Little paradox I'm working with

[Steppingfeet]

The self that gives thanks, the third-density or sixth-density self, is still a “player on the stage” – it still perceives some degree of individual identity, thinking itself in some way separate from the Creator.

Yes, our non-dual philosophy asserts that there is no separation because all is forever one, but so far as our perceptive web informs us, we as entities have a relationship with the Creator.

Insofar as we seem to have a relationship, illusory though that ultimately is, praise and thanksgiving is a means of attuning the consciousness to remember who and what we really are. It honors and acknowledges the truer nature of things, and helps to bridge that seeming distance between the finite self and the infinite.

As anagogy was saying, and as I agree, its disciplined use raises the vibration.

Further, as Icaro was pointing out through his example of depression, you must consider that if you’re really engaged in praise and thanksgiving, you are not expending your energies reinforcing and energizing the illusion through attitudes and actions of judgment, blame, bitterness, defense, attempts to manipulate, control, etc. Instead, you are surrendering: you are affirming perfection, rightness, wholeness, completeness. You are releasing the deviant will, accepting the greater will, giving thanks for what is, and, as was mentioned previously, melting resistance.

In so doing, you’re also practicing faith. The spiritual discipline of praise and thanksgiving is undertaken not just on the sunny days, but especially in days of seemingly cruel and punishing weather. That absolutely requires the presence of faith to allow you to see and know what is not seen and known: all is well and the appropriate response is love.