After discussing giving and asking, now the last link between reciprocity and abundance: receiving. While you need to be able to ask for what you need, you also need to be able to receive it. Else, you limit the abundance you can create in your own life or handle in your life.

Over the last couple full moons, we covered links between reciprocity and abundance, discussing first giving then asking. If you thought last issue’s suggestion to practice asking was difficult, now we’re covering the last of this triad: receiving.

Receiving can be difficult here in the United States’ culture where we’re taught to do things all by ourselves. Perhaps as a child, you were taught to be humble when you received something from someone. While admirable, it may have resulted in difficulties now in receiving from others.

While you need to be able to ask for what you need, you also need to be able to receive it. If you cannot receive what you get, a compliment, gifts, money, etc., then you will short-circuit receiving all together. Thus, you limit the abundance you can create or handle in your own life.

So over this next moon time, focus on saying “Thank-you” every time you receive a compliment, acknowledgement, appreciation, gift, money, etc. If you gave something to someone and they responded with a “thank-you” to you for that gift, then reply with “you’re welcome”. This is the natural verbal exchange that results from the reciprocity of asking, giving, and receiving. Don’t add anything after either of these phrases: no rebuttals, no excuses, no explanations, no return compliments. No matter now different, this pattern will help you familiarize yourself with receiving and hook you up in the reciprocity of give and take and ask and receive.

Next Month: One year of Abundance Tips. Remembering that abundance is about cycles not the calendar.