“Appreciation is a higher vibration than gratitude because in appreciation there is no awareness of what you’ve overcome. In gratitude, it’s like I’m grateful that I no longer cannot pay my bills, and it doesn’t have to be that way. Often when you’re grateful, you’re grateful that this is no longer in your life, where appreciation is a higher vibration because it contains less resistance.
Meditation is resistance-free also, and what we’ve said is we would rather see you in appreciation than meditation because in appreciation you are alert and in the active mode of being able to receive an impulse or an idea, where in meditation you’ve quieted your mind enough that even though an idea comes, it comes with less momentum.
Let’s clarify that (this is really good) – let’s say that you’ve been focused upon something and it’s something that doesn’t feel good, and you have a lot of momentum going; you’ve been talking to people about it and there’s quite a bit of momentum going about it. And you’d like to have different thoughts about it, you’d like to feel differently about it, but it’s difficult for you to do that because you’ve activated so much about what you don’t want that there’s a lot of momentum about what you don’t want. And when you think about this subject, you get what you’ve been thinking about, and so the momentum just gets more and more and more.
So then let’s say that you decide that you will meditate, and so the next morning when you awaken before all this momentum has really gotten strong, you sit and you manage to quiet your mind; you focus upon a sound in the room – maybe the air conditioner, it doesn’t matter what it is – you focus upon something that isn’t very interesting but that does hold your attention, and you manage to quiet your mind so that you feel that detachment that our friend was talking about earlier. And in the process of that, since there is no thought active, then there is no resistant thought active and your vibration rises.
Well, as your vibration rises, now you have access to pure, positive thoughts, but there’s not much momentum about these positive thoughts because you have quieted your mind – you’ve slowed your mind so that you’re not in vibrational sync with what you don’t want, but you’re not in a place where you could really receive something like we’re delivering to Esther right now – you’re not up to speed with it. There’s no resistance in your vibration, but you’re not up to speed with what your Inner Being would want to give you about all of that. You’re not up to speed with all of it.
So then you move into your day – you’ve become more active with your mind, you begin thinking about things that you appreciate, you begin getting up to speed. And now later in the day when you’re momentum is faster, now the benefit of that meditation then kicks in where you receive an idea, and because you’re up to speed, you receive the idea.
So we’re talking about two things: We’re talking about the tuning, which is resistance or not resistance, and then we’re talking about staying there long enough that there is momentum. Momentum and Law of Attraction are the same word, really, because what you focus upon is going to garner more and more and more momentum.
~Abraham speaking in Atlanta, GA on October 28, 2017
