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noticing, nurturing and encouraging
positive qualities in oneself and others
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I created an “appreciation jar” and some appreciation “pages” last year, to encourage myself to become more aware of the many positive qualities that I see each day in myself and others… qualities that may often go unnoticed or unappreciated.
And so, learning to shift and deliberately bring more awareness to the abundance of wonderful positives… appreciating them and nurturing the conscious awareness of them in each of our lives.
“What one appreciate appreciates”…the more we bring these positives to awareness, the more they will be nurtured and grow.
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Some positive “qualities” to become more aware of…
qualities we all have…
pausing each day,
observing, reflecting, remembering, acknowledging, appreciating
nurturing the positives
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keeping track
perhaps jotting down observations and appreciations each evening,
noticing the abundant positives in our lives each day,
in ourselves and each other,
bringing those appreciations to a more conscious level of awareness,
encouraging….appreciating….nurturing…
nurturing the positives
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And so…
“an appreciation jar”
to notice the positives in daily situations,
in others and in ourselves,
to recognize and acknowledge them,
to appreciate and nurture them,
to develop and use them in more settings and situations….
to pause, notice, appreciate,
nurturing the positives
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What one appreciates… appreciates…
appreciating the abundant positives,
nurturing ourselves and each other
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Part of “Nurturing Thursdays,” hosted at Becca’s blog On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea. Please link to Becca’s blog to view her Nurturing Thursday post and to link to the wonderful posts of other Nurturing Thursday participants.
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I think this is a wonderful way for us to remember the many positives that happen to us in our lives. It seems that a visual or concrete reminder is all we need sometimes. Great Nurturing post !!!!.
Namaste,
Isadora
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thank you, Isadora, I find visual reminders really helpful… bringing the awareness of positives to a much more conscious level….
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t’s so easy not to recognise those qualities we take for granted and focus on we don’t particularly like about ourselves and others. So this visual reminder is a brilliant way of turning that around and nurturing appreciation on a daily basis. Thank you so much 🙂
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Yes, it’s easy to not recognize the positives…and so to try to shift into doing that….visual reminders are helpful…and I like it when they’re “pretty” looking too….gentle colors and all…I’m so happy the ideas resonated with you… 🙂
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Yes! Appreciation appreciates! I linked this to my gratitude jar post.
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It does appreciate…exponentially, at times. A nice gratitude basket, too. Here’s a link to Nancy’s gratitude jar post: http://nrhatch.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/gratitude-is-gratuitous-not-fortuitous/
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I posted a couple of New Year’s ago about an “appreciation jar” for the entire year — and looking at its contents when those moments of encouragement were needed and then again as part of a New Year’s Eve ritual … I LOVE the summary here!! 😀 THANK YOU for being YOU and linking. You are a gift to us.
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What a special tradition you have! I still have the full glass with those little “appreciations” in it.
Thank you, Becca….
I printed out and taped up several copies of the one page list of qualities/patterns…. those “qualities” are similar to positive habitual reactions/patterns that are available to each of us…so helpful to keep that positive reminder in view.
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YES it is … gentle reminders of who we ARE if we don’t get distracted and/or buy into the world!
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Container for that which we value! Beautiful 🙂
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the “actual” container for those qualities???….our hearts… 🙂
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