We all want to be happy. We all desire affluence. The best way to experience happiness and wealth immediately is to Appreciate all that you have and all that you are right here and right now.
All too often, we tend to believe that we lack certain aspects of our lives that keep us from being as happy as we could be. We feel like we need a better car, a better house, a better job, or more money. In fact, we are conditioned to believe that we should always want something more than what we have.
What we are not conditioned to do, is to simply Appreciate that which we already DO have. The simple act of Appreciating enables us to become aware that we are in fact already much wealthier than we habitually believe.
If we take stock of our lives in terms of This Present Moment, which is the One Moment of Experience, and take a detailed inventory of what we DO have, we find that we are in fact already quite wealthy.
In terms of This Present Moment, we find that we already have an abundance of food, clothing, shelter, and cash that we need, at least for This Moment! We may not have enough of a stock of these things to last us an entire lifetime, but unless we are in very extreme circumstances, we can usually accept that we DO in fact have more than enough for This Moment. And because This Present Moment is the One and Only Moment of Experience, this means that we Do in fact have all that we need right here and right now.
We can go beyond these basic needs and appreciate the friends we have, the family we have, all of the experiences we have had, our health, the air that we breathe, and at its essence, we can can simply appreciate the fact that we are alive, and that we have the opportunity to live and enjoy and experience this life.
The act of Appreciation is one of the most powerful and effective ways of exercising our Personal Power. When we truly appreciate all that we are and all that we have right here and right now, we shift from a mindset of focusing on what we are lacking, to an awareness of what we already have. This enables us to enjoy and Appreciate life as it is right here and right now.
Since This Present Moment is our One Moment of Experience, and we can therefore only ever experience well-being right here and right now, appreciating is precisely what we need to do in order to experience wealth and happiness.
Learn to Appreciate all that you have and all that you are right here and right now, and you will never feel like you lack anything. It is possible to feel happy and fulfilled right here and right now, simply by Appreciating all that you have and all that you are, right here and right now.
One other benefit of the act of Appreciation is simply that what we focus on expands. When we focus on what we lack, we are in effect supporting the continuation of the experience of lacking. Conversely, when we focus on (appreciate) what we already have, we not only receive the immediate benefit of recognizing the ways in which we are already blessed and already wealthy, but we actually support the continuation of experiencing even more of what we have.
For some, this seems counter-intuitive. You might think that if you appreciate what you have right now, that is the same as being satisfied with your lot in life as it is right now, when in fact you really DO want more. This leads you to focus on what you don't have, instead of appreciating what you do have.
The problem is that even though this approach seems logical, it is not effective in producing what you do want. Focusing on what you do not have, and failing to appreciate what you Do have, will only keep the same conditions in tact.
Another way to view this matter is to ask yourself: at what point is enough, enough? Even if you do succeed in accumulating the things you want and creating the precise circumstances in life you desire, will you have the capacity to actually appreciate them then?
Maybe, but in either case, the ability to Appreciate provides you with the capacity to gain maximum enjoyment of what you DO have right here and right now.
And once again, because This Present Moment is the One Moment of Experience, Right Here and Right Now is the only place and time that we can ever experience anything.
Thus, we either have the capacity to Appreciate our lives, as they are, right here and right now, or we do not. Which approach is better? Which is more empowering? Which better enables us to experience well-being?
The answer is pretty obvious.
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