Receiving Sweetness

How’s your relationship with receiving?

I’ve struggled with it. There’s this surface feeling that gets retractive and hard when others give me gifts of any kind. My body hardens and my heart closes off.

Partly I’ve been conditioned to distrust. Partly I feel an unworthiness of such praise, giving and gratitude.

But I’m learning to un-condition.

Slowly.

To remember that receiving is just as rewarding as giving. That in receiving I give a gift to that person giving; that in being cared for, the carer is rewarded with oxytocin and good karma; that receiving a compliment is nourishment for the soul if can lean into the good in me - no matter the reason it being given.

I’m learning slowly.

I’m re-membering that my creative flow depends upon it and will depend on me giving energy out again after I have received. A compliment received becomes a pay-it-forward opportunity.

I’m learning.

Giving is not losing. Giving is expansive and heart opening.

Giving is the grounds for putting all of your good work to use; for sharing those parts of you that can be recycled and readied for new opportunities, new growth, new things.

I’m learning.

Slowly.

That giving is receiving. And receiving is giving.

Practice: Giving is receiving. And receiving is giving.
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