It is sad that Christianity teaches positive practices like appreciation, rebrands it as gratitude, and directs it at an imaginary being. In this way, people don't have to connect their everyday actions to anything but rainbows and unicorns specially gifted to their deserving selves. Anything unpleasant, must be the work of the devil or the fault of others (or the fault of others "giving place" to the devil).

This is what used to turn me off to such practices until I learned to separate them from how Christians and others have appropriated them for their own uses, and find the kernel of validity within them.