The increase in energy over the Holiday Season is partially caused by the increased vibration of joy, and in part because of the busy-ness that comes along with it. In the midst of wishes for peace and happiness, there are fights in stores and parking lots—largely caused by the mounting pressure around giving and receiving.
For us, there's always been so much focus on giving — sharing the perfect gift or experience — that there's very little focus or room left for the counterbalancing energy of receiving. It will always be more fun to give than to receive, and not just because that's what we were taught. It's actually who we are. It's in our nature to be givers.
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This is why it’s even more important for us to be able to practice the sacred art of receiving. We are the ones here to be examples of balanced energy. If we are focused on the out-flow of energy, we are reinforcing imbalance over and over within ourselves, and within the Collective. Receiving creates joy and en-joy-ment, and it creates the potential for other people to experience the art of giving.
When we have a blockage around receptivity, we actually increases other people’s stress levels because they want to give, and we make it very difficult, uncomfortable, and sometimes even downright painful. And when we are blocked in regard to receiving from others we are also unable to receive energy anything from anywhere. We create an imbalanced energetic exchange.
Yes, we’ve encountered indoctrination around speaking our desires and needs out loud to others.This can make it difficult to have an answer when someone asks us what we want of need. Well, as long as we are alive, we are going to have desires. They drive us to do everything that we do—from choosing food to living our purpose. When we cut ourselves off from expressing what those desires are, we eventually cut ourselves off from even knowing that they exist. This leads us to feel lost and without direction.
Face it. Everyone in the entire world likes to receive gifts—EVEN YOU. It's been old lessons or fear that has prevented us from being honest about it.
Almost always, our guilt wound is the block to receiving. This is the “voice” that tells us that we are not worthy or deserving enough to receive for any number of reasons. Very often this voice is very explicit about the why. As natural givers, we are already expending more than we receive, and this guilt wound drives us into over-giving even more—especially at this time of year when there is so much “threat” of receiving.
A common non-gifting example of over-giving can often be seen in the lives of divorcing or working parents. The guilt for not spending as much time with our kids as we would have otherwise drives us to convince ourselves that we need to spend a certain amount of time with them even though we might be tired, need to recharge, or just need to decompress from the day. Often, what we do instead, is convince ourselves that spending 30 minutes playing with our child when we really don't want to is the better action to take.
Then, we’re not fully present in the experience because we don't have the energy. The funny thing is, human beings naturally understand the need to recharge. People understand when you can't give anymore, and are genuinely surprised when you continue to say yes! (Aside: It’s this pattern that attracts narcissists to us, and that is another topic for us to explore at another time.)
The important thing about guilt is that it can be released. It is energy that’s tied to past actions, and the past is done. There's nothing we can do about it other than let go.
At this time of year, when we are naturally desiring to wind-down, breathe, and reflect we find ourselves becoming more and more depleted when we get sucked into the energy of over-giving and perfectionism (until now) without understanding how or why. Sometimes, the healthiest thing to do is admit that some things just aren't going to get done and be human.
The best part is that the realization that guilt drives us to feel undeserving and that prevents us from being able to receive is often enough to change this pattern on its own.
One other thing to know is that the mind shuts us down to receiving when it is overwhelmed or moves into a state of fear. If there is too much going on, we fear that we can’t handle anything else. We also become trepidatious about what will happen to us, for us, or through us if we are in a state of total receptivity. We begin to refuse everything from the simple gesture of being bought coffee to the sweeping life changes we’ve been praying for.
It is of the utmost importance that we strive to break these patterns as we enter a new decade. We are in a new paradigm, where lack mentality has no place. Our higher selves, divine team, and and angels have so many gifts in store for us. They are holding so many things for us that we've been asking for, desiring, and that are even better than anything we could imagine. If we don't learn how to receive, we will never actually be able to experience these things.
We know that there is enough for everyone, and that everyone is entitled to infinite abundance. It's our birthright—all of us. Letting go of the old stories allows us to become receptive and to vibrate in resonance with that energy.
TLDR:
• Flow needs to work in both directions. If it is blocked in one way, it is blocked in all ways.
• We need to build the muscled of believing we are deserving with practice.
• We create imbalance in ourselves and the collective when we refuse to receive.
• We are in a new paradigm where lack and limitation has no place.
• We are being called to strengthen our voices around what we need and desire. This can lead us directly to our Purpose.
• All that we have been asking for is waiting for us, and if we can’t even receive from other people, how on earth are we going to accept all of that goodness?
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If you're really ready to clear the energy of lack and limitation that's been holding you and the collective back, please join our group Angelic Support Session at 1:00 pm Eastern Time on December 30th, 2019. We'll be doing an end-of-the-year cleanup of all lack and limitation energy and bringing in a new and higher vibration imprint around receiving, acceptance, and knowing our worth.