THE TAO OF RECEIVING
A few months ago, over drinks and bar snacks with my fabulous clients, at the also fabulous L’Auberge del Mar, I found myself exclaiming aloud to Amanda Frances and Jessica Caver Lindholm, that “I’ve gone two tater tots over my aligned limit, now I feel SO GROSS!”
I’d been tater-totting merrily up until that point, not a care in the world. My body was up to the task, and handling it like a BOSS. It was very aligned to indulge.
Of course they were truffled tater tots, very fancy, not at all like the God-awful fried potato gems served at indoor playcentre birthday parties for grubby children here in Australia … so perhaps that made it okay.
But yet I knew it was not at all okay. Two tater tots over my aligned limit was a serious matter of digestive disorder!
Peals of laughter broke out at my seemingly ridiculous declaration, but I wasn’t surprised at all when I woke up the next morning feeling murky as all get out.
Why? Because I understand the Tao of health … and of all things. Well, I wouldn’t have put it in those words at the time haha (bit wanky!), but it speaks deeply to our work here today. In particular you’re going to want to understand this, if you’d like to understand how to RECEIVE with great ease!
Make no mistake, you’ll certainly get what you NEED … but it won’t be the thing you’re so desperately seeking!
In fact, life has a not-at-all-funny way of REQUIRING you to learn your required lessons until they’re, well – learnt!
Got the message loud and clear, but chose not to hear it? No problem! (Says your higher self, says life ITself). Imma just gonna keep on sending it back to you until you lock that shizzle in!
But yet, despite the fact that you DO already understand all of this; it’s been impregnated into your souls blueprint since before time began, YOU decide that you’ve no choice but to keep.on.pushing.
Demanding.
INSISTING.
And fighting futilely, begging and pleading with every ounce of your energy, deluded somewhere along the way with the ridiculous idea that desperation and a force energy can lead to anything except more desperation and the gradual but certain decline of your every personal resource as you repeatedly break yourself and your entire inner being DOWN –
Without ever allowing it to be filled again.
Would you like to know how to receive?
How to be in continual expansion?
How to EXIST in a state whereby life has no choice BUT to say yes to you?
Where money simply shows up … rivers and rivers of it, abundantly and with a sense of flow and ease, always absolutely oodles more than you could ever require or desire for ALL of your living, giving, serving, fun and adventure needs?
Where soulmate clients are ready and waiting everytime you notice the desire to call ’em in?
Where your body seems to DELIGHT in being a premium level vehicle not only for energy and function, but also for beauty, grace, and strength? Where you can viscerally FEEL it working with and FOR you, a direct contrast to the experience most live with of feeling glumly certain that their body is doing everything it can to make their life difficult, and that every speck of fat burned came at tremendous cost?
Where perfectly aligned relationships are par for the course …
Where the very seas seem to part before you as you go about your day – traffic lights turning green right as you drive up, parking spots opening up, the last juicy tangy blueberry always left for you!
Would you?
Would you like to understand how it not only GETS TO BE FREAKING EASY, it is MEANT to be freaking easy?
Of course you would, you’re not an idiot. Just a misguided drive AF badass revolutionary fucking leader who got so damn caught up in the hustle, the push, the grind, that she never fully understood the inherent and REQUIRED ebbing –
Which is part of that.
Receiving works on a simple principle of balance.
No, not ‘having balance’ in terms of how most people understand that expression. What does that even mean? I’ve no idea, and certainly no kind of schedule or planning situation to attend to my business and life that could remotely be considered organisationally balanced!
I’m talking about BEING balance.
About living in the sweet spot.
The not too much,
Not too little,
But JUST right littlest bear sort of bowl of porridge spot.
Where you feel perfectly satiated, but not at all full.
Where you’ve expressed your creative gifts, not avoided a sungle word which wanted out, but also never tried to do more for the sake of it.
Where you’ve moved your body to its edge but not past, yet also stopped not even a second short.
Where you are, quite simply, IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU’RE MEANT TO BE AND WHERE IT FEELS RIGHT.
When you’re in the sweet spot, you’re living in alignment with the rules of nature, the order of the universe, the way of life itself.
When you’re not in alignment with all of THAT … can you see that it’s literally impossible to receive the things you want, the physical manifestation OR the inner state of fulfilment, happiness, love, ease, which you long for?
It would be ludicrous to try and argue against this, particularly when all of this also naturally includes being in alignment with YOU.
Everything is precisely as it’s meant to be.
It’s perfect balance, a state of exactness which in return DEMANDS the delivery of all things expansive, positive, wonderful, life-supporting, RIGHT.
This is not a tight fisted demanding. It’s a demanding in the same way the sun demands your attention when it shines upon you. Because of what it IS.
In this place, you are of course ever moving, ever adjusting, ever aligning, because that’s what balance IS. It never stills. Yet it is always exactly on the right spot.
You feel … certain.
Open.
Uplifted.
Energised!
Ready and excited.
And, whether or not the physical has shown up yet, you feel TAKEN CARE OF and you know that all will be well.
What you’ll need to understand, and what the very vast majority never will, so desperate are they to get THERE that they refuse to ever be HERE and thus ALLOW ‘there’ to come to THEM, is that the way to be in this place?
The Tao of receiving? (And indeed of all things)
Is simply –
And also ONLY –
To BE IN THIS PLACE.
It’s always been FULLY available to you, to follow a path which is exactly right for this moment right here. You can feel it down to your cells when you do just the perfect amount of work, of push, of hustle, but not too much.
Just as you can feel when you ate the perfect amount of food, with the perfect mix of nutrients.
Or when you did the perfect workout.
Or when you spend the perfect amount of time lounging about, resting, or being in trance.
And, you can feel when you’re not doing enough of these things. Or when you’re doing too much!
The EASY way to have ALL you want is to simply pay attention and BE EXACTLY WHERE YOU NEED TO BE in all areas, all the time!
It’s NOT hard.
But yet, most will continue to push such a notion away for another day, insistent and annoyed as they declare “I can’t today! I can’t afford to! I just have to MAKE life respond to me right now!”
Or, they’ll simply never choose to have the conscious awareness to CATCH their endless cycling on the hamster wheel of despair, their every move conditioned from fear, from scarcity, from lack, from a mindset that says “I’m not there yet! I can’t rest, relax, be happy, be safe, stop, breathe, till I’m there!”
For this to work for you, you will need to decide to commit TO living in perfect balance.
Don’t bullshit yourself that you don’t know what that feels like, and how to find it, you FULLY have the ability already to show up in exact alignment in all areas.
But you will need to commit.
And you will need to be patient.
And you will need to repeatedly detach from the screaming of your fear-mind that it has to has to has to have whatever!
For how long, you may well ask, for all these things?
Oh, only for life.
I guess that’s why we refer to the Tao as the way of life.
Because when it ends?
Is when it ends.
But if you’re not on the way?
I’m not entirely sure you ever began.
You’ll find the way within, where it always was.
Just remember, as you think about whether or not you have time for that today –
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