Appreciation

I've been speaking and writing about gratitude for almost ten years now - and I'm still amazed at how challenging it can be for me to focus on what I'm grateful for at times.

Many of us run away or hide from our fears because they seem scary, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. We also erroneously think we "shouldn't" have them or that we are somehow "wrong" for feeling scared.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I've been thinking about my own love/hate relationship to this great holiday.

When we become conscious about our own habits, thoughts, and patterns as they relate to worrying, we can start to make some healthy choices and changes.

Focusing on giving thanks as often as possible this and every month will help us to open to inner wisdom and the spontaneous flow of our multifaceted lives.

To be free and vulnerable with the one you love the most is to risk. What if by speaking up, you lose the approval of your loved one? What if you rock what is an otherwise comfortable boat?

I saw Rev. Michael Beckwith perform a re-commitment ceremony for a married couple a few years back and it blew me away.

What if we lived more of our lives focused on who we are, and not so much on what we do, what we've accomplished, what we look like, who we know, what we're striving for and more? What if the most important thing in life is actually who we are?

Here are a few things you can do to challenge yourself to get rreal about money, and in the process liberate yourself with more freedom, less stress and increased peace about your finances.

On this coming Peace Day, I invite you to stand tall in the value and worth that you are as a human being, even for a few moments during the day. Celebrate and esteem yourself.

This is my 40th consecutive week of posting articles on HuffPost. The process has been a great gift and a blessing to me. Writing each post has give...

Self-acknowledgment and -appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

There is a lot of bad news around. No news in that. Does it get to you? I limit the amount of news I read, hear or watch because it gets me down. B...

Take some time away from cyberspace and connect. Appreciate. See life and yourself as small miracles and allow yourself to experience awe.

The art of saying Thank You and how we do it is changing in this paperless age. Thank-you notes still arrive after dinner parties, weddings, and baby showers but, for many of us, they've fallen by the wayside for Christmas and Birthdays - especially to those most closest to us.

Realize that what you have today really could be gone tomorrow. Appreciate people, appreciate time, and appreciate what you have because these moments are very precious.

Duke Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Twelfth Night Ac...

Great, warm, perfect relationships exist and are available for anyone who wants them.

Being grateful is a way to be expansive, especially when we are feeling lacking, negative, cast down. Gratitude is at the heart of a renewed flow of giving and receiving.

When I was a kid my mom used to say to me, "95% of what we worry about never happens." She recognized that I was the "worrying type" and was trying to help ease my mind.

Every year, I look forward to the Oscars.But what I never expected from an evening at the Academy Awards was an exquisite example of appreciation in action -- but that's just what I got a few weeks ago.

"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace." William E. Glad...

Instead of just giving the love of your life something "nice" or taking them out to a special place, give them the best gift of all; your genuine appreciation.

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." Hal Borland Whatever has...