Sometimes there are long-standing feelings of gratitude within people that = trip them up, because when you feel grateful you are looking right at the p= roblem that you overcome.
So when you feel gratitude because someone pulled you out of poverty, or yo= u feel gratitude because someone liberated you in some way, that very grati= tude is laced with the vibration of overcoming something unwanted and it is= responsible for some sticking stuff in your vibration.
Gratitude leans resistance-ways, appreciation leans allowing-way.
In other words, they are two very different vibrations.
Alaska Cruise 2008, CD 5