easy to disregard our body’s which en-house this divinity, the choices we make then stem from our rejection of the fact that we godly beings. When we accept how powerful we are and what a huge impact we have on others in the world, we get to appreciate the massive responsibility we have to bring love and care to all our actions.

     1. Beautiful Thomas, ‘When we accept how powerful we are and what a huge impact we have on others in the world, we get to appreciate the massive responsibility we have to bring love and care to all our actions.’ I am becoming more aware of how powerful I am and the effect I have on those around me and can feel what a difference it makes when i have truly taken care of myself and I feel vital and joyful, i am then able to fully support and appreciate others and bring a joy and gentleness that can touch many.

     2. ‘When we accept how powerful we are and what a huge impact we have on others in the world, we get to appreciate the massive responsibility we have to bring love and care to all our actions.’ This is the way forth Thomas, and we start to appreciate what an impact we have.

240. Committing to the return path of my Soul has been life changing. I have become reacquainted with something quite special and beautiful, simply divine.

     1. This is a beautiful way of expressing Matthew and every word is truly felt.

     2. Beautiful Matthew, It has been life-changing several times over as I go deeper to that connection to Soul and understand the responsibility we have to hold that connection and the joy that comes with that.

     3. I can very much relate Matthew. The most amazing journey I could and will ever take, and every day I felt the glory I now live as a result of choosing The Way of the Livingness.

     4. Beautiful Matthew. This is truly to be appreciated.

241. “With the new found awareness of my true essence, I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God “. To appreciate each other for our essence is the most confirming and joyful gift we can give one another. I have just come away from the 2016 Universal Medicine retreat in Vietnam where I and many others, were able to discover a whole deeper level of appreciation from the connection to our own essence.

     1. I agree Rosanne we have come away from The 2016 Universal Medicine retreat developing a deeper level of appreciation from the connection to our own essence. The retreat has been profound in really deepening our appreciation of what Universal Medicine has brought to all of us.

        1. Sounds brilliant Amita, another layer peeled away to reveal the awesome amazingness underneath that is your essence. I am looking forward to the UK retreat, but why wait until then to deepen my own connection with my essence, there’s no time like now to peel away another layer and let that inner essence be felt by all.

     2. Sounds wonderful Rosanna the retreat in Vietnam, and absolutely love the powerful truth you share here with us all: ‘To appreciate each other for our essence is the most confirming and joyful gift we can give one another’. Gorgeous!

        1. I agree Jacqueline, and reading this I find very confirming.

     3. Thank you Rosanna for this reminder.. we are all on the path of return with all of our imperfections we are discarding, and in appreciation we can confirm to another and to ourselves who we truly are and what we are returning to.

     4. In our education we learn mathematics, spelling, grammar, some science, maybe some religion and ethics, and perhaps a little history and geography along the way.
        We do not learn to appreciate, ourselves, others our connection to each other, and most especially God. Criticism we master…yet appreciation, our most precious skill and one that is deeply healing, is left undeveloped in virtually every person. Only Universal Medicine has restored appreciation to its rightful place in human life.

        1. It is really great to have this appreciation back in our lives, ‘yet appreciation, our most precious skill and one that is deeply healing, is left undeveloped in virtually every person. Only Universal Medicine has restored appreciation to its rightful place in human life.’

        2. When I read this possibility I melted Rachel – I could feel the ease that school will have when appreciation, connection and God are a natural, everyday element of the way we are raised and live.

        3. How awesome it is that we now have the opportunity to turn it around Rachel, from criticism to appreciation, and for that I too thank Universal Medicine. Many of us have lived with criticism, of ourselves and others, for so long that it can be a hard habit to break, but having this awakening to truth through Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, nothing can get in the way to returning to what we know to be true, and that is that innately we are NOT criticism in any way shape or form, we are Love.

        4. Owww, Rachel – “Criticism we master…yet appreciation, our most precious skill and one that is deeply healing, is left undeveloped” this sentence so speaks to me. That childlike innocence of appreciation gets totally overcasted by the cold, harshness of the intellect we get encouraged to foster, and I have fallen for that big time.

        5. Haven’t we all Fumiyo. It hurts us to be criticised, yet we adopt a way that is very critical of others. perhaps it is a coping mechanism? Perhaps we don’t think we have a choice, and think that is the only way the world is…and can be.
           Not so.

        6. Hello Rachel and yes we are bombarded with all manner of things in our current education system and none of it truly supports us. In fact when you look at it there is no wonder it’s the “Criticism we master”. What you are saying is very true our current way of living feeds the ‘critical’ and doesn’t support the appreciation. Look at how we are, how we react to things. If you can see there is an imbalance in this well don’t make a banner make a change in yourself, appreciate what you see. I agree Rachel Universal Medicine has bought appreciation back.

        7. Great observation Rachel. Appreciation is sorely missing from our education and takes a while to become a habit when the dominant program is self-criticism. We also need to get rid of the idea that appreciation of ourselves is somehow big headed or selfish.

        8. Absolutely Debra. The idea that appreciation is somehow big-headed or selfish has been totally ingrained in our society’s psyche, and very effectively keeps us from truly appreciating ourselves. It is amazing that we haven’t questioned it before. Is that because our lack of self-value is so low??

     5. ‘To appreciate each other for our essence is the most confirming and joyful gift we can give one another’ ….. yes, Rosanna, and it’s the most beautiful way to inspire another to consider sharing more of their gorgeous self.

     6. Rosanna just reading your comment I felt my connection to God to my essence so gorgeously — it just shows how connected we all are and how much we feel everything — and how much there is to appreciate deeply, deeply. Thank you.

     7. Man is not an island, and what you experienced on the Vietnam retreat will be felt by all, unconsciously maybe, but nevertheless felt, and for that I truly appreciate. Truly appreciating our essence means feeling our essence first, and having Universal Medicine to support us to go deeper into that is awesome and worth its weight in gold, and more.

     8. This is beautiful rosannabianchini, that appreciation of others is one of the greatest gifts that we can give another. I would add that, similar to love, we need to first appreciate ourselves and experience this for ourselves before we can appreciate another.

        1. Yes Lee, first hand experience, that is, appreciation that is lived is the solid foundation to then truly appreciate the beautiful essence of another….

        2. So true Lee, I had felt the sadness of not holding true appreciation, and I can say 100% that to begin to appreciate myself, not for the things I do, but for who I am, allowed me to feel and appreciate others and the world around me in a deeper and more connected way than I’d been able to before. Appreciation is a very enriching process and one that like love, as you say, can be ever deepened.

242. Super valid point Christoph. Placebo effect seems to be a rather generic term that can cover things that may not yet be understood or associated.

243. When we are open to seeing and feeling truth about ourselves and our choices, so much can shift and change simply because we are saying yes to evolution…..When we say ‘yes’, the hand of God prepares ahead and constellates all the support we need exactly and precisely. Absolutely true Rosemary.

244. Medicine wonders what the placebo effect is as it differs from patient to patient but can be very strong. Appreciation and its positive health care consequences could well be a big part of the placebo effect.

     1. I hadn’t considered this properly and thanks for turning my attention to it. Rather than admitting that they don’t have a clue what is going on and then taking the responsible steps to investigate it further and deeper, they just sweep it under the “Placebo Effect” carpet. Interesting to consider what golden truths lie underneath that carpet – whilst the world’s health continues to decline at an ever-more-alarming rate. Also interesting how the general public accept “the placebo effect” as a valid prognosis – illustrating our absolute responsibility also in the game of denial. Are we really prepared for the truth?

     2. Yes the placebo effect is considered to be an anomaly and therefore not valid, but really these events are simply the soul’s way of saying, “hey look, there is another way”. If we listened to them the world would be in a very different place. Like you said Otto, it is denial and ignorance that another way is possible.

     3. Good point Christoph “Medicine wonders what the placebo effect is as it differs from patient to patient but can be very strong. Appreciation and its positive health care consequences could well be a big part of the placebo effect.” we cannot underestimate the positive effects of appreciation.

     4. The placebo effect is one of the most consistent effects in medicine and healing. It is regarded to be an anomaly of some sort and medical science dedicates a lot of effort to ensuring that ant effect is above and beyond placebo. Why we have not taken placebo seriously remains a mystery. Christoph’s point that it may be related to appreciation is worth exploring. Placebo is powerful medicine as is appreciation. We allow ourselves to be deterred from this most powerful aspect of healing.

     5. ‘Yes the placebo effect is considered to be an anomaly and therefore not valid, but really these events are simply the soul’s way of saying, “hey look, there is another way”.’ …. well said, Matthew. How arrogant and short sighted we have been to not want to understand the placebo effect in more detail. Because it doesn’t fit into the pattern we are looking for we have put it to one side, maybe because we’ve not been ready to know the truth.

     6. A great point, Christoph. Indeed, placebo effects are pretty much disregarded as fluke, but it does happen. Just because we have not come up with a way to explain and recreate and its pattern does not mean it has no validity.

     7. Absolutely, our particles respond to our thoughts and choices, so it makes sense that if we choose appreciation, the joy and love that is felt will resonate through our body, and as joy and love as is our body’s natural state it will return to harmony – as it is disharmony that causes illness and disease.

     8. This is an interesting possibility… My feeling is that the placebo affect is due to the energic choices and changes, whether that be appreciation, taking responsibility, being more self loving or the myriad other choices that we choose that all contribute to our wellbeing.

     9. Valid point Brendan and interesting to consider this as a sidebar. We have a perception of the the ‘placebo effect’ is and it seems to weave it’s way through situations and be used when people ‘need’ it. It doesn’t appear to have a constant meaning. In other words and as you are saying we can just write something off under it’s heading and we, the masses will just go along with it because of this term. I wonder where and how it started. I would think that these words initially weren’t used like this.

     10. What an interesting conversation has sprung from your comment on the Placebo effect Christoph. I can give anecdotal evidence on the affect appreciation has had on my well-being, and the 1,600+ comments on this blog can’t be ignored. I would say the link is definitely worth exploring.

245. Appreciation is the key to life and my appreciation has come from knowing Serge Benhayon and all he reflects and teaches and is with me every moment from within. Simply a way of living who we really are.

     1. Ditto Tricia, my appreciation has come from knowing Serge Benhayon and feeling all he is, and all he brings and delivers to humanity.

     2. I agree Tricia, Serge Benhayon has redefined what appreciation is for me. I used to have very low self worth not really caring or looking after myself whereas now I know how important it is to take care of my body so it can support me doing what I am doing.

        1. Hello Tricia and James, and a lot has been restarted by Serge Benhayon and I agree a great great man. Not only from what he does but from the way he does it, the way he lives. Many many people are now equally living the same way, not to follow him but from the awareness that the life we thought isn’t truly life. We have been opened up to more, or back to the more, and returned to living a way that truly supports everything, The Way Of The Livingness.

        2. Well said Ray, The Way of The Livingness is each and everyone of Our ways. Ultimately it is the same guided by love and our return back to living the love we all our. This does not mean it will look the same as naturally we are not perfect and all come from a background with a myriad of choices. The more we choose to live in this way the more we also inspire others and give them the choice, the opportunity to also return to living in a truly loving way.

        3. Thanks James and likewise to you. We all have our own ‘way’ to return but the quality is the same, the love. We all are returning in kind to the same point, the same original choice. There were many choices thereafter and as you say we “all come from a background with a myriad of choices” but eventually we will see you either choose love or not in every moment. So while the colours and flavours of the choices appear different and may happen at different points, under them all is the same simple choice, love.

        4. Either Love or not love is our choice is every single moment. It seems way too simple and easy but the reality is this simple, any complication is not from love.

        5. Agreed James and love isn’t just a four letter word spoken, love is a movement. Take a deep care, love with every move you make and forever deepen that care (love) and watch everything around you constellate to the same love. Don’t just love somebody, love yourself by taking this care and then everything else you touch with feel this blessing before a word is spoken. We move well before we speak so take care in our every move.

        6. Wow Ray your words deeply touched me, thank you. So often throughout my life I have heard the words love or I love you but they have been cold. Whereas when someone moves with love they do not need to say I love you, it is a given but still lovely to hear!

        7. Thanks James and always great to chat. Let us keep moving in our love in every moment, then even in the ‘cold love’ we will still feel warm. Truly no
           ‘cold’ can touch us until we move to it to be touched. I agree also when words are spoken from this quality of movement even hello is saying all the love in the world to you.

        8. I could not agree more Ray, and lovely to chat as always 🙂

246. What jumped out at me today Jacqueline, is how we are often taught or told to appreciate others but that is is selfish to appreciate ourselves. This is crazy when I look at it now because I know if I am not appreciating myself 1st I find it very hard to deeply appreciate others. In fact the more I appreciate and confirm myself the more I do the same with others. I wrote a blog about celebrating our strengths and it fits in perfectly here: https://truthaboutsergebenhayon.com/2015/07/07/celebrating-our-strengths/

     1. How crazy this is James, the belief that it is selfish to appreciate ourselves….of course this belief comes from aligning to spirit and living a life that makes it impossible to appreciate. Celebrating our strengths and all that we are, and all that we bring, certainly is how we shift out of that old energy of self-abuse, (along with healing our hurts) Great blog James, and a lovely reminder for me today to re-visit!

        1. I know Jacqueline, it is crazy that we think it is selfish to appreciate ourselves. The more I celebrate myself for who I am and what I bring the more I also appreciate and celebrate others, so it is far from selfish. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have presented that to love another you first have to love yourself. This I fully agree with otherwise it feels like it is just words. I love you can be an empty sentence, it is only when it is coming from a body of love that it is deeply felt, at least from my experience.

     2. Hello James and like so many things in this world, appreciation is upside down and around the wrong way. What’s the easiest way to keep someone away from what true appreciation is? Sell them another version. It would appear from my view that we have been sold a dud on what appreciation is, it’s not that you don’t appreciate others but as we are saying the level or quality you appreciate others first is something you build within yourself. It’s almost like we are locked up and in the unlocking of yourself you then can see what you have unlocked everywhere else, the key is always within first then the outside is just an equal extension of what you feel, no hidden surprises. Thanks James.

        1. ‘The key is always within first then the outside is just an equal extension of what you feel’, so well said Ray. We have everything we could ever possibly want already we just have to let go of the incessant need to gain things from the outside and return to seeing our natural inner and innate beauty. We could say the world has robbed us of it but equally so we have allowed it, and one of the reasons we have allowed it is because we have not fully and deeply appreciated what we have and the love that we all equally are.

        2. Cracker James, well said. As you are saying “We could say the world has robbed us of it but equally so we have allowed it” We so often turn to something else when we don’t like what we see or feel. The truth is everything we see is a result of how we are, how we have lived, the quality. Whether this be directly or indirectly and this is no big deal to dwell on but merely note and then make sure your next breath and step are dedicated to a true quality.

247. Love and appreciation go hand in hand.

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249. Appreciation of self is huge as we can look everywhere else for it but still not appreciate what we bring or are. Coming back to the simple but very profound act of appreciation can make so many other things in our lives change for the better. Its like deciding to fill your own glass and then others simultaneously.

     1. So true Greg, how can we truly appreciate others if we are not appreciating ourselves. By appreciating ourselves it is easier to appreciate others, allowing our relationships to naturally deepen and evolve.

     2. Filling our own glass, love this Greg, because that is our own responsibility, however, in the past, I waited for others to fill my glass which was always filled with disappointment, that was when I lived in irresponsibility.

     3. Thanks Greg and self responsibility for what goes on in front of us that supports us all, like you say “Its like deciding to fill your own glass and then others simultaneously.” How you are with yourself in every moment deeply effects everything and everyone thereafter and so great to have appreciation on your radar consistently.

250. ‘I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.’ I love this sentence because it refers to so much in life. Simplicity in eating, working, movements, speaking…. the more I simplify my daily living the easier it is for my soul to express through my body.

251. Appreciation in itself is a very simple expression. The actual act of appreciating is so very simple and requires nothing of us but to let it out. The feeling of it is just as simple, but its effects are profound.

252. Appreciation is such good medicine, but it is something that just doesn’t happen in many people’s lives, but it is more powerful than all the antibiotics put together. The healing capacity of appreciation is enormous.

     1. The healing capacity of appreciation is enormous indeed Matthew, and is something I am only beginning to fully grasp and understand.

     2. When I stop to deeply appreciate myself it’s like my whole body smiles with me from inside, my cells vibrate and the joy I feel spreads warmly throughout……I agree Matthew it feels more power-full than any medicine.

        1. Hello Rosemary or as Matthew is saying appreciation is a healthy choice or a “good medicine” for us all. We often think of medicine is hospitals, doctors etc but as we are introducing here a quality of living, appreciation is equal or at times more “powerful” then traditional medicine. It has been the same since I was young, the way someone lived had more impact on me as opposed to just words that were said.

        2. I agree totally with these words from your comment Ray “appreciation is equal or at times more “powerful” then traditional medicine.” When we deeply appreciate ourselves it can be felt in the body as a warmth and a deeply loving expansion, it is possible to actually feel yourself enliven, that is the power of true self appreciation. When our appreciation of another is expressed there is deep healing for both the recipient and the one expressing. So yes, appreciation truly expressed, can be more powerful than traditional medicine.

253. Jacqueline awesome blog – appreciation inspires more appreciation and I am deeply inspired. So many many people have been touched by Universal Medicine and the wisdom shared. With The Way of The Livingness appreciation and miracles are a daily occurrence.

254. I really appreciate your focus to write this Jacqueline because it has encouraged us all to appreciate more what we have been given. It’s so simple but so huge to know this, ‘I can deeply appreciate that my inner knowing was aware all along, as we all are, how the ‘return path’ to my soul was going to unfold…’ and so gorgeous to feel it.

255. How beautiful it is to discard all that doubt and resistance and to know that we are all connected by love whether we live that or not. We are blessed to be aware of the ancient wisdom and what it offers. We are so blessed to know who we are and how we can evolve. We are blessed to know that we are equal with everyone and each of our expressions is unique.

     1. Beautiful Amanda. A moment of deep appreciation. 🙂 🙂 🙂

     2. In reading your comment I felt deeply how blessed we all actually are, so thank you Amanda for giving me the opportunity to stop, feel and deeply appreciate the myriad of blessings that have been bestowed upon us.

        1. My sentiments exactly rosemaryliebe, we are all deeply blessed how can we not be when we were all born innocent and children of God.

256. Beautiful article, Jacqueline. Thanks so much for putting into words the appreciation we all feel of the great gifts and way of living we have learnt since we found Serge Benhayon and everything and everyone in Universal Medicine. Your blog is just ‘oozing’ (your word) with self-love and love of others.

257. “Yes, I deeply appreciate this teaching that has transformed my life.” Me too Jaqueline it is an appreciation that it is deeper than I can find words for, it is an appreciation that is within every cell of my body.

     1. Hello Alison, I agree and it is the day to day living of appreciation that is the key. It is great to appreciate and see the bigger things that happen but the on the ground day to day is where the building really kicks in. Appreciation is like anything the more time or care you give it the more it grows and it would seem there is no end to that growth, only our choice to cap it.

258. This is really beautiful Jacqueline, and asks me to also appreciate more in my life. This feels like a ‘stocktake’. “I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it.” – knowing I am Love, and that I am returning to my Soul. This feels like the next point for me to continue to deepen my relationship with myself and to allow this to guide me; appreciation, and to let go of the lack of self worth, by knowing responsibility is in fact about expressing all that I am.

     1. Love your sharing here Arianne. The lack of self-worth pops up for me here and there when I am not appreciating myself and all I bring, but I observe, it has become easier to not indulge in this as I once did. And a gorgeous reminder for me today; ‘ responsibility is in fact about expressing all that I am’, thank-you.

     2. Beautiful Arianne, ‘Knowing I am love, and that I am returning to my Soul’ also something to deeply appreciate. Right now writing those words over takes me deep into my body, appreciating the loveliness of my breath and my entire being. It is this depth of appreciation that is there to be lived each moment.

259. Beautiful Rosemary, you are just gorgeous in how you express here.

     1. Thank you Anna, I appreciate your appreciation.

260. One only has to look at your stunningly beautiful photo to feel your deep appreciation and the very truth of the following sentence. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.”

     1. The fact that appreciation is such a tangible, supportive and joyful feeling in the body shows the importance of it.

        1. One feeling this tangible, supportive and joyful feeling in the body is then reflecting this out to the world, and anyone interacting with this person could not help but feel and see this love and joy, and be enlivened by it’s true blessing.

        2. Hello David, I agree and the impact on the landscape around you. Just true appreciation alone has the power to transform any situation. If you have a picture of what you would like that situation should look like you may not see the transformation but if you dedicate the time and the care to consistently appreciate what you see then in time life will change. There is an old saying similar to ‘you get out what you put in’ I remember my parents and family saying this in particular about life, so put in appreciation and at some point this is what you will receive. If your life doesn’t reflect what you want then possibly have a look at the quality of what you are putting into life and simply appreciate the awareness of this.

     2. I am increasingly appreciating how significant and supportive appreciation is and your comment rosemayliebe expresses this beautifully.

        1. Yes Jonathan to deeply appreciate our own strengths and loveliness allows space within for more joy and love……. of equal importance is to openly express our appreciation, not only for the things others do for us, but for being the love and joy that they are.

261. Reading your words today Jacqueline made my heart expand and jump for joy as I read “I have learned through simplicity my soul communicates”. How many of us have made our lives so complicated, so busy setting such high goals that somehow never seem to be fulfilled or reached with such detrimental effects on our overall health. Because of our choices the jungle of illusion getting its way when all the time it is through keeping life ‘simple’ changing life style patterns and introducing self-love back into our daily way of living. Appreciation becoming a frequent visitor for ourselves and others during each and every day, feeling so natural, a beautiful gift.

262. Me too Brendan. A body of words that is re-dressing the balance and reminding us all the power and absolute-must-have of daily appreciation.

     1. A beautiful comment Otto – especially ‘A body of words that is re-dressing the balance’ .
        We feel like worker bees daily visiting the blog flowers and bringing home the daily honey – the comments with their imprint of truth and love. This activity of love is making way for the body of God to flow into the diseased construct of the untruth in the Internet and is certainly re-dressing the balance.

     2. Hello Otto and I looked online, googled it and couldn’t find any of this “absolute-must-have of daily appreciation.” anywhere to buy? It doesn’t appear it’s for sale but something we must live for ourselves. No quick fix on this one just good old fashioned roll up your sleeves and do the work. It starts and continues in the pages of this blog, people from everywhere sharing appreciation in their way, which as a group is our way. Thanks Otto, great to chat.

     3. What? You mean we can’t buy our way out of this one? We can’t throw some cash at the problem? We can’t justify the way we lovelessly flog ourselves at work by spending our hard-earned wages on a quick fix?? Oh. OK. I guess I better take responsibility then. As you say – roll your sleeves up and commit to taking those steps. Love connecting with you Ray. And walking alongside you.

263. A true friend is the greatest gift. A friend who loves you with purpose – a purpose to support you in your every moment evolution. A friend who never does nice, never does comfort, never sits back on old patterns, a friend who walks right beside you and steps in front of you when you need leading and drops in behind you when you need supporting. A true friend is gold.

     1. And gosh it is beautiful. I just spent the weekend with two true friends. And felt so deeply how much I have wanted this kind of relationship all my life. That’s what is so nuts about it all. The life we build, the effort we make, the things we put in the way…all to stop us having exactly that which we crave. Anyway – I’m not dwelling on my past choices – just enjoying and embracing the new ones.

     2. True friendship sounds like a beautiful flowing dance between one another….supporting, leading, guiding, holding, and evolving one another, gorgeous Otto, and just like you, this is something I have also craved all my life and can greatly appreciate that I am now allowing this true friendship and amazing support in my life…..

     3. I’m still bathing in the gold of that weekend and now, in the rest of my week, have seen so many other opportunities for true friendship. Because the truth of it is that it was me who had closed my heart to the world. So amazing what is amongst us and how much love there is just screeching for an excuse to be expressed!!

264. My sentiments also Brendan, I too appreciate all the wonderful comments and conversations on this blog which has brought an expansion and deeper awareness on the subject of appreciation and what this brings into our life as a result of practicing appreciation.

265. If we do not appreciate ourselves or others, we cannot love the infiniteness of love. It is there at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of our return to the glory of knowing not only our own divine essence, but equally the divine essence of all others.

     1. ‘It is there at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of our return to the glory of knowing not only our own divine essence, but equally the divine essence of all others’. Adam you give us here the key to all of it. Appreciation is everything, and without it, we have no foundation of love or truth from which to stand.

266. True appreciation comes from the soul and anything less is not real and lived from who we truly are. Appreciation is the gift to everything claimed and the love and simplicity that comes from this ,Through the process of building the love in our bodies appreciating this is the vital ingredient that cannot be overemphasised and allows the joy and flow to be embodied and the appreciation and love for everyone and true brotherhood to be lived.

     1. This blog is a testimony to how powerful Appreciation is on the path of returning to live by ones soul. As you say here Tricia, ‘True appreciation comes from the soul and anything less is not real and lived from who we truly are’. These are exquisite words for anyone looking to deepen their understanding and practice of appreciation.

267. Such a beautiful expression of your new found appreciation of true appreciation Jacqueline. Another beautiful thing about appreciation is that whatever we appreciate appreciates. In other words grows, expands, blossoms to become more and more our natural living way… The natural living way that is our joyful path of return.

     1. The law of appreciation is in the title; Appreciate, Appreciate, and Appreciate….and as you say Rob, the more we appreciate this becomes our natural living, breathing way, which can be felt in all our movements.

        1. I agree Rob and Jacqueline, it feeds you back. It would seem the only thing that can stop this ‘growth or expansion’ is our choice. So no one owns appreciation, you don’t need to buy it, earn it, wait for it, steal it or find it, it is with you know and only requires a simple choice, for you to live it.

268. Yes, true appreciation is a sure ‘firey’ way.

269. This shows that we cannot truly appreciate something unless we are expressing from our soul. When from spirit, no matter how good it would seem to be, it is always less than the full love that we are.

     1. Exactly Joshua, when I was living my life dominated by spirit, appreciation was impossible…. what is there to appreciate in struggle, in complication, in always feeling exhausted? Instead the constant feeling was of a ‘giving up’ as life was a daily battle!

270. The understanding of the difference between spirit and soul has been life changing for me too Jacqueline. Learning to appreciate how life’s journey has changed over a few years is enormous for us to understand this in full, this is love going around in full circle.

271. Appreciation, of ourselves and others, is so important in today’s society, where judgement and criticism seem to be the norm currently. Really accepting where we have come from and where we are returning to, in addition to accepting where we are today – appreciate appreciate.

272. Today i realized that need to appreciate where i come from and where i am today. To embrace all the behavior I i never liked about myself like being insecure or not knowing how to do something or being overwhelmed and stressed. Even i have developed a lot and build self confidence and trust i tended to react when i saw people being insecure or stressed out. To love myself with everything i was and to be able to love people who still struggle and live in disharmony.

273. To hold oneself in love as you describe here Jacqueline is to provide the soil for real nourishment, and growth in appreciation. “I totally appreciate the understanding I have of myself, my life and my choices – with no judgment, criticism or self-bashing, but rather from a place that I have evolved to (self-love) through the lifestyle changes I have made.”

274. When we appreciate, we naturally come to understand the value and worth of something.

     1. and when we appreciate we also create more space in our bodies to be the love that we are. More appreciation = more love lived.

        1. And the wonderful thing about creating more space in our bodies Francsico, is that we then allow others more space and that is felt and feels truly wonderful and powerful. Recently I was given the space to make a decision I was having diffulty with. I was not pressured or forced to make a decision, which allowed things to unfold at my pace, and then boom the clarity was there and I knew what to do.

275. From reading this blog I spoke about appreciation at work and how we weren’t great at accepting appreciations of ourselves. Then, the other day, my colleague said I needed to appreciate a compliment I’d been given more and I realised that through appreciating myself I support and give permission to all around me to do likewise and we all grow.

276. It is so lovely to feel someone appreciating themselves and their live to such depth and such detail. The expression of appreciation is normally reserved for others, or for things in life, generally outside of us and such self-appreciation is often looked down on and seen as selfish or vein. Thank you Julie for sharing such deep appreciation and inspiring us all to feel we can do the same.

277. Appreciation: One of the main words of my “living dictionary”, which helps me to see and to value all the little things that define my life; everything that supports me, what I bring into my world, what I receive from others,.. When I’m able to appreciate, everything becomes complete for me and I have a deeper understanding of it.

     1. When we do not appreciate ourselves then our view on everything becomes narrowed. Judgement causes a tunnel vision whereby we only see what we want to see in order to continue our self loathing and misery over how corrupt/abusive the world is. There is so much more to life than that, yet we choose not to see the beauty because it would expose our contracted-ness and the suppression of ourselves and our lives.

278. Understanding about the two types of energy has been a revelation for me and to know that ‘I created my life from the energy I aligned to. In other words, this was the energy I allowed to run my body.’ helps me to be more aware in every moment and to feel what’s going on.

     1. Carmel without this fundamental understanding about how life works, we are walking around with a self imposed blind fold trying to navigate a busy environment. Take off the blindfold and we can start to make real choices.

        1. And we take off that self imposed blind fold when we take responsibility David and then we can start to make different choices as you mentioned.

279. I appreciate my being a part of the student body and receiving so many reflections of truth and beauty.

     1. Heidi, I love that you have brought your own appreciation to these comments, and timely for me this morning as I woke from a sleep where I was not appreciating the enormity of my day before and all the choices I had made that were there to be really appreciated. I am really seeing how important it is that we appreciate every little thing in our lives, not only the more obvious things, but as you say the openness to receive the reflections needed to heal. Right now I am appreciating this in myself, that I am ready to see and feel what is being reflected to me.

        1. Absolutely Anna, taking the time to appreciate the detail, rather than just focusing on the bigger, more obvious things. This allows us to take our appreciation to a whole new – and deeper – level.

280. Absolutely beautiful Jacqueline. I appreciate my choice to sit down today and read your blog that has inspired me to appreciate so many more of my choices.

281. Appreciation enriches our lives enormously. It is love feeding us back.

     1. Beautiful Elizabeth Dolan ‘It is love feeding us back’.

     2. I love this comment. Because it, in admirably few words, perfectly describes the simplicity and power of Appreciation. If you could sell something that was this efficient and effective you’d make a packet. Yet we have it in an in-exhaustible supply – for FREE.

     3. Yes Elizabeth, so it makes sense that when we are lacking appreciation in our lives, we feel empty and look for something else to fill the void.

282. Feeling how family connections can extend beyond blood lines is truly beautiful. This brings more responsibility to our relationships with others. Regardless of whether our blood family is big or small, loving or abusive, we all belong to a much larger family. Opening up to receiving and offering support to and from everyone establishes community.

     1. That’s gorgeous Abby, and I completely agree. We have such large families within our communities; if we open up to receiving and giving support then we can build some phenomenal relationships with ‘family’ regardless if we have to same genes or not.

        1. Yes, yes and yet another yes to that one Susie. My family is getting bigger all the time.

     2. I love what you have shared here Abby, opening up to support to and from everyone establishes community. Just opening up full stop, being honest and allowing ourselves to feel things. Thats something to appreciate.

        1. It is easy to overlook how far we have come and the incredible life changes many of us have made, and as you say Anna, “Just opening up full stop, being honest and allowing ourselves to feel things” is most certainly something to appreciate.

        2. Hi Rosemary, I feel this is exactly what taking stock is about and it is so important. Taking moments in our lives to stop and feel how far we have come, and what we have right there to appreciate about ourselves and all that we have in our lives. This is a fairly new practice for me when I look back on my almost 40yrs of living this lifetime, and already it is changing how I see myself and others in such a monumental way.

        3. I agree Anna that taking moments in our lives to stop and feel how far we have come is so very important…..it deepens our love for ourselves, for others and allows us to see more clearly the beauty that surrounds us.

283. Appreciation is a huge theme for me in my healing right now. The past months have really shown me how much deeper I need to go in my appreciation and also to make this something I consistently live in and by. One of the things I have observed is that when I am not appreciating (deeply my whole being), then everything around me seems to be too much to handle and overwhelm can quickly set in. But when I am feeling steady in appreciation and the knowing of who I am and what I bring in simply being connected to my essence, the whole world could go sour but I can feel my strength in responding to this. So, I am developing my consistency in this way of being, which I realise is just a choice to keep making in each and every moment.

     1. Such a beautiful comment Anna. Shows me how powerful our choice to appreciate is. My day is amazing because of me not because of anything outside of myself. So appreciating myself walking on a sunny day is gorgeous but without appreciating me it’s just a sunny day that’s happening outside of myself. I feel disconnected from it because I’ve not connected with me.

        1. ‘My day is amazing because of me not because of anything outside of myself’. Thank you Karin, I Love the example you gave here also. I often will walk on a sunny day, or appreciate the beauty of nature having not first appreciated what I am bringing to it. I will take your words to deepen my practice of self appreciation and love.

        2. My day is amazing because of me not because of anything outside of myself. Love this line Karin!

     2. Yes, and everything seems so much simpler living this way also.

     3. I totally agree with what you’ve shared here Anna about appreciation being a huge tool for healing. It cuts through negativity and as I have noticed the more I appreciate the less room there is for the energy of the spirit to drag me back down into the overwhelm and giving up. This is not a constant in my life yet but each time I come back to appreciating what is within me right now the choices I am making to open myself up that is already something to appreciate. The fact that no matter how dark I can choose to view the world (how much energy I pull in to weight me down) appreciation can be there in any and every moment. Kinda takes the legs out from under that negativity that would have us believe that it is some immovable object or because it has been chosen so repeatedly (for lives) that it can’t simply be shifted and cut down in an instant with appreciation.

        1. Beautiful Leigh, thank you for sharing.

        2. I love what you have expressed Leigh, “The fact that no matter how dark I can choose to view the world (how much energy I pull in to weight me down) appreciation can be there in any and every moment.” That is so totally true, it’s just a matter of choice, and as you say each time we choose to open up is already a cause for appreciation.

        3. And as the saying goes ‘What goes around comes around’ all our choices come back to us. There is absolutely no coincidence that this comment and what you’ve shared here Rosemary has come back around. The more we appreciate the more that appreciation comes back to us to support us further. Thank you.

        4. We are all supported in so many unexpected and beautiful ways and the expression “what goes around comes around” is so true Leigh. The more we appreciate the love and support we are given, the deeper our appreciation grows, and the more love and support we feel …..and so around it goes.

     4. Yes Anna I also can relate to what you have expressed and have found like yourself that consistency in my choices to love and appreciate myself is the key to simplicity and flow in my life.

        1. Beautiful Rosemary, I love how you bring simplicity in here. Today for me is all about simplicity, and the deepening of it, so reading your words resonated. Appreciation for me feels like a warm bath, and I love warm baths!

        2. Thank you for your appreciation Anna and yes I have found no matter what is happening bringing it back to simplicity often clears the way for insight and understanding.

284. There really is so much to appreciate, wherever we are at. As I read your blog I could feel how important it is to do this right here right now. If I wait to be ‘better’ before I begin to appreciate myself I will stay stuck exactly where I am, appreciation allows us to expand and do what needs to be done.

     1. Even when we are not “better”, actually even when we are right down in the dumps, there is still a lot we can appreciate as even at our worst there is a lot to appreciate.

        1. Very true Christoph. When we connect to who we are it is easy to see that even our ‘worst’ is a reminder of our amazingness as we can feel we are so much more than our circumstances.

     2. Isn’t it interesting how we are always seeking more and more, often not stopping to just appreciate where we are at right now. It is like there is this unquenchable thirst for more and more and that what is, is just not enough.

        1. “It is like there is this unquenchable thirst for more and more and that what is, is just not enough.” Reading this sentence from your comment Rosie allowed me to feel it is ok to be me, and where I am at right now, and that allowing, accepting and appreciation all play a part in deepening our self love.

        2. Sure thing, if we don’t accept and appreciate the what is, there is no way to deepen anything…. because we first have to be aware of how it is, and then from there we can grow.

        3. Yes Rosie I agree, it is only through awareness that we can truly grow.

     3. So true Leonne, I am re-discovering that in those stuck moments is the time when we need to appreciate ourselves the most.

285. On this morning your blog was a powerful read for me Jacqueline, as I am deepening my own appreciation and honesty. Truly powerful words that my body says yes to.

     1. Anna, I agree how much power lies in appreciation and honesty. It is on those days when I am feeling a little “off” or struggling within myself that I often get to realise that I have been neglecting appreciation! And so this becomes the re-turn path in essence!

        1. Totally Henrietta, I have been discovering the same and just recently in a session I had with an Esoteric Practitioner I was told to explore just that….’that is it possible the days I lose my way, are the days I have stepped away from living in that appreciation’. Since that session I have been observing this and it is an absolute yes. So with this awareness it is as you have expressed, appreciation ‘becomes the re-turn path’.

        2. Wow – so simple yet so powerful. When we keep appreciating then things begin to open up again. And I often find that if I am struggling to appreciate myself, then if I can somehow appreciate something in another then this re-inspires me to appreciate the qualities within myself too! And so it works both ways – appreciation bouncing between self and other.

        3. Yes this is also the same for me Henrietta. It is so silly that we say we struggle to appreciate something about ourselves, particularly when there is so much in each of us that is worth appreciating and celebrating, let alone our essence and where we come from being truly divine. BUT, I too can relate that those moments do arise from time to time, and that just a smile or look from another, and appreciating them for who they are does support me to start coming back to that appreciation of myself which I am finding to be the the foundation for everything.

        4. Appreciation is the key ingredient in the soup of life!

        5. Simple wisdom by Henrietta Chang. I like that title for a book!

        6. This has also been my experience Henrietta and Anna, what you have both written here is pure gold – when there is a sense of struggle I know I dropped my appreciation for myself and others. What I am coming to realise is that life can be simple if I keep it simple and appreciate, appreciate and appreciate.

        7. Hello Julie, I agree that it is so simple (albeit not always easy) to come back to appreciation. The key thing here is to be aware that that has dropped away and then to bring it back. There is always something we can find to appreciate about another, and then ourselves too.

286. This is so gorgeous Jaqueline, whenever I come across your blog just reading the title or a sentence from it lifts me and makes me feel deep appreciation, today I really enjoyed reading this, ‘Appreciation: I can feel the power this word emanates… and I can feel appreciation oozing from my body because there is so much to appreciate.’

287. “I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live.” This is a beautiful appreciation as to overlook this one is to deeply undervalue oneself, but to do so also excuses us from the responsibility of our own choices.

     1. This is a beautiful appreciation Rosanna, which on reading your comment has supported me to go deeper in my appreciation of my livingness and the reminder that every single thought, choice or action counts, they will either harm or heal.

     2. Yes Rosanna, what you say is true, it comes back to appreciating our reflection in who we are and how we live, and I have recently started to feel how important this is. As you say, if we overlook this, we are undervaluing ourselves.

        1. It becomes so simple then Anna, we have the choice to appreciate ourselves and in not doing so, we undervalue ourselves which then allows thoughts such as: I’m not good enough, going into comparison and jealousy etc to enter…..

        2. This has certainly been my own experience Jacqueline and so I testify to what you say here being the truth. It is our lack of true self appreciation that allows for self loathing, and the resultant comparison and jealousy. We should have ‘Self Appreciation’ classes as curriculum in our schools….to support this practice from a young age.

     3. Rosanna I feel this is one of the greatest things we can appreciate, not what we do but the quality we live in and what this inspires and offers for all others.

        1. I agree David, and only yesterday a friend acknowledged and appreciated and thanked me for how I live my life and the quality that she could feel that supported her to deeply surrender. A moment of confirmation and something for me to really appreciate!

        2. A young man, perhaps in his late twenties, a complete stranger, approached me in a shop just yesterday saying “Excuse me I just had to tell you….you have the most beautiful eyes, they sparkle and are full of life.” I was somewhat surprised but I graciously thanked him and replied that I felt full of life and that I appreciated his comment. The point is, as you say David, it’s not what we do ( and I will add here, how we look or how old we are, as I am far from being a young woman) but the quality we live in, that others notice and are inspired by. In his expressing of his appreciation this young man showed me that I myself did not truly appreciate what he had seen and felt. He therefore gifted me with the opportunity to claim myself and appreciate myself on an much deeper level.

        3. This is such a beautiful story of an exchange of pure appreciation Rosemary. Thank you for sharing!

        4. Thank you Lyndy, it certainly was a beautiful gift….an all round lesson in appreciation.

        5. This a great point David, I often place a higher value and appreciation on how much I can achieve and what I do (which often can be done in a way that is disregarding of my body) instead of appreciating the quality of presence I bring to all the tasks and actions of the day, whatever they are.

        6. This was lovely Rosemary, what a gift and confirmation.

288. I love how you write about appreciation Jaqueline and your opening line sang to me, “Appreciation: I can feel the power this word emanates… and I can feel appreciation oozing from my body because there is so much to appreciate.”…this is not something I would not have been able to understand or accept until a few years ago.
     I remember as a child being expected to appreciate what I had been given or what was done for me, and how I would be criticised or told off for not showing my appreciation. So the true meaning of the word was diminished and reduced, I lacked appreciation. So many of the words that could truly support us in life if we understood their true meaning have been bastardised or reduced to a lesser meaning that we stop using them in every day life.

     1. Such a joy to read Alison that now because of your choices and changes you have made in your life, the very word appreciation sounds like a musical note. Awesome!

     2. Yes appreciation reduced to social etiquette. An effective way to obfuscate the power of appreciation to bring us back to feeling our glory and the love we are held in.

289. I too love rereading this awesome blog- reminding me there is so much to appreciate in my life ; especially now being aware of truth re 2 different forms of energy we can connect to, which determines our next thought, action and words spoken.
     This awareness have enabled me to transform my life.
     My deep appreciation to Serge Benhayon for bringing through this Ageless Wisdom for us all to embrace into our lives.

     1. There is not a day that passes were I do not appreciate Serge Benhayon and everything he has brought to us and continues to. He is certainly a man that has shown the world that there is defiantly another way to be with everyone that truly supports ourselves and each others.

        1. Absolutely Amina, ‘There is not a day that passes were I do not appreciate Serge Benhayon and everything he has brought to us and continues to.’ My appreciation and gratitude for Serge Benhayon are beyond words.

290. The appreciation you have come to deeply for your life your essence and everything is so amazing and inspirational to feel and the knowing of our choice to connect to our essence is the first step back to who we are, no longer living in the separation and isolation of our emptiness when all along all we are is inside us waiting to be connected to and appreciated.

291. Very true Doug, and I wonder if this is because deep down we know how powerful appreciation is and that it is a choice, but that we choose to stay in a familiar cycle of self-bashing because that will guarantee a cap on our grandness.

292. Re-reading your awesome blog Jacqueline, strengthens my own appreciation for myself, for the choices I have also made to return to a much simpler way of living where I have a deep relationship with my body and an ever deepening relationship with my soul, thanks to the teachings of Universal Medicine. Thank you for sharing this all with us and reminding us of how much there is to appreciate, enormously so.

293. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.” For me it feels like my sings when I am absolutely honest.

294. I love coming back to this blog as it oozes appreciation and is a great reminder for me that appreciation is not hard to for us and is never very far away, even though at times it may seem that way.

295. It is like we keep thinking if we just improve or tweak what we are doing in life, everything will fit into place. But what your words remind me Jaqueline is that appreciation and Love is a whole different space. It’s not another notch up from mild disappointment, or in the spot next to ecstatic elation. Its another energy and quality all-together (literally) that flows and nourishes our being in a way the other could never do any day. As long as we settle for the momentary lift or nice word we never get to live the glorious flow of appreciation Love has to offer.

     1. I love what you’re saying here Joseph, it totally is a very different space to truly appreciate. It’s a different ‘switch’ all together. As I read your comment I was reminded how the soul always appreciates and never judges and critiques. If we do the latter we are not with our soul, we are with the energy of our spirit that is always looking for a way to complicate things and make a story out of something. Appreciation is simplicity and void of self-identification. It is a dropping, a surrender into who we are, as we appreciate the choices we are making to return to soul.

296. I also surrender to the teachings of The Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon.
     Slowly I am learning to appreciate the choices I have made and the simplicity of my life.
     Thank you Jacqueline for highlighting the powerful effects of appreciation.

297. Being self-damning and judgemental keeps us diminished in the shadows of creation and while it is a choice we have made, by choosing this we make it harder to exercise free-will in our next choice. Appreciation helps us remember who we are and in that connection we are more free to choose to hold on to that connection – then free-will is allowed greater freedom, less encumbered by the impositions we have allowed to rule over us.

298. An apparently straight forward every day word, ‘appreciation’, has had an extraordinary impact on my life. My ‘relationship’ with it has meant that when I now see it written, or hear it said, there is an association on a cellular level that sends ripple waves through my body – or maybe I would call it wake up calls. As a foundation, appreciation has turned my life around, and it had to start with appreciating me, since I have come to understand that my experience of life is rooted in how I choose to live. Thank you, Jacqueline, for your testimony and appreciation of appreciation.

     1. I second this Matilda, appreciation has a powerful effect on everything in life – keeping the doors open to the greater dimensions we live but have little awareness of….appreciation allows that connection and awareness to steadily deepen and grow so we can embrace and live our true multi-dimensional nature.

        1. Very true what you write here Annie and Matilda. With appreciation strongly rooted in our foundation we grow enormously, but if that isn’t there, we bash ourselves and can never really get past ‘go’! That has been my experience, and really catching that ever so sneaky critical voice that wants to find fault, when frankly… there is none. There will always be imperfections and an acceptance of these is part of learning to deeply appreciate the choices I am making and where I’m actually at as a result — which is a pretty amazing place. Acceptance, acceptance and appreciation by the bucket-load required!

299. Wise words Doug, I often get caught up in a problem only to then sometime down the track feel a level of appreciation and wonder why I choose to not appreciate in the first place. When I feel appreciation or even consider this possibility my chest opens up and I feel far more at ease with myself. Yet the question is why is this not my and everyone else’s normal.

300. I have noticed the same Brendan, more often than not there is criticism or put downs rather than pull ups. This comes down to the clever game of who’s the more powerful and keeping people less and more controlled from positions of authority or responsibility.

301. That’s exactly what I felt Rebecca and I agree with everything you have shared and “I feel content with the simplicity of life now”.

302. Jaqueline this blog is absolutely Divine and deeply appreciated.

303. Hello Brendan and as you know, we are a part of that world and so have an equal contribution to what is going on. I would agree “Hence the importance of developing appreciation within ourselves…” and add hence the importance of living appreciation within ourselves….

304. Thank you Jacqueline for your wonderful appreciation of how far you have come. Reading this has really offered me the opportunity to confirm how far I have come and deeply appreciate all that I am as I am.

305. I love this expansive description of appreciation Jacqueline. Your words allow me to appreciate the knowingness of my soul. This appreciation allows me to trust and commit to life more deeply.

306. To be able to navigate past the mess in the world and appreciate what is inside and within people is a true gift of living. To be able to feel appreciation in the face of criticism is an even greater gift. All too often the reaction to the outer mess in the world dominates the way we live, where it occupies the space that could be filled with a quality that supports life rather than retards life.

307. Jaqueline, I like how you are telling us that appreciation is a form of medicine which is bringing light into our hearts and body.

308. The word appreciation used to be related for me to people who saw everything as rosy – exclaiming “what lovely sunset”, what a lovely bowl, what a lovely …. I felt in this a resistance in myself, where the person was actually wanting everything to be lovely and therefore trying to fill an empty or incomplete feeling within themselves. Such appreciation was only holding them in a duality or like, not like -in judgment of life. What Jacqueline and many others have presented, in essence, blows that out of the water. It is connecting with the loveliness, not emptyness, inside and as she mentions, peeling away, dusting off and letting go of all the false needs and expectations that prevent us from truly appreciating life for what it is, an opportunity to offer our loveliness to life and not the need to find it from life.

     1. Great point Simon. Appreciation has been bastardised in many ways and this is one of them.

     2. Well said, Simon. Like with a lot of our vocabulary, it is very powerful to bring the true meaning of words back. Have we dismissed appreciation as mawkish, and self-appreciation as indulgent to avoid the power of what it can bring when we actually apply it?!

     3. Such a contrast in a way of living found in your last sentence Simon: ‘ an opportunity to offer our loveliness to life and not the need to find it from life’. In other words, when we get the small self out of the way, we can then bring all of who we are, our gorgeous, grand and beautiful selves, enabling us to offer a different reflection and truly serve others.

309. “Yes, I deeply appreciate this teaching that has transformed my life.” myself and I am sure many thousands of others stand beside you with this statement.

310. Re-discovering that everything is energy, that everything is because of energy and that there are only two types of energy – love or that which is not love – is life changing and liberating. Liberating because it is but my choice as to which energy I choose. From having lived for so long choosing the energy of ‘not love’ I still have so many default patterns of behaviour that are not love driven. However, as I become increasingly aware of these patterns so the pendulum is switching to default patterns of love as I increasingly consistently choose love.

     1. Appreciation of everything ( even the small details) allows more awareness, which is the name of the game, and like you Jonathan, my ‘pendulum is also switching to default patterns of love….’ and with increasing awareness, the more I can let go, the more I can surrender to love.

     2. Hello Jonathan and it’s an interesting quote to read and write, “everything is energy, that everything is because of energy” and it is another thing to live. I don’t mean live the quote but live what the quote is saying, that everything including typing on a keyboard has an impact on everything else around us. There is no escape and frankly who would want to escape the fact that everything we do brings with it a responsibility, even our thoughts. We can go into all the reasons why this can’t be right but have a look around you, it’s not getting any prettier and frankly we all need to wake from the slumber we are continually holding ourselves in at different levels.

311. ‘This understanding, this Ageless Wisdom, found me through the presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, which changed everything in my life.’
     I love the words ‘found me’ – not to mention that EVERYTHING in your life changed from then on. I had a very similar experience where many of my choices were directed to result in a living situation that introduced me to Universal Medicine. When I think about these ‘divine set ups’ it fills me with Joy and confirms that I know magic to be real, that there is more at play and there is an order to all that happens.

     1. Yes Rachael, I can feel the fact that God and God’s Love is holding all of us, and everything, in the Plan, and we can either go with it or resist it, which is crazy because this Love is irresistible!

     2. Since Universal Medicine became a part of my life I have often looked back at the way I used to live in astonishment. This line in particular struck a chord with me and allows me to understand why I have been able to make the changes I have made. “I have come to accept that once I aligned to spirit, the course and direction of my life was already set – a life of separation from my body and from my Soul – which kept me totally irresponsible, unawake and completely unaware… in one word: anti-evolving.”

312. Having practiced the art of self appreciation to the point that the ‘tap of appreciation’ is now simply on all of the time, I find that I appreciate people all of the time. What’s sad to feel is that when I stop a stranger in the street or supermarket to share my appreciation of them, they all pause and I can tell from their slightly protected bracing that they are anticipating something negative to come next. Awful that people’s first thought is ‘oh no what’s she going to say’ but beautiful to see people’s body’s melt when met with appreciation from an open heart. We really do have the power to change the world, one person at a time.

     1. I agree Alexis and true appreciation is one way to light more people up at one time. The person you appreciate may walk away and appreciate someone in their life the same way and then that person may do the same. In this way the alchemy of appreciation goes out far and wide. We are quick to critique and it looks like we have this part nailed and so why not try something new, that’s also old, appreciation, and put the critique to bed.

     2. Brilliant, Alexis. I love this – it is super inspiring to remember the impact we can all have in the world one step, one interaction at a time.

        1. Hello Matilda and I agree, it’s great to appreciate the impact we see and equally deeply appreciate the feeling we feel. Like anything the more you appreciate the feeling of something the more there is to explore and see. The biggest change we can have on the world is from the change we have first made within ourselves, it naturally goes out from within.

     3. I like your line about the “tap of appreciation” Alexis, well used to fill up our buckets until it’s full and then overflowing for everyone else.

313. When we appreciate, we naturally take a step towards love. Love that in within us naturally that we then can readily recognise around us. It builds upon itself initiating a wondrous momentum of choosing love over adversity.

314. Appreciation belongs to the fiery way of living, while self criticism and self loathing are part of the pranic way of living. Appreciation to me is the honouring that I am from heaven and a Son of God and that whole my being and body is part of a divine constellation. Worth well to celebrate!

     1. Gorgeous Nico, and most definitely worth to celebrate! With you all the way when you write: ‘Appreciation to me is the honouring that I am from heaven and a Son of God and that the whole of my being and body is part of a divine constellation’.

315. I love what Ray said earlier -“If you have little care then your thoughts will run wild, if you have a deep care then you thoughts will lead you to appreciating.” this is spot on and exactly what I am constantly keeping check on. How easy it is to not bother to be present in what I am doing and then when I check out like this the mind and thoughts have a field day. Keep loving reminding myself that those are not mine and to keep feeling, appreciating and confirming my natural, divine, sweet, tender and delicate qualities that are bursting inside of me is when I feel the most amazing being that I am.

     1. Hello Natalie and thoughts are like anything else. Let them run wild and they will lead you anywhere and usually it will be to your detriment. I watch my thoughts and see what there general lead is. If I see they are running me into a hole I say no and get back to connecting with the next thing in front of me that is tangible. Thoughts are just that a thought and only go one further step when we make them real. We can ‘control’ the type of thoughts we have from the way we move and as we are saying, move with little care and this will attract a certain range of thoughts, move with a deep care and this will pull in another more supportive range of thoughts.

316. Through the work of Universal Medicine I have developed an appreciation of self and this in turn is radiated to all

317. Really appreciating reading your blog Jacqueline not only has it inspired me to appreciate so much in my life and of myself, this has initiated a group of friends to get together on a daily basis and share our daily appreciations – some beautiful unfolding and support happening. It only takes one to start the initial impulse. Thank you.

     1. Hello Marion and I like this idea, “this has initiated a group of friends to get together on a daily basis and share our daily appreciations” a bit of true group appreciation would go along way.

318. “Deeply appreciate”. This is bigger and deeper than at first appears. It means everything about ourselves, and it means to feel it in every cell of the body as we express. There is so much to appreciate, about ourselves and everyone else; I close my eyes and feel it and let the feeling sink down deep into my heart and sacred places. I find this brings about a change that is sustained. Any less than this is not that true deep appreciation that transforms and heals.

     1. I agree Joan there is no end, literally no end. If you find yourself comfortable with appreciating then it’s past time to go deeper. This is not an everyday thing this is an every moment thing. We are responsible for every moment we are in and whether in it or walking away from it we should take time to appreciate all we see and feel.

     2. Your comment really touched me Joan, thank you. As I move to another depth of appreciation in my body, your words were a call to go even deeper and really nourish every cell with this feeling, and as Ray added, there is no end to that depth, if we are comfortable it is time to go deeper yet again. Thank you both this morning.

319. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.” How beautiful Jacqueline and what an inspiration for everyone to live with and accept the joy of appreciation. It is a real life changer and I love reading this to remind me always thank you.

320. Jacqueline, this is such a gorgeous opening line, ‘Appreciation: I can feel the power this word emanates… and I can feel appreciation oozing from my body because there is so much to appreciate.’ Reading this I can also feel there is so much to appreciate, it changes my focus from thinking about the little things that may not feel great and brings about a real lightness and appreciation, putting the things that don’t feel great into perspective rather than being the main focus, appreciation is so important!

     1. Hello Rebecca and I agree “there is so much to appreciate”. This is the place we need to go and consistently bring the appreciation of all we see into focus, live it. There will always be “little things that may not feel great” and you approach these or look at these from the appreciation of everything that does feel great. In other words the foundation you stand on looks at everything differently. If we walk ourselves into a hole with our thoughts and then attempt to look out we can only see the hole. The thoughts that come will keep us in the hole but if first we remove ourselves from the hole then deal with the ‘how we got there’ from there. Appreciation will seal the hole and that way you will walk right over it.

        1. I love this Ray, ‘Appreciation will seal the hole ad that way you will walk right over it’. Beautiful.

321. “…the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God…” This is beautiful. How can it not be when our bodies belong to God?

322. I have observed how we are not given the tools for appreciation when we are young, so how to self-talk that is supportive, how to move that is loving, how to say no to what does not feel right, how to stand-up for truth. These tend to be things we come to learn later on as adults, and all the self help industry’s many offerings prove that we do actually want all of this and can feel the lack of them in our lives.

     1. Hello Shami and I agree, most if not all children will follow the lead in front of them. So it matters not what you say to them but more how you live around them. Have you ever noticed the patterns that are held in families through generations. So children watch everything, your every move you could say. This is the responsibility we all hold to the children around us. So as you say if we would like these “tools” available for children then we need to live them consistently and strongly so all can see and touch them. If we live appreciation then there is no need to give anyone anything, they will see it, feel it for themselves and live their way.

     2. Yes Shami – The search for love is over once we learn to appreciate the love we already are. Appreciation should be a subject at school!

        1. Absolutely Rachael. Subjects at school could be: Appreciation 101; True Expression; Science (The science of energy – everything is energy); History (karma: cause and effect of our choices that keeps repeating history instead of evolving ); Self-care; Relationships; . . . and the list could go on!

323. We all have this amazing power, the power of free-will.

324. Which has more power, self-criticism or self appreciate will depend greatly on the energy we are choosing, in other words the quality in which we are moving with presence or without presence will determine our thoughts and our choices.

325. Yes Rebecca, the every-day things are important and I love to do my house-work, as I can feel how supportive it is to have my house clean and orderly and free of clutter…. my body appreciates moving, sleeping and eating in the spaciousness I have created in my house.

326. Great to come back to this and be reminded of just how important the foundation of appreciation is. I find this is so supportive whenever the self doubt or criticism starts to creep in.

     1. Good point deborahmckay, I find that the moments I have any self-doubt (especially at work) these moments do not last long or I do not indulge, and this is because of the foundation of appreciation I have built which just kicks in, and kicks out those old thoughts of self-bashing.

     2. Hello Deborah and it is interesting that “the self doubt and criticism starts to creep in” and do they really creep in? I mean if there is a consistency of appreciation then it would seem there is little or no room for anything to ‘creep’ in. So could it be possible we invite them in buy not taking the next or deeper step into appreciation? If we are feeling life and walking into the continual unfoldment then there is no room for anything else. It is only when we stop to ‘rest’ or to be comfortable that we allow room for anything to enter. “Self doubt and criticism don’t come from us, they come to us and depending on where we stand we will answer them or not.

        1. Thank you Ray for your observation, wisdom and truth.

        2. Great thank you Deborah and now we can take this out, meaning to everything we do next. Life isn’t about paying mortgages, raising kids, holidays or mowing the lawn; these have importance in their own way but aren’t the drivers of who we are. We are deeply caring and loving beings that no matter what we are faced with are here to bring this to everything. So we merely need bring this to our next step, whatever you face next don’t just tick the box, dedicate everything to that moment like the next moment depended on it. Thanks again Deborah.

        3. Great point you make here Ray that indeed self doubt and criticism doesn’t just come out of the blue. An energy is invited in through any crack we may have and yes this distracts us for a while which delays our next point of evolution. All a trick for delay in which regular self appreciation is an antidote.

        4. Hello Donna thank you and I agree, it’s all about delay. We can run and hide for as long as we want but all roads lead back to how we are with everything. So build, create, travel etc for as long as it takes but the quality of how we do everything is where it’s at. Nothing can fill you up like the love that you naturally are: appreciation, great word and even better action.

327. A beautiful blog Jacqueline in the re-claiming and confirmation of the true you. I say yes, yes, yes to appreciation too on a daily basis, and if I feel myself going into the doldrums then I remind myself to appreciate that I found Serge Benhayon who reminded me of who I am and what I know, and that I am connected to all of those around me, and with the gift of appreciation I will not only go deeper with my own love but support others too. And thank you for sharing your most radiant picture, you are a sparkling example of a woman re-claimed.

     1. Hello Sandra and you can appreciate anyone or anything anywhere at anytime. You are equal to what you see or appreciate in someone else as well. So anything you appreciate in others first would need to be in you, otherwise you could never see it. I know this sounds strange but we can only see things to the level they are within ourselves, so if you are truly appreciating something then this level is within you already and your outward expression is just the confirmation of the same.

328. This is true Matilda after starting to self appreciate for quite a while I also have started to express my appreciation about myself self to other people. And this is not common in our society when somebody says this is a beautiful picture of you to respond “yes it is”. Or when somebody says I imagine you give great massage to say, “yes I do”. People react surprised when I do.

     1. And they are genuinely surprised Janina because it is not the normal response they are used to as it is very common for people to play themselves down whenever they are given a compliment. You are giving them a beauitful reflection that there is another way.

329. I have learnt the true value of Appreciation through Universal Medicine and all its teachings . It has shown me the way to love my self and appreciate everything to such a deeper level by choosing an honesty and integrity as a way of living. Appreciation is the key and a joy to have got to and brings a whole new meaning to life. It is ever expanding and real and this blog is beautiful in bringing the importance and responsibility of appreciation out into the world.

     1. To live with integrity and honesty as a way of living – now that way of living is something to appreciate for the awareness it brings us in our day to day interactions with people and the choices we make. This new awareness allows and supports us to let go of old habits and old ways that do not support or nourish our bodies, and as you say Tricia, this brings a whole new meaning to life; and the more we appreciate, the deeper our awareness becomes.

330. So appreciation is the restorer to balance that is so required in a critical and goal orientated world. If we do it more we can shift this socially entrenched pattern too, yes?

     1. Yes Matilda, I believe so, as ‘appreciation is the restorer to balance’. Wow powerful, but indeed true.

331. Once I made the shift from what I think is a commonly held belief that self-appreciation is somehow indulgent and selfish, it has been amazing to observe the changes in my life. Appreciation has become a key to opening myself up to the world and life and most importantly the power of taking responsibility for my choices.

     1. Hello Matilda and I’m glad you mentioned this about what we believe about appreciation. Still at times I hold an appreciation in for something that I see, it doesn’t just roll off my tongue. It is like the way I have lived to that point doesn’t always support what I feel. In other words it was like I was making a choice to hold it in before I had a sense I was actually making a choice, it was almost automatic, a default. Once I bought awareness to this consistently it began to change and instead of an automated ‘hold in’ I started to let some of it out and nothing ‘bad’ happened. It’s great to question our thoughts and not just believe they are us.

        1. Ray, thank you for explaining and sharing your experience of how you deal with beliefs about appreciation – I found it very helpful.

332. I have just been deeply appreciating myself today and that is thanks to the reminder I get from this blog. This is a quality that I have not truly and deeply felt within and for myself. But I have been purposefully building this into my day, appreciating, who I am, how I live, the qualities I bring to others.

333. Absolutely Rebecca. Appreciation is the antidote to self doubt, criticism and judgement – 3 things many of us go into immediately when things become challenging or a small mistake is made.

     1. And as women have strong self worth issues what is normal is “to self doubt, criticism and judgement ” then there is no room for appreciation. I have lived in that way myself for a long time and was able to change this step by step so that I am able today to appreciate who I am and what my qualities are, and am able to express my appreciation about myself and about other people. I do want to appreciate myself for this beautiful transformation, amazing.

     2. Hello Susie it is interesting to watch when our thoughts fail us. So when there is “self doubt, criticism and judgement” in the air what choices have we made just prior to that. These type of thoughts don’t just come from anywhere, they come on the back of a choice. I agree appreciation can change the way you look at any moment and if you are willing to build it consistently then it will be there when you ‘need’ it. Our thoughts are a reflection of how we are with ourselves in any moment and I would say if those 3 things are in your mind then it’s time to return to how you have and are moving in the world. If you have little care then your thoughts will run wild, if you have a deep care then you thoughts will lead you to appreciating. We have more say then we ‘think’ with our thoughts.

     3. So true Susie, appreciation – the sweetest medicine for all our ill ways; the self-bashing and the self-rejection.

     4. Yes Susie, appreciation is the grandest medicine for the soul.

     5. Such a beautiful and powerful truth Susie “Appreciation is the antidote to self doubt, criticism and judgement”.

     6. So, it is absolutely essential to have appreciation well established and utilised to the point of default, for when those undermining thoughts ‘weedle’ their way in. With appreciation as our platform they get very little airtime.

        1. Well said Matilda. Appreciation is the most solid foundation to fall back upon, and when things get tough or we make a not-so-smart decision, appreciation is the one thing that can stop us from going into self loathing, overwhelm or judgement.

     7. Correct Susie and being aware of those 3 things supports us to release them and not let them take control. It’s a fine balance. Calling in appreciation and making that my foundation is constantly unfolding for me.

     8. Spot on Susie you have nailed it this is exactly the game that is being played and when we let go of the self bashing and bring some understanding as to why things happened we can learn and appreciate who we are in the process.

     9. Love your comment Susie and also love your great addition Ray as you have outlined a great way to have full access to appreciation as when self-doubt, criticism and judgment have got in we have first to readjust our movements so that we can walk in the appreciation of ourselves to expand us back to our fullness as simply mouthing words of appreciation in the face of harsh judgments is not going to cut it.

334. Embodying appreciation is one of the best things we can do for ourselves, when we express how great we are, we are saying “I am bigger and more awesome than what you can see” this needs to be a way of life.

     1. Absolutely, harryjwhite. Appreciation is the path to all that we know to be true about ourselves but do not live.

     2. We do feel great when we appreciate ourselves which can gives us a real sense of just how amazing and awesome we are, and then there is no reliance on others and our ‘needs’, our expectations and our investments just drop away….

     3. Without a doubt Harry – it is the best medicine ever!

335. Appreciation allows us to be truly self loving as we accept ourselves as a whole- imperfections and all. In fact there are no imperfections but different ways of expression which we can always change as our awareness deepens. When we deeply appreciate ourselves it is felt by others and they then have choice to do the same or not. This is very powerful indeed. Thank you ,Jacqueline.

336. A gorgeous and powerful sharing Jacqueline. Thank you. I especially love your concluding paragraph and have to say I feel the same – thank you to the support of Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom.

337. Life’s rewards are more than monetary or material, they are felt in the quality of spaces between people. I’m learning to appreciate this each day.

     1. Simply gorgeous kehinde2012: ‘Life’s rewards are more than monetary or material, they are felt in the quality of spaces between people’. I agree, it is this intimacy and connection that changes the quality of the spaces shared between people. But I also feel this quality as something old and familiar.

     2. Oh how true Kehinde.

     3. I love the simple beauty and quality shared in your comment Kehinde.

     4. Beautifully said kehinde2012. . . I love this for it is in the quality of the spaces between us we can find true connection and unity.

338. I have to admit that even after all these years of attending Universal Medicine courses I still struggle with self appreciation, which really makes no sense as I do know better but still shows my lack of living it that results in falling back into old patterns. I do really appreciate the fact that I haven’t fallen back that far though.

     1. One of the fastest way to do better – being more harmonious and more loving in our life is to appreciate where we already are at. It gives us a platform for more.

        1. I agree Christoph, it has been my experience that self appreciation is not something we can do now and again, it is most effective when we are consistent with it on a daily basis.

        2. Beautifully said Christoph and a much needed daily reminder.

        3. Wishing wordpress had a love button here Christoph. You nailed it.

        4. Thank you Adam.

        5. Beautifully said Christoph, and thank you, as this is just what I needed to be reminded of, perfect timing.

     2. Hello Kevin and we only think we “struggle” when really it’s a living issue as you say. In other words if we deepen the way we live with ourselves, take more care consistently from experience this changes the way we look at the world. So you may say if there is a “struggle with self appreciation” then like anything you may need to learn or re learn it. Just like when you leant to ride a bike or similar, you had to be consistent and sometimes clumsy in the way you were with it. Appreciation is no different, you may feel uncomfortable, embarrassed or turn away from it but in the end it is our choice on how we are. In this I love how you ended your comment, appreciating now all that is needed is to consistently build on it.

        1. Exactly Ray, that is what appreciation is and does. It is the honouring where we are at and is creating new platforms, foundations to build further on. I too feel myself sometimes uncomfortable in the process of that building but when I then feel into my body I will always find my laid foundation that is there to support me and invites me to build further on.

        2. Hello Nico and I agree. Whatever the situation and whenever I am aware, appreciation is what I am looking to bring to everything. At times I find myself arguing with myself, knowing that appreciating will bring a balancing point to a situation but still holding an unwillingness to let go and do what is needed. Appreciation, it’s only the beginning.

        3. I can feel that too Ray, that appreciation is only the beginning as it confirms and build that inner connection with our soul that in time will become such that appreciation will be an integral part of it and will be delivered in anything that we are and do.

        4. Great Nico and very true. Appreciation as a living point of life and not something to think of to do. When we have life divided up into so many areas and roles it’s easy to get side tracked into doing this or that. Live with a consistent connection and trust to just ‘do the next part’ and let the rest fall into line thereafter, no need for concern just a firm dedication to see everything that is right in front of you.

        5. So true Ray, and thats is why we have to embody the love that we want to live, as until we have embodied a quality by truly living it, it will just be a concept from the mind, not a lived experience and with that we will use it to perform right, as a box to tick in our life.

        6. Great Nico and to “embody the love” we simply need to stop and wake to the fact that this is our natural state of being, love. So we need not go anywhere or make it some great mountain to climb when in fact if we were left alone to just be, naturally we would choose to be the love that we are. It would even be a choice, our next step would be with everything. So to live love fully we will only need to move everything else that we have identified that we are out of the way, unfold back to love and not chase an achievement.

        7. I love how you have described it Ray, that “if we were be left alone to just be, we naturally we would choose to be the love that we are” as being love is our natural state of being. This to me makes clear that we hold a reduced state of being in which achievements prevail above being love by the arrangements we have with the people we live with. There is our big learning, that we have to abandon that arrangements and have to transform these into true relationships in which is laid the commitment to evolve back to the love we all come from.

        8. Great Nico thank you and we do this through one moment at a time. The world has been created the same way in which you describe relationships with people. In other words every relationship we have is both important and at this point ‘arranged’. How is your relationship with Monday? Is it just a day that comes after Sunday and before Tuesday or does it just start your working week off or is it just another moment for you to bring the true quality of who you are to every moment. There are many relationships we need to do a ‘retake’ on with the most important being the relationship with yourself. Thanks again Nico.

     3. I agree KevmcH, it makes no sense, knowing the truth of our essence and where we are from – and instead of the possibility of appreciating this I come up against an avalanche of self-criticism instead. In a sense it highlights the destructive patterns we are constantly using against ourselves, and thus the possibility of seeing through them and choosing to let them go. Appreciation is the way to staying open and confirming our connection to the truth of who we are, and then the destructive thoughts and patterns no longer carry the same hold over us, as we do not live within them, but rather can see their menace and equally their impotence from a place of connection and power far greater than anything they can try to attack us with.

        1. I agree Annie. And I have found it helps hugely to get beneath the avalanche of self-criticism to feel and name what lies beneath – then the self-criticism no longer has a fertile ground in which its seeds can grow and flourish – there is just space and light.

     4. I can put my hand up for this as well Kevmchardy, however, I do truly appreciate the amazing changes I have made since attending Universal Medicine courses.

        1. I do to Tamara, I do have to remind myself to stop at times, think back to how I used to live and just shake my head in awe. At what i have learn, reconnected to, appreciating how i know treat, care and love myself. How little reaction I go into now, that was a huge one to let go of. But now I am deeply loving and share that with all.

     5. The willingness to be this honest and ‘real’ about life and our lives is the key to change. It means we are actually standing in front of reality and from there we can build and refine, rather than standing in front of an ever changing false facade that does not have any bricks and mortar to get a handle on. Thank you, Kevin.

     6. I have also had my share of two steps forward and one step back. But I do have an appreciation for things I no longer choose, things that are no longer needed have fallen by the way.

     7. And your honesty Kevmchardy is always appreciated. As Christoph says ‘being more harmonious and more loving in our life is to appreciate where we already are at. It gives us a platform for more’.

     8. Ha! Kevin, that made me smile because, like you, I have been indulging in old patterns, but I haven’t given up and won’t give up, not this time. I shall appreciate that fact and celebrate the changes that I have made so far and look forward to celebrating more in the years still to come.

     9. I certainly appreciate your ability to share yourself so honestly kevmchardy. Their is a realness in your comments that is always refreshing.

339. Two types of energy – prana and fire – and yes they can be tangibly felt. Much is made of the esoteric way – why the focus on clean eating, healthy sleeping patterns etc, and it would be easy to say it is just about good health. But it is in fact much more than that. It is about building a body that is receptive to feeling energy – an ability that is inherent within us all, but diminished by the way we go about the way we live.

     1. Absolutely Adam, we care for our body so that it becomes the vehicle of expression that works for God. God cannot work with a body that is dense and in tension and disharmony. And that’s the responsibility we all have, it’s not about eating healthily to diet and lose weight, exercising to gain time and muscle, but about us building our body full of love to do God’s work.

        1. The esoteric way of life is about building a body of love to house the soul.

     2. It was refreshing to hear and allow myself to feel the truth of prana and fire initially as it made sense and felt true. Thank God for Serge who plainly and directly without holding back shared this truth.

     3. Absolutely Adam, The Esoteric is about feeling what is the deepest part within us, and learning how we can live with that in the world. The deepest part within us, is energetically aware, knows the difference between what heals (fire) and what harms (prana)

     4. The discernment of energy is our greatest gift, yet it is largely ignored and even ridiculed as being “airy-fairy”, but it is a practical and easily reclaimed aspect of ourselves. All that is needed is a desire to do so, the choice to do so and trust that what we feel is true.

        1. Totally agree Naren, the discernment of energy is our greatest gift, and at one point in our evolvement this becomes more precious than our comforts, pleasures and/or addictions which just drop away.

        2. Indeed, Jacqueline. The ability to be able to tell for ourselves what is the most supportive choice in any situation, and given two paths, which is the way towards love, is a gift that leads us back to who we are.

        3. And in that there is the surrendering to the grander whole we are part of, that we are just vessels of energy designed to give expression of the fiery energy and that we have to work according to the bigger plan we are an integral part of.

        4. In that surrender there is an embodiment of that grandness, and a knowing that it is who we truly are. Surrender to this is far from a giving up or giving away of ourselves. It is stepping forward into our rightful place as co-creators.

        5. Absolutely Naren, it is a stepping forward into our rightful place, in fact it is a surrendering to our body as that is unmistakably part of the universal order and cannot else then adhere to the universal laws it belongs to. It is a letting go of our self created way of life and a surrendering to living a universal life and to become the universal men that lives in co-creation with the all we belong to.

        6. What you have painted here, Nico, is the struggle that we experience (resistance to surrendering to the fact that we are a part of the universe), and the glory that is there for us if we but choose it.

        7. Yes Naren, a life in glory is waiting for us and we only have to choose it and in that to let go of the investments we have in our creations of life.

        8. True, Nico. It is the things that we hang onto, which keep us from living that grand expansive glory that is who we are. Each thing we choose to not let go of is a weight that holds us back from being all that we are.

        9. Beautiful said Naren, that all what we hang on to puts a weight on us that is holding us back from who we naturally are. And in that that to me the only way to restore my natural way of being in all the grandness that it is, is to let completely go my self created way of living and al the investments I have in it and instead to surrender myself to a life in service of the greater plan, in connection with the Universe an with God.

        10. Indeed, Nico. And that letting go happens one step at a time as we honour and appreciate ourselves in the little things we claim as knowing our truth. Each one is a step on the path of greater connection with God.

        11. Thank you Naren for this beautiful conversation. I fully agree with you that honouring and appreciating ourselves in every step we make, confirming ourselves that we are part of a bigger plan and that every little step we make matters and is contributing to the whole or as you say to a greater connection with God. And in that I fully appreciate how beautiful life actually is if we live life in this awareness.

        12. Thank you too, Nico! I agree wholeheartedly, appreciating life’s beauty and ourselves as an inseparable part of that beauty is a step towards God.

        13. Yes indeed Naren – every day we walk on pathways glittering with God’s gifts – it is simply up to each of us to choose how we walk each day.

        14. Beautifully put Naren, I had an experience where by someone was telling one thing and I stated that I was feeling something totally different, and when I said to myself I know what I felt, there was a feeling of expansion in my body and for me it is that practise which gets us to trust our own feelings again. Especially as the world tells us one thing and we are constantly feeling something else.

        15. When we begin to trust the fact that we can feel what is going on, we get confirmed in that feeling by feeling more!

        16. This is a good point, Jaqueline and Naren, how we are trapped in ill pattterns, but then if we put focus on how aware and sensitive we naturally are this can support us to let go of our ill patterns, especially when we start to feel how much they harm us.

     5. And to expand on that, all of humanity will finally choose for a life dedicated to build that body of love as this we need to serve the plan of God we are all equally part of. We will let go of the pranic way of living, the life dictated by the spirit, that has brought us nothing than misery and trouble.

        1. Hear hear Nico,so true, finally we will have to let go of the pranic way of living. It has been a great read following your exchange of comments with Naren.

     6. That’s the thing with truth it is innate within us all and am finding more and more it feels great to express.

        1. Expressing truth may from time to time cause discomfort for those around us, but far better to express truth than bury it and then deal with the huge discomfort that occurs within.

     7. This has become the joy and power of responsibility. Another word, like appreciation, which has been transformed for me as I have allowed myself to open up to its true meaning.

        1. I agree Matilda. First came an understanding of how to appreciate myself and then others. From appreciation came a greater level of acceptance of who I truly am and with that came the responsibility of which I have as I walk here on earth.

     8. Absolutely brilliantly said Adam. It is the way we live in connection to and with fire or prana and so is the quality of our choices determined. Which determines the life we live and so the quality of life we have for ourselves. Thank God for Serge Benhayon for showing us the way and difference between living from fire and or prana.

340. I can really see how the world has not been designed to support a connection yet there are many reflections that remind me that it can be felt and read.

341. Sometimes I feel resistant to appreciation – doubts get in the way, or I take things for granted – when this happens there’s hardness in my body, like I am pulling my self against what I am naturally gravitating towards. It’s so obvious it’s such a hard work to go against surrendering.

342. Yes it’s so true there is an epidemic of low self worth amongst women and men. And it’s time we all took responsibility for this to change.

343. I appreciate that I now accept all of me unconditionally, my life and my choices. There is no longer a sense of needing to be someone, somewhere or wanting this or that. With each new day I simply appreciate myself, where I am and am thankful. This brings a beautiful simplicity to life.

     1. Kehinde, this no longer needing to be some-one, no longer a need to be recognised for what you do, or needing to be somewhere…my pushy needs have just dropped away with my acceptance and understanding of my past choices -now no longer about self but about service, makes life incredible simple indeed and the support is incredible.

        1. ‘now no longer about self but about service, makes life incredible simple indeed and the support is incredible’ Beautiful expressed Jacqui and with it comes a quiet acceptance of our responsibility.

344. The other day I had a moment of appreciating how I no longer needed to go away on holiday in the conventional sense of the word, for rest and replenishment. I realised that the way I live my life day by day brings rests and replenishes me, I don’t have to go away for this. I still enjoy holidays and travelling and when I do, I take all of me with me, I’m not running away from me, stresses and strains.

345. How can we live to appreciate in very practical ways? Because as long as appreciation is a concept of learned knowledge, it will not be a living way. For myself, an important part of learning to appreciate myself is through the choice of thoughts that I allow to be in my mind. This has become a very practical exercise in self-discipline which always gives my body a chance to rest because it is no longer being attacked from the inside.

346. It is only when we appreciate who we are in truth can more be revealed to us. We therefore have a responsibility to appreciate ourselves because the world needs all of us in the absolute fullness of our being.

     1. Gorgeous Elizabeth and I absolutely agree on both points.

347. Committed to life. Committed to service. You don’t hear these words very often without religion being mentioned of course. Universal Medicine is inspiring people around the world to commit to life – to heal the hurts and stuff that stops us from engaging and committing to life and wants us to withdraw and from that foundation to get in and amongst the community to serve. It is what we are meant to do. We are not a self-service machine, we are here to serve our fellow people.

     1. Well said Sarah – service coming from a true place of connection with ourselves means that there is no self-sacrificing involved which in the end only builds resentment whereas when we come from that foundation of love and appreciation for ourselves first the willingness to serve others naturally flows.

        1. Really great point Deborah. There is either self in what we offer or there is not. And this has been coming up in my face very strongly lately.

348. Appreciation is a medicine that has changed my life in so many ways. The world is constantly focused on nit picking at what is wrong or how we can be better or fill the gaps to reach our goals. But sitting back, writing down, going for a walk or making the bed, expressing what is already supportive in our lives, our choices that are truly good, is worth gold. At first it can appear that there is nothing to appreciate and when I feel flat it can appear as if the whole world supports that perception that there is nothing to appreciate, but that’s a lie. Now everyday I know there is something to appreciate, a choice I have made, a situation I find myself in through my choices, the messages my body provides and my responses to those messages. So much to appreciate and it never ends! That is worth appreciating.

349. Appreciating – ourselves and also others – is so important in life. I am using it to counter my old habit of self criticism, to good effect! When I catch myself being hard on myself I am now appreciating something about myself.

350. That is a fridge magnet waiting to happen Julie. “appreciation for ourselves brings such a feeling of contentment that objects and situations outside of ourselves will never be able to deliver.” I love it!

351. Appreciation for me, feels like the antidote to lack of self-worth.

352. “This loving nourishment flows into to all areas of my life. Thus I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it.” To exercise appreciation more within my life has been miraculous and it feels like new pathways of love are opening up and flowing to and from my heart.

     1. Irena, I can deeply appreciate how I am co-creating all the support that effortless comes my way. Yesterday as I was approaching my dentist ( for a root canal treatment and feeling a little nervous) a white feather floated right in front of me and landed at my feet, which I picked up. Before I sat on the chair, the assistant left and came back with a cushion/mat the length of the chair and a soft headpiece, I was well impressed. When treatment began I got a real sense that I was in ‘good hands’, and that everything was already taken care off. Yes I am worth support, I accept all the support there is for me as this supports me to deeply appreciate all that I am and all that I bring.

        1. That is deeply beautiful jacqmcfadden04, what you have shared about the white feather. It is natural to feel a bit nervous before a visit like that, but there was the grace of the white feather from your soul and God. How delicate and strengthening, all at once.

353. Perspective is a blessing Brendan. I appreciate that you have the care and understanding to exercise this quality with humanity, as this diminishes the ‘self’ and honors the ‘other’.

354. I love what you share about the importance you place now on relationships, I notice the same. For me relationships and people are the most important ingredient of my life, and with that, also the deepening of my own relationship.

355. I love this point of understanding you have come to Jacqueline and share with us all. It feels very very beautiful that to the point of deep appreciation you hold yourself with such love that you do not even regret, judge or dismiss the past choices you have made that may not have been so wise or so loving. This is a learning for us all, thank you.

356. “I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live.” This is such a beautiful line, what i love about it is, there is no push or expectation that we need to help, assist, convert, anything for anyone. It is in us making choices for ourselves, taking responsibility for that and then living that. This is what people see and feel, which is amazing.

357. ‘I can appreciate the fact that, for as long as I can remember, I have been looking for this wisdom, knowing deep within me there was another way to live, another way to be that would initiate my path of return.’
     Yes, Jacqueline, I knew that the never-ending search for me was over when I met Serge Benhayon and the Ageless Wisdom he presents, and experienced the absolute joy (also challenging at times) of developing that true connection within myself. I am in absolute appreciation of coming back to love, back to me..

358. Appreciation is the glue that holds it all together, the work, the consistency, humanity – it means we can see where we’ve come from and where we are going to.

359. I had a conversation the other day with a new friend about appreciation. I asked him if he could appreciate ten things about himself. It is quite a challenging thing to do and one I am only beginning to be able to manage. It is so often easier to see qualities in others yet it is a beautiful thing to appreciate ourselves as instantly I can feel that makes me gentler and easier to be around.

360. The deeper your ability to appreciate the deeper your ability to open up to life.

     1. Love you wise words here Adam.

361. ” Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy.”- Yes, since having learnt that there are indeed 2 forms of energy to align to- prana or fire, my life has changed from being unaware to having more understanding and clarity re events happening in my life. With consistency and self responsibility I am learning to live from my true essence, and align to the energy of fire.

362. I can’t be reminded enough about appreciation, appreciation, appreciation as I do know there is so much in my life to appreciate but still the doubts and niggles come in through unsuspecting gaps forcing appreciation out the window until I read a blog like this and the gaps seal and the appreciation then has room to grow once again.

     1. Yes Jane,’ true nourishmen’t for our bodies: appreciation.

     2. Right with you Kevmchardy. I too often need a gentle appreciation-slap-around-the-face!!

        1. Hello Kevin and Otto and if as we know we treat ‘appreciation’ as an unfolding path. In other words it has no end and so we never slip from it but more keep opening up the way forward. So if we start appreciating and then let it go, yes we could say ‘I tried it but then couldn’t be bothered’ etc or we could look at it as forever unfolding. So when you step on a part of appreciation you never fall back but merely have not taken the next step. It feels our thoughts around appreciation are many and varied and it’s possibly it we say no to the thoughts and consistently unfold the appreciation no matter where you stand then at some point the appreciation in your way will be larger then any thought. Appreciation can be in any moment, no matter big all small we just need to be able to see it.

     3. I read your comment kevmchardy, and it’s like a new mantra, these 3 words in the title;
        Appreciation, Appreciation, Appreciation, and a great mantra to use as soon as we go into self-bashing or self-doubt, – I had a big dose of self-doubt at work yesterday. Taking this mantra to work today…

363. What I get from this blog and all the comments here is that appreciation feels like a posture in which we observe life, and it is not asking us to be in a certain way or live a certain life style in order for us to go ‘yes, now it is worth appreciating’. So it keeps inviting more to unfold.

     1. Gorgeous Fumiyo!

364. What I get from this blog and all the comments here is that appreciation feels like a posture in which we observe life, and it is not asking us to be in a certain way or live a certain life style in order for us to go ‘yes, now it is worth appreciating’.

365. I keep returning to your blog Jacqueline as I am wanting to deepen my understanding and expression of appreciation; both to myself and to others.
     Your blog is a beautiful foundation and springboard for this to happen.

366. I wanted to write in support of this blog and particularly this line – “the more I nourished from honesty, the more certain foods dropped away, and my body shape changed to express more of my true beauty and my true essence.”This is so so so true, the more I also nourished my body and myself, the more certain foods/addictions dropped away. Ones that I had struggled with for years to ‘give up’ – ciggies, drinking, caffiene and also other sets of behaviours as well. Love and self-care is the answer – not working? up the dose 😉

367. Appreciation is a form of medicine that is totally underestimated. I would be as bold to state that our borders would slowly disappear if we would foster a culture of appreciation on a global scale. I feel my personal borders melt, when I appreciate.

     1. Beautifully said Felix. Appreciation does melt whatever can stand or is emotionally put up between people. When appreciation is offered lovingly to ourselves and we accept this as a true loving way of being, then it is natural to share this appreciation towards others – a innate flow-on as we understand that it is to be shared. Not because we should but because its totally natural to live this way – a snowball effect.

     2. Dear Felix, I love the way your borders are melting through appreciation and how you present that our global borders will melt one by one as we foster a culture of appreciation. This inspiring truth is a key way forward in bringing Brotherhood on earth ‘as we all come from the one same Source’!

     3. And this medicine does not cost anything, only the willingness to ‘feel’ who we truly are and all that we bring.

        1. The best medicine ever, appreciation.

     4. I love what you have shared felicschumacher8 – appreciation is a form of medicine! Imagine it would not only melt borders it would also melt the costs in our health care system . . .

        1. It would indeed melt the huge costs of our health care system esteraltmiks, along with melting anything that is hard; the borders between religions, between countries, between the have and the have nots and the borders between men and women, teacher and/or parent and child…melting the borders between mothers and sons and fathers and daughters.

     5. Felix I love that ‘Appreciation is a form of medicine that is totally underestimated. I would be as bold to state that our borders would slowly disappear if we would foster a culture of appreciation on a global scale. I feel my personal borders melt, when I appreciate’. When we appreciate ourselves then we are infact appreciating all things as we are made of all things. We come from the borderless reality of all things.

368. It is awesome to appreciate when we have friendships opening up in our lives. But we also need to appreciate the changes and opening in ourselves that has pulled those relationships to us. We get back what we put out, so much to appreciate in ourselves and others.

369. Beautiful Jacqueline, this inspires me to feel the deep appreciation that is inside for who I am and that what I have chosen to this moment has supported me in being where I am now, which is truly beautiful when I openly and honestly look at it without any preconceptions or ideals of where I should be right now. What I have chosen will only present the next step, and then again it is my choice to take that step or stay in comfort. Chosing Fire or Prana, Soul or spirit, it is all so simple.

     1. Thank you Benkt, and yes there is always a next step… and we each have a choice to take that step or stay in comfort, although I have found some steps easier to make than others. With the more challenging steps, I always seek for support.

370. Appreciation feels so lovely in the body – like a warm bath or a hug. It is a moment to stop and feel the fullness of whatever is there, establishing a platform from which our next steps can be taken.

371. When we bring appreciation in as our focus and as our first thoughts then our day starts off in way that is supportive to be all of who we are. Keeping this consistent and truly seeing what we bring and the enormity of just being us and how gorgeous this is Gold – Being able to enjoy ourselves and others in a quality that is equal and needless.

     1. Appreciation opens the door to equality and as you say starts with ourselves. The only problem being once you introduce appreciation, you have no problems, and hence no excuses to not enjoy all that each day brings.

372. I love reading this powerful blog. Yes my body loves it when I am honest when I admitted that I had disregarded and abused myself with thoughts, etc., my body then began to heal and self-nurturing became a whole lot easier.

     1. I agree Shelley, I have recently been observing my thoughts and have discovered that even the hint of self criticism or feeling slightly disappointed with myself is still self abuse; previously I was letting these thoughts go unchallenged but now I see them for what they are.

373. Appreciation is a dear friend of self-love I feel. It just keeps expanding and growing to then touch (inspire) all those that we meet. Could this be another key to unlock some of those long held destructive patterns that can be over critical, find fault, abuse and keep our natural love at bay?

     1. “Appreciation is a dear friend of self-love I feel” I so agree Aarion I love that line.
        Appreciation and self-love supports me to look at the positives and expand and develop them as we know what we focus on grows.

374. Jacqueline this sentence got me: “Thus I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it.” It showed without a doubt that there is a support and that it is our choice if we let it in or not.

     1. How our mind can trick us that we have to do everything on our own instead when we live acknowledging we are so much more and living in the appreciation of who we are the support is felt plus we feel we are worth asking for support. The moment I am not aligned life gets very lonely although whether we choose to feel it or not we never are left alone.

        1. I so relate to this Annelies, the moment I am not aligned life can feel very lonely, however, appreciating ourselves cuts through the energy of the illusion that we are alone because it is how we access the exact support we need in any given situation.

        2. Jenny, Thats a good point, it has a lot to do with letting go of control, then true support can be recognised and come towards us.

     2. Ester, I always had difficulty in the past asking for support (especially when I was aligned to spirit), in fact it did not even cross my mind! I can feel now how by developing appreciation this allows and opens the gates to so much support, in other words, all the love we can handle.

        1. Appreciation is saying YES to that which supports us and opens us up to receive even more.

        2. Such gorgeous simplicity – letting go of control and allowing all that supports us to be there opens the flood gates for more.

        3. I can exactly relate to what you have shared jacqmcfadden04 – when I was in this drive asking for support was not even possible as ” in fact it did not even cross my mind!” So I had to break down this veil in my mind. I did it in having first more understanding for myself and with that more appreciation came. Nowadays I am much more aware of asking for support and that made my life so much easier – as you also so beautiful describe in your awesome blog.

        4. This is really great jacqueline, ‘I can feel now how by developing appreciation this allows and opens the gates to so much support, in other words, all the love we can handle.’

375. “Appreciation: I can feel the power this word emanates.” I too can feel the power “Appreciation,” emanates and for that it holds such truth for all. It brings us back to self love and from that inspiration expands for humanity. Awesome.

     1. Appreciation has become a way of self -reflection and celebration of all of who I am and the world around me too . As mentioned earlier there are times it makes me squirm and wriggle but the honesty this allows for within me and within our relationships is profound. Thanks Jacqueline.

        1. I have found it most revealing how much I wriggle and squirm to find things to appreciate about myself – how crazy is that considering I am a child of God? What happened to make me so blinded to that truth?

        2. I find new things to appreciate often, this is in stark contrast to how I felt a few years ago, when I used to struggle with this. I now appreciate so much that I am not in the dungeon of self loathing that I used to be in. I appreciate that I had the wisdom to seek healing, I appreciate that I have the commitment to keep on healing….. See – you can’t stop me appreciating everything now!

     2. It is so powerful yet so underrated for what support it offers. Appreciation should be taught from young.

        1. Absolutely Johanna, appreciation should be taught from young so it becomes the norm for us all to appreciate ourselves.

376. Thank you Jacqueline, this is such a powerful account of the power of saying yes to being more of who we are by way of appreciation and confirmation of our innate qualities and the reflection that we offer to others.

     1. I love how when we say yes to being more of who we are we can allow others to do the same.

377. You are exposing how being spiritual is just a glamorized thing leading nowhere and the thing is to realise there is a greater light within which is our soul that is forever waiting to be expressed through our bodies.

378. This line stands out for me..”I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.” – I have found the same, yet also found that part of me, wriggle and squirms and tried to pretend otherwise!

     1. It always strikes me as strange how I can work so hard to deny what my body is so clearly telling me. All it take sometimes is a “but what if…” and the once-clear as day message from my body is obscured by a fog of doubt. But when I get really honest with myself, as this line points out, my body lights up and it is undeniable in its alignment to the truth.

        1. Naren, I love how our bodies so easily communicate with us when we are honest and remain open and ready to listen, it’s as you say, ‘my body lights up and it is undeniable in its alignment to the truth’.

     2. Oh Yes Joel I know exactly about what your are talking: “I have found the same, yet also found that part of me, wriggle and squirms and tried to pretend otherwise!” as I know this too – it is so powerful to be so honest – perhaps it is not so easy to live with all this power and responsibility.

        1. Well spotted Esteraltmiks.

     3. Completely agree. The honesty is refreshing and allows a freedom to be there. At times for me it also feels quite bold but necessary.

379. Yesterday at work I received an email expressing such spontaneous appreciation for something I had done – from the most unexpected of sources. It was clear to me that this had happened because I have been working every day on appreciating myself and that the energy of self-appreciation has started to offer others the opportunity to express in a like manner. As a result I was able to see very simply how if we want to truly nurture our relationships, both with ourselves and with others, then appreciation is key – and that this is at the heart of many other issues in many an organisation.

     1. This is great Richard and a testimony to you and how you are with yourself and others. I see a distinct lack of appreciation by people of themselves in workplaces, with a constant striving to be better, and leads to a criticism of others to do the same. Appreciation is the key and it has to start with appreciation of ourselves first.

     2. That is awesome, Richard. What a confirmation that the appreciation we give to ourselves opens the door to that appreciation being felt by others.

     3. I loved what you shared Richard and just shows how when we appreciate ourselves it has a boom-a-rang effect coming back to confirm and support us as we continue to develop our appreciation. As Tricia beautifully expressed; Appreciation is key in life.

     4. Well said Richard, I have also had this experience of having appreciation come from the most unlikely source whilst at work, and like you have said it has to start with yourself first and gives others the opportunity to express in a like manner. How different our work places would be if we simply appreciated ourselves more.

     5. I never thought of it as an energy, but come to think of it, no wonder it feels so powerful.

     6. How true this is Richard. It seems to be the one major thing we constantly pine for in the workplace, to be appreciated for what we do. You have proven with your example that it pays to just start by appreciating yourself for who you are and you will naturally start appreciating those around you and in turn they will eventually follow suit.

     7. Your Sharing Richard has reminded me of several meetings I had to attend after work yesterday. Each person was giving their time freely to discuss ways forward with particular issues that had arisen. After the meetings I sent each one an email sharing how much I had appreciated their patience and input. Maybe not so long ago I would just have been grumpy about having to go to the meetings in the first place. I can see how appreciation of myself has led me to this place of being so openly able to appreciate others.

        1. Beautiful Debra.

        2. And there it is, Debra. A lived example of the transformations that occur when we appreciate. I note that appreciation seems to make space to do things like write appreciative emails to colleagues etc. Is that simply space that used to be taken up by the opposite: critical mental chatterings that kept me isolated in my own bubble?

        3. Gorgeous Debra, a shinning example of the ripple effect of appreciating ourselves in how easily it is then to appreciate others and all they bring.

     8. Yes Richard the flow on effect from our own self appreciation is a beautiful reflection for all. Thank you.

380. I could read this blog every day as a reminder of the importance and joy of appreciation thank you Jacqueline. It is the real key to life as we are all beautiful amazing beings and if we honoured and lived this the world would be a very different place.

     1. Beautifully said Tricia, appreciation for me has been the missing key all along. Developing appreciation in my life has been a powerful process and has deepened the relationship with myself and with others in amazing ways.

        1. I feel that too Anna, and there is no end to the depth.

     2. Beautifully expressed Tricia, the key to life; appreciation which unlocks all the doors within to our innate beauty and wisdom and there is no end.

        1. Appreciation is beauty unfolding.

     3. I imagine it being exercised in schools everyday. How the children would thrive and grow in confidence.

     4. I agree the world is becoming a different place, and as more of us reclaim our self worth and it becomes more natural to embrace our love, we will all adore life even more

     5. I agree the world is becoming a different place, and as more of us reclaim our self worth and it becomes more natural to embrace our love, we will all adore life to the fullest, with all of ourselves in it.

     6. Isn’t that just it Tricia. As you say if we ‘honoured and lived the beautiful amazing beings’ that we actually are, rather than constantly bag ourselves and others out then yes indeed the world would be a different place because we would make it so.

     7. Me too Tricia. I keep coming back to it. It’s great to be reminded of the power of appreciation, because it’s not yet something I do very naturally, but when I do, I feel the tremendous benefits and the ripple effect it has on others.

     8. I agree, it is lovely to read and really inspiring, helping me see other areas to appreciate.

381. We are all responsible for our choices, the way we live and what we put into our mouths is reflected to all, this means the responsibility we have to others is as grand as the responsibility we have for ourselves. We are all one we reflect of one another, we are either healing or harming ourselves and humanity.

     1. Exactly it is the case that we are harming or healing in every step. It makes sense that we are needing to be responsible for everything we do.

382. This is a beautiful and powerful post to read, appreciation is so powerful. For me there is a holding back a lack of truly claiming and appreciating just how far I have come, maybe a resistance to the depth I actually appreciate myself for me to feel into.

     1. Awesome revelation Margaret, I’d go so far as to say a world epidemic.

        1. It is indeed an epidemic, I find introducing the concept to women who are unaware of its benefits, a huge task. The resistance to this is incredible, and such a waste of our mental energy to focus on what’s wrong with us, rather than claim and reinforce how awesome we are.

383. Before Universal Medicine I lived in a way that was about ‘getting ahead’, which meant that there was always a looking outwards and that constant look out was never going to leave space for anything else, which it never did. The getting ahead was me being in my head, which left my body vacant to all the ways it would try and catch up to my head. These days it is the total opposite, having the body in sync with the head with no strive to be ahead of anything, just inline and present.

     1. It is very exhausting and easy to slip into letting our minds run the show especially when we feel overwhelmed, stressed or pressured by time. Universal Medicine has taught me simple techniques like feeling my feet connect with and rise from the ground when I walk and the Gentle Breath Meditation, which now assist me to reconnect with my body.

     2. Yes and it leads to overwhelm.

     3. Your comment is a great reminder of life before Universal Medicine Matthew. Just sitting here pondering on how my life was and were it was heading all I can say is thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I’m not sure what state my body would be in without me learning to love myself and consciously being present in my body and appreciating just how far have come as far as self-love, self-care and expressing from my essence. I deeply appreciate all that has been presented by Universal Medicine and the loving nurturing changes I have chosen to make in my life as a result of learning to feel what my body present to me.

     4. Yes me too Matthew, I too am now only focused on looking inwards and being the amazing woman I am, it’s incredible. I am learning to appreciate every single thing I do, I am learning to let go of patterns that don’t serve me, it’s awesome seeing the difference in how I used to be, to the awesome person I am today, ever growing and developing more ways to love myself.

        1. Felicity it is no small thing to be able to say what you have ‘ I am learning to appreciate every single thing I do, I am learning to let go of patterns that don’t serve me, it’s awesome seeing the difference in how I used to be, to the awesome person I am today, ever growing and developing more ways to love myself’. Felicity your relationship with yourself feels beautiful and bountiful and for most people unfortunately it feels like an impossibility and so for you to be walking around within your community and reflecting this, is nothing short of miraculous.

     5. Amazing to be doing it Ariana. Even more amazing to be appreciating it.

     6. Yes I can relate. I also did the same Matt and now today live true to my heart and body – a very different way of being that I feel the rewards of everyday.

     7. Hello Ariana and we can see how ingrained it would seem the ‘walk away’ is from appreciation. All the more reason to bring more awareness to it. If there is one thing that I have seen over and over again is the fact that the world is upside down. In other words everything I thought about myself and the world that never made sense anyway made sense when I turned it around. Universal Medicine supported the turned around and still does. I chased the world outside when everything I needed was inside, appreciation is a key.

     8. Hello Matthew, I would say that before Universal Medicine, the deep care I naturally had was going the wrong way. I was trying to care about everything around me, the outside, without bringing that deep care to myself, the inside. My life was complicated and heavy as I was trying to get to everything I could see needed that care. Universal Medicine didn’t necessarily turn my life around it more turned my life within. Meaning that anything I ‘want’ the world to be I need first to nail myself. That way no matter what I did, drive the car, have a conversation or work in a factory the care I had bought to myself was with me. Essentially I was everywhere or that deep care was everywhere, all the time. Before Universal Medicine I was trying to bring care everywhere and now I do, naturally, with everything and what’s more it’s done with the ease of just taking a step.

        1. I can relate with what you share here Ray, I too was caring for all outside and around, whilst neglecting caring for myself, the inside. It did not work, and was very draining, so now I care for myself first, and take this with me, which inspires others to care for themselves.

        2. Hello Lorraine and while some may see this as selfish or self indulgent, we know that this is how it needs to be. Not from reading it in a book but from living both ways, a living lesson of life. You can only give the care to something that has first been bought to yourself. It’s not about locking yourself away either or being exclusive. It’s about every day, every moment taking the natural deep care we are, with everything. Take this depth of care in this way and then everything else has the same care equally, makes sense really. Take care of everything else and neglect yourself, it may look better at this point, but it has a used by date. Take deep care with yourself and everything you do and it just keeps growing and there is no limit.

384. Jacqueline I have returned to your beautiful blog because I have been feeling such a deep appreciation for myself and my life at the moment and it is very powerful. This part really resonates with me ‘I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.’ Simplicity is Heavenly. 🙂

385. Jacqueline, I have a deeper appreciation of the power of appreciation after reading your lovely blog.

386. I love the way that you have claimed that there is so much appreciation in you – “I can feel appreciation oozing from my body because there is so much to appreciate”. Normally people have anger, frustration, sadness etc oozing from their body, it is a welcome change to hear of someone who has appreciation oozing from her body.

     1. Haha, I never heard that from anyone before and must say that I am not oozing appreciation just yet, but I am so much inspired and dedicated to feeling the same in me, hence deepening the appreciation for myself asap.

     2. I really appreciate you highlighting this Elizabeth. It is such a beautiful reminder to me to simply appreciate where I am and feel the loveliness of my body. Appreciating the what is not oozing from my body is opening up more space to appreciate what is actually in my body and the choice I have to allow this to ooze out deliciously and playfully.

387. Today I am feeling deep appreciation, how life has been allowing me to clear my past karma in my every movement and to be able to rebuild with true love and my true essence I feel now. It is not easy as lots of old pillars are being taken down, but in truth to truly build a new foundation the old has to go to create space for the new. At first you can feel the anxiousness, but as I connected to my inner self, the anxiousness just went, it was very clear that the energy is gone and the new energy will flow.

388. “Appreciation: I can feel the power this word emanates… and I can feel appreciation oozing from my body because there is so much to appreciate.” Today we heard some news that one of our staff was leaving, it brought a sad feeling, to be loosing a good staff to another business. However when she shared that she would not have got her ideal job she always wanted, if it was not for the experience she got with us. In that moment it was great to just connect, feel and appreciate actually we have done a great job in training her to where she is, so she can progress into her dream career. It was a moment of appreciate for both myself and my husband.

389. I can imagine Brendan, and indeed beautiful to appreciate.

390. You write that “I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit” and it touched me deeply. What a list and reflecting on my inventory the need to rush and comply came to mind as the biggest obstacles to my connection with my Soul. A work in progress but even the initial steps have already made such a huge difference.

     1. In a conversation these days a friend and I realized how much everything that keeps us from stillness – the rushing and pushing, the trying and complying – is an obstacle to the connection with Soul. As these behaviours are considered to be quite normal in our busy lives it takes a while to reduce and finally let go of them, but as you say with every step taken the change is felt instantly.

391. Such a beautifully sweet blog Jacqueline, thank you, It is a beautiful space to be in, to be able to look back with understanding on the choices made and not criticise or condemn but to feel the freedom to choose from love. This I really appreciate.

392. I feel such a delightful sweetness in my body reading this Jacqueline. I too have been enjoying the tangible power of appreciation and how it truly supports my foundation in each and everyday. It’s huge, thank you for this delicateness.

393. Jacqueline, I just wanted to re-read this blog today and it’s been a treasure to do so. The thing I could feel today is how it all begins with what we align to, and until we address that we are in the mire and anything we do is just temporary, a relief or panacea, but not truly addressing the root cause. You give a perfect example ‘ The more I nourished from honesty (instead of contraction), the more certain foods dropped away, and my body shape changed to express more of my true beauty and my true essence.’ – this deeply resonated, so if I nourish from contraction, in other words if I do not look at what energy I’ve aligned to and is running my body then I am in the yo-yo of taking steps to nourish but falling back, and I know this well.
     So in fact it’s about that alignment: if I choose to connect back to my soul, to the essence I am, then I can nourish from that honesty, from that connection, and you’re right, things fall away, there is no losing with letting them go as I can feel how much more loving and supportive it feels for my body. This is pure gold, thank you for expanding my understanding of what it is to nurture and how it’s all about energy in very simple and specific ways.

394. I could read this blog every day as a reminder of the importance and joy of appreciation thank you Jacqueline it is the real key to life as we are all beautiful amazing beings and if we honoured and lived this the world would be a very different place.

395. I have experienced too that the power of appreciation is huge and very very expansive! It has many ripple effects into all areas of life and is indeed ‘very beautiful to feel’.

     1. Angela I can relate to that too, lately I have had so much ripple effects in areas of my life with the power of appreciation. It has be huge for me.

396. Good point Brendan, it feels to me it can be so easy to appreciate others, but in fact we do have to allow others to appreciate us, which is a confirmation that we are appreciating ourselves and all that we bring…

397. I agree Rebecca – i find it amazing how so many people, myself included, can have amazing lives, or friends or days or moments, and yet we don’t always appreciate them. We miss out on so much when we don’t appreciate.

     1. Very true Rebecca. We could have amazing lives but what are they without appreciation of the fact? More so, appreciation expands our awareness of the amazingness too and this is key to true change.

        1. I agree Richard, an amazing life or amazing moments can pass us by if we don’t stop to appreciate them, and often our full lives can feel empty if there is no appreciation.

     2. This is a fantastic point, we can have the most amazing life and absolutely everything we’ve ever wanted but not fully appreciate it. Reading your comment made me wonder if there’s a link between learning to appreciate and stopping that constant seeking-for-something-more-feeling. Because when we deeply appreciate our lives I find that yearning for more quickly ends.

        1. A very good point Meg – the constant seeking so many have, better phone, better technology, more money, better house, more friends, better social life. And yet, what of we appreciated what we have – not just the material things but also the quality of our life – the kinds of friendships we have, our relationships with our family, and with ourselves. When we can appreciate all we have we won’t want to much.

        2. I think worse still we often want to improve ourselves. But I agree, I think appreciation is way more powerful than we give it credit for!

        3. ah yes – thats so true, the fact we feel we need to change, be better than or more than we are – like you say it is worse, simply because believing that you aren’t right as who you are is devastating and no amount of self change will make you truly love yourselves, and thats where appreciation comes in – perhaps the only thing that can help you begin to see that all that you are is all that you need to be.

     3. I agree Rebecca. Not appreciating is like walking a path from A to B looking down, just focussed on getting to the end point rather than all there is to experience along the way. There is no outcome in appreciation, just love in that moment, felt deeply in that moment. For me it also brings alive the details of life, all the many little things that make up the wonder of life.

        1. I agree Fiona – the saying live in the moment should be appreciate in the moment, because that’s what makes us truly experience and value and feel the depth of what we have everyday.

     4. I agree, sometimes it does start with not immediately dismissing someone when they express to you something – how lovely you look, how amazing you are with people, or how much they appreciate you. Actually listening to the compliment, if it’s genuine can be a great starting point to then appreciate yourself.

398. There is no place appreciation cannot come, wrap its arms around, a give a warm heartfelt hug to. It is like an alternative language we have all forgotten we can speak. Like suddenly realising one day you are a German who has been speaking French all day – we can actually change and choose to make appreciation our way. I feel like the greatest way of expressing my appreciation for this blog and what you say Jaqueline is to live this appreciation in my life.

     1. A new common language of appreciation Joseph Barker. What an awesome possibility.

399. Thank you for starting this conversation on appreciation Jacqueline! Its great to be reminded that there is much to appreciate in this world and in ourselves that sometimes gets covered by “dust” that needs our attention to clarify what is underneath it. I have been reminded of so much from the wonderful comments too.

400. Appreciation was never a part of my life growing up, I was more familiar with putting myself down. I am also learning the importance and magnificence of appreciating myself first then appreciating others as well. It has been an absolute game changer for me and the more I commit to appreciating the more I notice there is to appreciate – it truly is limitless.

     1. This is my experience to Anna, the more I appreciate, the more there is too appreciate, even in the smallest of things, aha, I just realised that when I appreciate the ‘details’ of things, or just simply how things have flowed smoothly for me, this increases my awareness – this does feel true that; Appreciation increases our awareness…..

        1. Correct, and also appreciation increases the level of love by creating more space in our bodies through the appreciation of our own qualities and reflections we offer to the world.

401. “Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy.” This is one of the greatest things to understand. In its simplicity it helps explain how and why the world is in the state that it is today. It also helps us understand why we often don’t appreciate ourselves and others, when there is naturally much to appreciate.

     1. So true David, this line explains all our choices and all the choices made by humanity, and when in this energy ( the alignment to spirit) appreciation is a quality that is difficult if not impossible to express, because life is so complicated and truly very serious!

        1. Ah the trap of being stuck trying hard to get out without changing the quality of energy behind how we are living. I know it well. Growing up in my teenage years this was not my common awareness, yet this understanding if presented throughout our education and home life would allow us to truly make choices and would change everything. It is therefore no wonder that appreciation is so infrequent in our world when by the nature of how we are living, it’s difficult to even feel appreciation for more than a few fleeting moments.

402. Appreciation is not something we are brought up with and we crave it by looking outside, for a response from others. True appreciation starts within, appreciating ourselves first, then, as Sandra says, it comes back at us by way of reflection from everything around (God).

     1. Beautifully said Carmel and so very true.

403. Such an inspiration to read Jacqueline and a joy to come back to.
     I love how you appreciate everything about yourself and the lessons you learn from hurts and challenges. What you have written here is very beautiful;
     “Yes, I can deeply appreciate how far I have come, and where I am going, and say YES to all that my Soul lays before me”.

404. ‘I can deeply appreciate how far I have come, and where I am going, and say YES to all that my Soul lays before me.’- I too say “Yes” to this, and look forward to my ever evolving unfolding of who I am as a woman. Thank you Jacqueline for your loving and inspiring blog.

405. I love coming back to this blog, the title alone gets it for me. Appreciation, Appreciation, Appreciation…..it reminds me to deeply appreciate all that which is unfolding in my life. The choices I am making, what that then reflects to me, those people around me. Celebrating who i am and all those I come into contact with, how deeply held I am by the divine and my connection with them. So honouring, I am just in Awe!!

     1. This is a beautiful confirmation raegankcairney and definitely deserves appreciating for the choices you have made have resulted in the people around you celebrating you, just gorgeous because this is not the norm!

     2. How different life can be when we choose to celebrate who we are. Truly felt in your comment reagankcairney, thank you.

406. Jacqueline, I love this line in your blog:” the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God… It shows your deep love of God and humanity and when we have that we see everyone as equal in essence.

407. “I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns…” Jacqueline, I like your use of the word ‘dusting’ here as it suggests to me that our issues are just like dust settling over a mirror and we just need to dust it off the get a clear reflection. The light and clarity never went away, it was just covered.

     1. That is exactly what our issues are Sandra and love how you have described this: ‘just like dust settling over a mirror and we just need to dust it off the get a clear reflection’ of our light and our own divinity.

     2. I love the mirror analogy Sandra. This is such a simple yet groundbreaking truth – issues are simply a layer of dust over an otherwise clear mirror, and can be cleared away with consistent dusting and looking after the mirror. This takes the power away from issues as we like to think they are huge nightmares to deal with and look at, when they are actually specks of dust on a clean masterpiece of reflection.

408. Appreciation is not something we do enough of in our lives. It is no wonder that we so often then miss out on the wonder of the simplicity of being, for we do not appreciate enough how amazing we are.

409. Appreciation is already there in absolutely everything equally it is just a choice of how we see and perceive what is before us. As I understand it when I appreciate what and where I am then appreciation reflects back as the magic of god.

410. ‘I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.’ Jacqueline this is so true when we are honest with ourselves, it resonates throughout our whole body.

411. Jacqueline this is a beautiful reminder of how appreciation works to support us all.

412. “I can feel appreciation oozing from my body” also, from reading this blog again today and from the comments inspired by this sharing. Thank you Jacqueline.

     1. Appreciation is really something that is from our body, the moment we feel that we can accept the enormity we all are.

413. Reading all these comments makes me realise that to appreciate is a responsibility I carry for myself and others equally. Therefore to not appreciate myself is in truth a very harming act that is degrading me and all others at the same time.

414. ‘I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live.’ ….. there is so much love in this sentence, Jacqueline. The love in your appreciation for yourself which creates the gorgeous reflection that is then offering love to everyone around you and inspiring people, through love, to know that there is another way to live, to simply be, with love.

415. The more I deepen my appreciation for myself and others the more I get to feel that this is a normal way to live and the responsibility of reflecting that way of living to all around me.

     1. If appreciation is normal Francisco, which it is, and it is lived, then it is palpable just how little it is done in society. It is so far removed from everyday living that it is even rejected when offered. I often express appreciation to another to have it dismissed or even questioned. The responses can be very eye opening. It is like I am speaking a foreign language sometimes.

        1. Yes Matthew, I have found it hard in the past to accept a comment of appreciation. Its like I metaphorically look over my shoulder thinking it must be someone else they are addressing, and then ask, ‘are you speaking to me?’ Luckily this condition is not hard wired, though it is a stubborn program. The more I appreciate myself, the easier it gets for me to accept it from others.

416. I find it almost impossible to express how hugely, deeply and enormously I appreciate the amazing presence Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon and his family have had on me and my life and the people around me. They have inspired me to rediscover who I am and reminded me deeply of what I already already knew. ‘Incredible’ doesn’t even begin to cover it…

     1. Serge Medicine and Universal Medicine have inspired thousands of people around the globe, who are now enjoying their life and their health…. I am feeling Meg, your sharing of deep and sincere appreciation for them is something so many thousands of others are feeling too.

     2. Meg, although words themselves often don’t seem to be able to convey the enormity of what we want to express, your words here carry with them your love and deep appreciation and I can feel how much Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have inspired you. I appreciate also your openness and willingness to reconnect with the truth and return to who you are.

     3. I was lost, now I am found – well, I’ve actually been here all along, but I’d forgotten how to live in connection with myself until I discovered Universal Medicine.

        1. Ditto Alison, I too was very lost and then found by the amazing grace that Universal Medicine is, lives and presents….

417. Yes, I can feel the power of appreciation as it opens me up to the fathomless potential and opportunity to take care of my relationship and treatment of myself, take care of my interactions with others and take care of my place within the ‘bigger picture’.

     1. I am with you ladies, appreciation is a huge must and something I am only just really starting to understand how powerful it naturally is. If someone had said this to me 5 years ago I would have had no idea what they where talking about, but now having started to work on this I am definitely understanding.

418. There seem to be many ways we are set up not to appreciate. The ‘grass is always greener on the other side’ mentality; the belief that it is self-indulgent and arrogant to give yourself credit for anything; the carrot of materialism that means we are always wanting more…

     And yet, in amongst all this and much more, we always have the choice. Do we open our eyes in the morning with gentle understanding (I love this bit, Jacqueline) about our choices, letting this awareness inspire our moves for the day, OR do we let the voice of criticism rain down its judgment about our shortcomings which leaves us struggling to find our feet? It is a no-brainer for me these days – which does not mean I get it right all the time – but I do know that with understanding and appreciation, I grow.

     1. Understanding and appreciation, great companions Matilda, they support me to grow too!

     2. Feeling the old patterns of ‘I’m not good enough’ as I read your comment Matilda. Not only ‘I’m not good enough’ but ‘I can never be good enough..and it is arrogant (and blasphemous) to even consider the possibility’. Yet, true appreciation can melt even these deeply entrenched belief systems – for it reconnects us to the truth of our hearts – truth that will not be suppressed for ever and is awaiting for us to take the first step back where it will meet us so willingly.

419. Jacqueline what more can I say but I deeply appreciate the depth of appreciation I feel you reflect in this blog.
     Within I feel appreciation waking up and expressing forth in the same light from which you express.
     Truly Beautiful……

420. Appreciation is something that I am really bringing a deeper awareness to right now. I can’t say that i fully have embraced or mastered this in my life. However, I am bringing me stop moments into my day to appreciated the little things, something I may do, a quality I can hear myself speak in, how I move, these are feeling like little stepping stones to bringing it more deeply into my everyday being.

421. It is interesting how I naturally find myself appreciating the people around me, my life and life in general more these days and I attribute that to the amazing presentations offered by Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the practical work of the Universal Medicine student body bringing this to fruition. It is clear how such work that comes under the energetic impulse of co-creation becomes ‘out there’ in the world and available to all as it has been for me to tap into.

     1. I’m noticing that when I find a situation really challenging, rather than immediately reacting, I stop and allow myself to appreciate the other person, this then makes it so much easier for me to separate their behaviour and know that how they are choosing to behave isn’t who they are. I can then bring way more understanding in the way I respond.

        1. I love what you have shared here Alison and is a very practical and loving way to turn around a situation or a person we may find challenging; ‘I stop and allow myself to appreciate the other person’, which is the key to bring understanding to the bigger picture and to what is really needed in the situation or what the person is truly asking for that they are unable to express in words.

422. Appreciating the urge inside us, that always knows that this way of life is not “it”…this is so important. Without that urge we would not seek, and in not seeking we would never have found Universal Medicine.
     Also to be appreciated are the constant choices to live the Way of the Soul, choices that run against the grain of a society that would have us dwell in the realm of pain, anxiety, and not knowing how precious we are, forever.

     1. Great sharing Rachel, to know that the way of life we are currently living is most definitely not ‘it’ but committ to it fully is something I never wanted to do until meeting Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Inspired by them, what they live, reflect and present I have never been more committed to life than I am now (although there is always plenty of room for improvement) this is something I can really appreciate. I now have an understanding of true evolution.

        1. Like you, Vicky, I wasn’t committed to life at all before I met Serge Benhayon. I lived in an enormous amount of disregard and my life felt like being on an escalator, it was taking me somewhere, but I wasn’t sure quite where that was, would be. I now have enormous appreciation for the teachings of Universal Medicine which have allowed me to understand that I am already all I ‘need’ to be, tender, precious and very gorgeous, as are we all. I am learning to trust my innate wisdom which only knows the truth, I see life in a completely different way, I’m no longer on the trajectory of moving forward to somewhere, I’m staying with myself, being in the moment. I am now 150% committed to life, to myself and to bringing all that I am, as an equal part of the divine whole that we are all a part of, equally.

        2. That feeling of half-in, half-out of life is something I existed in for most of my life. It never really worked, because the lack of commitment meant that I was never really taking care of things, just doing them enough to get people off my back. Committing after so much non-commitment was pretty tough. There are still times when I would prefer to do nothing than get on with all that needs doing!! But truly, fully diving into life is the only way to go.

        3. Into the deep end we go Rachel!

        4. I know that feeling well Rachel, the other saying is, one foot here and the other in the grave…Yes, I had huge commitment issues, and simply did not want to be here in this world that made no sense at all. My life began to change and heal when I began committing to life, and as you say Rachel fully diving into life is the only way to go for there is so much work to do!

     2. Rachel, I like what you have said, to appreciate the tension and what it shows to us, the tension which has brought me to Universal Medicine and now is a constant caller to follow more consistantly the impulses of my body. This is now a new sight I will have on my tension, instead of bashing me up with it to appreciate it as a marker and loving support to surrender to myself, and to appreciate that I am swimming against the mainstream, which also creates tension.

        1. That is true Kerstin. The choice to move to the beat of a different drum, the rhythm of our own body, does create a strong tension. Living with that is something that takes time to adjust to. It is an art and a science for we are so used to dancing to society’s tune – even when it hurts us

        2. Simple and stunning.

        3. Dear Rachel, not sure where the ‘simple and stunning comment’ came from, but what I actually wrote was something like, ‘Love what you have written here Rachel. Being able to use the awareness of tension to evolve instead of being at the mercy of it is very powerful. As for dancing to the rhythm of society I am experiencing the little catastrophe of that first hand as I lie on my couch. Looking forward to mastering True Movement Ha!

        4. This is a great reminder this morning to read your comments around appreciating the tension and what it shows. I can find it easy that when tension arises, there is part of me that wants the tension over with rather than appreciating the enormous healing that it offers and to embrace it, knowing that it is offering me my next level of evolution.

     3. ‘Appreciating the urge inside us’ awesome, I had never really considered this before but I can feel that it is that part of us that never left, no matter what choices we made, that pulls us back toward that which we once left.

        1. Yes Michael! It’s the magnetic pull of God that is pulling us all back into his arms. Every cell of our body resonates and responds in joy. Triple whammy appreciation.

        2. It is very subtle but insistent. There is no party, no champagne, no success, or prize, or plum job that can silence its voice or cease it tapping at our shoulder. Similarly no drama, disaster or suffering can do the same.
           I love its infinite level of understanding, such that it never abandons us…no matter how far and how long we stray.

     4. Thankyou for this reminder Rachel – “Also to be appreciated are the constant choices to live the Way of the Soul, choices that run against the grain of a society that would have us dwell in the realm of pain, anxiety, and not knowing how precious we are, forever.” All too often we can ignore or dismiss the choices we have made to change the way we are living our lives. It can take courage and a deep committment to choose a way of life that asks you to look at and deal with your hurts, so that you can live a life of truth and love that will potentially inpsire others to do the same.

        1. It is enormous, when the choice to go out to a fine restaurant, drink a bottle or two of red wine, have an argument with our partner can seem so much more easy to do.

        2. It is enormous indeed, the choices many of us who are students of the Way of the Livingness have made, choices to live a simpler and more loving way of life. We are students of ourselves, and that needs to be appreciated big time when the trend seems to be going in the opposite direction despite deep down every single person wanting the same thing … love and truth. Time to take appreciation for the choices I have made much deeper.

     5. Thank you for pointing out that it is great to appreciate the pull that always said. ‘This can’t be it,’ and led me to Universal Medicine. I am very much appreciating the growing pull to live from the simplicity of my soul, not needing life to be for or by me. The choices from my soul not only go against the grain of society but also go against the grain of my spirit, that wants nothing more than for me to get caught up in my self and my issues! I deeply appreciate that I now know how to discern the difference between spirit and soul and how to bring myself back.

        1. That is a skill indeed Fiona. We pour so much effort into issues, and their resolution- a grand distraction from returning to the simplicity of our essence…

        2. Spot on Fiona, I can so relate to this line: my spirit wants nothing more than for me to get caught up in my self and my issues’. I was completely hooked in this game and took everything so personally which created an emotional turmoil. Oh yes I deeply appreciate Serge Benhayon for presenting this teaching that transformed my life, a life of emotional complications to living simply and soulfully.

     6. How many hundreds of thousands of years of struggle? AT first we humans struggled to survive in a difficult environment….now we struggle with depression, anxiety, addiction, terrible relationships, suicide, cyber abuse, violence….
        Technology, for all of its wonders is not liberating us from the demons in our own minds.
        It is not liberating us from the suffering in our bodies.
        For every cure and every solution a bigger problem arises to take its place.

423. Jacqueline, your blog is so inspiring and this line particaulrly stood out for me: “I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit – especially the dishonesty, the self-rejection, the lack of nourishment, and the deep, debilitating anxiety I carried that goes hand in hand with the alignment to this energy.” It is the willingness that you have shared here to deeply reflect on the way you had been living that was the very reason that brought you to have this illness in the first place. To have embraced it in the way that you have and to be clearing out the old patterns and behaviours in such a committed and intricately detailed way is something that we can all truly learn from, and shows us the true responsibility we have for our own health and well being. Thankyou.

     1. Thank you Sandra, heart felt and deeply appreciated.

424. There are so many opportunities to connect with people and appreciate the smallest things from their name to a simple gesture.

     1. So true Nicole, it is often that these small things that have a big impact.

        1. I agree nicolesjardin and matthew, it is often the smallest of gestures that have the biggest impact on others. For example, when I have felt incredibly vulnerable, and some-one has offered me their eyes, or a smile, or asked me to express how I am feeling, these are the moments that I have felt supported and seen and deeply touched.

     2. So true, nicolesjardin, I feel as though we’ve been conditioned, through our protection, through allowing dis-connection, to look at what’s wrong in the world, where people are failing, seeing where things aren’t working rather than appreciating all the beauty and joy that surrounds us every day. A heartfelt smile, joy-full eyes, tender touch to the arm, all melt the heart of another and offer the opportunity for a loving exchange, connection and change. Negativity incites closure, shutting down, hurt, resentment, entrapment, decline. I deeply appreciate that we have the power to choose what we align to, it’s up to us whether we are harming or inspiring.

        1. The more I have been able to see and accept, how broken humanity is and that I have a choice to been in that or not, the more I am able to appreciate things like a heartfelt smile, joy-filled eyes and tender touches as I am realising how precious those things are, as someone in that moment has chosen to connect to love and nothing less.

        2. It does seem as though we have been conditioned to look on the negative side of things and have failed to stop and appreciate the simplest little gestures which speak volumes. Looking back I can see how we were brought up in this way of being; only looking at life through a half empty glass instead of half full. I am getting it now that even something that I would have previously considered negative or challenging, I can have appreciation for as there is growth in these moments.

     3. Yes Nicole, a simple thing of just calling someone by there name, or a simple hello to acknowledge them, can have an enormous impact on how they feel about themselves and also presents an opportunity for them to be so much more.

        1. Having being in customer service for 15 years an in position where sometimes required to wear name tags I always found it amusing when someone would stop take the time to read my name and use it, I would also ask their name. How far away have we gone that we are even having to write about this – what have we accepted as normal behaviour?

     4. Beautiful Nicole.

     5. Yes, when we can see the grandness in others our life takes a strong turn for the better.

     6. Absolutely so nicolesjardin. When we start to look for things to appreciate they become apparent in abundance.

     7. More and more I delight in seeing the beauty in people. As you said Nicole, it can be a simple gesture or the sound of there name that reminds me that God is in us all equally. There is magic in us appreciating each other and the effects of expressing that appreciation can be profound. Often we are oblivious of our strengths and qualities. A simple comment of appreciation can lift that veil and allow a person to see a part of themselves they may have forgotten or dismissed.

        1. This is so true Fiona, “Often we are oblivious of our strengths and qualities. A simple comment of appreciation can lift that veil and allow a person to see a part of themselves they may have forgotten or dismissed.” And we are all very good at dismissing compliments when they come our way, so it is very important that we acknowledge them and appreciate what is being shared with and about us.

     8. Just look deep into someone’s eye, there is a Universe to appreciate right there.

        1. Such a great reminder even for ourselves if we are feeling off look for the purity in one’s eyes.

425. I was particularly struck by these very beautiful words ….. ‘With the new found awareness of my true essence, I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God… Thank you, Jacqueline.

     1. Yes Alison, these sentences have given me a great understanding and feeling to what is ‘the hand of God’. I am finding through a deeper level of appreciation I am starting to feel more awe at the grandness and magnificence of the constellations in which we have the choice to align to or not.

        1. I love what you have highlighted in your comment that through the law of appreciation I have also become aware of the grandness and magnificence of the constellations that are magnetically drawn to us and then we have the choice to align or not.

        2. That’s so beautiful, Donna and so true. There is so much divinity on offer to us all, it’s there, all around us, constantly, we just need to choose to go there. Inspiring words, Donna, thank you.

     2. Alison I also felt the beauty of these words pull me to connect with the warmth in my heart.
        What Jaqueline expresses is known and felt as a truth that inturn allows me to connect and appreciate that which equally exists in us all.

     3. Yes Alison this words resonated with me deeply too. The magnificence of who we are comes alive through deep appreciation of our essence. That is deeply supportive for all.

426. It was an amazing revelation for me also to understand that our life stems from a choice of energy and which source of energy we choose. Before that I was trying to deal with and change the after effects of that choice not realising that events in my life were determined by this choice of energy in the first place.

427. An amazing sharing of the joy of appreciation and how building this in our lives really is beautiful in every way and life changing thank you Jacqueline, the true love of your appreciation is felt by all.

428. A joy of an article to read. Thank you, Jacqueline. It is the appreciation ‘oozing from your body’ that inspires me to really feel the expansiveness and immeasurable space that is our reality – life in God’s hands.

     1. Yes very joyful, and very inspiring. a great deal to appreciate here!

429. Appreciation is such an underrated gift that we can give ourselves and others… It is fascinating that this is not something that we are taught as we grow older and that the world lacks a deep level of appreciation towards ourselves and others. All our unique qualities that are super gorgeous just get brushed over and ignored. An appreciation that is not wanting any recognition from it but simply celebrating what is there in us already.

430. As I read your blog Jacqualine, which feels beautiful, I realised how in Australian culture at least it is seen as ‘uncool’ to appreciate ourselves especially as women. It is rare that I experience someone expressing so much love and appreciation for themselves. So I realise there are many subtle paradigms we hold in society that will need to shift in order to allow the beauty I feel in your works back into our communities and everyday lives.

     1. I agree Abby and I had the same feeling as I was reading this blog that this level of appreciation for one’s self is not the norm in our society and is usually frowned upon.

431. I read this blog a few days ago and could not feel the simplicity spoken about first here, and the flow my life could otherwise be. I have since been assisted to feel more of the things I create that make my life complicated, and thus letting go of them has allowed my sense of freedom and flow of beauty to return. It is always a choice, or series of choices to keep life simple and free from complication.

     1. When we get honest about what we ourselves create, we can choose differently and let go of the complication and in doing so, simplicity is just there as it was all along and life begins to flow…. Thankyou Amelia for your honest sharing.

432. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.” I can feel the truth in this. When I am dishonest my body hurts. Appreciation is synonymous with love.

433. I appreciate feeling the surrender you are sharing as part of the re-connection to who you truly are and what you bring to this world. Surrendering to who we truly are, where we have come from and our purpose here is worthy of the deepest appreciation of ourselves.

434. I love your sentence “Yes, I can deeply appreciate how far I have come, and where I am going, and say YES to all that my Soul lays before me.” This is beautiful – you let go of the need to control the world and the people around you, you are just surrendering to life. And I can feel so much acceptance and trust in your sentence, this is deeply inspiring.

     1. Yes, Alexander and Jacqueline, in the claiming and declaring of ‘Yes’ all the effort and struggle falls away. Rather than fighting the flow with frowned brows and shoulders set, we can surrender to the big picture and the integral part we play in it.

     2. It has taken a long time Alexander1207, but yes I have developed a level of trust and acceptance with all that my Soul has already laid before me…mainly because of all the support that was in place, especially so when at certain times, when I felt it all too much, this support carried me until I could stand on my own 2 feet again. I trust that support will always be there as long as I am choosing to grow and be more love.

435. Thank you Jacqueline, I appreciate you, your blog and everything you have shared and second it!

     1. I particularly appreciate the life changing and totally essential presentations of Serge Benhayon on the different between Soul and spirit. Unimedpedia gives a great definition of these teachings – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-soul.html including free audio and quote on Serge speaking on the subject.

436. Jacqueline, I love your clarity that absolute honesty is nourishment for the body.

437. The release of this blog is so well timed, on the weekend I participated in The Livingness 1 and the theme that I really felt was how important it is to really APPRECIATE how awesome we all really are

     1. Joe, I am coming to appreciate just how everything is perfectly constellated when we are in the flow, there is no trying or no effort, simply because all that we need is prepared in advance by the ‘hand that created us all in the image of God’.

438. “…spirit or Soul. Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy.” The choice as you describe it through your blog Jacqueline shows that this is what gives us the quality and content of life as we know and experience it.

439. “Appreciation: I can feel the power this word emanates… and I can feel appreciation oozing from my body because there is so much to appreciate.” What a great start to you blog Jacqueline, starting with full appreciation for yourself!!

440. I just love the title and keep coming back to this article. Reading Jacqueline’s words about ‘feeling the word appreciation’, I could also really feel the Power, Strength, Joy and Love in the word. It’s so beautiful, it’s cutting through all the rubbish that we put in between the fact that we all deeply appreciate each other and life… And that it actually takes a lot of force to deny the fact that I feel so much appreciation. Which makes me ponder on why I ever started to hold back on appreciation, because it feels so natural. And it’s so beautiful to both give and receive. There’s a stubbornness and it’s just a pattern, like an ingrained pattern to now wanting to admit and show love and appreciation for people in my life. It also hurts to not be so appreciative towards myself. And that by continuing this game I am actually adding this same old pattern to my life and that of others… Time to appreciate for good:-).

     1. A great point you make here Floris that appreciation is not something we have to learn how to do or even work on, because we naturally do it. It actually comes very naturally to all of us. It is actually our default. We just have to get ourselves and our behaviours out of the way.

        1. This makes it all so simple Andrew, really. It is indeed very very natural and with than naturalness also comes affection I notice. Lately I’ve becoming much more affectionate, natural affectionate that is. It feels so simple to come back to this innocent and joyful expression. It’s so simple, yet so much fun and full of appreciation.

        2. I love how you have reminded me here Floris that is actually very joyful and a lot of fun to be self-appreciative. In fact I would say that if joy and fun is not present then we are not fully appreciating!

        3. I was smiling Andrew when reading your comment, reminding me as well of the absolute joy in self-appreciation. Even writing the word makes me feel more lovely inside. I’ve not learnt to self-appreciate myself, but the innocence and joy are palpable. In the end it seems like I just have to break the pattern of going into not-appreciating, because the appreciative part feels indeed much more natural. Appreciation, Appreciation, Appreciation…

        4. Here here Floris! and ditto

        5. It is simply so beautiful and profound to be remembered in any way, shape or form the self-appreciate. In even these little words from you Andrew, I feel the joy and the celebration of ourselves in union. I’m not used to share this, nor with men, nor with women. To feel this Gracious union, innocent and powerful is simply something so tender, warm and loving. I can tell for myself that up until today I’m learning to make (enough) time to appreciate myself for who I am. Thank you (and me:-)) Andrew.

441. This is a beautiful blog to return to, to confirm and appreciate ourselves for ALL that we are, and feel from inside, we are all sons of God. Wow, what a way to start the day.

442. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.” When we honour our body, our body honours us back. this is reflected in so many ways: its appearance, function, responsse to illness and how it feels.

443. “I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God….”
     Rejecting our body really is rejecting our divinity. This is a fresh way to see disregard. We can choose to treat our bodies knowing they are divine or in rejection of who we are and where we come from.

     1. This feels really true Annie, ‘Rejecting our body really is rejecting our divinity. This is a fresh way to see disregard.’ From what I observe it is commonplace for most people to reject their bodies, I certainly did this until recently and so that means on a mass scale we are as human beings rejecting our divinity.

     2. This is a biggie Annie. Your words made me stop and read them again, and as I did realise that I had lived in this state of rejection for a huge majority of my life; no wonder my life was chaotic and my body often sick. These days I choose to treat my body with the reverence that it deserves and in return my connection to my divinity is growing stronger every day

     3. Annie I agree whole heartedly with your comment that ‘Rejecting our body really is rejecting our divinity’ but I am also aware that knowing cognitively that my body was also the body of God would not have stopped me from abusing it. What I find so spectacular about The Way of The Livingness is that,for me, it began with making a few more loving choices in my life and gradually, without any kind of agenda, through gradually introducing more and more self love, it has lead to me knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are all made from the body of God. But this I now know from my body, not from my head.

        1. So simple how we gradually change our lives Alexis; ‘it began with making a few more loving choices in my life…gradually introducing more and more self love…it was exactly this way for me too, as I put myself first in my life, was my first big step and also by choosing, The Way of the Livingness’.

444. Jacqueline thank you for this reminder that I am the hand of God, we all are and can be.

445. I love the title of this blog Jacqueline, appreciation is so important and when I appreciate myself, my family, those around me, life feels amazing, I now take moments to appreciate myself and my life and the choices i have made.

     1. And in those moments of appreciation I instantly feel my body release and expand, which is a letting go of the tightness and tension of struggle, drive and lack of appreciation!

446. Thank you Jacqueline, there is something magical when we live in constant appreciation of the way we live and the power of the reflection that is offered. The more we appreciate the more space we create to feel God within us.

     1. Absolutely Francisco appreciation is a word that is under used, for it holds a quality with so many benefits for us all! By the “constant appreciation” we can be in connection and staying connected to being the Son of God.

     2. I like this Francisco! Start deeply appreciating and the magic is simply there, stop appreciating and switch off from the beauty inside you and around you and it’s like the magic of life can disappear.

447. I had to come back and reread your blog Jacqueline, I have a deep appreciation for how you have expressed the power of appreciation. It is the water that feeds the blooming flower as we begin to shine again all that we are.

448. Appreciation grows us within, to expand outwards to encompass all – the oil that nourishes the movement of the workings of Brotherhood of which we are all a part of.

449. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.”
     Jacquline thank you for raising the awareness on this – yes I know how wonderful my body does feel when I’m absolutely honest and I certainly know what it feels like when I’m not. From what you offer I can feel how truly appreciating my body for its indications is a gift worthy of 100% adoration for it’s incredible sensitivity and my willingness to listen and respond accordingly.

450. Yes to appreciation. That is to make space in my day to something that has no other purpose than to cherish what is there. A ceremony of connecting to the love that is there.

     1. I love that you have called it a ceremony Felix, it’s brings the sacredness of what appreciation holds for us all.

        1. Well said kimweston2 and felixschumacher8. ‘A ceremony of connecting to the love that is there’ – how truly gorgeous.

451. I deeply appreciate your sharing, Jacqueline, and will take appreciation more deeply into my day, into my life.

452. When life can feel flat appreication is a huge dose of medicine. Thank you for this blog Jacqueline and the reminder that there is so much in life and of ourselves to appreciate.

453. “Thus I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it.” Jacqueline this is so key, LETTING THE SUPPORT IN is a gargantuan shift, for men and women the world over who are hardened and confined to their own internal struggle, honesty & appreciation are the nourishment that bind us to a rockbed of true self worth.

     1. Yes this is key, Lucinda. Letting support in means that we feel we deserve it, and are worth caring for. Self worth is an area that a lot of us need to look at, and can be a game changer.

        1. Exactly Janet, it is our lack of self-worth that prevents us from asking for support let alone allowing support in the first place. So taking baby steps, making small changes, going at our own pace provides a platform to trust ourselves again, and once we are able to trust again, our self-worth increases which in turn supports us to ask for support….

     2. Letting the support in is vital when we are undergoing changes to our lifestyle and letting go of old behaviours and habits, because it can be challenging at times and resistance can often and does kick in, but well worth the effort. So yes, asking for and accepting support is crucial. Thank-you Lucindag.

        1. Letting in the support is such a huge one Jacqueline, and one that I am experiencing with having a broken foot. A friend is doing the first lap or stage of staying with me as I cannot carry a plate of food to wherever I am sitting because I can’t walk. It has been amazing to let the support in, appreciate it, not freak out about all the stuff my friend is doing for me. We’ve had a great conversation about it observing and sharing we are each letting go old ways of ‘reacting’ to such a situation. I’m embracing the support from every level and feel the expansion in this. I feel universes wide even though confined to the couch.

        2. I am feeling your expansion Lyndy…Letting in support is also truly nourishing us on many many levels, hence your last line; ‘I feel universes wide even though confined to the couch’. Love it and appreciate your lovely sharing.

454. “I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit – especially the dishonesty, the self-rejection, the lack of nourishment, and the deep, debilitating anxiety I carried that goes hand in hand with the alignment to this energy.” From the moment the ageless wisdom resounds within, life can never be the same – for we have been called to return, to rise out of the what is not and walk soulfully once more.

     1. “From the moment the ageless wisdom resounds within, life can never be the same – for we have been called to return, to rise out of the what is not and walk soulfully once more”. so very true Lucindag.

455. “Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy.” the basis of life and all that occurs in one line. I love it. I also know that if the quality of energy I am is from soul then I am naturally living in appreciation, if that energy is not from soul then appreciation is the furthest thing from my awareness.

456. “I genuinely appreciate I could not write or claim this 4 years ago” – A rare thing to hear someone say. How often is it we go into regret, shame or even beating ourselves up for the things we have done and the choices we have made? Appreciation is indeed a powerful tool in our tool box

457. It taken me time to understand how everything is energy, and there are different energies. And now your statement makes perfect sense Jacqueline .. ‘Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy.’ It’s a second by second choice, fantastic, thank you.

     1. And its amazing Gill how we can make the simplicity of this second by second choice so complicated!

     2. A lovely reminder Gill, ‘it is a second by second choice’ it sure is!

     3. And every second is one in which we can choose, live and express appreciation.

458. The power of appreciation reaches far. And I am only now discovering this step by step. I can relate to what you say:” I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it.”

     1. ‘…I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it’. Great to bring the word responsible into this equation diana1975. Appreciating ourselves is a service to all and a responsibility to all.

        1. Yes Katinka de Lannoy, Appreciation builds that foundation in our self from where we can go out into the world expressing as much of us as we can and be a true inspiration to others.

459. I have to appreciate how cunning my spirit is as it often stands in the way of my soul, trying desperately to get attention or take control, it can be very persistent. I’m learning to catch these moments more and more and being in my body with presence is the weapon of choice.

460. The word Appreciation can never be said enough, for me it is something that has never been encouraged, expressed or shared. So be reminded on a regular basis how we can appreciate things about ourselves and others is super important.

461. You make it clear Jaqueline, that appreciation is the natural language of Love and a complete way we can be in this world. We can live in so many different routes, but without appreciation there is no fertiliser or soil for our roots.

     1. Gorgeous comment Joseph; without appreciation there is no fertiliser or soil for our roots.

     2. Beautiful words to me Joseph. How can there be any growth when there’s no (loving) energy put into ‘something’. What water and sun-light are for nature, is appreciation for us. Light and energy, one and the same! How simple, yet how deeply profound.

462. To allow ourselves to feel appreciation ‘oozing’ from us, it really does mean we need to surrender deeply to the beauty we are, and have always been, without needing to do a thing.

     1. Beautifully said Amelia, I agree. A deep surrender to all we are, brings a deep appreciation with it. Feeling this surrender our love becomes appreciation, for they feel one and the same.

463. Expressing appreciation feels very expansive in the body, allowing more of the love we are to flow through.

464. For too long I have focused on what is wrong or what is not me and tried to fix the issue – which just creates more issues and is not truly healing. Why focus on the layers I have put in the way of living the true and real me? It’s been a nasty trick I’ve played with myself to not allow APPRECIATION to be of value in my life as I’ve been too busy criticising. Well, know that I’ve had a taste of the power and availability of appreciation I’ll be going back for second, thirds and many many more as the richness and fullness of what comes is out of this world!

     1. Yes Rachael, focusing on the ‘what is not’ is such a trick of our spirits to keep us small and playing less. When appreciation becomes the new normal self-worth issues across the board will shift.

     2. Very beautiful Rachel. It’s interesting if we focus on being critical that life becomes more difficult. But through appreciating ourselves in a more deeper way, our lives open up to greater experiences of ourselves. Appreciation is helping me to really love who I am. This makes life so much richer as I explore the science in how I live life everyday.

     3. Me too Rachael, it seems easier at the time to work on what is wrong and seeing us as bad, ie all our ‘issues’ rather than stopping to appreciate how amazing we are. The more I appreciate myself the less the issues have a hold over me and so the less they come up. For this to happen it means using love as my guide and marker than than looking outside for recognition or approval.

     4. WOOHOO Rachael, Just go to town on appreciation.

465. Appreciation is a powerful, powerful practice to introduce to our lives. It can change so much more than we can even imagine. It is far beyond just saying “thank you”, it is the acknowledgement of all that someone or something is. That in that person or thing is the entire universe expressing itself.

     1. On reading your comment Naren I felt expanded and felt the truth of what you deliver and most definitely worth a repeat: ” It is far beyond just saying “thank you”, it is the acknowledgement of all that someone or something is. That in that person or thing is the entire universe expressing itself’.

        1. Yes, I love what you Jacqueline and Naren have brought to the fore, that in appreciation we recognise that there is far far more than a human being standing in front of us – there is a whole part of the universe and divinity expressing. This knowing, this appreciation of this fact and the expression of it magnifies the ‘what is’.

     2. Beautifully put Naren. You have expressed precisely why appreciation is so powerful and such an effective antidote to judgement and criticism – it brings attention to the fact that we are more than our mistakes or our problems, and that ‘in that person (our ourselves) is the entire universe expressing itself.’

        1. It is so vitally important that we appreciate ourselves as a part of this as well, Susie! It takes off the chain from around our necks and puts the boulder to one side, the one we drag around as penance for being ‘imperfect’. We can often put so much weight on ourselves to get it ‘right’ we forget to appreciate just how far we have come, and where it is that we truly come from: We are made of stars.

        2. I was about to say the same thing as you. ‘Beautifully put Naren’ I love what he shared it felt so gorgeous. And then I read your comment and it was like the cherry on the cake. Susie I love how you have expanded on this so eloquently. It is very powerful and …… beautifully put ✨

     3. Spot on Naren – yes true appreciation confirms and expands all that we are in its fullness.

     4. I love what you have shared here Naren, it really helps me feel more deeply the link between the day to day details, and the bigger picture/the grand plan. Within every tiny detail, the ‘entire universe’ is offered. Thank you.

     5. I love that Narren, ‘That in that person or thing is the entire universe expressing itself.’ What a world it would be if we would accept and allow that through us the entire universe can be expressed.

     6. Absolutely Naren, appreciation is acknowledging that someone or something is far grander than what we actually see, “That in that person or thing is the entire universe expressing itself” absolutely amazing.

466. Over a workshop yesterday with Universal Medicine I got a very real sense of what appreciation is and how it is more then just a word. It very much confirms and is the language of our universality, our multidimensional state – that we are more then our human frame. This blog expresses this in so many ways by giving rise to the fact that we all have a Soul and are walking the path back to it, that there are 2 energies we can choose to align to at any time and that God’s hand is known by the love we feel for our brothers. This all speaks of the ‘more’ we are from and truly made of.

     1. Well expressed Rachael Evans – yes, appreciation is so much more than giving ourselves a pat on the back. It is a way of expressing ourselves that reconnects us to the truth of who we are, and that is immense!

        1. I love what you and Rachel have both presented here, it has made me see lately how ‘small minded’ I have been. That is the real beauty in having discussions and reading comments like these. It makes us aware of the All and everyone else equally, and that it is not just 1 person having a thought or feeling somewhere in the world it is in fact many people with a similar knowing and understanding.

        2. Love that Richard – ‘ appreciation is so much more than giving ourselves a pat on the back.’ That pat on the back only confirms the doing aspect of what we achieve – where true appreciation recognises and confirms the being-ness of who we are.

        3. I teared up when I read your comment Vicky – as I know that ‘small minded’ place very well. It feels so insular and protected in comparison to what I feel when connecting to the awareness of the bigger picture, time, space and all of us.

     2. Well said Rachel and I agree, appreciation very much confirms and is the ‘language of our universality’. Appreciation is a quality, a presence we all can tap into which incorporates humbleness, respect and an understanding of self and then all others, because we are so much more than our human frame.

     3. Hear hear, very well said Rachael. The true and nourishing aspect of appreciation is all about the recognition of our multidimensionality and our true essence. It is about appreciating the being aspect of the human not about the doing aspect of the human.

     4. Thank you Rachael, I was at the same workshop and I concur, appreciation is a word, which ” confirms and is the language of our universality, our multidimensional state” and “that we are more than our human frame.” It is time for us all to fully claim and appreciate being the Sons of God!

467. Appreciating what you are offering us all here Jacqueline – a space and stop moment to connect with the divinity we are.

     1. Love that Rachel, and exquisitely expressed; appreciation is a space and a stop moment to connect with the divinity we are.

     2. Beautiful Rachael, your words just dropped me deeper into my body and I feel to expand that appreciation is a space and stop moment to connect with the divinity we are and to connect to the impact we have in this world when we accept and live from our Divinity and Glory.

        1. Gorgeous Katinka, everyone benefits when we create space through appreciating to connect to our divinity, the impact is surely felt by all around and then it is wonderful to feel and appreciate the constellations appreciating attracts and the ripple effect this has is just amazing.

468. Thank you Jacqueline, I am beginning to appreciate the true value and importance of appreciation, not just for myself, but for everyone. I am beginning to see there is more power in this gesture than I have ever allowed an awareness of.

     1. I agree Jenny Ellis. I am aware that there is no middle ground here. If we do not live in appreciation the alternative seems to be ‘depreciation’, being smaller, reducing ourselves. To appreciate is crucial if we are to be all that we are in life.

        1. That’s a great point Richard, there is no middle ground like you say and it seems that if I put on the breaks and coast, I soon slip back into my old ways of depreciation. I agree a hundred percent ‘appreciation is crucial if we are to be all that we are in life’.

        2. Yes Richard, there is no middle ground, we are either appreciating, or as you say, depreciating ourselves. Sadly it is most often the latter that fills all the spaces, but time to turn the tables and make appreciation the go-to gap fillers, so-to-speak.

        3. That is a great point richarmills363, when we do not live in appreciation we are reducing ourselves. I see this around me and I have lived that for a long time too. As I am allowing less of the ‘making myself small’ in my life, I find myself stopping people who depreciate them selves too in daily conversations. This is the way forward, supporting ourselves and others to accept and live the greatness we are all from.

     2. Me too Jenny and an appreciation that comes deep from within, not just a surface level appreciation. I have recently been experiencing a deeper level of appreciation for who I am and what I bring and the effect of this has been extraordinary. Even only from the perspective of how I see others. The deeper I go with myself, the greater I appreciate others and everything they bring too. Appreciation brings a great equality.

        1. Beautifully said Jennifer… appreciation does bring a great equality as it does away with comparison. If I am appreciating myself then I will not be challenged by another being worthy of appreciation also, in fact it makes me far more inclined to appreciate… which is your point.

        2. Very true Jennifer, appreciation brings a great equality and really is the foundation of the brotherhood we all crave and are returning to.

469. There was something in this, a part about feeling truly nourished, that felt important. Until we get to this place, we are depleted, even if we think we are full.

     1. What I am learning especially more so in the last few weeks is that our relationship with ourself really is key, if we dont truly have this everything else seems very superficial.

        1. Agreed Vicky. We will always be searching for more out there when we don’t nurture this relationship and connection with ourselves.

        2. So true Vicky, it’s our core foundation upon which every thing in our life rests. I too am coming to appreciate and deepen my relationship with me. It’s definitely an on-going, perpetual journey, but the more I learn about Me, cherish, nurture and adore, the more I live this with all my relationships. It’s about showing ourselves and thereby others that we really matter, are worth taking deep care of and appreciating how much we grace the world just by expressing our exquisitely delicate essence.

        3. I agree Vicky, it is also becoming clearer to me that when I appreciate myself there is no longer a feeling or the thoughts of not being good enough, and the lack of self worth thoughts start to lessen and quieten down. Can you imagine the benefits to society if self appreciation was encouraged at schools and the knock on effect that this would have on the workplace?

     2. Awesome Victoria this makes complete sense.

     3. Yes agreed Victoria, it is easy to go along thinking we are fine, not realising the depletion we live in constantly. Appreciation is key for the body to feel nourished, and it is interesting to note then how seldom we allow ourselves to do this truly, both at an individual level and also at a societal level. Tall poppy syndrome has proven a very effective way to ensure appreciation of and in those who step out from the norm is quashed.

        1. So true Jenny. Our beliefs about appreciation have stopped us from allowing the very thing that supports true quality and connection in our lives.

        2. Yes absolutely Annie, and I guess it leaves us with the question of why we would allow this to occur, when it is the very thing that supports our evolution.

     4. Wise words Victoria, makes complete sense.

     5. Appreciation as a nourishment for my body feels very true. I am taking grand steps in appreciating my presence in the world and the solidness I feel in my body these days is a great confirmation of the nourishing and relaxing effect of appreciation.

     6. Yes its an ever deepening experience Victoria, learning to truly nourish ourselves again. I truly value the reflections we offer one another, as they support us to see where we are still malnourishing ourselves. Honesty is essential and the more we learn to be honest the more tender we can be with ourselves and with others.

470. Your line on nourishing our bodies with honesty is golden. We can “nourish” our bodies with so many other things yet when we do it with honesty it allows for our true (and divine) beauty to emerge.

     1. Yes, nourishing the body with honesty stops us from veering off into old habitual behaviours and keeps us consistently and lovingly in relationship with ourselves.

        1. As lies do the exact opposite Janet, that is, they are always at the expense of our bodies each adding on another brick to the walls of protection we create within ourselves.

        2. Absolutely Nikki and Janet nourishing our body with honesty is an exquisite way to express it and reveals the way to having a true and loving relationship with ourselves and in kind all others.

     2. Yes I love that Nikki, we are so used to nourishment only coming from food or caring for ourselves but honesty and truth are very nourishing as well. Living a lie poisons our body as does living truth deeply support it to work extremely well.

     3. True nourishment comes from reconnecting to our Soul – there is nothing more nourishing on earth. Truth, like Love, Harmony, Joy and Stillness is a quality of the Soul. Honesty whilst not a soulful quality is a great bridge and step to Truth. Honesty certainly tastes a lot better than ice cream or chocolate.

        1. Ha ha Nicola, but true, honesty does taste better than ice-cream and chocolate and there is no indigestion either! There is a side dish that comes with being honest with ourselves and that is support.

     4. That’s beautiful Nikki. Really makes me consider how all my choices are either intrducing something to my body which can heal or harm.

471. “I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit – especially the dishonesty, the self-rejection, the lack of nourishment, and the deep, debilitating anxiety I carried that goes hand in hand with the alignment to this energy.”
     Yes, simple housekeeping, a daily practice which ensures an orderly, spacious, enjoyable and nurturing home for our soul.

     1. Great quote to highlight Jeanette, the journey back to our souls does involve a great deal of inner housework, but the more we discard the brighter we shine. Aligning to our spirit creates a lot of dust and dirt within us. After a while its all we can see and so we loose the connection to our golden flame deep inside. Fortunately for us there is a way back, a way to uncover, re-claim and nurture ourselves so that this flame can burn brightly again. It is so evident in Jacqueline’s eyes, that real sparkle that lights up everyone’s day and leaves one feeling loved and inspired.

        1. Yes Rowena, and warm, warmed by the light of that delicious golden flame.

     2. Yes, what starts as a daily practice becomes our norm – and then it is not a daily practise but a 24/7 way of living.

     3. And like housework we can have fun while we do this work, appreciating each step and the way we approach the task at hand.

        1. Yes I agree Leonne. As we appreciate each step along the way, it allows the space for the next step to unfold. Without appreciation, the process takes a little longer.

472. Beautiful and inspiring Jacqueline and a joy to read and feel your level of appreciation. Something to really enjoy today espcially when it is made a maker of for everyday of the year 🙂

473. Thank you, Jacqueline, the world is a different place when we start to appreciate ourselves.

     1. And it becomes a different place yet again when we regularly appreciate others and ourselves.

        1. Yes it needs to be part of our daily lives doesn’t it, not just somethign that happens on birthdays or anniversaries. Appreciation every day of everything of everyone.

        2. Completely agree Janet and Christoph, learning to appreciate our selves and one another is a game changer. When we have been raised to depreciate everything in life, appreciation seems like completely separate universe. However transversing into this universe is absolutely possible and available to us all when we begin to see through all the imposed negativity and appreciate the deeply loving beings we naturally are.

        3. Yes Christoph, it is like building a house, brick by brick, and in the end there is a foundation of appreciation where negative and untruthful thoughts have not a soil to stay and are discovered quickly.

        4. Indeed it does and this too has been my experience. Appreciation has lifted the flood gate for me to feel the amazing qualities in myself and in others.

        5. Beautiful Christoph, making appreciation a daily practice absolutely shifts how we see not only ourselves but all others in life.

        6. It certainly does, Christoph. I’m currently on my second ‘appreciation program’ and I’m sure I’ll be on many more to follow. Just loving the unfolding that comes from allowing myself to be totally honest, the more I allow myself to feel what is there to be appreciated the more there is to appreciate.

        7. I totally agree Christoph and Janet. It sets a whole new foundation for how we live and express. The ripple effects are life changing.

     2. It is a whole new world, a whole new way to relate Janet. It is life changing to embrace appreciating in the true sense of the word.

     3. Yes, very true Janet Williams and we ourselves are transformed by it.

474. I love reading this blog on appreciation Jacqueline and feeling the enormous joy you share with us all when you live this level of appreciation – deeply inspiring thank you.

     1. So true, Anna. The level of appreciation shown by Jacqueline is inspirational and is so joyful to read.

     2. The truth of your words is so evident for me Ariana. I have seen that I go to great lengths to avoid appreciating myself. This makes no sense unless it is within the context you describe as appreciation feels absolutely wonderful and it is contagious too! When I avoid appreciation it is clear to see I am also attempting to avoid responsibility.

     3. I like the point you make about appreciation being for everyone Ariana. It naturally gets shared because when we are appreciating ourselves, everyone gets to see and feel that. I certainly have felt the joy from reading Jacqueline’s blog, and have been inspired to appreciate myself on so many more levels.

475. Wow Jaqueline this is deep. I can feel how much deeper I can nurture myself for being more honest and express it to me and to all around me. Thank You for sharing Your All with us.

476. ‘I totally appreciate the understanding I have of myself, my life and my choices – with no judgement, criticism or self-bashing, but rather from a place that I have evolved to (self-love) through the lifestyle changes I have made.’ This has been hugely significant to me also Jacqueline. Being able to appreciate exactly where I am now without judgement has led to the knowing that we are all unequivocally equal.

     1. And that is truly important Michael, that we are all unequivocally equal. As we as a humanity would understand that to its full potential, this would take away most of the atrocities and abuse that we face in our current societies. Instead of the mistrust and jealousy that there is between humans there will be the appreciation and celebration of one and another as that is what life is actually designed for, to celebrate life for the opportunity it provides to all of us to evolve back to where we came from.

        1. Absolutely Nico, in appreciation and knowing of connection within ourselves that also connects us all.

477. I have just re-read your blog again Jacqueline and I just want to say how much I appreciate this hymn of praise to appreciation. It is like a heavenly song that you are singing us with your angel voice.

     1. Just beautiful Shirley-Ann!

     2. A heavenly song, thankyou ladies… love this description of my blog maybe I have to take up singing, which I have always wanted to but never made time for…

478. Foundations are the footing of everything and absolutely need to be solid and steady. I have found understanding and the choice to accept the love of my essence are the key to appreciating just how far I have come in truly living and expressing the love that I am.

479. What you have shared, Jaqueline, is very healing. I also rejected to be a son of God and am on my way to start to understand what this means and how this feels in my life, to be a son of God, to know in every situation I am supported and to know I am enough the way I am. To appreciate this is a constant learning and evolving.

     1. Beautiful Kerstin. RE ‘Son of God’ I had a striking experience yesterday at the Livingness 1 workshop helped by Serge Benhayon. We partnered up and were asked to express the appreciation we felt about any one person in our lives. My partner expressed appreciation of her mother and as she continued to pour forth her appreciation she suddenly realised that her mother was divine and that she was expressing about her essence, her divinity. We were both bathed in absolute divinity and love as she spoke. We are all so much more than meets the eye!

        1. Gorgeous Lyndy I can feel the blessing and the love in this exchange with your friend.

480. There is much to appreciate in all you have shared and therefore inspired. Thank you, Jacqueline.

481. Appreciation is the key to developing a deeper relationship with ourselves and build a foundation of love. In deeply connecting to our inner divine essence issues such as lack of self worth and self loathing for woman, and rejection for men, do not exist anymore.

482. Appreciation is the rich soil for which all delicate, tender blooms prosper. A garden grown from a true appreciation of its foundations, that takes care and commitment to flourish.

     1. Oh so beautifully expressed Kelly. Much appreciation from me.

483. Now that you mention it Susan, 4 years is a fairly short space of time but then I was committed and consistent in making new loving choices and before I could appreciate, I had to surrender, accept and take responsibility for my past choices that led to my old way of living…. yes, in my new way of living there is so much to appreciate.

484. Appreciation is good medicine. There are no negative side effects, take a big a dose as you can and as often as possible. No script required and it can be taken anywhere at anytime.

485. Jacqueline, I am appreciating your openness in this blog. It reminds me of who I am, the choices I can make and have made and just to bring it back to the body.

486. Appreciating ourselves is a game changer I’ve been feeling. There is not a day now where I don’t stop and appreciate something about myself and others. Bringing appreciation back into our lives would eliminate self-abuse and ridicule, and ignite respect and trust. I also hugely appreciate knowing again the difference between spirit and soul; it has helped me let go of being a victim and taking things personally.

487. I have always known this too Jacqueline, “knowing deep within me there was another way to live”. Now it’s about learning and discovering to truly live with this ‘other way’.

488. ‘I genuinely appreciate I could not write or claim this 4 years ago.’ – The changes which can take place over a relatively short space of time through making simple changes to the way we live and our choices are amazing.

     1. Transformational and amazing Michael, I agree and highlights just how powerful we are when we connect with our vehicle of divine expression – our bodies.

489. There is a expansion in me and my understanding of appreciation since reading your delightful blog Jacqueline. Easy to return to this, so much in it.

     1. Thank you Jeanette Macdonald. Super to hear.

490. I agree Shirl. Jacqueline your post is inspirational. I can so relate to now allowing support and deserving it and the knowing of who we really are.

491. Jacqueline, I share your appreciation of how everyone is family – blood family, friends, colleagues, neighbours…and strangers. In the bigger picture, we are all from the one family.

     1. Yes we are Sandra – we all are part of the one big family we call humanity – we are all in this together.

492. Love your appreciation Jacqueline! Appreciating self-honesty without the self-bashing is so important as it opens the way to change.

493. Appreciation is part of “…committing to representing Heaven here on earth” as it is impossible to do this without fully appreciating who we are and why we are here. Very beautiful blog Jacqueline.

494. Appreciation, I am coming to realise, is the backbone of evolution and the vehicle through which we begin to claim and live who we truly are in the world. It is very powerful and to avoid it is to avoid letting ourselves out for the world to see.

495. Reading your article, I realise I am still a bit rusty with appreciation. You open new horizons of appreciation that I have not seen exist. Thanks for the inspiration.

496. Appreciation reinforces our livingness. When we do well and we don’t appreciate it, us doing well is an episode that just disappears. When we do well, even in an overall difficult or bad situation but also when everything goes well, and we appreciate what and how we are doing well, we can make this doing well a basis which then becomes our ‘normal’ and then do well from that basis.

     That is the way to live more joyfully, more harmoniously.

497. “I got to relearn and understand that there are two types of energy that we can align to – prana or fire – in other words, spirit or Soul. Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy.” This is a powerful teaching and understanding, a game changer. Without knowing the difference between prana and fire we are unaware that there is a choice to align with our soul or not.

498. Learning to appreciate oneself is huge! I know that when I take those moments during the day to stop and reflect and appreciate I can feel so delicately and joyfully how abundant my life is. I can so relate to the joy and the revelation you are sharing Jacqueline because you mirror how I feel.

     1. I find taking those moments during the day to stop, reflect and appreciate hugely supportive and energising, particularly when I get caught into the ‘doing’ of a task that I am struggling to keep my focus on. By stopping in those moments the purpose of the task, and my relationship with it, is renewed and it is like I start afresh in my engagement with it.

     2. Mirror mirror on the wall appreciation is the best of all. Oops, I could not help myself for the refection and “appreciation” is so much part of my life. I have to pinch myself so I can fully ‘appreciate’ the life of love that has become normal!

        1. yes – how cool Greg! How super awesome is it that our normal is love, abundance, appreciation and joy!

     3. It’s quite amazing, isn’t it, that we actually have to learn to appreciate ourselves while we are all so yummie, gorgeous and beautiful..

499. Jacqueline, I just love the layers of this blog. Today reading it I understood that we can appreciate the journey we’ve taken and the fact that we’ve been willing to search, knowing that how we were living wasn’t working. I had a conversation with a new colleague recently and got to feel how much I’ve let go of and changed in my life and of the first time had a real sense and appreciation of that and reading this today reminded me; I now know and feel more clearly what it is to live in and be in my body, from my body and not just my head, and that is a huge thing for me, so thank you – through your reflection here I can further appreciate.

     1. Beautiful Monica, and through your expression and many others on this thread it gives everyone pause to reflect on how much they have to appreciate as well. I went to an Anxiety talk for parents of teenagers this week and was reminded just how much I have changed and evolved from the days of living with anxiety 24/7. I stopped to appreciate why I was anxious and what I chose, and then appreciated that I was open and honest to address these choices.

        1. Aimee, I love what you share here ‘I stopped to appreciate why I was anxious and what I chose, and then appreciated that I was open and honest to address these choices.’ – it’s easy to get caught up in the now and the pressures of life, yet when we step back and feel how much has changed it’s so empowering to know what we’ve done and in that moment we get an understanding that we are whole, we are capable and no matter what comes our way we can be us and be with it. Appreciation, I’m learning is such a key thing, it provides the bedrock for us to continue to step forward and feel our next steps, and to know and feel the dedication and commitment we can make to ourselves (it can be a surprise initially), but knowing this we can feel that solidness in us and how we are, and be less tossed and pushed by the world. This whole process is learning to live from inside of us out into the world, not the other way around as many of us had been doing before.

     2. To live and be in my body, from my body and not just my head is also huge for me too Monica, which has been a process as you mentioned of ‘letting go’. This letting go process was greatly supported by the courses and many presentations I attended by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who I have truck loads of appreciation for in turning my life around.

     3. Hi Monica, I agree, there are layers of ourselves and what we can do and when I appreciate the smaller things, it opens up the way to appreciating far, far more, and that enables me to do and feel more and so there’s more to appreciate!

     4. I love the additions and experiences we’re all adding here and the theme running through is that as we appreciate those small things the bigger ones naturally are there, we build, and we confirm as we build. So each confirmation of appreciation we feel and acknowledge we allow room and space for more appreciation in us and we reflect to ourselves and those we meet that appreciation is possible and that we all innately carry in us an essence which never leaves and life is actually about shedding all those layers and living and being from that essence, the love we are.

500. I can feel through your words the solidness this way of living has brought you Jacqueline. Your blog has inspired me to appreciate myself more deeply.

501. Your sharing of appreciation is deeply inspiring for us all – a well described path, and a step by step process you have unfolded for all who may care to reawaken their knowing of the ancient wisdom and the energy at play.

502. Wow Jacqueline, a power-packed blog full of deep appreciation of all that we are for we are grand, knowing and infinitely wise. How key it is to appreciate in essence we are all of God, equal and divine.

     1. Thank you Jacqueline and Deborah, I agree, as a “Son of God” the appreciation of this fact had been lost to me before The Way of The Livingness as presented by Serge Benhayon. Now life is full of “appreciation” for the deep connection I have to all of humanity and this started by me deeply connecting to my soul, which is the love we all come from.

503. Thank you Jacqueline for your beautiful writing and for living everything you have shared so that it can be fully felt and understood. This is a huge gift for all.

504. I am really starting to feel what appreciation is about and the impact if just wonderful. I notice that the more I appreciate, the more people open up and share about themselves and their lives. Even with people I meet for the first time, it does not matter.

     1. That is so beautiful Mariette, that by appreciating ourselves we also invite or allow others we are with to do the same and to give expression to that. How awesome is that!

     2. Yes Mariette, and this is a beautiful example of how everything we do has its ripple effect on the all.

505. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become” in a world full of complication, agitation and constant turmoil its quite an incredible that life has become simpler than before. This has also been the case for me. Something well worth appreciating, thank you for reminding me.

     1. A life of simplicity and free of complication is indeed to be appreciated and celebrated. Because so many aspects of life are complicated and all the self help books and ‘change your life’ programs tend to be complicated, we sometimes overlook the power of simplicity and brush aside the simple and obvious in the belief that it couldn’t possibly be the answer.

     2. I will call it a miracle the fact that my life has become that more simple than it used to be before David, but in truth it is just trough commitment and dedication to myself in consistently choosing for that simpler way of living and that indeed is well worth appreciating.

        1. Nico, your words about simplicity are so inspiring, I love it. By choosing this simpler way, we appreciate ourselves and there is nothing to do to prove anything. We can celebrate ourselves for what we are – love. No recognition from the outside world is needed.

        2. Indeed Alexander, no need for recognition anymore in in that we can all be completely ourselves and in a continuous appreciation and celebration of life, as that is wat life actually is designed for us to be. Not the other way around as most of humanity tend do live in our current times, living a life at the mercy of the recognition of the other and in misery because of that instead.

506. Our body does love the honesty we can live with, when we choose it. This honesty allows a freedom that is not otherwise afforded when constricted by the ideals and beliefs that otherwise rule our lives.

     1. which is caused by our separation to the divine light (God’s Love). Once connected back – we are in rhythm with true divinity again. Honesty is a beautiful expression to bring us back to love. Simple and True.

507. Appreciation is the gateway back to our true Glory.

     1. Yes, Liane, and so it is no wonder that self appreciation is something that is not encouraged and taught in schools or churches.

     2. Love these words so very true Liane

     3. Love it Liane – appreciation is so powerful, we just have to connect to our heart and express our love – we are love and it is wonderful to reflect this to each other.

508. Once the warmth of the true Fire of our Soul is felt, we have no need to seek the artificial light our spirit revels in.

     1. Soulfully said Liane. They are worlds apart when felt in the body.

509. Through simplicity, truth expresses.

510. “ I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God…”.

     Through our physical bodies Heaven is known, for its light and its love are carried in our every particle. We cannot ever stop this, but we can bludgeon ourselves with a way of living that does not support this love to express and under this hazy cloud of numbness, we forget that the keys to Heaven’s gates are forever in our human hands.

     1. Beautifully said Liane and how true. We bludgeon ourselves into numbness with an immense variety of distracting and dulling behaviours in order to escape the massive responsibility we have to cherish and express our true divinity. Our bodies are the Gates of Heaven and what do we do? Scrawl graffiti on them, stuff them with stimulants, depressants, sugar, caffeine, tobacco, drugs and alcohol and deny that we are divine because our divinity has just been buried under a ton of rubbish and we can’t feel it anymore. We so graceful and powerful yet we do everything to ignore and disclaim it. What a shame and what a waste, there is so much love to live and gorgeousness to feel. I am very glad that I have chosen to clean up my Gate and start appreciating my divinity, I am in awe of how simply life assumes immense purpose once we choose to align to the Divine.

     2. So So True Liana Mandalis, that is exactly how it feels true to me, we have the key to Heaven’s Stairway we just need to see and climb our way up – in connection with God. This is amazing. This is love. This is who we are.

        1. Not only is the handle on our side, but in truth the door is always open it is our choice to step through heavens door again and be re-united with our soul.

     3. Beautifully expressed Liane. We have the choice always to support ourselves in love or to cry victim of the symptoms that arise from our ill-choices. I have found that each time an ill-choice is made the result is very predictable and dulling.

     4. “..the keys to Heaven’s gates are forever in our human hands.” Absolutely true – thank you Liane.

     5. “…the keys to Heaven’s gates are forever in our human hands.” It is truly amazing to feel the depth of this truth. Knowing this there is nothing in the world that can justify when we abuse our body instead of appreciating this divine vehicle of expression.

        1. Knowing this there is nothing in the world that can justify when we abuse our body instead of appreciating this divine vehicle of expression. Wise words Diana1975, thank-you, because I got to feel how powerful appreciation is in replacing and removing abuse from our lives and the deeper we appreciate, abuse of the smallest will be exposed and will be unacceptable.

511. I hear all that you are presenting here Jacqueline and it is the same for me also. I recently have come to the awareness that we are moved by great hands of Love and all we need to do is get ourselves out of the way by not throwing up obstacles, making things complicated and pretty much ‘densing’ ourselves so that we become harder (more resistant) to move. We are held in and by so much love, we just seemingly forget to feel it and let it be so.

     1. As you say “we just seemingly forget to feel” that we are held by love, actually we know it very well but choose otherwise anyway, because we like to hold on to ‘ourselves’ – at least for quite a while before we finally choose returning to the love we come from.

     2. I thought I knew what ‘getting ourselves out of the way’ means for many years but have only just fully understood and appreciated how that feels. When I feel very much a ‘yes’ from my body to do something and step up to support others in some way but then go with the ‘no’ and make excuses – that is my spirit and the body yes is my soul. Now when I feel yes I say yes and then sometimes feel my spirit squirm.

     3. We are moved by great hands of love…this feels so powerful and true Liane, and all we have to do is trust and allow this grace to flow through us, for there is nothing we have to do apart from getting ourselves out of our small minds and then move in our bodies with this grace.

     4. I love this Liane. . . ” . . . we are moved by great hands of Love . . .” this is so beautifully expressed.

     5. Yes, yes and YES! Liane, you make life, God and love make sense and very real for anyone who cares to listen.

     6. Yes Liane, the more I allow myself to feel the love around me and deeply appreciate this the more I know that this is normal and that it is there for us all and I just need to trust and surrender to it.

     7. Beautiful Liane, and once we see that we don’t need to hold on to the familiarity and identification with the denseness, we can let it go, and return back to the love that has always been holding us and that we have missed all along in our self-imposed exile.

        1. I love the way you say ‘our self-imposed exile’ Annie. There is no blame to be had, no blame to God, no blame to another, no blame to ‘luck’ or circumstances, just a simple recognition that we chose to go away and we can choose to come back!

512. When the tap of appreciation is fully open then far more than appreciation flows through it.

513. ‘I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live.’ I appreciate what you say here Jacqueline as your livingness offers a gorgeous reflection of living love.

514. ‘”I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates…” I love this line as it has been a reminder of the absolute power of simplicity.

     1. I love that line too Michelle, for it is the plain and simple truth.

     2. I agree Michelle, thankyou for highlighting it, “I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates…” This is so true. when we make things clear and simple, there is nothing that can get in the way. It is the same as looking into a pool of crystal celar water, rather than a muddy and murky one.

     3. I agree, just that one sentence can completely change the course of my day. Keep it simple and then there is space for my body and soul to communicate to me.

515. Only the headline supported me this morning to change my thinking and moving into appreciating instead of worrying and being in doubts. Worrying drains my body, appreciating connects it with the love I am.

     1. What I have come to understand through the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom is that how I move my body and the quality in which I move is going to determine what type and quality of thoughts that I have. Therefore good posture plays a super important role in appreciation.

        1. This makes perfect sense Donna and is a great point as we cannot really be appreciating ourself if we are slumped in a chair. Changing our posture changes everything.

     2. Because Jacqueline speaks with such authority on the quality of appreciation we get the full package of what this word offers humanity. Appreciation communicates the fact that we are more then our issues, more then our day to day and more then our mental activity. When we connect to that fact that we are more and bring this quality to our everyday human life… well… that’s when magic happens.

        1. Gorgeous comment Rachel and I love how you have expressed it that appreciation communicates that we are more than our issues, our mental activity and our day to day rountine…so when we develop appreciation – the magic happens.

        2. Beautiful said Rachel, ” When we connect to that fact that we are more and bring this quality to our everyday human life… well… that’s when magic happens.” so simple and profound!

516. If we all started to appreciate our lives and what this world has on offer by simply being connected to who we are and sharing this then on all levels our battle and fight with each other will disapate. The protection that we walk around with would fall away and we wouldn’t be able to justify why we need it.

     1. Yes yes yes Natalie! Not only would we not be able to justify why we need it but we would not be able to indulge in it because it really does feel so terribly awful to do so.

     2. Well said Natalie. One of the greatest forms of separation is jealousy, and if we were to truly appreciate ourselves and in turn other people then there would be much less fighting and battling going on between humanity in this way.

        1. Beautiful what you are all sharing. Appreciating ourselves not only takes down a lot of our protection but is an antidote for jealousy – both on the receiving and dishing it out end.

     3. Well said Natalie, appreciating another qualities dissipates any negative feelings we might hold towards them as we get to see them for their essence and not the behaviours they might be choosing as a way of protection from their hurts.

517. I am finding more and more the importance of self appreciation, after all the years of beating myself up, it really is a nice change. It’s almost one of those things, or it is one of those things that was a no no. Like if you did it, people could say you were into yourself or had a big head,just another trick to keep us from who we truly are.

     1. I know Kev what a trick! It’s so beautiful to watch very young children appreciating all parts of their bodies and the sounds and movements they make. Then society deems a time when that is no longer okay or appropriate and starts to squash it. Could it be that it brings up so much for older children and adults who gave up on appreciating themselves and fell for the self-bashing and putting down instead?

     2. Indeed Kevin, self appreciation is not that much supported or shall I say appreciated in our societies. Criticism and telling each other what we do wrong is much more accepted. We collectively have created a way of living that has just turned everything upside down of what truly supports us in retuning to that way of living that corresponds to our being. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who is presenting that other way, that way through appreciation and confirmation back to that way of living we have strayed away form long time ago.

     3. Kevin the same here, during the past few weeks I’ve noted the power and strength that comes from self appreciation. The fact it changes the way we are open and loving with all others, as a result of the way we are with ourselves.

     4. I agree Kev, self appreciation certainly does beats self bashing; there is no doubt about that. Yes, when I was a young girl It was considered vanity, one of the most terrible sins, if you dared appreciate or show that you loved yourself in any way.

        1. There’s a piece there about selfishness too. Any focus on the self is often equated with being selfish. But if we don’t have a strong foundation in ourselves, we cannot truly be there for others, which is what we’re really here for – humanity. Self-love and appreciation and all the other gorgeous self-s we know of are essential signposts along the path the true service without self. It’s almost a bit ‘zen’. First self, then no self.

        2. A fully present self is the best self to put forward. And to be fully present we need to appreciate what we bring.

     5. A wise man I know once said that we may as well rah-rah ourselves as when things go wrong we pay someone to rah-rah us – So we may as well just do it for ourselves 🙂

        1. I heard that wise man too Nikkimckee, love the reminder!

     6. Exactly kevmchardy calling appreciating and knowing your worth as something like being into yourself or arrogant is a trick to keep us from who we truly are.

     7. I agree Kev being big headed or even enjoying how something felt was frowned upon and considered as false pride and that was not acceptable behaviour – I remember being told this at around the age of 7 or 8, and I also remembered how I felt shut down after hearing this. I know that this belief had been passed down through the generations due to the doctrines of a religious group so I cannot blame the person who told me, and having come from a very religious background herself I know she would have been told the same thing as a child – sad but true.

     8. Oh yes Kevin. I did the same. I was myself the biggest enemy, I always fought against myself. These days I can accept more and more of my fragility – for me not so easy to accept. I had this belief for a very long time, that I have to be strong all the time. Such a belief feels really harming and I’m glad that I could nominate it and I’m starting to heal all my unresolved issues.

518. There is so much to enjoy in this blog Jacqueline – there is a pull to return to read it again and again! Loving the depth of appreciation you are feeling within you and knowing the truth of who you are to bring in service to the world. P O W E R F U L.
     I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.

     1. Thank you Stephanie – knowing the truth of who we are changes everything.

        1. It absolutely does Jacqueline and with this knowing also comes the choice to take responsibility in the part we have in this world.

     2. “Heaven here on earth; as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.”
        A prayer to all angels – thank-you.

519. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty. And how from this honesty blossomed ‘nurturing and true nourishment.’ This is so true for me the shift from focusing on what I need to change or where I perceived I did something from the “wrong” energy to celebrating and appreciating my natural expression from my soul I feel a steadiness and expansion in my body as old patterns, ideals and beliefs and pictures I had created from my hurts of how life should be naturally drop away.

     1. That’s awesome Margaret. That feels familiar to me too, that shift from the perpetual self-doubt and sense of having done something wrong all the time and in any number of arenas to a steadier appreciation of myself. And there is always more to appreciate for we are ever-evolving and expanding. Next step: imagine how it will be when we fully appreciate our power.

        1. Appreciating your question Victoria; ‘ imagine how it will be when we fully appreciate our power’!

        2. Wow… just look out then Victoria, when we fully appreciate out power we will really rock the world.

     2. Breaking free of the shackles my ideals have held me in for so long and allowed a solid steady foundation of love has supported truth to be expressed from my soul.

520. Jacqueline I love this appreciation, ‘I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.’ Too often I have been standing on the island of prana looking over to where I know I belong but calling simplicity boring and a chore. But actually simplicity is simply love and is anything but boring (empty disconnection).

     What a call to simply being which I am exploring is not cutting myself off from the world, retreating from commitment but actually saying yes to all there is to do from my true quality. Appreciating how I am opening up to a new way of living.

     1. Saying yes to all there is to do from my true quality is a new way of living. So true Karin.

     2. Simplicity gives us the space to bring in the divine. When we are tied up with complication we are so busy focusing on the details that there is no space for much more than the doing of those details that really didn’t need to be done in the first place.

     3. I was the same. The life I live today I would have thought of as boring some years ago… when really what it is is true – honest, and simple. I love simple – it’s absolutely magnificent and never, ever dull. There is plenty to do and bring in that commitment to life and humanity.

        1. Very true Victoria – my life has changed so much as well. From the outside it looks so boring – going to bed early etc., but on the inside it feels awesome.

521. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.” I love how this has been seen as a true way forward and that you acknowledge the impact on your body of what you are choosing. So beautiful!

     1. Yes I loved that as well Felicity. I love it for Jacqueline and I love it for myself as well – when I am honest and keep things simple – my body goes oh yeah, I can do that. And when I am complicated and not as honest, my body goes OK,,,I will work with that but it makes me work harder and it makes me tired.

        1. When we add complication (and yes we add it, it is not a natural part of life) our bodies must say something along the lines of “Really? Do we have to?”. When we remain with what is in front of us our bodies are able to flow in that simplicity.

        2. Nicely said Sarah. How gorgeous is simplicity? Complication strains the brain and overrides the body’s wisdom.

        3. Yes Sarah, I experience the same too, I can feel it in my body when I am bringing complication and when I clock that and let go of the images I am holding onto I can feel the flow and easiness in my body of how simple life is once I surrender to whatever is there.

     2. This was one of my favourite lines in this blog. The one about honesty. I appreciate also how much my body responds to honesty. Thank you for putting this in words Jacqueline.

522. There is so much to appreciate in your blog Jacqueline. I very much appreciate you for sharing your experiences and all that you appreciate about yourself and others.
     What you have expressed is very inspirational, thank you.

523. I loved this sentence – ‘I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.’

524. What a beautiful appreciation of appreciation!

525. This was a gorgeous read this morning and I can feel how powerfully healing appreciating ourselves and our lives is.

     1. Yes Sally, when we truly appreciate ourselves, we have the space and understanding to have that same appreciation for others.

526. Jacqueline I love your words “I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live”. Thank you.

527. “I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God….
     I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.” Our bodies can’t be ignored they are reflection to us what is there for us to learn.

     1. Absolutely I feel that too and when I speak up honestly especially if I have been holding back or I fear the other’s possible reaction or response it ‘s like it releases something in my body and I can feel myself grow.

        1. So true Matt if we spent as much time digging for the treasure within and polishing it for the world to see, the world would be a brighter place.

     2. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty” – thank you for drawing my attention to this line Nicole – it really rings true for me.

528. Surrendering to the Ageless Wisdom teachings… I love that… for it is a commitment and yet a letting go intertwined… that comes from a deep knowing of the truth within them and choosing to not resist or delay, just surrender… and to be blessed by all that follows that choice.

529. It took me quite a while to appreciate being appreciated, but as I appreciate myself, the more I am able to appreciate others and allow appreciation to be part of my life

530. ‘I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty. The more I nourished from honesty (instead of contraction), the more certain foods dropped away..’
     This is truly inspiring Jacqueline as food has been my number one go to for comfort for so long. I am noticing that the more I resist and fight what I am feeling I want to eat foods that are not supportive for my body. So resistance is clearly not working for me, now I’ll try accepting and being honest with what I’m feeling and nourish myself from here. Thank-you.

     1. Lovely sharing Rachael and yes it really does work when we nourish ourselves from honesty, it is like we give our body permission to truly support us and then it can easily communicate with us what it needs, and is how many previous food choices drop away.

531. Already to have the knowing (not believing) of the fact that there are 2 sources of energy is such an amazing gift to ourselves. It is telling us that we’ve made so many choices that lead us to open up our bodies – vehicles of expression – to receive the True Love (Fire). All those choices that you and so many among us now have made are hugely to appreciate!

532. Perhaps the thing I appreciate the most is choosing awareness. The choice to be here on the planet in this time and be aware and feel all that I have chosen up to now and what we as one humanity have chosen up to now and where it has led us. The awareness itself is a God send.

     1. With you on that Simon all the way! The awareness I have now, no amount of money could buy, and of course there is always much more to unfold. Gorgeous comment.

     2. Wow Simon, yes – definitely with you on that one. Choosing to be aware and to feel – while not always comfortable or easy – is something that has had a profound impact on my life.

533. Thank you Jacqueline I really appreciate it :-). Appreciation feels like it is one of the most important things to do. The power within comes from the stability claimed through appreciating you, and this could be anything about you.

534. “Yes, I can deeply appreciate how far I have come…” Thank you for this reminder Jacqueline…appreciating how far I have come is something I certainly need to appreciate. I can feel the simplicity of this appreciation, rather than getting lost in the berating of oneself for not living up to ones expectations…instead appreciating all the little details which includes appreciating us and also how our lives have inspired others as well – there is much to appreciate 🙂

     1. Very true Paula. We do tend to focus on what we haven’t done, rather than on all the amazing choices we have made and how we actually live our lives.

535. It is beautiful the way you talk about simplicity Jaqueline: ‘I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates’. There is much ‘to know’ and understand and yet if simplicity is not at the heart of it of what use is it?

536. A fabulous blog Jacqueline… the power of appreciation, of truly appreciating ourselves and our lives is so very, very inspiring.
     Appreciation and being grateful, gratitude are often considered the same but the feeling they each offer is poles apart. Appreciation is all encompassing of everyone and of life, compared to gratitude, which feels limiting to one person for one particular thing.

537. Thank you Jacqueline, I so much appreciate what you have shared about appreciation, I am so caught up in my self criticism talk at times that appreciation is not at a all felt. Your blog has reignited my sense of appreciation and when I feel into it there is so much I have to appreciate. Starting with my appreciation of Serge and the truth that he brings to mankind in the Ageless Wisdom, and so much more.

538. “the notion of family has expanded to include those that are not blood family… eg, friends and colleagues who I work with every day are part of my extended family, which provides so much reflection and so much support.” love this. Family includes so much and just limiting it to blood really dininishes the awesome possibilities opening it up can bring.

539. Thank you for sharing Jacqueline. There is so much to appreciate in this world. Even if your life is not ‘going to plan’ there is always something to appreciate, like all the nature around you. For me, appreciation leads to more appreciation. It’s beautiful to realise and helps you out of that damp nothingness.

540. Having a read of the many incredible comments on this blog, I couldn’t help but feel how powerful a medicine appreciation is. It’s not only a medicine we can give to ourselves but is easily medicated to all who come into contact with it, and can be prescribed to all.

     1. I agree Kim appreciation is an instant medication offering us a way back to love.

        1. Yes Carolien and Kim, appreciation is indeed a medicine, a healing balm straight from Heaven.

541. Jacqueline, wow, wow and wow. I have a smile from ear to ear and I feel complete expansion in my body. A claiming I will read over and over.

542. Appreciation is infectious. Your beautiful blog has opened me to the many things in the world and in myself to be deeply appreciated. By our expanding our awareness of the movement of our bodies, the words we say, the loving actions we initiate and yes, just a smile brings a quality that is then experienced and held in the world. True appreciation is powerful and when practiced becomes infectious and grows. Beautiful Blog

     1. So true ch1956, appreciation is infectious as one can only feel in Jacqueline’s blog. The more we appreciate ourself, the more we reflect the absolute divineness of it.

543. Appreciation, appreciation, appreciation….appreciating your blog and all the comments here Jacqueline.

     1. Love it Victoria. Appreciating appreciation.

544. I have found that when I am truly connected the appreciation is no longer connected to anything specific but becomes a general state of being.

     1. Carolien that’s lovely. Feels it has such a flow and grace.

     2. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.” I love that statement. Far too often I have complicated my life with all types of situations, possessions and hurts I have held onto. By simplifying my life and staying present with myself by letting go of what is not love and claim and appreciating the love myself support me more and more to naturally emanate the love that I am.

     3. So true Carolien – it feels as though our whole body opens us and the natural flow returns to every particle.

     4. Yes Carolien, I agree with this completely, and it is such a wonderful state of being.

545. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.” Simplicity is indeed a key ingredient for a life lived soulfully.

     1. Thank you for pointing that one out Donna. A beautiful part of the blog.

     2. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.” This line stands out to me in the past I have complicated my life so much and until I read this line I hadn’t appreciated the how just how key Simplicity is in the natural flow of life. When my life is not flowing naturally I am aware it is time to stop reconnect and feel into where I lost my natural flow.

546. If there was a recipe for life I feel that ‘appreciation’ would be way up there as an essential ingredient. So beautiful to feel your deep commitment to appreciating the amazingness of you Jacqueline, you are such an inspiration to us all.

547. Appreciation is something which is new to me, because I always was able to find nice words, but to truly appreciate what I feel inside of me, inside my body, to appreciate every step I make in my presence, to appreciate deeply the workshops and work from Universal Medicine, through which I have been inspired, is relatively new and a learning.

     1. I appreciate the depth of your comment kerstinsalzer15 you highlight the difference between being able to find nice words and truly deeply appreciating beautifully.

548. Jacqueline, l feel the depth of your honesty and really appreciate your abundant expression. There are blossoms bursting throughout the whole blog. l thoroughly enjoyed reading it. l just see flowers bursting into bloom. How gorgeous.

549. This echoes my experience Marika, in that I find it easier to see what is wrong or what needs fixing in a situation. However, when I appreciate myself and all that I have to offer, it is easier for me to appreciate all that is around me and that which needs fixing no longer dominates.

550. Appreciation is definitely something I am struggling with, it is a great lesson to learn as I know it will support me in my way forward. Thank you for writing this blog Jaqueline, it is inspiring to read what it has brought you.

     1. It was pointed out to me some time back when I was moved and appreciating the qualities in another that for me to be able to feel such appreciation it must equally be in me. I was in the joy of appreciation but at that time was not accepting that in myself. I now understand that acceptance and appreciation go hand in hand and are forever expanding. It is inspiring.

        1. Victoria, I love that ‘ acceptance and appreciation go hand in hand and are forever expanding’. I got to feel from your comment that acceptance and appreciation feel like foundational steps in a stairway that is leading us out of the hole that we have dug for ourselves. Step by step we are supporting each other to choose something different and by George we’re picking up the pace!

     2. Just start with one little thing, it All gets easier from there. a great tell tale sign of what energy we are running with. The world is amazing, it’s infectious 😉

     3. Yes Benkt I understand what you are saying about appreciation being a struggle. In the past I was very focussed on finding everything within me that I needed to “fix” constantly looking for the negatives in me so I could process them and get on with looking for the next thing I had to “fix”. Since starting to appreciate my self and how far I have come with truly connecting with my essence and feeling the love I am find I naturally appreciate myself, all that I am and all that I bring to humanity.

551. To understand truth, one needs foundations that are true. And the key to solidifying foundations that we know to be true is appreciation, appreciation, appreciation. This prevents them from being eroded by the forces of doubt and ridicule.

     1. Beautifully and honestly said Adam – you paint a gorgeous picture with your words.

     2. The force of doubt is one that raises its ugly head as soon as I turn my back on appreciation, so now the path is clear – if there is doubt come back to appreciation.

552. Jacqueline I really love your blogs so down to earth and inspiring to read. Getting to a place of deep appreciation for your self is something for everyone to appreciate and something that really does change our lives and supports our choices and the love we are to be expressed.I really relate to all you share and the joy is infectious and very loving to feel ,thank you.

553. This is a golden statement Jacqueline…”I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates…” Keeping things simple, and uncomplicated allows clarity of thought and deepens connection to Love

     1. It is a beautiful nugget of gold Johanne, “I have learned that through simplicity, my soul communicates.”

     2. I agree, there is great wisdom in simplicity and more space to just be our natural loving selves.

     3. Bringing simplicity in today’s world is sometimes challenged, as complexity is so valued and promoted, nevertheless the dedication to simplicity brings a clarity that is wonderful, and as we live simply a new foundation is built on which anything that is complex stands out as not the way.

        1. Wise words Heather Pope, regardless of its popularity, in my experience simplicity trumps complexity any day!

        2. How true Hannah and Heather. Complication is valued over simplicity – it surely can’t be as simple as the fact that we have everything we need within our inner-hearts! More and more each day I am so appreciating the way simplicity is a miraculous magic that just dissolves the knots and binds we have created.

        3. Outrageous Lyndy!! Could it really be as simple as that – “that we have everything we need within our inner-hearts! “!

        4. Ha ha ha Hannah (I realise now that you have two ‘ha ha’s’ in your joy-full name!) The old alchemists used to say that finding the miraculous transmuting philosopher’s stone was as close as the nose on your face, and as commonly known as the earth under your feet, and that everybody has it. Wow! that we would be supplied with everything and yet not know it!

        5. Yes lovely Lyndy, no miraculous philosopher’s stones required…it is, as it always has been, beautifully simple – all that we need can be found within. The question is, once we realise this, what do we do with all that time we spent searching for answers or puzzling over (and creating) complexities?!

        6. Simply clock it for what it was and is, and move joyfully forward in a new and purposeful way!

        7. Ahh, perfecto – reconfirming the joys of simplicity 😉

        8. Beautiful Hannah!❤️

        9. I agree Heather simplicity can bring a clarity that is wonderful and so needed in our world that currently seems to value unnecessary complexity.

554. There is so much Grace in this blog Jacqueline.

555. I agree Mary, would be fantastic if they were published in all women’s magazines, and perhaps you have just planted the seed that this is certainly a possibility! And a powerful realisation Mary that Appreciation is your life lesson, that knowing is definitely worth appreciating!

556. Jaqueline, I really appreciate your celebration of appreciation. I felt bathed in the beauty of it as I read it – there was no rah rah, no boasting, no self-agrandisement, simply a beautiful and powerful appreciation.

557. If I start to allow feeling the lovely support around me, I also have to see how long and intensively I did say no to it. And so the question is, am I now ready to take this, to get the love and the responsibility. It is one with the other.

558. I love reading this, it’s such a tonic! It’s a wonderful living testament to what choosing a life of simplicity over complexity can bring – awareness of our our deep connection and love – amongst other beautiful things!

559. You are so beautiful to feel through your words Jaqueline. Love, joy and appreciation ooze from your writing! It’s all too easy to get stuck in the old pattern of taking things for granted or striving for more, and actually miss out on feeling where we are and how far we’ve come. This is a wonderful reminder of the power of appreciation and the support it offers us all in our unfolding return to love.

     1. Thank you Heather for your warm appreciation, and so true it is so easy for us to miss out on feeling where we are at and how far we’ve come, always good to stop, reflect and appreciate.

560. How little do we appreciate life in the true sense of the word. I know when I was younger I was told that I had to appreciate what I had been given but this was based on a monetary value and not from a true understanding of appreciation, which can be as simple as a few words to say how much we appreciate someone just for being them, The difference can be huge; with the first one there is a need of gratitude and the second feels open expansive and is not looking for something in return.

     1. You have reminded me of how I was told to appreciate when younger too Alison…except it wasnt so much the money as appreciating the food on the table as others in the world were starving, which in reality felt more of a guilt trip and certainly not true appreciation!

561. Living with appreciation is allowing me to develop a life that is free from criticism, both of myself and of others. It is a work in progress, but the difference is palpable, when I do, I feel more confident, more open and more opportunities come my way.

     1. How freeing this must be for you Carmel.

     2. I agree Carmel,
        l have found the potency of appreciation in my own life. For someone who constantly criticized herself endlessly, to take a moment to stop the barrage, and feel self-appreciation, has been monumental. l liken it to the feeling l get when seeing the glory of a ray of the sun’s light, pouring forth from dark clouds, in such absolutness. lt is undeniably glorious and breathtaking.

     3. I feel this too, Carmel. Appreciation opens a door to a self love that is comparable to no other but a love that encompasses all of humanity and it is very freeing to live this way.

        1. Yes Anne my feeling exactly. Self love and appreciation are the lights that will lead all home. Awesome.

     4. Thanks Carmel for your comment, you have reminded me to place more focus on appreciating others. I recently had a conversation with someone about how common place whinging, complaining and criticising is, and how this can easily take over the day with everyone getting in on it and airing their grievances. There are even radio stations with talk back shows that are pretty much dedicated to this kind of thing. It feels so very negative, whereas appreciation feels very light and joyous.

        1. Yes I can so relate to what is being shared here Melinda, I find the old saying “misery likes company” to be so true when I think about how people can get together and just complain and be negative. Its always awesome to see and feel the power of women coming together to celebrate what is awesome about each other, to truly see and revell in what we each offer, no one being more or less than another.

        2. Yes a talk show where people call in to appreciate – now that sounds great .

     5. I feel the same Carmel, it’s the missing ingredient I need to add when I’m feeling a bit off. It aligns me back to my soul and allows my life to flow and opportunities to be seen.

     6. I too have found this Carmel. That in situations where I feel there is no light in the tunnel, I appreciate what there is and it completely changes my perspective and how I feel about moving forward.

     7. We know that self criticism eats away at us and adds to our lack self worth issues, and is actually quite cruel not only to ourselves but to others, so it makes sense that appreciation for ourselves and others would have the total opposite effect. The more I practise appreciation the more I get to experience how life changing it can be.

     8. That’s super cool Carmel, it’s like appreciation allows you to be open to all that is on offer while a lack of appreciation of ourselves is actually like putting up a wall, shutting down, feeling like we are stuck with our lot in life and nothing will ever change.

     9. I am having a similar experience Carmel. I don’t have to focus on not criticising myself, but actually just appreciating myself more, and then the criticism has no space and has to fall away.

     10. What a beautiful way to live Carmel. I am discovering more and more how appreciation confirms the truth of who we are and builds our confidence to be who we are, leaving no room for comparison or judgment to exist.

562. Like you, Jacqueline, gaining the understanding between prana and fire, spirit and soul, and choosing to align with fire and my soul has changed my life. With that has also come the appreciation that appreciation is a vitally important ingredient in maintaining that connection.

     1. Yes, Jonathan I never fully realised until recently how crucial appreciating the part we play and the difference we make and the importance of clocking even the smallest moments is in maintaining our connection with our inner wisdom and the source of truth.

        1. absolutely our smallest moments are everything, in fact every moment carries the potential to be our greatest moment.

     2. I agree Jonathon.

563. Wow this sure is one love filled, appreciation for where you are, what you are choosing and deep appreciation of you Soul and being connected to the fire. As you have so beautifully shared Jacqueline each and every appreciation that you have is down to each and every choice that you have made and the consistency of them. Awesome reflection and very inspiring.

     1. Beautifully expressed Natalie!

     2. Feeling the appreciation Natalie….. which is like a warm glow in my body. And great point you raise, consistency of ones choices (true nurture and nourishment) is key.

     3. Yes there is a lot to be said for consistency.

564. I have come to realise that Appreciation is needed if I am to truly move on as without it I am going no where. Through the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I have an understanding of the importance of what this word actually means and how to apply it to daily living. Took a few years to sink in and truly deeply Appreciate how far I have come, the amazing life I now have and all those whose lives I touch.
     Next – I know when I get to Appreciation there is the ‘giving back’ and that means I have a Responsibility to share what I now live as this was not just for me. This is where the real joy comes in as I know my choices that do not harm me or others is helping the ALL.
     Thank you Jacqueline for this blog and reminding us about Appreciation.

     1. Well said Bina – as you have shared the real appreciation starts when we give back to the world and humanity what we have been given ourselves through the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I know what it means but the more I appreciate myself and what I bring the deeper the level of appreciation becomes. I also find naturally I then appreciate others more as well.

     2. Appreciation is a science, a fuel, an absolute essential. A million miles from the airy-fairy, softly-softly connotations that most affiliate with the word.

        1. I love what you’ve said here in your comment Otto…appreciation is a science, one that we perhaps yet do not fully appreciate!

        2. It is indeed a Science Otto. I love this observation, and the ripple effects from true appreciation of ourselves and others are magnificent.

     3. I can relate to what you share Bina, that once we find something that truly supports us in life, like understanding appreciation, then we have a responsibility to share this with others. We all deserve to live a joyful life.

565. I love what is shared here about nurturing and true nourishment, and with honesty and appreciation, this happens totally naturally. We can sometimes put pressure on ourselves to change our lifestyle, not eat certain things, be a certain way – but without it coming from the honesty of appreciating ourselves, it just feels like rules. The way it naturally drops away is confirming that it is no longer any part of who we are. And that to me is true nurturing – because it is listening to the body, not restricting it.

566. Now that you come to mention it I always had a feeling there was more to life than meets the eye and I knew that this lifetime I was going to get closer to the truth than I had been living in previous ones, so the constellation to meet Serge Benhayon was already there and from the first time I was present at my first ever presentation by him I knew this was the truth I had been looking for a long long time. I so appreciate this, as through this, I also have a lot to appreciate about myself and lots of other people and things.

     1. Yes, Kevin, I also appreciate every day that my choices have brought me back to the truth I was searching for, and recognised the moment I met Serge Benhayon.

     2. That is so worth appreciating Kevmchardy, that you felt truth the moment it was presented….and the fact that you were ready, in other words you chose this life to truly heal your old ways of being and is why meeting Serge Benhayon was constellated.

     3. Same here Kevin. There is no question that I always knew there was more to this life. No question. And if I appreciate that then the whole package opens up.

        1. It is so easy to miss that point, but when as you say Otto, I appreciate that I would not settle because I knew something wasn’t right, then the package does open.

        2. I am with you all here, I knew too and that is why I guess so many of us were searching. There is so much that we all feel and know deep within, but haven’t yet re connected to or appreciated. It is like we take certain things for granted but what I am getting from reading the blog and all the comments is that the more we become aware of all the that we are, feel and know and appreciate, the more there is.

        3. Yes. For me, this acceptance is huge because it changes everything. Life is no longer a massive mountain that we have to climb….but simply a series of choices to honour and deepen what we already know and to live with the courage and commitment not to hide amongst the pack.

     4. I too carried the same awareness from a very early age kevmchardy; in fact I used to say that I felt that in this life I was in a “pressure cooker” class to release all the karma I had ever accumulated, but at the same time I didn’t really know why, I just knew that there was “something” coming to me that was going to be life changing. And the moment I heard the name Serge Benhayon something awoke deep inside me and I knew that I had to meet this man – and once I did I knew I had finally found my way back home. From the moment Serge began to speak everything I had ever felt and ever expressed began to make sense. Now that is a big “something” to endlessly appreciate!

     5. Kevin, you just gave me another moment to stop and have deep appreciate for myself. I too can say I always new I would come closer to the truth in this life and in that; appreciate all the choices I have made in many lives, that now I stand amongst many others who inspire, live and reflect a truth I have always known.

        1. Wow kimweston2, that is hugely expansive, to appreciate all the choices you have made in many lives that today you can live and reflect your truth. Simply Beautiful!

     6. Gorgeous, gorgeous comment.

567. Recently I started struggling with the truth that we either choose prana or fire because it left me with nowhere to hide – but then I relished this responsibility as it clearly supports my return to fire and my soul and my choices – with no judgement now attached to when I choose prana; simply an understanding that another opportunity will arise to make a different choice next time – if I so choose!

     1. So true ginadunlop the truth can be very exposing. I am also choosing to return to the fire of the connection with my soul. I appreciate letting go of the attachment I had to allowing my self-loathing old pranic ways to take me into the cycle of beating myself up every time I perceived I had made a choice to align with harming energy. On these occasions I accept responsibility to choose to return to love without judgement.

        1. Brilliant Margaret – we are sharing something very similar at the moment – I too am ditching the self bash each time I make a choice which is not supportive and instead appreciating I can observe and have the opportunity to make a different choice next time. The effects of not beating myself up as much are amazing – there is space and more vitality building in my body – as love and understanding instead takes its place.

        2. Appreciation has certainly supported me in building vitality in my body too Ginadunlop. It feels to me like the more I consistently choose love and appreciation the easier it becomes to let go of the self-bashing and my level of self-love naturally deepening in the process.

568. ‘I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live.’ This here is very powerful because every single way we move and speak and live is inspirational when we are connected with God. Others notice and are inspired by not only the obvious things but the energy that we choose. Jacqueline the way you lovingly smile at someone could stay with them for the whole day and sometimes always. This is to be deeply appreciated and even celebrated. We are all Divine. 🙂 🙂

     1. l love what you have pointed out here Kathryn.
        Every movement we make is important. Every thought, word, action effects the world around me. This is huge to truly feel the responsibility we have here

        1. And what a joyous responsibility it is when we bring love!

        2. Every movement we make is important, super true Irena because it informs our next movement and the next….if we are not moving with Soul we are moving with spirit, which just highlights how we all have free will to choose, and that we are all so powerful when we take responsibility.

569. Exactly Marika, appreciation is dose of good medicine. If everyone were all to swallow the pill of appreciation everyday then the world would surely be a different place.

570. “Yes, I can deeply appreciate how far I have come, and where I am going, and say YES to all that my Soul lays before me.” Wow this is huge I also deeply appreciate every single little step along my path way of returning to the truth of my soul a true connection with my essence and say yes with a solid foundation of love to the grand plan of what my soul lays before me.

     1. This is not only inspiring me to appreciate the dedication that it has taken to make the life changes I have but to re-confirm that dedication to myself and the quality in which I live and thus bring to every situation. Thank you.

        1. Thanks elainearthey, a beautiful illustration of the fact that appreciation of oneself inspires others to do the same – like turning on the lights in a darkened room!

     2. And there is a grand plan that our Soul has for each of us….and our soul knows when we are ready for each part to be delivered, thus we will never get anything we cannot handle, because we are always prepared before hand.

        1. Our souls absolutely do know when we are ready for our next step jacqmcfadden04 all we need is to trust the process.

571. Jacqueline appreciation is such a power-full ingredient for life. In reading your amazing blog I am reminded of all the things to be truly appreciative for in my own life, and how this builds true self worth and self empowerment, as well as bringing a new approach to life.

     1. Well said Loretta. I’ve discovered recently that a lack of self empowerment, purpose or spark is strongly linked to a lack of appreciation. When I stop appreciating the amazing things in life then it’s easy to become critical, which quickly turns inward and thus I encounter a downward spiral of self loathing and judgement. Appreciation is such a simple antidote to some of humanity’s hugest issues – judgement, lack of self worth and lack of self acceptance.

        1. Hello Susie and it so simple that we can consistently leave it behind. This is my experience as well and could it be possible that if we live an appreciation consistently then when you stop it stands out so so clear. In other words it would seem our default in the world is criticism, judgement etc which then as you say ‘spirals’ down, what if the default was appreciation? Why is the default the other? It would seem what we live consistently is what is there for us, the default. So by more of us following up with a regular cup of appreciation then this should be the tea everyone drinks.

        2. Well said Raymond and it really does come back to foundations and the type of momentum we have that has developed from our past choices. If we were to appreciate more regularly and consistently then as you say this would replace the criticism and become the new normal, thus when we stop appreciating not only does it stand out incredibly clearly but it is also not difficult to pick back up due to the foundation that’s there.

        3. Yes Susie and we can turn the tide on the quality of thoughts we are having or have. Thoughts just don’t come from no where, they are given to you. The quality of those thoughts are dictated by the quality of the body receiving them. Appreciate what you are feeling and seeing all around you and you will bring up the quality of your body which then equals the same pull up in the quality of thoughts.

        4. And it feels pretty yuck in the body as I am feeling it right now so it is good to read these comments and see that it is a choice and with as much strength as I can muster to leave the spiral and appreciate what is there for me to do so.

        5. Yes it is an awesomely simple antidote, if I ever feel that I want something that another person has got, I simply need to appreciate both myself and them deeply first and foremost. Then I can feel that anything they have is simply something I need to work on within me and there is nothing to not appreciate about where I am currently at. All the pressure is gone and only lovely me remains!

        6. Well said Felicity. When we feel this tension because someone around us is living in a way that shows up the issues we aren’t dealing with, we often jump to instant jealousy and comparison and complain that right in this moment they have something that we don’t have and want. It’s very easy to get trapped in this, feeling inwardly destructive or outwardly destructive towards them, but as you share what we need to do in these situations is appreciate them, LEARN from their reflection and appreciate that we have the ability to have that same amazing quality.

        7. I love what you have shared here Susie and how Raymond has responded. Lets make appreciation our default instead of criticism. Lets have another cup of appreciation and change this long held way of relating with ourselves and with the world.

        8. This very inspiring and clarifying conversation has helped me to see much more how essential appreciation and confirmation are to build a solid foundation we can always come back to and that carries us when we loose it. There are no limits to appreciation just as there is no limit to evolution, both go hand in hand.

        9. Beautiful Raymond “What if the default was appreciation?” I’m coming over for tea with you this great, have you got an extra large cup?

     2. Lorettatrapp you’ve reminded me that there is nothing too small to appreciate because actually it’s always huge. I always used to dismiss the ‘small appreciations’ but when I paused to appreciate them (yes, about a week or so ago) I realised any appreciation of myself is huge because I get to feel how huge I actually am.

        I uncovered a pattern of making myself small through not appreciating the small things. When it was 1st suggested I appreciate just. for example, the feel of the warm tea as I drank it I was like seriously, that’s not worthy of an appreciation but I’ll go with it because I so trust this person and I’ll admit to needing to build my appreciation so I’ll start small and build up. (I had been starting epic to jump start the whole appreciation thing but had missed me out the equation heading for trying to be great/grand at it). I hadn’t realised my grandness is in the smallest details, the quality of every detail that makes the whole is huge. We cannot under appreciate ourselves because we are all huge.

        1. My ideas of what appreciation would look like and what things I considered worthy to be appreciated have missed by far the true meaning and way of appreciation; it is just dawning on me and this article and comments are blowing my mind clearer and clearer of many misconceptions, ideals and judgements. Appreciation is not just something we can do but an attitude.

        2. I hadn’t realised my grandness is in the smallest details, the quality of every detail that makes the whole is huge. We cannot under appreciate ourselves because we are all huge. Gorgeous Karin and wise words for there is nothing too small to appreciate.

     3. Lorettarap, appreciation is a ‘powerful ingredient’ and if missed out has devastating effects on the end result.

572. I found this a challenge to read because it allowed me to feel the self criticism, judgement and drive that I have placed upon myself for so long, and is still present. Although I have come a long way, I realise I can work more deeply on appreciation, and also to be more gentle and accepting of myself. I feel inspired by your honesty and how it has transformed your life including the foods that you eat and the nourishment you give to yourself. Thanks Jacqueline.

     1. Linda, ‘the coming a long way’ is something alone to deeply feel and then appreciate as I know from experience it held many challenges and resistance….appreciating this alone opens the next layer of appreciation to unfold.

        1. Beautiful advice Jacqueline, it feels step by step is the way forward. It’s like laying pavers down, we build are building a solid foundation. Once we have laid one it becomes a solid footing for the next appreciating paver to be laid.

        2. Beautifully said Jacquleine. We are so ready to focus on the things we are still not doing, as opposed to the great positive changes that we have made already in our lives. I am now learning to appreciate myself in every little thing that I do, even when I am washing the dishes or making my bed, and the more I do this when I am faced with a bigger challenge, am amazed at how far I have come in terms of how steady I am. And this is where the appreciation is key, for if I had not appreciated myself in the small things, it would be very different story.

        3. It is so important to appreciate the steps we’ve taken thus far … every step closer to our soul is to be deeply appreciated knowing we are not perfect, we will make mistakes and to appreciate how we lovingly bring ourselves back when we wander off. So much to appreciate.

     2. Great honesty Linda, I can relate to exactly what you have said. It takes a while to let go of all the self criticism and it still creeps in but the more you stay with appreciating yourself and confirming what you bring the less space there is for all the self criticism. We are after all our worse critics by far when we choose to be.

     3. l can relate to your anguish Linda.
        l know how difficult it can be to do this process. However, like attempting anything new, when you put your mind to it, it gets easier. l am beginning to feel the benefits of taking the time to stop and appreciate myself daily.

        1. I love what you have said here Irena – honestly shared from someone who is truly , practically, embracing appreciating themselves.

        2. Thanks for the reminder to not miss my daily dose of appreciation; it´s the best way to complete the day.

     4. What Jacqueline is very powerfully showing us is the power of The Way of the Livingness. Most women can identify with living in self criticism (often to the point of self attack), perfectionism, feeling dissatisfied with ourselves and life in general, and always wanting more or something better. We absolutely hammer our bodies in the pursuit of these things, yet Jacqueline’s blog shows how we can live – absolutely oozing with appreciation for ourselves and others, for life, and for everything that comes our way including challenges. Your livingness Jacqueline is a powerful testament to the Ageless Wisdom.

        1. The solidness in which Jacqueline writes is palpable – it is indeed a powerful testament.

        2. Brilliantly summed up here Melinda, she is indeed a powerful, undeniable testament to the Ageless Wisdom being lived. I know of many women who are great at putting themselves down and who don’t find it easy to self appreciate – I was one of them for many years. What is simply amazing is how simple it is to turn this around and find step by step, so many things to appreciate about oneself!

     5. Hello Linda and it was refreshing to read your comment. Appreciation is something I am using more and more in my everyday. Not as band aid but as at point to see really what is happening around me, it lightens things up.

        1. i feel the same Raymond, ‘Appreciation is something I am using more and more in my everyday. Not as band aid but as at point to see really what is happening around me, it lightens things up.’ I find that when I appreciate my life that life feels much lighter and i see things for how they truly are, rather than getting caught up in issues etc.

        2. Hey Raymond, I’m also finding that appreciation brings a whole lot more lightness to my days too – in stopping to appreciate, I allow the space to connect to all that is happening around me, whereas when I get caught up in the rush of life and feel I don’t have time to stop, I miss out on connecting to the many awesome moments or interactions in my day and instead I focus on the one or two negatives.

     6. Hi Linda, I too found this blog difficult to read and continually needed to pull my attention back from trailing off into thoughts, Facebook or food distractions. I would blank out all together on some paragraphs and not know if I had read it or not. For this, I am not beating myself up, but feeling the power and potential of what appreciation offers. It must be super supportive and evolutionary for my spirit to put up such a fight to read about it.

     7. That’s a great awareness Linda as we know “we cant change what we don’t acknowledge”. The gift this blog offers is certainly something to appreciate.

573. I love how appreciation is a never ending path of unfoldment. Even if I appreciate the same things, be it about myself or the qualities of others, the appreciation felt is simply another layer and another and another, quite a beautiful thing to feel.

     1. And that is in itself something to appreciate Matthew, every time we unveil another deeper layer of appreciation and appreciate that, the next layer of appreciation is already opening…

        1. I agree Mathew, Elizabeth and Jacqueline. Recently I felt a deeper level of appreciation within my body as part of a way of being, similar to the quality of the innate stillness and joy within us all. My whole body felt as if it was hugely expanded and re-aligning itself. A totally mind-blowing moment to appreciate!

574. What your words help me appreciate Jacqueline, is that when I let myself see the way life is divinely designed in every way, to ensure we all get to see and learn exactly what we need to see, I cannot help but live with appreciation for everything that occurs around me.

575. . “I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.” This is as far as I have read of this story thus far and this line speaks volumes to me. I know once things become complicated or anything but simple I’m lost and need to stop take a breath and re-connect with my body and let go of my thoughts my soul communicates with me again.

576. Very very beautiful Jacqueline, superb. I love this blog, simply because it is so real and true. What a beautiful magnificent turn around and what an amazing business Universal Medicine is – no surprise that this support has offered you to evolve this time in your life and become a strength on your own, able to heal and deal with past hurts and separation. Beautiful also what you shared about being a Son of God, and how much you appreciate being part of family, not only family direct, but so also strangers etc.etc. To see the unity in everyone is seeing all the pearls in the ocean. Thank you Jacqueline, amazing blog – again.

     1. Danna you absolutely nailed it when I read this part of your comment: ‘ no surprise that this support has offered you to evolve this time in your life and become a strength on your own, able to heal and deal with past hurts and separation’. I have had the realisation that I came into this life to heal my contraction (separation) and all my relationships…. And all those pearls in the ocean you speak of reminds me of when the sun shines on water, and you see all these shinning little stars of light dancing and sparkling….shining stars we all are!

577. I have been sharing an appreciation every day with my friend for the last few weeks after being inspired in another blog about appreciating. What I feel at the moment though is although I am doing this I am not really and truly connecting with what I appreciate, your blog though Jacqueline inspires me to go deeper with this, thanks.

     1. I can relate to what you have written here Vicky, as I wrote in a book everyday for a year the things I appreciated about myself and my life but it made very little difference to the level of self destructive thoughts, so there must be different levels to appreciation and connection. These days without trying but appreciating the little things as well as the big I feel totally different about myself and seldom indulge in self destructive thoughts, but even as I write this I know there is a deeper level of appreciation waiting for me.

578. Thank you Jacqueline for sharing your journey of appreciation. This is a truly inspiring journey of return to who you truly are. More and more I am appreciating who I am and through this appreciation am deepening my understanding of who I am.

579. Wow Jacqueline – you are on fire! Just love and appreciate your blog from the title to the last word.

     1. Feeling the ‘warmth’ of your appreciation Tamara!

580. Jacqueline I am appreciating you for writing such a beautiful blog. The more I appreciate everything about me and what I bring to the world the more I can appreciate my relationship with the world. It all seems to work together.

     1. That’s beautifull, I can actually feel your appreciation here.

581. I am with you Jacqueline, I just knew; ‘I can appreciate the fact that, for as long as I can remember, I have been looking for this wisdom, knowing deep within me there was another way to live, another way to be that would initiate my path of return.’

582. “I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit – especially the dishonesty, the self-rejection, the lack of nourishment, and the deep, debilitating anxiety I carried that goes hand in hand with the alignment to this energy.” We use anxiety as a way of avoiding the power, glory and magnificence of our being, it’s a way we can play being small or less than who we are, it’s a way of excusing ourselves to not take responsibility for the grandness we are and hold, not just for us but to be shared with all others, who are equally that, but maybe not choosing it.

583. “Yes, I can fully appreciate my commitment to healing my old ways, and then feeling how much I resisted delaying the truth: I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God….”
     When we reject or override what are bodies are by design trying to do, which is to bring us into harmony, balance, true vitality and health, we also reject our divinity and grace and the responsibility we have to live that and reflect that to humanity.

584. “I can feel appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth: as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.” This is so affirming, confirming and inspiring to hear Jacqueline, of what is possible, and helped me look at my life and say what is there not to appreciate, in the changes I have made and the love and support that I receive. This is a work in progress, and it feels I still have an investment in not appreciating my life, and in doing so avoid the responsibility that comes with love and awareness I hold.

585. “With the new found awareness of my true essence, I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God…”
     More and more I feel the hand of God, through birds animals and nature, through my interactions with people I meet, this hand and love from God has always been there, steady waiting for me to be open, willing and present to receive. This love is available all the time to all of us, all we need to do is to be available to it, in the way we love and care for our bodies and selves.

586. Thank you Jacqueline, you are an inspiration and very dear to me. I have seen you transform into the powerful and loving woman you are today and I have seen you embrace life and the love of others more every day.

587. “I can feel how much my body appreciates and adores my absolute honesty.” This is absolutely gorgeous Jacqueline, reading this sentence put a big smile on my face. So lovely to hear how your body appreciates and responds to the honesty you are choosing for it, this is good medicine.

588. I find it easier to appreciate myself, my beauty, my power, my grace and my sensitivity, I am expressing my appreciation to others much more often too. The effect this has on the person on the receiving end is truly magical. With just a few words a person can energetically transform before your eyes. The glow and joy appreciation awakens in a person is incredible.

589. Jacqueline, I am inspired by the depth of your appreciation, self-love, self-worth and commitment to truth.

590. Awesome sharing Jacqueline, appreciation, appreciation, appreciation – I have found that no matter what another person may say to me, however amazing, if I have not appreciated myself it does not matter and is never enough. Everyone deserves to be on an appreciation course as we have soo much to appreciate!!

     1. Absolutely agree James, I was just talking with someone about this very point. How crucial it is to support yourself and appreciate yourself. As is proven above, simply getting approval or recognition does not complete you or make you feel enough – simply because when the lack of appreciation and acceptance is there in your body – it can not be filled by others – only by yourself.

        1. Very well said Danna – it is something I struggled with all my life until I started to appreciate myself. I still catch myself at times when someone gives me a compliment wanting to play it down. But the more I appreciate what I bring the more I say – of course I am awesome! Huge thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for inspiring me to live in a much more loving, appreciative and joyfull way.

        2. Yes James what important it is that we all appreciate ourselves – as this appreciation is the love we are seeking, and so it start with ourselves – not the other way around. And YES Thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, since I met you I was able to change my life – for love, joy, harmony and stillness, knowing the truth of who I am now.

        3. Appreciation for me reignites love with myself, it brings a deeper level of intimacy with myself. Then I can share this with others, without it there is no love.

        4. So beautifully shared James, soo true. Appreciation is our key to express the love we are.

        5. Thank you Danna, I cannot get enough of appreciation. The more I appreciate the stronger my foundation of love becomes for myself and others. Here’s me appreciating appreciation!!

     2. Well said James; not appreciating seems to be a condition life imposes on us. It can be hard to turn around this default and I find I am very comfortable not appreciating but now I’m aware of this pattern and turning it around because, oh my heavens, there really IS so MUCH TO APPRECIATE!!

        1. There is sure is Gina and the more we start to appreciate ourselves the more we start to fully appreciate others around us and what they bring. It is a lovely cycle to live in.

591. Appreciation feels as an expression from within which we naturally have and when we start to appreciate the small things in our lives, appreciation comes alive in our body and it is an endless experience we can play with, as the playful angels we are. Thank you Jacqueline for sharing your knowing and living appreciation.

592. I have embraced appreciation as part of my rhythm and as a foundation for my life, my health and my wellbeing. Appreciating myself as well as others is more powerful than I could have ever imagined.

     1. Yes Katinka , it is very very powerful. I have experiened that for myself, through the teachings by Universal Medicine, that my heart was and is the main area to bring my focus to to support my connection to my inner-heart. This would have not been possible if I did not met Serge Benhayon or any Esoteric Practioners. I so love to be part of union again – and I don’t have to worry about being individual any longer, just simple ‘I am fine, I am never ever alone’.

        1. Yes Danna, it is great not to worry about being individual any more, the funny thing is that when I stop feeling myself as an individual I am enjoying being ‘just’ me so much more!

593. When we choose to connect back to the Ageless Wisdom that Serge Benhayon presents to us there is so much to appreciate, for we have an opportunity to open ourselves up once again to our inner truth, that innate wisdom that is there equally within us all and for that I am forever appreciative. I can feel your truth and commitment in this wonderful blog Jacqueline. “I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God”.

594. ‘The more I nourished from honesty (instead of contraction)’ – this speaks volumes to me at the moment as I deepen my appreciation of myself, my soul, my extended family, Universal Medicine and God. To not go to self-bash but instead to honest observation is key to saying goodbye to old retarding behaviours and move to more evolving and loving choices. Always to be appreciated.

595. There is so much to appreciate in your beautiful blog Jacqueline, and to celebrate.
     I have recently made more space in my life which has automatically sparked appreciation of myself for doing so, from this the dominos are falling more and more into appreciation.
     In busyness and complication and being caught on the roller coaster of time (the domain of the spirit) I had effectively removed myself from any skerrick of appreciation, and denigration and hardness toward myself took its place instead.
     I love that we all have the choice, every one of us on the planet, in every moment, spirit or soul, fire or prana, complication or simplicity? My choices have changed enormously for the same reason as yours, proof of the power of the Way of the Livingness, the power of love.

     1. This is a great point Jeanette, that when we keep ourselves busy, we haven’t allowed for the space to feel and develop appreciation. I find appreciation is like a breath of fresh air, it is a full stop moment that I can offer myself at various points and amongst the busyness of the day.

596. This is gorgeous Jacqueline, ‘ I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become’, I can feel that my life has become much more simple too, I now enjoy the everyday things; meeting people, work, tidying the house, I enjoy all of the moments, whereas before I was always looking for the high; the holidays or the nights out, I did not consistently enjoy life – the simple, everyday things, I didn’t enjoy me, I can feel that this is the difference now, I am content being me and so enjoy myself wherever I go and whatever I am doing.

     1. I will second your ‘how simple my life has become’ Rebecca. Most of my life was a roller-coaster with its ups and downs. Just being me now is much more fun.

597. A very powerful sharing Jacqueline thank you. As it is empowering to realise that our choices come from what which we have surrendered to. We either surrender to Soul (which represents God, the All, our Divinity) or spirit, through which what then flows though us is fire or prana, love or all that is love-less, truth or all that is truth-less. With this we also realise how vital our connection to our bodies are, as they are the Divine markers of what we have surrendered to through reflection from the choices we are making. With awareness of this we cannot help but deeply appreciate how the will of God, of the All is what we are all designed to live together, through which we all can live Heaven on earth.

598. Just re-reading some of this, I love how ‘deep’ your appreciations are, I can feel a deep embodiment of all that you are appreciating and how profoundly these knowings and claiming have changed your life.

599. Thank you Jacqueline for sharing this, I am super appreciative of you for doing so! I am currently on an appreciation program with a friend and it makes a whole world of difference to how I feel in myself, about myself and about others also. It’s bringing an honesty and truth to my day that is super lovely to feel – as it challenges all of the critique that goes on in my mind… which as I’m discovering, is not true at all.

     1. The internal critic and its incessant gibberish – appreciation is a great antidote and Jacqueline’s article is really supportive here; eventually this character will just shrivel up and die.

600. Appreciation is something that has been an ever expanding and deepening process for me. The more I learn to appreciate things the more I realise that what I am doing and who I know myself to be is just the tip of the iceberg and that there are many more layers to uncover – which is all simply grand. Thank you Jacqueline for a delightful blog!

     1. Yes Helen, I am discovering the same… and it’s like my appreciations began as really surface level stuff.. and then they started to delve deeper into the truth of who I am… and I can feel that there is so much more there waiting to be appreciated!

        1. Yes I agree Brooke and All… for me it started like a comic and soon became a big beautiful philosophy book of life… deepening and enriching every moment of the day. What’s amazing is that I can feel that it has only just begun.

     2. Beautiful shared Helen. It is so true that when we begin to appreciate ourselves we develop our awareness and can sense that there is a ever-deepening greatness to explore within ourselves and with others.

        1. I agree Carola, it is amazing that the more we develop and appreciate ourselves the more love we find within. I am constantly amazed by the ever deepening well of love that we are from. It constantly stops me quite how much there is to behold yet I know I am only really scratching the surface.

     3. Absolutely agree with you Helen – appreciation is an ever expanding and deepening process.

601. Appreciation that is felt deeply in the body, provides a foundation on which we can stand through difficult times. With appreciation we know who we are.

     1. Gorgeous Kate: ‘With appreciation we know who we are’.

602. I love the title of this blog: “Appreciation, Appreciation, Appreciation…..” There is so much to appreciate in life on our path of return. I appreciate you wrote this gorgeous blog and shared your discoveries with us. The word appreciation has such an expanding effect on each of us. If we appreciate and confirm ourselves we build the platform to grow and evolve from. I can feel appreciation in my body and it gives space whereas judgements makes me feel tight inside and stop the flow.

     1. Yes I love the title too Monika… and what you have touched on ‘If we appreciate and confirm ourselves we build the platform to grow and evolve from’ feels really profound and simple. We have to appreciate and confirm where we are at and where we have come from to support us in moving further inwards.

     2. Beautifully said and appreciated Monika. I totally relate to “I can feel appreciation in my body and it gives space whereas judgements make me feel tight inside and stop the flow.”

     3. I absolutely love what you offer here, Monika. Appreciation is simply a confirmation of what is. Even in a simple acknowledgement of the fact that I breathe – I notice my body inhaling as my lungs expand, and feel the warmth in the body – wow, this feels amazing – there I feel appreciation which makes my next breath even more yummier. We do not have to go anywhere or build anything, everything is already here for us. It really is about awakening to this grand truth and embracing it with the whole body.

603. I love what you present here, Jacqueline with your sentence: “Yes, I can deeply appreciate how far I have come, and where I am going, and say YES to all that my Soul lays before me.” Especially saying YES to everything my soul offers me through what is there before me in my life can be challenging sometimes and at the same time is the key to evolution. Otherwise I end up controlling and saying YES to some things and NO to others.

     1. Absolutely Monika, and have I experienced many challenges on my path, but if I look back, I can see I was always prepared for them and many times had huge resistance, and then support would arrive at the precise moment it was needed.

        1. Its a key point Monika and Jacqueline, because our soul will never demand more from us than we are capable of achieving and it never insists, but the moment we say ‘Yes’ then it can and does support us all the way. In this way we can build a new relationship with the challenges we face. The truly soulful way is not about struggle, but it is about dedication to love, of self, of others and all humanity. It’s having the courage to let go of the need to control and walk forward into the un-known knowing we are completely supported. We are the ones who lead the way, God and all our glorious guardian angels support us in the most un-expected ways and always as you say Jacqueline, with impeccable timing!

604. The degree to which we truly appreciate the amazing ‘Beings’ we are is equal to the degree in which we can truly open in deep appreciation of all around us for we are all equal, we are all unified. Thank you Jacqueline.

     1. That’s true ch1956. Out there is a complete reflection of what we have going on inside of us. The more our appreciation grows for ourselves, the more we can appreicate others and the life we live in.

     2. Well said Christine – all we need to do is keep turning the dial up a notch.

     3. It goes hand in hand, the appreciation of oneself in our truth and love and that of others who are just as we are, no more or less regardless of the outer appearances. Only in its universality is appreciation valid and sustainable and is fullness can be felt so tangibly and deeply in Jacqueline’s article.

605. Jacqueline your depth of appreciation for who you are and who we all are is deeply touching and inspiring. I’m sure we can all say that it feels great to be appreciated for who we are and it is true, there is much to appreciate. The more we do appreciate, especially the seemingly small things, the more we build and deepen a loving relationship with ourselves as we are confirming in truth, our Love. The truth of the greatness of ourselves, of the same we see in another in that moment, and of the greatness we share together with another when we express our appreciation. With this the power of appreciation is what deepens our knowing that in truth we are all Divine in essence and it is only through Love that we are connected to All.

606. Your expression an inspiration and most deeply appreciated Jacqueline.

607. Appreciation is such a key ‘ingredient’ of the soup of life. It is almost like it forms the basis of the flavours and helps bring out all other flavours in the soup of life. A little sprinkle of tenderness, a pinch or two of commitment (large pinches please, as this is another key ingredient), stir the ingredients in the pot (anti-clockwise of course), and then a drop of appreciation (no, make that a dollop, a big one) … and a twist of acceptance… to complete the bouquet. And how could I forget to mention it is best to use joy as the stock, as this brings so much sweetness right from the start. The longer you let this soup simmer delicately, the more the flavours come out to be appreciated. Be sure to stop and smell the aromas often, allow them to fill your house and homes and open the windows so all around will get to benefit too. The great thing about this soup is that there is enough to go around for everyone, so hand out the invitations and let’s have a soup party!

     1. What time is your soup party Henrietta? I’m going to give myself an invite…

     2. oh this is gorgeous Henrietta, sounds like a nice cup of soup!

     3. Yes please. I am so there. 🙂 🙂 🙂

     4. Love it Henrietta – ‘brotherhood soup’ now that’s a recipe that is a natural for sharing – definitely no squirreling away required as it never runs out! Pure magic!

        1. Love it Tamara – ‘brotherhood soup’ made from the finest ingredients from Hennrietta’s amazing recipe. Invitation accepted to join the soup party!

     5. Absolutely gorgeous Henrietta, this recipe should be in every cookbook – the recipe for life.

608. I am appreciating all that you bring Jacqueline and the simplicity and clarity with which you have expressed your appreciation of surrendering to that which you know is true – the Ageless Wisdom Teachings. My life changed too the day I heard Serge Benhayon presenting on Fire and prana and Soul and spirit. From this day on life then made sense and I appreciate deeply that so many people have been offered this opportunity to make different choices.

609. I agree with you Jacqueline knowing about spirit and soul and that there are actually two types of energy has changed my understanding of life and what it holds beyond words. Knowing the difference between spirit and soul opens up the universe to us.

610. The power of appreciation is grander than we think, it becomes the wind under our wings when it is spoken and practiced from our hearts.

     1. Very beautifully said and so true Esther. Appreciation is key in deepening our connection to Love and as such embodying our Divinity.

        1. Absolutely Carola, Esther. It can be a challenge at first to appreciate oneself yet when we allow ourselves to truly appreciate it changes everything in our life.

        2. So true David. I have found that even the appreciation of the smallest things brings light to our lives, by confirming the truth, which also brings light to the interactions between us.

     2. Absolutely agree Esther. Appreciation is so often brushed aside and rarely seen in its true worth for how important it actually is to live every day

611. Jacqueline, your appreciation of your life and where you are now is inspirational and I appreciate what you have shared here so much because I can feel “you” and you are truly awesome.

612. Jacqueline you share very clearly and honestly what appreciation is and how it can be for us all. And your appreciation and understanding of who you are, your choices and where you’ve come from oozes out of this article, it’s palpable and very inspiring. Appreciation is so necessary and it heals, it allows us the space and grace to confirm who we are and take the next loving step – this is something I am learning and beginning to appreciate more! And of course underneath everything is energy what we align to, creates it all, should or not (aka spirit), and once we’ve made that choice everything flows from there – when you put it that starkly, ‘I created my life from the energy I aligned to. In other words, this was the energy I allowed to run my body.’ I can feel what we put upon our bodies, what we expect them to wear and how it’s about that decision to align. And we are presented always with a choice. Thank you for sharing, it’s amazing to feel and read and offers us all the opportunity to ponder where we are and where we’ve come from.

613. I really like the part you talk about ‘nurturing and true nourishment’. Often the word nourishment is associated with food, but really nurturing the body and bringing a tender love to the body is the ‘true nourishment’ will all very deeply need.

     1. I can see too Matt that appreciation is nourishment.

     2. Matthew – I love the appreciation you bring of nourishment through true nurturing, it has more depth and wholeness to it than nourishment being only through the foods we eat.

     3. Beautiful Matthew, when we nurture and appreciate ourselves it naturally nourishes us and just as you share this nourishment has nothing to do with food.

614. I agree Jacqueline, after years of thinking I undertsood energy, the presentation of the fact of there being two distinct types of energy was truly a revelation and a gift. Life made sense all of a sudden.

615. To re-connect to the Ageless Wisdom and to learn about the fact that we live in a world of energy and that there are only two energies prana and fire and that there is a difference between Spirit and Soul have been the most important teachings in my life. The Wisdom I access today is beyond what I could ever learn and study at any University in this world.

616. To live by the spirit is a constant drive, a push, an ambition that seeks identification and recognition, we are in constant motion and never reach a state of true repose. Living by our Soul is a simple surrendering to the what is and serving the Divine Plan.

617. Such a rocket you are, Jacqueline.

     1. She totally is, Felix!

     2. You always make me laugh Felix!

618. That is so confirming Jacqueline and I agree, I loved your comment ‘I can appreciate the fact that, for as long as I can remember, I have been looking for this wisdom, knowing deep within me there was another way to live, another way to be that would initiate my path of return.’ This is a true confirmation of our choices to know this, here here , appreciate the journey.

     1. I love this too gillrandall. This wisdom does reside within us all, we just need to accept and connect to it.

619. To appreciate myself by being totally honest and accepting of who and how I am, now that is gold. What a beautiful feeling when I at last let go of something I have been holding onto, or admit I have been feeling resentful, angry or jealous, which makes me feel very vulnerable to express it, so being honest about that too, when the warmth starts to spread through my body and I feel really good about myself. I never recognised it as appreciation before, now I can name it and let it expand even more.

     1. Appreciation and acceptance go hand in hand for me. Accepting who I am in truth and then appreciating me in full.

        1. I love that Lee, it’s a match made in heaven.

620. When we appreciate we naturally take a step closer towards love… then to recognise how much we are surrounded by so many things to appreciate, that it reflects the love that naturally awaits our inward recognition, our world comes into full bloom and colour… Universal Medicine, indeed is the sign post that has initiated the way home…

     1. Love that line Johannebrown;’ Universal Medicine, indeed is the sign post that has initiated the way home….. for many thousands of people may I add.

     2. Universal Medicine has definitely supported me to appreciate all that I am and all that surrounds me. Through appreciation I have a much deeper understanding of love.

621. You have taken appreciation so big here Jacqueline. This has given me a lot to ponder on.

622. Appreciation is powerful. It breaks through so much of the garbage we create to get in our way of being all of who we are. To commit to appreciation is a commitment to breaking through this fog and I am personally finding it life changing.

623. Massive appreciation for you sharing so openly and honestly Jacqueline! I could relate to much you have shared, thank you!

624. Through your appreciation I am again reminded of the importance of appreciating, loving and living ourselves in the world. What a gorgeous reflection you offer us all.

625. So beautiful and healing to read this Jacqueline, knowing that with this wisdom we can return to who we truly are.

626. To feel the level of appreciation you live and breathe through your words Jacqueline, is so very, very powerful, as in expressing it it allows me to connect to this depth of appreciation for myself, which is a healing in itself. With all my heart I thank you for sharing you.

627. What you share Jacqueline is the Truth of the teachings that Serge Benhayon shares with us in The Way of The Livingness. I totally agree that appreciation is where it is at for the growth of our Soul here on earth and accepting ourselves as the Sons of God that we truly are is life changing!

628. Jacqueline to read your story and to feel where you are at and to know that this and more is available to every single person on the planet is astronomical when you consider that for so many people life is nothing but pain and struggle. You are beacon of light that calls people home.

629. Jacqueline your glory is quite literally cascading off the page!

     1. Brilliantly said Alexis, I absolutely agree. You can feel the flow of Heaven’s love through every one of Jacqueline’s words. Truly powerful Jacqueline, thank you again.

     2. Oh, So beautifully described Alexis.

     3. Yes I felt that too – so solid yet so bouncy – it was just oozing off the the page/screen and was a delight to read. Thank you Jacqueline – gold gold gold!!!

630. What really stood out for me while reading this was how simple you now approach your life. The acceptance of having aligned to spirit and accepting that dusting off, shaking out of the old ways and behaviours is all part of life. The more we shake off the more we get to experience and appreciate the glory that we are and that we are more than capable to deal with what is before us. And that when stuff, old behaviours, past hurts rise and present themselves to be shaken off, it’s there because we have chosen to say in one way or another, I am ready to let go of this. Thank you Jacqueline.

631. Beautiful sharing Jacqueline, thank you. I especially love this line, “as the angel I was born emerges, there is so much to appreciate.” If only we all held onto this knowing from when we were born what a different place this world would be.

632. Thank you for your blog Jacqueline. Appreciation is such an important step to accepting us in our divinity and glory and with that to re-claim our self-worth and making that the everyday normal of our life.

633. Appreciation is key, if there would be a secret, appreciation is it. It is like breathing, taking it in and out, and leaving a trail for all those to get inspired by.

     1. An appreciation trail for others to walk….. gorgeous Mariette.

     2. Beautiful expressed Mariette, appreciation is leaving a trail. With appreciating myself more I discover my deep love for any and everyone, loving people just for who they are.

        1. Me too, when I appreciate there is so much more room for love. What I notice is how little appreciation there is among colleagues at work. We spend a lot of time together while we never take a moment to just be and express what we deeply appreciate about the other.

     3. I totally agree Marietta – if there would be a secret, appreciation is it.

        1. I have deepened my appreciation over the last week and it is amazing the impact this has on me and others. Serge Benhayon shared that there is no intimacy without appreciation and this week, I noticed how more open colleagues were with me, sharing intimate things about their lives, really beautiful. The more I appreciate, the more my relationships deepen and become so beautiful and honest.

634. Soul = simple

     1. Gillian I really appreciate your simple equation. This is a great picture to hold in my body – thank you.

635. Simplicity is definitely the key to a life lived in joy and true harmony.

636. With simplicity there can’t help but be appreciation, for you feel, live and see the joy of being in divine connection and harmony with God.

637. I can feel your joy.

638. There is not a day that goes by where I don’t appreciate Serge Benhayon and his family being in my life.

639. Thank you, Jacqueline, your words are truly felt because they are lived and come from huge learning and letting go. Celebrating you and how you have come to love and appreciate the essence of your being, thanks to the constant reflection and support of Universal Medicine.

640. Appreciation is so healing and such a necessary confirmation of who we are. There are times when I have been feeling a bit down or self critical, and with the simple act of purposely feeling what there is appreciate about myself I have brought myself out of this dip back to feeling joyful and light again.

641. Such a beautiful and inspiring sharing Jacqueline on the joy of appreciation. This is perfect timing for me to read this as I have begun an appreciation program with friends and what an amazing feeling to deepen the appreciation for myself and how this supports me to bring more love and appreciation to everyone around me – a win/win for all.

642. ‘I appreciate that my reflection of my livingness offers and invites a truer way to live.’ Inspiring to read your appreciation of yourself Jacqueline and the recognition of your gift to humanity.

643. ‘I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become.’ I can completely relate to this. I used to thrive off drama and complications in my life, but it always left me exhausted and without any true happiness or joy. Now as my life has also become much more simple, I find myself enjoying it so much more and with can now live it with a vitality that is still quite new to me, and that I had never had with my old complicated ways.

644. It’s so important to bring this appreciation of ourselves to the forefront. In the past I have been used to waiting for affirmation from others before I could appreciate myself and that road can be easily sabotaged. Now everything is changing because of my understanding of energy and my path of return to the love that I am. There’s so much to appreciate.

645. Jacqueline, I can feel your appreciation oozing off the page. There is so much depth, understanding and love in your words. And you feel so claimed in your chosen path back to your Soul. Absolutely Wonder-full.

646. What a profoundly beautiful blog Jacqueline. When we start looking for the things to appreciate were realise that there is so much that goes unnoticed. So much of the time we are often focused on what is not there, and how much more we need to do, instead of the amazingness we have already got and achieved in our lives already. So this is great reminder to appreciate all the glorious things that we are already.

647. I love your sharing of the difference between the two energies especially how the choice to align then sets up everything that follows! Makes perfect sense to me and the experiences I have had, that moment you do something that is not aligned to your soul it is like fast forward the choices that then follow!

648. This is beautiful to read Jacqueline. Appreciation can completely transform a situation and even our entire lives; it extinguishes self criticism and self bashing, and influences us to look at the majesty or life/the world rather than indulge in feeling bad about the abuse, corruption and sickness that riddles it. Although it is important to feel those things, we can only begin changing them if we live a different kind of energy that will expose it and not blend in to the negativity or glamour.

649. Awesome blog Jacqueline, so so much to appreciate. When we align to spirit and therefore prana, that is a green light for complexity, emotion and drama to unfold in life. When one begins to align to our soul, fiery energy, life can be a lot more simple, loving and uncomplicated. I love your closing line “With the new found awareness of my true essence, I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God…” so true!!

650. I love how you describe the two energies we can align to, spirit or soul. Having spent too many years following a spiritual path – and going nowhere – I now find I am returning to the true loving vital me, through the way of the livingness. Huge appreciation to Serge Benhayon for showing us the way.

651. What I find is crucial which I took from your writing Jacqueline is that willingness to ask for support from others, we are not meant to do this life on our own. Yet this is something I would say I find hardest, and I am sure it is the same for many men, that willingness to overcome our stubbornness and get support from others whenever we are struggling or in need of help in life in any situation.

652. “I totally appreciate the understanding I have of myself, my life and my choices – with no judgement, criticism or self-bashing, but rather from a place that I have evolved to (self-love) through the lifestyle changes I have made.” Beautiful Jacqueline. Beating ourselves up serves no-one, whereas understanding and appreciation make a HUGE difference.

653. The fullness and depth of your appreciation Jacqueline is beautifully heartwarming and expanding to read – and has filled me with great and deep appreciation for the fullness our life can be when we allow ourselves to express a love for ourselves and one another to be felt and shared with the world. I could feel the clarity of your words and when you say ‘I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates’ my soul confirmed your words and I could feel the expansion within.

654. Through the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, like you Jacqueline, I have come to know the difference between spirit and soul and I have huge appreciation to Serge Benhayon for sharing this very vital piece of information with the world.

655. Beautiful Jacqueline your appreciation flows from your heart and embraces all that you have encountered as a consequence of choosing to return to your soul and that is an amazing blessing to bear witness to. The love you have chosen for yourself and all those who you now realise constitute real family i.e immediate family, friends, work colleagues and so on is very palpable and highly contagious. This is the real miracle of the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon, a man who walks through life with an open heart in true and awesome consideration for his entire family: humanity. The sparkle in your eyes and your radiant face confirms the fact that through understanding the difference between spirit and soul, prana and fire you have been afforded the opportunity to chose that which has truly, deeply nurtured you back to life in all your glory. Thank you for such a gorgeous and inspiring article that puts appreciation at the fore of every day in every way. There is so much to thank Serge Benhayon (and God) for in guiding us back to the true path of return to our immense and all loving Soul within.

656. Wow Jacqueline your expression of appreciation is palatable and my whole body says yes as I read your blog. Thank you for reflecting the depth of healing that goes hand in hand when we have true appreciation.

657. It’s gorgeous to feel your self-appreciation Jacqueline, I am further inspired to bring more self-appreciation for myself. Appreciation is just so powerful.

658. The depth of your appreciation really does ooze out of this beautiful article and yourself Jacqueline . What a joy to read and the appreciation is addictive and flowing from your honesty and true nourishment understood.”This loving nourishment flows into to all areas of my life. Thus I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it.” Beautiful !

659. When I reflect on Appreciation in the past, I remember I would appreciate things that were outside of me. I realised that this was of a person who felt that at anytime what I was appreciating could very easily and very quickly be taken from me. True Appreciation of self is felt when we re-connect to the amazing love from within, a love that has always been there and will always be there, all we have to do is claim it. Thank you Jacqueline for celebrating with us all the treasure that lays within us all

660. A beautifully illuminating article that communicates simple the difference between prana and fire, spirit and soul, and by choosing which one to align to how that determines how one lives and experiences life.

661. Since attending presentations by Serge Benhayon, founder of Universal Medicine, I have been able to bring more true appreciation to myself and thus others. Recently there has been a sense of infinite appreciation being IN my body for me to embrace and accept at a deeper level. Some hidden pain spots have been surfacing since this realisation!

662. Jacqueline McFadden, your expression in sharing from the depths of who you are is an absolute inspiration. I am in the appreciation of you and all that you have shared that graces me to embrace and appreciate, appreciate, appreciate.

     1. I agree Marcia it is a joy to read this level of appreciation and inspiring. I too appreciate that I am in the same realm of people who are choosing and expressing so beautifully, I could easily still be watching east enders every night plus everything else I used to watch to pass the time! Reading these blogs is the best use of my time.

     2. So true, Marcia, Jacqueline is a living breathing example of the power of appreciation and this blog is just divine.

     3. I couldn’t agree more Marcia. You can really feel the beauty and grace of Jacqueline in this blog.

        1. Yes Brooke and she confirms back to us all our own beauty and grace – we are awesome!

663. ‘I can deeply appreciate that my inner knowing was aware all along, as we all are, how the ‘return path’ to my soul was going to unfold…’ I can deeply appreciat this too. My inner knowing was not only always there but it a was very strong, I just did it know the right places to look and got distracted down a multitude of different spiritual paths when all along I had the answers inside me, I just needed to learn to trust them.

     1. I relate to this too fionacochran01. It is a great joy to connect to and appreciate the fact that every human being on the planet can connect to the truth if they choose to.

664. Jacqueline, I love this blog and it is a timely read when I am witnessing how much more work I have to do on appreciating myself. What you write is true, there is so much to appreciate if we allow ourselves to observe our path of return without critisim and self bashing, appreciation is huge and it can be felt in every bone of our body when we allow ourselves to feel it. For me, I need to constantly remind myself of the importance of appreciation as it is something that has not come easily to me at all but as I do I can feel my though patterns change and I reflect to others the opportunity to appreciate themselves too.

     1. I have walked the path of self bashing and self criticism too Fiona, and it was only recently that I made the simple choice on a daily basis to begin to appreciate something about myself, and when I did this I realised how amazing I am and just how self defeating it was, a trap that I fell into, to not appreciate who we are, what we bring and that how much difference we can make to the world.

     2. I too, Fiona, have not found it easy to appreciate all the aspects of myself that have changed over the past few years. Why is this so, when I can appreciate similarly the huge changes in others? I know it, but I am obviously not truly embodying it. I was so brought up to feel that any admiration of self was selfish vanity, and there are obviously still tiny remnants of that old belief lingering on in me. I am not going to beat myself up for this, just feel into and appreciate just how much has altered for me in my life, which is quite amazing. Yes, time to dig out and throw out that little remnant.

665. I agree, to go on The Way of the Livingness, to follow my soul, is to open up a long buried treasure box – and all that it is to appreciate becomes aware again.

     1. It is the best treasure in the world! There is a fountain of energy bursting forth just waiting to be connected to. What puzzles me is why I keep tapping into it and out of it, the choice to align to the soul you would think would be easy but I seem to make it a very hard job indeed, complication, delay etc etc. But this is an appreciation blog and I too dearly love that I know the treasure is there, I know how it feels to connect to it and I am choosing it more and more each day.

     2. To align with the soul, is to align with endless bounty that we can draw from throughout our lives, evolving and supporting others to evolve also.

666. There is a lovely simplicity in your writing Jacqueline – the description of two energies – prana or fire, spirit and Soul is simple and easy to understand and relatable for all.
     “I have come to accept that once I aligned to spirit, the course and direction of my life was already set – a life of separation from my body and from my Soul – which kept me totally irresponsible, unawake and completely unaware… in one word: anti-evolving”.

667. I Love Appreciation, I understand now that appreciation heals, and it offers deeper wisdom, for myself, for others equally, for the signs, gestures and messages that are all around, being open to appreciation brings a joy, for me it is a connection with God, with the All.

     1. Appreciation is the glue of a harmonious society.

        1. “Appreciation is the glue of a harmonious society.” Wow, Abby, such a simple comment, but it holds so much wisdom. I love it. That is one of the important requirements on the path to brotherhood. Learning to truly appreciate one another, and express that constantly to one another.

     2. I can completely relate to this Samantha. I notice that on the days that I do take time to appreciate myself more, what I do bring to the world and all that there is to be seen around me, I feel closer to my soul and to God.

     3. Without appreciation there is forever something missing.

668. I remember distinctly my first experience at a presentation shared by Serge Benhayon, you describe your encounter with the Ageless Wisdom beautifully “I surrendered to the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom on first meeting and from that moment I have been clearing, dusting, removing and getting rid of all my old behaviours and patterns that belonged to the way of aligning to spirit…” ‘Surrendered’ is great word for it, I had a physical sensation also where I could feel my shoulders where not as hunched, I let them go, I opened up, I was aware of my breath and I knew I returned to an inner truth that had been calling me. Yes when I reflect it was a surrender, something that I was not familiar with at the time, however I can now appreciate that this was the case.

     1. I really loved that description too Samantha, it is a playful way of sharing the letting go of what does not serve you anymore, it is inspiring to dust and clear out rather than bulldozing!

     2. I remember my first presentation too Samantha, although I surrendered and tears flowed because I knew in my heart I had found the truth, I was also aware that I was squirming in my seat because of all the lies and untruths I had been living under for lifetimes was now being exposed by the amazing man, Serge Benhayon, standing on the stage in all his fullness reflecting back to me that I was a Son of God too. And from that day I had never wavered from that truth, wobbled a bit yes, but the truth will never go away because it is inside me, as indeed it is inside of all of us.

     3. Lots to Appreciate Samantha!

669. The depth and wisdom you bring in this blog is gorgeous – every paragraph is resonating deeply within me. How simple it all is when we recognise the truth of ourselves in all others. The connection with another, even a stranger is also the hand of God.
     “With the new found awareness of my true essence, I can deeply appreciate the hand that connects us all, the hand that created us in the image of God, the hand that created us all equal in love and that the hand that is offered to me by you, my friend, or by a stranger, is also the hand of God…”

670. The second aspect of the blog that rings all the bells, is that when we are living from our soul, our life changes, our lifestyle changes, and the deep commitment to the all shines through. I’ve seen this transformation in people and it is deeply inspiring.

671. What a great example of appreciation. The aspect that jumps out at me Jacqueline, is that with true appreciation it touches every aspect of life, nothing is not being appreciated for all it brings. I’ve been allowing myself greater space and awareness to appreciate all that I am recently and it makes a huge difference.

672. Haha – there is alot to ‘appreciate’ in this blog! In particular what jumped out to me was the understanding that we live life from one of two primary sources… fire or prana, the soul or spirit. It is this fundamental choice that guides our everyday decision… one leads to simplicity and the other complication.

673. Your appreciation also oozes from this blog Jacqueline, it’s wonderful to read. Appreciation is an ingredient without which we cannot blossom, appreciation nourishes us, and supports us to continue to make those choices towards Soul…and as you say, then there is more to appreciate.

674. I deeply appreciate the incredible foundation I have built for myself and my family and within my own body to access my own love. The steadiness I feel in recognizing my hurts as they emerge and being able to release them, steadily holding those around me as they release theirs. The clarity with which I am now seeing life, being able to make clear decisions and choices, without the old familiar flux and confusion. That my life purpose is now clear, revealing the details to me piece by piece. I deeply appreciate that I rarely experience anxiety now, feeling and knowing God within me. WOW, so much to be thankful for, there isn’t a moment to waste, to live this life in full.

675. I so enjoyed the claiming of your livingness in your writing Jacqueline, claiming the power of your absolute honesty and commitment to love and truth. It could not be more true, appreciation is gold and it allows for all the bold and brave work we do in becoming aware, to settle in to being our reality.

676. Ah ha!……Jacqueline what a true beauty of a blog you have shared here. I love the exquisite appreciation you now have for yourself, others and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings presented by Serge Benhayon. A celebration of everyone as Sons of God, all walking this path of return together.

677. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates” . This has been my experience too, there is such more simplicity, flow and direction in my life. I feel my Soul in constant communication with me, it’s a beautiful and loving feeling. Knowing that the more we appreciate and embody the appreciation the more our Soul communicates.

     1. “Knowing that the more we appreciate and embody the appreciation the more our Soul communicates.” Beautiful Aminta, how could we not want to appreciate when the result is so divinely beautiful, connection back with soul. What more could we possibly need?

678. Appreciation is such an important factor in our evolution back to our true Beingness. Without it we stay stuck in those old patterns and momentums with nowhere to go. Your celebration of appreciation is a much appreciated Jacqueline thank you.

679. Jacqueline, absolutely love your sharing on appreciation, can feel the joy and appreciation through your sharing. I can so relate to all you have shared. To truly accept and appreciate the gift of God and our path to return through the Teachings of the Ageless Wisdom, has also completely changed my life, thanks to Serge Benhayon who continues to share the Ageless Wisdom with us all.

680. Appreciation is something I am definitely still working on but feeling more and more. The more I connect to my body and the beautiful natural flow and rhythm that is constantly flowing through the connective tissues in my body, the more I am appreciating and confirming myself as a divine multi-dimensional being and that it is only ever a few small steps away from living this as a reality.

681. This is a very timely blog for me as I am going through a big life change at the moment. I can at times feel overwhelmed with all that needs to be done but then when I stop and appreciate what has been accomplished, the weight lifts and I see my way forward again.

     1. It’s crazy the pressure we can put on ourselves and our bodies to tick things off a list, under the belief that after completion we can relax and appreciate what we have accomplished. But I love the concept of appreciating throughout and in doing so stopping and lifting the illusionary and unnecessary pressure and reconnect to a quality that inspires us rather than drains us.

682. I agree Susan, how can we truly nourish ourselves from an emptiness? There is nothing in the basket so to speak to give us the nourishment our soul requires. But when we nourish ourselves from honesty founded in appreciation then there is a bountiful supply of soul nourishment. It is like the best nutritional advice for our soul!

683. Yes Jacqueline, your appreciation oozes from this screen in your truly delightful blog.

684. Appreciation is like a nectar that enriches and allows the nourishment of our loving ways to be embodied and embraced in full. It also allows us to know who we really are. It is the spirit that forcefully ignores and denies all of the wonders around us and prompts us to take it for granted. Even if we align to those beautiful messages from our Soul, God Heaven that lay around us, it will never truly evolve us unless we fully appreciate them

     1. “Even if we align to those beautiful messages from our Soul, God Heaven that lay around us, it will never truly evolve us unless we fully appreciate them” so true Joshua. Appreciation is the bridge towards the next level of awareness. Without appreciation as my foundation I found I am constantly trying to better myself and in that never truly moving on. To truly move on is to deeply appreciate where I have come to and what is there around me, from there the way forward is clear.

        1. Appreciation allows us to deepen our foundations and confirm what we have built and what we no longer accept in our lives… Absolutely Lieke! What an amazing philosophy to live life with!

     2. An amazing philosophy to live our lives with indeed. Appreciating is such a whole body nourishing thing to do, and realising where I have come from it is an amazing philosophy to know and live by. In the past it would be struggling and trying to solve problems and issues by thinking… now it is about learning and appreciating all that I already am and this works wonders.

        1. Absolutely Lieke. Appreciation in its simplest terms is like giving ourselves a big hug of nourishing care, love and understanding

685. Even after reading only the first paragraph and choosing to appreciate something particular in my life, I can feel how it is like a key that unlocks the door to a deeper understanding and a spherical way of doing things.

686. Appreciation is indeed such an important thing which I am forever learning to deepen within my life. I am so used to only looking at what goes wrong but that creates immense anxiety, stress and exhaustion in my body. Appreciation creates a settlement, a feeling of being perfectly fine where I am at at the moment. Thank you for sharing – reading your blog was as if having a gorgeous warm shower of appreciation.

     1. That is a very accurate explanation of what I know appreciation to be Lieke, a deep acceptance and awareness of where one is right now and allowing things to gently unfold in their own time.

     2. Thanks for sharing Lieke, I found this to be spot on in my life also. Appreciation does allow me to feel settled, and it’s like things start to come together and make sense! “a feeling of being perfectly fine where I am at at the moment” – what a wonderful way to live life.

687. Appreciation is a lot like love, we have to embody both first. When we do, they are like a super concentrate… a little has enormous affects.

688. To live in true appreciation requires a body that lives the intent to permanently heal.

689. We can try as hard as we wish to make de-preciation your way, and find ugliness everywhere you look, yet the beauty of life will always be there in its full splendour reaching out to you.

     1. I love this comment Eduardo for it is ridiculous how hard we seemingly try to de-preciate and de-value ourselves and all the enormous beauty around us instead of embracing what is there to reflect to us how amazing and infinite the splendour is.

690. Turn these words around Susan, and you have’ honesty is nourishment – for the cells in our body!

     1. Love this Jacqueline ‘honesty is nourishment – for the cells in our body!’ and our cells appreciate this divine nourishment and expand in this appreciation.

     2. Food for the Soul – no better medicine!

     3. This is great play on words Jacqueline – Appreciation is manna from Heaven for sure!

691. When you move in ap-preciation, there is a flow, an easiness, a true, and a reconciliation with, and an embodiment of, life, that you can never even dream when you move in de-preciation. The latter word is perfectly appropriate. As we move we de-preciate life and ourselves. We live in a value-less world.

     1. I love how you bring in the opposites here Eduardo – Ap-preciation and valuing or de-preciation and de-valuing of ourselves and life is the mark of living with responsibility or irresponsibility.
        “As we move we de-preciate life and ourselves. We live in a value-less world”.

692. My appreciation of Universal Medicine deepens every day as now everything makes sense. I appreciate why I am here, who I am, my purpose in life and perhaps most of all I appreciate that I now know true love and the fun and responsibility of sharing true love and myself wherever I am.

     1. Beautiful Mary, your words are sweet music to my ears. To feel someone speak so lovingly of themselves is very refreshing in a world where we seem determined to totally abuse ourselves. Beautiful to feel it does not have to be this way.

693. “I have observed and acknowledged how much support there is for me (and for us all), but the difference is I now allow the support in, knowing I am responsible, worthy and deserving to receive it.” What do we make out of what is being offered to us is key. When something good comes your way, do you really stop and appreciate it or do you acknowledge it and be thankful for but continue in the business as usual living and seeing life negatively? Do you ‘read’ what you got as a confirmation that things come your way if you really struggle for them so you see the good things to feed an unloving drive? Or do you take them as part of seeing life from love and hence receiving a confirmation of what are you already feeling? What does your face reveal everyday? What does your gesture communicates?

694. I really appreciate your beauty, your honesty and your commitment to self and the Ancient Wisdom all of which are very inspiring.

695. I have this lovely sense of how supportive and how it connects us to one another by the very simple act of putting a hand out. Children are absolute naturals at this, they innately know the loving connection that is represented by the action. The elderly are wise enough to know the importance and significance and don’t hesitate to take your hand. But in between is a proceed with caution zone. . . we can be too proud, independent, private, withdrawn or too needy and it smothers so a hand is withdrawn. Whatever the reason we are missing out on the connection that is offered.

696. How you ever wondered why stock take is such an important part of any business?

     It gives a clear facts of what is left in stock and what is needed for the next financial year.

     Appreciation can be likened to a stock take. When take stop of what we currently have and then we know where to move from there. Imagine having a business where you didn’t know what you had in your store rooms, how could you be a productive business?

     Of course we can’t exactly compare personal appreciation to performing a stock take for a business because we know that the quality that we are far out weighs the quantities that we possess.

697. I hadn’t realised until recently how little I have appreciated myself; in fact I would spend most of my time berating myself for something I had done wrong, hadn’t done; the list is endless. And with this realisation I could feel the heavy toll that this constant berating has had on my body and the quality of my life. It has taken time and I have slowly begun to appreciate me, but I still find myself slipping back into old beat me up patterns that these days are felt instantly in my body and can’t be ignored. To continue to grow this appreciation for myself is a work in progress that I am totally committed to, and as a result it gets a little easier and lot more natural every day; after all there is so much to appreciate about me

     1. Absolutely Ingrid, I concur completely. Appreciation has been for me also the missing element in my everyday living, feeling stumped at most times when asked to consider what I can appreciate of myself. Yet with the awareness of this today I appreciate my choice to commit to and develop this for myself.

698. Appreciation is indeed so powerful to us Jacqueline as you share in your blog. It is like food for our soul, a very nurturing way of being with ourselves in full acceptance of who and where we are in our return to our soul. There are that many area’s in life we can appreciate for ourselves that for sure we cannot ever appreciate to much, only to little.

     1. Yes Nico appreciation is sustenance for our Soul and confirms us on our path of return as the old patterns fall away.

     2. “It is like food for our soul” absolutely Nico, and a meal we should eat often, as it helps us to realise, we don’t in fact go anywhere on this Earth but it is all about the quality in which we live day by day.

        1. That is great to remind ourselves Harry. We are going nowhere on this earth, we only turn around the sun and come back every year to the same spot again, which we can only use as a point in life to check to if we have evolved in the quality of our living or not.

699. Such a beautiful blog, Jacqueline, I so appreciate and love all that you have shared with us here. I too have so much appreciation especially for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, who have given me also the huge opportunity to come to know who I truly am, a beautiful Son of God, and showing me the way to truly live that being I am. With their assistance I have cleared so much that was not true, and coming to a full appreciation of who I am and what I am capable of.

700. “Appreciation oozing from my body – in committing to life, committing to service, committing to the ‘return path of my Soul’ and committing to representing Heaven here on earth” – this is just so delicious. Appreciation is about deep acceptance and surrender of what is already, and forever.

701. Beautiful claiming of your true amazingness Jacqueline. It’s so true how through appreciation in all it’s forms we can then build a foundation of self love and let go of the negativity that has pervaded in our lives. I can feel for myself how appreciating all the little things in life has helped me with this in many ways and taken the pressure off of the past investments and controlling manner in which I lived to meet those expectations of how my life should look.

     1. Well said Michael, I agree each and every little stop we take to appreciate is a moment in honour of the All we are a part of.

702. There is so much to ponder in your blog Jacqueline but this line takes the cake for me today …”I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.” If living in complicated ways in our daily lives has been keeping us separated from the communications of our Soul, and simplifying life is how we re-connect our inner antennae to Soul – then that is the best news ever. Who wouldn’t like to simplify things.

703. I loved reading your blog it just makes so much sense. I am learning everyday how powerful appreciation is. I am noticing through appreciation many things change and blossom. These are a few of the wonderful things that are happening to me through appreciating everyday……. my relationships in my life are blossoming more and more, I have noticed animals coming to me in nature more and more, I can feel an expansion within my body, just opening up more and more and feeling the joy, that I now know that lives within me. I’m very aware all this is happening, because of the appreciation and love I am starting to have for myself and others.

704. “I have come to accept that once I aligned to spirit, the course and direction of my life was already set – a life of separation from my body and from my Soul – which kept me totally irresponsible, unawake and completely unaware” – Acceptance is the biggest bringer of true joy in one’s life; it certainly has been the case for me, where I continue to learn and deepen the fact that once there is understanding there can be the ease and spaciousness of the great science and volume of acceptance. When there is space, more capability is seen, responsibility given and also taken.

705. “I got to relearn and understand that there are two types of energy that we can align to – prana or fire – in other words, spirit or Soul. Once you have aligned to whichever one, all your choices thereafter come as a result of aligning to that quality of energy.

     I created my life from the energy I aligned to. In other words, this was the energy I allowed to run my body” –

     Jacqueline you put this truth with such finesse in understanding. When this/the above is understood everything falls into place, because absolutely everything can be explained…and no longer is one left wondering in anxiousness about Life, for we come to know Life’s ultimate purpose. Energy. Fire. Truth. Love. Divinity on Earth.

     1. Well said Zofia, understanding life decreases anxiety…. what a game changer that is. 1 in 3 Australian’s experience anxiety, yet could the answer be so simple….. understanding life… I know I keep saying it but why is this not taught at school???

706. Jacqueline, what an absolutely beautiful and gracefully penned testimony of self-appreciation, and collective appreciation. Your simplicity is felt in every sentence as describe everything about your life, and together with whole Life itself. I just completely love this.

     1. Yes Zofia, the completeness and lack of complexity in what Jacqueline has written is truly palpable. Felt amazing to read.

707. Appreciation to me is magic, it makes us light up from the inside. I particularly love offering appreciation to another but I have to say that if I do not appreciate myself then I am always comparing with someone else about what I should have done or could have done if I had made different choices. The appreciation can unwittingly come out as empty compliments. Since stopping that pattern and simply appreciating the choices I have made and what I bring to life, I have found that my appreciation of others has been far more genuine because I know I cannot, could not and do not want to do it all. I truly appreciate the work we can all do when we bring our different ways of looking at the same situation into the one space. Like the colours of the rainbow – when we all shine brightly the rainbow is complete.

     1. A stunning comment Lucy so can’t not but appreciate you… and absolutely agree… appreciation is magic that makes us light up from the inside… a truly gorgeous thing to both embrace and express.

        1. Totally Samantha. To truly appreciate oneself and another is to celebrate the divine essence within us all, and each particular, unique expression of this.

708. “Yes, I can fully appreciate my commitment to healing my old ways, and then feeling how much I resisted delaying the truth: I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God….
     “I rejected my body, I rejected being a Son of God” I can feel these words to my bones Jaqueline and how I have done this too. Since I have begun to appreciate who I am, I no longer question that I am a Son of God there is an absoluteness that comes from appreciation that changes how I think and how I move, and within this it becomes harder to reject and disregard my body knowing that this is a vehicle with which I can express God through.

709. Thank you Jacqueline for this amazing and inspiring blog. Appreciation is the key to connecting us deeper to our soul, to people and to God. I have learnt to appreciate myself which then leads to me naturally appreciating everyone else and everything around me. Appreciation simply connects us to a deeper love and joy that already exists within us all.

     1. Beautiful Chan. Yes, appreciation is very powerful and offers a vital key to our evolution.

     2. Very true chanly88 “Appreciation simply connects us to a deeper love and joy that already exists within us all.” Appreciating another is seeing the divinity that is naturally there in all of us, seeing past the issues and stuff that sometimes layers us, and seeing the inner light that shines. Through being open to this I have found that I have deepened my relationship God and my expression of joy and love.

710. “I also deeply appreciate how amazingly simple my life has become, and in that I have learned that through simplicity, my Soul communicates.” Yes Jacqueline the beauty of appreciation allows us to expand and feel the enormity and grandeur of who we are. Simply stunning. Thank you, a beautiful confirmation for my morning.

     1. These words resonated strongly with me too Kelly and every day I am amazed at how simple my life has become, and in turn so appreciative of the choice I made to attend that first workshop presented by Serge Benhayon. To let go of the complication that I existed in for so long has revealed that there is another way of living; one that is lived in harmony with my soul, my body and all those around me.

     2. I find appreciating myself is an opportunity to remind me of who I am at my core, and this allows me to expand and drop deeper into myself and all that I bring. It is a deeply healing process and one that I highly recommend to everyone.

711. “I totally appreciate the understanding I have of myself, my life and my choices – with no judgement, criticism or self-bashing…” – this surely is something to appreciate; developing deep honesty with ourselves, in how we live and developing our understanding of why we do things the way we do, without bashing ourself when we see our errors.

     1. Well said Fiona and with deep appreciation we are able to strip away hardness, judgement, jealousy and comparison.

     2. Making the shift from dishonesty to living honestly, in other words making the shift from the head to the body is huge which brings so much understanding, wisdom and clarity, that there is no space for self-bashing or self-judgment, and is indeed Fiona something to deeply appreciate.

     3. So important and indeed freeing to be honest with where we are at and how we feel, it is a key that allows true choices and changes to be made.

712. Life is truly amazing, this is truth. The amazingness has always been there, but most of our lives we look elsewhere in search of a lesser version of this true amazingness only to come back to re-discover that it has always been with us. Grace brings us back and there is no greater joy than to reconnect with Soul, no greater purpose but to be express this forever deepening relationship. This changes everything about what life is believed to be, it unveils again what is truth, that life is truly amazing, every single moment of life is amazing including all the moments when we were not aware of this, for all those moments in culmination reflects back to us how truly and deeply loved we are to be so irresponsibly wayward and still be here today to feel and express this truth; it also includes every such moment after when we choose waywardness again, to have the opportunity to be honest and accept ourselves deeper than before, to truly change the patterns of judgment into deep appreciation, understanding and nurturing of ourselves. Life unfolds its deep amazingness to us as we unfold the truly grand amazingness of ourselves.

     1. Gorgeous comment Adele, life certainly is grand and amazing. To appreciate this opens our hearts to truly living and embracing this grandness in us all.

     2. So true, Adele. When we fight life, we fail to recognise the amazingness life is and offers.

     3. ‘Life is truly amazing’ when we are aligned with the energy of our soul. The magic, the wisdom, the clarity is all present, there is no trying, forcing, or doing, just a beautiful unfoldment of return at a pace that we can handle.

     4. I know I am divine in essence and everyone else is also divine in essence, therefore life must be also divine.

713. Appreciation gives us a sense that life is more than just us, and that we in fact play a big role in the harmony of our home, our area, our workplaces and the world. Appreciation gives us grace to see all that we bring to the world, the huge order that we belong to and that we are a part of that magic, and the choices we make every day are contributing to what could be a very loving and harmonious world, or a world that is a bit dysfunctional and disharmonious.

     1. Beautiful Harryjwhite….appreciation gives us grace to see all that we bring to the world. We are all contributing to this world, by how we live everyday, in our body.
        Anyone reading this, ponder on….. how are you contributing to our world? What energy are you aligned to that you are reflecting out to the world we all live in?

     2. ‘Appreciation gives us grace to see all that we bring to the world and the huge order we belong to’, beautifully expressed harryjwhite, appreciation also brings us back to honouring who we truly are which then has the ripple effect of honouring all others on this planet…a win win!

     3. Beautifully expressed Harry, especially “Appreciation gives us grace to see all that we bring to the world”. I am coming to the understanding that the more I appreciate me the more I appreciate others, and from there the ripple effect flows on to the world.

714. Jacqueline I absolutely love what you have shared and is exactly what I needed to read this. APPRECIATION is a game changer, knowing the difference between SPIRIT and SOUL is a game changer, people willing to embrace and live these are the GAME CHANGERS!

     1. LOVE feeling your contagiously joyful words Sharon; i am alight!!! —“….knowing the difference between SPIRIT and SOUL is a game changer, people willing to embrace and live these are the GAME CHANGERS!”

        1. Crack up Zofia, I loved reading Sharon’s comment also and was feeling so appreciative 🙂 for everyone that write these blogs and comments, as per Sharon’s comment they support so many greatly. Amazing what is being achieved here.

     2. I’m with you Sharon…..so true. There is so many people out there that don’t know the difference between spirit and Soul. When you do know the difference and add a big dose of appreciation with lots of love…..WOW What a “GAME CHANGER” as you said. This blog should go out to many, so people will know all this and that they do have a choice to choose, what thoughts and actions they want every day, by choosing which energy they will align to….as a result, this is the life they will live.

        1. Absolutely Sharon, knowing the difference between spirit and Soul IS game changing. Once known, come responsibility, honesty, add to this appreciation then how is it not possible to transform ourselves – a recipe for evolution!

     3. Hear Hear Sharon! And … we sure as fire need some games changed in this world!

     4. Spot on Sharon! And it’s great to feel the huge numbers of game changers out there all over the world.

     5. I love your comment Sharon and yes, appreciation really, really does change the game.

     6. Yup, you nailed it Sharon Gavioli!!

     7. With you on this one Sharon, all the way. Living appreciation is a game changer and there are more and more choosing this as their way.

     8. You made me laugh with delight Sharon, so gorgeously true. Why wait?

     9. Love your comment here Sharon and feeling very joyful reading it over again!

715. Amazing Jacqueline, it is very important to appreciate ourselves, how far we have come and the choices we make every day. By appreciating we get to feel ‘our connection with our Soul’ and that there isn’t actually anything to achieve. If we get caught in any sort of struggle, dilemma, or issue, appreciation is the antidote for this and the seeming trouble is seen in a different way.

     1. yep, it is like focusing on the ‘what is not’ and on the negative rather than the ‘what is’ – it is so important to confirm and appreciate and not deny the mistakes we make but simply learn from them. Otherwise we tend to fall down a rabbit hole of self-recriminations and get lost till someone manages to show us that we have not seen that the exit to this rabbit hole is right under our noses!

     2. Indeed Harry, how I feel what appreciation brings to me is a surrendering in my body and to become really relaxed in that, releasing all the anxiety that the doing for recognition and rewards otherwise would bring to it.

     3. Yes Harryjwhite there is so much to appreciate, that to get caught in our dilemmas or issues takes us away from the bigger picture and loving learning taking place.

     4. So true Harry, appreciation negates the struggle and the complication. With appreciation life becomes both more simple and a whole lot more enjoyable!

     5. Oh so so true Harry, any kind of complication or struggle tells me it is my spirit in the drivers seat, when I surrender and allow and actually appreciate who and how I am and what is truly there before me, my Soul steps in. It is a wondrous yet very normal and ordinary process. I am appreciating it more and more.

716. Appreciation, Appreciation, Appreciation…..Jacqueline, this is such a great title for your blog. We can never have too much appreciation for ourselves and others and yet many of us hide in the shadows when the word is mentioned, as if it somehow doesn’t apply. Yet each one of us has much to appreciate in ourselves, in others and in everything around us

     1. Indeed Jane, appreciation is like food for the soul in our return to it and in no way we can appreciate to much, only to little.

        1. Gorgeous Nico…. There can never be enough appreciation, it is our return back to soul.

717. Jacqueline, How awesome to feel your appreciation and to be inspired by the same! My life too has totally changed since being introduced to Serge Benhayon and the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and I am also learning more and more to expand in my appreciation of all that this way of living has, and continues to offer me, every single day…

     1. Same for me too Angela, every day is an opportunity to choose more and more appreciation, filling our life with love and joy.

        1. Reading your comments Angela and chanly88, I can feel that appreciation does not have an end or a finish but a constant evolving and expanding if we allow ourselves to choose this on a daily basis.

     2. Absolutely Angela… I’ve been inspired by Serge for many years and over that time my life has changed beyond recognition. What was once a confusing set of life choices that stretched out in front of me has now become a very simply rhythm that if lived allows me to feel amazing day after day, and gets me involved in the wider issues that abound.

        1. Connecting to the soul brings a flow and simplicity to life that provides true freedom.

     3. There isn’t enough appreciation possible for what Ageless Wisdom brings to one’s life, it provides an ever expanding depth and purpose that is impossible to measure.

        1. Totally Kate, what I appreciate about the Ageless Wisdom, even though I am re-imprinting the steps I have walked over lifetimes, the same steps again and again, is my future this life, the next life, and all lives after that. I appreciate how Universal Medicine is providing and setting up the amazing lives that I have in the future. I am so very appreciative of what is on offer to us today !!!

        2. Agreed Kate, it is incredible how much of a gift the Ageless Wisdom bring us when taken from the page and put into practice. It is reconnecting us back to so many things we innately knew but have forgotten.

718. How esquisitly you have expressed your deep appreciation, evolvement, family and your return path to your Soul Jacqueline. I felt your deep appreciation and gratitude of Serge Benhayon for making the Ageless Wisdom available and I too am deeply grateful.
     Like you Jacqueline I feel so much appreciation when I see how far I have come and how committed I now feel to life and service. I feel I have been given a new life through simply choosing to change the old patterns and behaviours that imprisioned me and held me in separation to my Soul. I just absolutely love love love your blog. You are gorgeous – with much appreciation and love Francesca

     1. Resurrected, reconnected, alive, all words that I relate to my life being a completely different experience from that which it was 10 ago…”I feel I have been given a new life through simply choosing to change the old patterns and behaviours that imprisioned me and held me in separation to my Soul.” This experience is beautifully expressed here Francesca Leaton, choices can be so powerful and we have an opportunity in any moment to make a different choice.

719. Understanding our choices, and not being hard on ourselves about them is very important – so should definitely be appreciated!. When we remove this element of harshness from our lives, bit by bit, and embrace ourselves more, we allow more love to naturally be as our foundation.

     1. Yes Amelia, very true and it should definitely be appreciated as the harshness holds us away from knowing that foundation of love.

     2. Yes, Amelia, “understanding our choices, and not being hard on ourselves about them is very important – so should definitely be appreciated”. A really good point to make, it is so easy to beat oneself up for our past choices, but we need to understand that we did not really know what we were doing, and it is absolutely counterproductive for us to be harsh on ourselves, that is not being loving to ourselves. We need to build a body of love, being harsh on ourselves is not love.

        1. While only berating and/or punishing ourselves for the choices we’ve made, in effect only keeps us held within that paradigm, in not introducing appreciation for the very fact that at all times we have the choice to learn from those choices, we are keeping ourselves prisoner to our own judgements, and forfeiting the opportunity for healing.

        2. Yes Beverly, appreciation is how we build a body of love. And Doug, that certainly is an new perspective: Appreciation connects us to the future, yes I can feel this to be true.

        3. Agreed Doug, I was bashing myself yesterday. When I stopped to talk to someone about it on the phone, what I was feeling was something to acknowledge and actually appreciate. I was feeling my-self, my choices, I was connected to my body, I was open to accepting my momentum .. all I had to was to accept that I was. The power was just there when I appreciated. How much do we not appreciate ourselves just because we are actually feeling life? It is a whole lot better than numbing, reacting, not committing and checking out.. ..

     3. Yes, and when we appreciate what we are doing well, when we are confirming whenever we are genuinely doing well – which can be much more often than we initially realise – then to confirm this is completely different from rah-rahing ourselves, an action that leaves us feeling empty when the hype is gone. To confirm ourselves is very different as it does not lead to us needing more confirmation but creates a platform to move forward from.

        1. This is very beautifully said Christoph, appreciation is a way to confirm us in who we truly are and that gives us a platform we can stand on, when we face the world and everything that we are not.

        2. Beautifully said Christoph. Confirmation builds a super solid foundation – the perfect a launchpad into the next depth of love and truth.

     4. I am learning this big time Amelia, and it is really beautiful when you realise that you are no longer going into over drive critical voice wielding a bat to hit yourself with when you make a mistake or repeat something you do know isn’t supportive but are choosing to do. I had that recently and the bat just wasn’t there but a let’s have a look at what is going on underneath this was there.

     5. Beautifully expressed Amelia, and shows how important understanding is… we can focus on forgiveness but that just makes what ever needs forgiving bad. Whereas no matter the act if we bring understanding, no forgiveness is needed. To forgive is to not forget to understand and then we can let go and be free.

     6. Yes Amelia, developing understanding is the key to developing a loving relationship with ourselves – and others.

     7. Very true Amelia – when we appreciate ourselves it is far easier to be honest about what we are choosing and make any changes that are needed.

     8. Well said Amelia, we allow more love to be as a foundation in our lives when we choose to be less hard on ourselves. Sounds like a great recipe for joy and appreciation.

     9. Important point you have made Katie, it’s a way of life most have accepted – the sabotage, the self-abuse and the self-bashing. I hear it often, people actually say this out loud to themselves “You stupid person”. The inner dialog is so more insidious and never-ending. We are not choosing to evolve. To evolve as Jacqueline has stated is choosing the energy to align to stop those punishing thoughts.

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