Process #1: The Rampage of Appreciation - Ask and It Is Given

This process is best used when you are between 1. Joy / Appreciation / Empowered / Freedom / Love and 5. Optimism on the Emotional Guidance Scale.

This Rampage of Appreciation game can be played anywhere and at any time because it is a game that is easily played simply by directing pleasant thoughts in your mind. If you were to write your thoughts on paper, it would enhance this process, but it is not necessary.

Begin by looking around your immediate environment and gently noticing something that pleases you. Try to hold your attention on this pleasing object as you consider how wonderful, beautiful, or useful it is. And as you focus upon it longer, your positive feelings about it will increase.

Now, notice your improved feeling, and be appreciative of the way you feel. Then, once your good feeling is noticeably stronger than when you began, look around your environment and choose another pleasing object for your positive attention.

Ask and It Is Given - pg. 143

Every time you appreciate something, every time you praise something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe: “More of this, please.” You need never make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you are mostly in a state of appreciation, all good things will flow to you.

We are often asked, Isn‘t love a better word than appreciation? Isn‘t love more descriptive of the Non- Physical Energy? And we say that love and appreciation are really the same vibration. Some use the word gratitude, or a feeling of thankfulness, but all of these words are descriptive of Well-Being.

A desire to appreciate is a very good first step, and then as you find more things that you would like to say “Thank you” about, it quickly gains momentum. And as you want to feel appreciation, you attract something to appreciate. And as you appreciate it, then you attract something else to appreciate, until, in time, you are experiencing a Rampage of Appreciation.

Ask and It Is Given - p. 146

I love doing Rampages of Appreciation the first thing in the morning. It lines up the rest of my day for me. I find that if I do a session of appreciation, things just sort of fall into place for me and I am going with the flow more often than not.

I have several rampages on my blog that I will list below, after I do a little rampage first

What an amazing day today! It is a beautiful sunny day with a cloudless bright blue sky. The trees are in bloom and the birds are twittering away. We got a terrific wind chime for Christmas that is playing a wonderful tune as the spring breeze blows through it. I even saw a yellow swallowtail butterfly while I was working in the garden. I love watching the kids and dogs playing outside in the terrific weather. I LOVE spring!

Our kitchen is coming along terrifically. I think they may be done next week. It looks SO much bigger now. The cabinets are beautiful and the appliances, WOW! I think I may have to venture into the cooking area to give the new double oven a go. Steve is the cook of the house, but I think I will have to elbow him out of the way!

I love seeing our neighbors - A and C. They are sisters who are also babysitters to our kids. They are off a college and were home for Easter with their family. C said she will be home for the summer! Yeah! That means we don’t have to worry about summer care for the kids

What a great day!

Previous Rampages of Appreciation

Hmmm looks like I haven’t written an Appreciation post in a while. I think I am going to work on doing this one more regularly as it is easy to do and lines me right up!

“I Love…” - An Exercise in Appreciation
Morning Tea and Appreciation - 11/21/07
Morning Tea and Appreciation - 9/9/07
Appreciation & Gratitude

Connee Chandler, has a great exercise which puts to use the Rampage of Appreciation process, Three Appreciation Games.