FROM MY CRYSTAL BOWL 1:

THE PERSONS GREATEST EMOTIONAL NEED IS TO FEEL APPRECIATED!

Appreciable – capable of being perceived or measured
Appreciate – to understand the nature, worth, quality or significance of ~, to recognize with gratitude, value…from Latin ad + pretium, the price.
Appreciation – sensitive awareness; esp. recognition of aesthetic values / a judgment, evaluation / expression of admiration, approval or gratitude / an increase in value
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All religions speak of the holly trinity of body, mind and spirit. Celts and their Druids (priests) who worshiped trees knew it and lived according to the holly trinity, too. Worshiping nature indeed is the perfect analogy, or a truly wonderful way of worshiping divine powers (which to us are not to be reveled directly as it seems). This is because the nature can well exist without us but we cannot exist without the nature. 2500 BC three quarters of Europe was still covered by the forest, and to the Celts there every tree, every lake, hill or mountain had its own soul with the Dair, which is the Celt name for the Oak, having the highest, the most powerful spirit.
The tree is a good analogy for the trinity: first there are the roots deep in the soil that nourish the tree, keeping it alive which might be compared to the soul or to the awareness. Then we have the trunk that carries and bind the soul and the spirit - this is the body, the spine that binds the genitival awareness with the cosmic awareness which is the spirit, the crown of the tree. Each one of the three components but needs its own food in order the whole creation can survive because one cannot exist without the other.
Body needs material food to get going, mind does the analytical procedure of information we daily receive and cope with, and spirit needs spiritual or emotional food in order to function well. If you don’t give or feed the body, if you starve it, the mind and the spirit will leave it and look for a new body. If the spirit does not get its food… well, we do know that the body does not function without spirit for long. So, we have to take care, we must nourish all three components well in order to have a good, productive and satisfactory life.

Even on the unconscious level, we always know what we are doing – and why. We have an innate knowledge about what’s right or wrong. There are many poor reasons for not showing appreciation to somebody who would deserve it - with jealousy among them being the most painful one. We know that jealousy is a lack of self-esteem, a feeling of worthlessness of the self. If I show appreciation, than I am less than him/her but I want to be more, is how the ego dictates and demands such poor behavior, and prevents one to show appreciation where it is due.

Men’s first and basic right but is that of the freedom, so if we know we have done something good to somebody who can barely squeeze a ‘thank you’ out of his month, we will feel hurt unappreciated and will turn away from this person.

To appreciate appreciative people is the most sane thing to do – and honest.
If one doesn’t show appreciation for others, others won’t appreciate him.
Appreciation expressed is like petrol tanked into the car. No fuel – no motion. And this goes for both parties.