01/05/2023
What is your relationship to receiving?
As a recovering people pleaser, it has taken me years to even begin cultivating a healthy relationship to receiving. I have always been the giver, to the point where it felt uncomfortable for me to be the receiver.
Something that really helped me transform my relationship with receiving was the idea that when you receive, you are offering someone else the gift of giving.
If you are a natural giver, you have likely noticed that it feels good to give (when it is coming from a healthy place). When you step back into the role of receiver, you are giving someone the opportunity to receive joy, nourishment, and fulfilment from the act of giving.
Isn't that beautiful?!
I derive a lot of joy, pleasure, and fulfilment from my healing work, and for the longest time, I shyed away from receiving healing from other practitioners. What I didn't understand was that I had been depriving others of the gift of giving, of experiencing the same joy, pleasure, and fulfilment in their work as I did in mine.
Now I see a variety of healers, and it feels SO DAMN GOOD to step back and soften into the role of receiver!
And if THAT isn't enough to encourage you to soften into receiving, consider that when you close yourself off to receiving in one way, you're closing yourself off in ALL THE WAYS! Energetically, you can't call something in while simultaneously refusing what is already being offered. Manifestation requires you to be in the soft and open energy of receptivity!
So, I invite you to reflect on (and share if you feel open!) what your relationship is to receiving? What is your resistance (if any) to receiving? What can you do to begin gently softening into receptivity (this could be as simple as accepting a hug, an offer of help/support, or a compliment)?
