The past few weeks I have been on the lookout for signs on the Law of Receiving. In a previous post I gave a bit of background on this Law, information that I learned in The 11 forgotten Laws and Raymond Holliwell’s book Working with the Law.
When you start being aware of something, it’s like if it jumps in your face all the time. In the case of the Law of Receiving, I am becoming more and more aware that people’s ability to receive is weak.
– You offer a compliment and it’s rejected or diminished: “Oh, this old thing…” or “I’m not that good” or “That’s not what my life partner says…”
– You want to pay the check at the restaurant and you have to get into a fight with the other person to finally get to pay.
– You are offering to help your host when you are invited for supper and it’s not accepted, even something as easy as washing the dishes after we are finished eating: “No! You’re not touching anything! I will take care of that in the morning!” Yet when you invite them they are the first at the sink doing the dishes…
– You are offering to share your knowledge for a specific problem and they answer: “We don’t want to bother you with this. You are so busy…”
– You are being offered a present and you answer in the case of a tangible gift “You shouldn’t have, I don’t deserve this.” or, in the case of an intangible gift, you simply refuse it by answering “No.”
I want to take all the underlying reasons that could be at the origin of these actions. I want to look at the result which is refusing the good that is offered to us. We are willing to give but unwilling to receive. We are simply stopping the flow because giving precedes receiving they say in the book and the program and they are the two sides of the same coin. We are accepting to give and give and give but we are refusing to receive even the smallest token of appreciation for what we have given.
We become better receiver when we become aware and understand that the two go hand in hand. Many of us have been raised with the idea that it is better to give than to receive. We are making a mistake in the understanding of this sentence. We hear “than” when it’s really written “then”. Let’s look at this sentence again with the correct word: It is better to give then to receive. What do you now understand? Quite a shift, isn’t it?
Please strengthen your receiving muscle and stop to think of your answer when you are offered something. You will then be on your way to receive more and more from life. Remember though, it takes time and practice…
Have fun receiving!