Practice Receiving

My wife and I were at some friends for dinner last night and a great conversation kicked off about the law of attraction. In fact, with these friends that's not uncommon, we talk about it all the time, but this particular conversation was about receiving, in particular.

The law of attraction states that you just have to ask, with a focus on why you want what you are asking for and it will be yours. Well that is true, but you still have to be ready to receive what you asked for and I mean ready.

We know that the universe does not simply put $1,000,000 under your pillow just because you asked for it...(although that can happen if we truly believed it could but that's a topic for another post)...but rather the universe would align to facilitate opportunities for you to make or earn $1,000,000. You have to be able to identify and take advantage of those same opportunities. More importantly you have to practice receiving. Everything.

• Those opportunities presented
• Help received
• Money given
• Time off awarded
• Praise
• Compliments
• and anything else that comes your way.

I recall in one of the books I have read about "Strengthening the Receiving Muscle", which caused some chuckles at dinner and I may not fully remember the context correctly or even the quote but I'm sure the sentiment is this:

To be great at anything you have to practice. Therefore to be good at receiving you have to practice. Stretch that receiving muscle, do your warm ups, practice, practice practice and then when you are called upon to receive you'll be in the best place mentally, pysically and emotionally to receive all that is coming your way.

And that's no bad thing, because, you see, you asked for it to come your way in the first place.

I'll sign off now but one of the greatest ways I can think to practice receiving is to remember to say thanks. To say thanks, out loud, sometimes to no one in particular for everything big or small I receive.

Thanks to you all for reading.