When you appreciate, you recognize the nature of unconditional love and how allowing yourself to feel that increases the intangible value of an experience. Appreciation is like the absence of doubt, fear, negativity, and all those things that have no relevance to the energy you are vibrating when you feel good. Consider thoughts of fear do not cross the mind when your focus of attention is on the frequency of love. You may sense selective awareness, as if the lens of love only sees mesages of love. As you find the silver lining, see something good in others or in every situation, you appreciate or, make the most of where you are. You know resistance cannot emerge in allowing.
Gratitude resonates a slightly different energy. Gratitude is a feeling that emerges as part of the process of sensing accomplishment, like after you overcome an obstacle. It is then you feel grateful to be where you are after hard work or struggle. You may feel grateful to be alive after surviving an accident or health issue. In this way, choosing to feel grateful brings balance. It brings you from a state of fear back to the inner knowing of the love that is. A spark of doubt still resides within you about the possibility of having to endure pain and suffering again. You recall what unwavering acceptance feels like by feeling gratitude, but do not dwell there every moment. You falter slightly.