The Energy of Receiving

You can't receive what you're energetically blocking.

This is one of the most important - and most overlooked - aspects of creating abundance. Most people focus enormous energy on manifesting, attracting, visualizing, and calling in what they want. But when abundance actually shows up, they can't receive it.

Their receiving channels are blocked.

Understanding the energy of receiving - and learning to open your receiving channels - is as important as clearing blocks to abundance. You can manifest all day long, but if you can't receive what you're calling in, it will flow right past you or through you without ever landing in your life.

Understanding Receiving as Energy

Receiving isn't passive - it's an active energetic capacity. It requires openness, worthiness, trust, and the ability to hold what comes without immediately giving it away, deflecting it, or destroying it.

Receiving is:

• Opening your energy field to allow good things in

• Having internal space to hold what comes

• Feeling worthy of what you're receiving

• Trusting that receiving doesn't create obligation

• Being comfortable with having without needing to justify it

• Allowing yourself to be supported, helped, and given to

Receiving is not:

• Passive or lazy

• Selfish or greedy

• Taking from others

• Creating debt or obligation

• Weakness or neediness

• Something you have to earn

Most people have deeply blocked receiving channels because they were taught that receiving is somehow wrong, selfish, or weak.

Signs Your Receiving Channels Are Blocked

You Deflect Compliments:

Someone compliments your work, appearance, or contribution, and you immediately:

• Minimize it ("Oh, it was nothing")

• Redirect it ("It was really a team effort")

• Reject it ("No, I look terrible today")

• Feel uncomfortable and change the subject

You literally can't receive positive acknowledgment. It bounces off your energy field instead of landing.

You Refuse Help:

Even when you need support, you:

• Insist on doing everything yourself

• Feel uncomfortable asking for or accepting help

• Believe accepting help makes you weak or needy

• Would rather struggle alone than receive support

• Feel guilty when someone helps you

You're blocking the receiving of support and assistance.

You Feel Guilty Receiving Gifts:

When someone gives you something:

• You feel uncomfortable and want to give something back immediately

• You minimize the gift or your worthiness to receive it

• You feel obligated or indebted

• You can't simply receive with gratitude

• You feel guilty about having something

Your system perceives receiving as creating debt rather than natural flow.

You Undercharge for Your Work:

You consistently:

• Charge less than market value for your services

• Give away your expertise for free

• Feel uncomfortable receiving payment

• Justify low prices with "I just want to help people"

• Can't receive appropriate compensation for value provided

This isn't generosity - it's blocked receiving around money.

You Give Everything Away Immediately:

As soon as you receive something:

• Money comes in and immediately goes out

• You give away gifts you receive

• You can't keep or hold what comes to you

• You feel compelled to give back more than you received

• You're uncomfortable having without giving

You can attract abundance, but you can't hold it because your receiving channels won't allow it to stay.

You Need to Earn Everything:

You believe:

• You don't deserve unless you've worked hard enough

• Receiving without earning is wrong

• Good things should be difficult to get

• If it comes easily, it's not valuable

• You have to suffer or struggle to be worthy of receiving

This programming blocks you from receiving anything that comes easily or as a gift.

You Only Feel Worthy When Giving:

Your sense of worth comes from:

• How much you give to others

• How helpful you are

• How much you sacrifice

• What you do for people

• Your usefulness

But receiving makes you feel selfish, guilty, or unworthy. Your identity is built on giving, not receiving.

You're Uncomfortable With Good Things:

When good things happen:

• You feel anxious waiting for something bad

• You can't relax into positive experiences

• You feel guilty about being happy

• You minimize or dismiss good things

• You create problems to return to familiar struggle

You literally can't receive sustained positive experiences.

Why Receiving Gets Blocked

Receiving channels get blocked through programming, experiences, and beliefs:

Childhood Programming:

Most people learned:

• "It's better to give than receive"

• "Don't be selfish"

• "You have to earn everything"

• "Asking for help is weak"

• "Be grateful for what you have" (implying you shouldn't want more)

• "Don't be greedy"

These messages created deep programming that receiving is somehow wrong or selfish.

Religious/Spiritual Programming:

Many spiritual traditions taught:

• Giving is holy, receiving is selfish

• Poverty is virtuous

• Wanting things is materialistic

• Sacrifice is spiritual

• You should give without expecting anything in return

This programming creates guilt around receiving, especially for spiritual or service-oriented people.

Family Patterns:

If your family:

• Struggled financially and couldn't receive help

• Believed receiving created obligation or debt

• Valued self-sufficiency above all else

• Felt guilty having more than others

• Gave everything away

You inherited these receiving blocks.

Gender Conditioning:

Many women especially were taught:

• Your worth comes from caring for others

• Receiving is selfish

• You should put everyone else first

• Asking for what you need is demanding

• Good women give, they don't take

This creates profound receiving blocks around money, support, and self-care.

Experiences of Receiving With Strings:

If past experiences of receiving came with:

• Manipulation or control

• Obligation or debt

• Expectations or demands

• Guilt or shame

• Later punishment or withdrawal

Your system learned that receiving isn't safe and created blocks to protect you.

Unworthiness:

Deep core belief that:

• You don't deserve good things

• You're not enough

• Others are more worthy than you

• You have to prove your worth

• You're fundamentally flawed

This unworthiness blocks receiving at the deepest level.

The Cost of Blocked Receiving

When you can't receive, several things happen:

Chronic Underearning: No matter how hard you work or how much value you provide, you can't receive appropriate compensation. Money flows to you but not through you in sustainable ways.

Exhaustion: Giving without receiving depletes you. You're constantly pouring out without filling back up. Eventually you burn out.

Resentment: When you give but can't receive, resentment builds - toward yourself for not valuing yourself, and toward others for "taking" (even though you won't let them give back).

Missed Opportunities: Opportunities come, but you can't receive them. You say no automatically, deflect them, or sabotage them because your system won't allow receiving.

One-Sided Relationships: You're always the giver, never the receiver. This creates imbalanced relationships where you feel used, even though you're the one blocking reciprocity.

Blocked Abundance Flow: The universe/life/source can't give to someone who won't receive. Your blocked receiving stops the entire flow of abundance.

Proving Unworthiness: Every time you block receiving, you reinforce the belief that you're not worthy. You create evidence of your unworthiness through your inability to receive.

Opening Your Receiving Channels

To open your ability to receive:

Clear Receiving Blocks:

Use the Energy Clearing Session to Help You Open to Receive : https://youtube.com/watch?v=qut2qgnyEHY

This clearing addresses subconscious programming that blocks your ability to receive love, support, abundance, and positive experiences.

Release "Not Enough" Programming:

Use the Energy Clearing for Not Enough Money - Part 2 : https://youtube.com/watch?v=AdXD_Q63ReQ

This clearing releases the "not enough" programming that makes you feel unworthy of receiving.

Clear Unworthiness:

Use the How To Know Your Self Worth - Clear the Blocks : https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fyc808B3jEU

This clearing activates your sense of inherent worth, making it easier to receive without guilt or discomfort.

Allow Abundance to Find You:

Use the Energy Clearing to Let Go and Allow Abundance to Find You : https://youtube.com/watch?v=F8GhcY2EL1s

This clearing helps you release control and allow abundance to flow to you naturally, opening your receiving channels.

Practicing Receiving

As you clear blocks, practice receiving in small ways:

Receive Compliments: When someone compliments you, simply say "Thank you" without deflecting, minimizing, or returning a compliment. Just receive it.

Accept Help: When someone offers help, say yes - even if you could do it yourself. Practice receiving support.

Keep Gifts: When you receive a gift, keep it and enjoy it. Don't immediately give it away or feel you need to reciprocate.

Charge What You're Worth: Practice receiving appropriate compensation for your value. Notice the discomfort but do it anyway.

Allow Good Things: When something good happens, let yourself feel it fully. Don't minimize it or wait for something bad.

Receive Without Justifying: Practice having, receiving, and enjoying without needing to explain or justify why you deserve it.

What Changes When Receiving Opens

When your receiving channels open:

Money Flows More Easily: You can receive and hold money. It doesn't immediately flow out. Your income increases naturally.

Support Appears: People offer help, and you can accept it. You're no longer struggling alone.

Opportunities Land: When opportunities come, you can receive them instead of automatically deflecting or refusing them.

Energy Increases: Receiving replenishes you. You're not constantly depleted from one-sided giving.

Relationships Balance: You can give and receive, creating healthier, more balanced relationships.

Abundance Flows: The cycle of giving and receiving flows naturally. You're not blocking the flow with inability to receive.

Worthiness Strengthens: Every time you receive, you reinforce that you're worthy. You create evidence of your worthiness.

Your Receiving Assignment

To begin opening your receiving channels:

1. Notice where you block receiving - Compliments? Help? Money? Gifts? Opportunities?

2. Identify the beliefs - What do you believe about receiving? Where did those beliefs come from?

3. Use the clearings - Work with the clearings linked above to release receiving blocks

4. Practice receiving - Start small. Receive one compliment today without deflecting.

5. Notice the discomfort - Feel the discomfort of receiving without acting on it. Let it be there while you receive anyway.

6. Celebrate receiving - Acknowledge when you successfully receive. Reinforce the new pattern.

The Truth About Receiving

Remember: Receiving isn't selfish, greedy, or weak. It's necessary. It's the other half of the abundance cycle. It's how energy flows.

You can't give from an empty cup. You can't help others if you won't receive help. You can't create abundance if you block receiving it.

Opening your receiving channels is as important as clearing blocks to abundance. You have to be able to hold what you're calling in.

You are worthy of receiving. Not because you've earned it, proven it, or justified it. Simply because you exist.

Open your receiving channels. Allow yourself to be given to. Let abundance land in your life.