Now That We’re Less Stupid

In the last few weeks I’ve unpacked Knowing, Being, and Perceiving. To sum up, when you know you know, you don’t need outside confirmation for you to trust yourself. When you relax into yourself you have more access to Being – congrats if you’ve reclaimed some of yourself from the programming of doing. And when you pay attention you Perceive. Perception is a fundamental step to being less dumb and owning what we notice. These attributes combined, create a sweet space. This is the space of receiving.

What the hell is receiving? It’s our ability to be totally present to life. To receive absolutely everything without judgment. A lot of people will reject this. Who wants a head cold? Or for their car to break down? We all want the roses without the thorns, I get it. But if we parse out what we’re receiving we inevitably cut ourselves off from what we want or what could expand our world and delight us.

This looks like:

Me, really wanting a lap cat, but not willing to receive the stray cat outside, only to discover, he’s a lovebug lap cat extraordinaire.
A client, resisting making more money, avoiding growth, to avoid receiving a larger tax bill.
Another client, so full of judgments of their body they won’t allow themselves to receive love.
And another, so in fear of receiving their family’s judgment, they won’t come out of the closet.

We all do this, in ways large and small. We modulate, bend and contort ourselves so as to not receive. And when the damn breaks, as it does, the pent-up energy behind not receiving can be a destructive clarifying force. This is not comfortable or easy. But what rushes into the sweet space created when we’re willing to receive? In my case a sweet lap cat, in my client’s cases, hot juicy sex, loving connection & relationship, and larger sums of money. And that folks, is the magic of receiving.