You are invited to join the Southwest Intenders Circle
                                           Tuesday, January 11th
                                                      6:30-8:30 PM
                                                            11283 West Rice Place, Littleton
                         (Please use driveway or visitor parking - the HOA does not allow street parking)

Our group has been focusing on creating visions that reflect our desires for the unfolding year.  The blog has included many ideas to support that focus and the creation of the feelings that will allow your desires to unfold. 

This weeks topic: Receiving (please print and bring to the Circle)

         "Receiving is the most powerful thing you can do." - Lazaris 

From www.intuitionzone.com: "Receiving is a powerful force yet one that is often overlooked in today’s do-oriented approach to success. Whilst striving and reaching for goals can be valuable and rewarding, by receiving alone you can allow into your reality successes, synchronicities and serendipities beyond the limits of your expectations and open to the visions and dreams of your Higher Self.

Many rely on drive, action and determination to succeed yet fail to nurture and develop the self-love, sense of worth, value and deserving that will enable them to ‘allow’ success into their lives by receiving the opportunities and abundance they desire and deserve. With intent, focus and belief aligned, receiving can expand the potentials and possibilities of success and enhance the speed and elegance of its arrival.

Receiving is regarded as something you do in response to a gift, yet developing the ability to receive in and of itself creates those very gifts appearing in your reality. As the saying goes, when the receiver is ready the gift appears. Receiving creates a gateway through which the universe can bring gifts into your life. It enables the magic of co-creation and the serendipitous possibilities beyond the limits of your imaginings. The more you allow yourself to receive, the more elegant, swift and bountiful your attraction becomes.

The value of giving is far more recognized than that of receiving, which are intrinsically linked, each opening you to the other in a magical graceful flow. The more you give, the more you receive, and the more you receive (from yourself, the universe or others) the more you are able to give. Sometimes before you can receive you may need to let go of something –  a belief, thought, feeling, attitude, person, grievance, habit, etc.  As you let go of something un-serving, you create the space to receive something new and brighter into your being and world, such as more of your light and love and the magnificent being that you truly are.

Practice receiving in your day-to-day life. Notice when someone pays you a complement and observe how you react. Do you let it in? Or do you try to deflect, deny or resist it? When you receive good news, a success or the manifestation of something you desire, acknowledge it, for you have received.  Get in touch with what it feels like to receive. Cultivate it, practice it. Get acquainted and familiarize yourself with the energy of receiving. Affirm your openness and willingness to receive.

Receiving is one of the most powerful and elegant tools of manifestation. By allowing yourself to receive you can allow in the love, miracles and successes the universe wishes to bestow upon you every step of your journey.

Be aware of any negative beliefs you may have around receiving. Perhaps you believe receiving is selfish, feel you do not deserve to receive, or if you are a man feel that receiving is something more for women. Perhaps you feel receiving would put you in a vulnerable position and hence fear it, or you fear losing a sense of control.

Acknowledge and be grateful for the love and goodness in your reality and in your gratitude you will open to receive it at a whole new level as well as invite more of the same into your life. As you open to receive the gifts and bounty that are already in your life, you will become more open to receive new gifts, love and successes in your life.

At times when your heart is most open, when it is filled and over-flowing with love, happiness and joy, or in the heights of love and romance, your life becomes enriched in all areas. There is flow, success reigns, and abundance abounds. It is during these exalted times, when your heart is open to receiving, that many wonders ‘drop into’ your reality as you allow in the goodness of life and the blessings the universe wishes to bestow.

Your Higher Self - the fully-realized eternal being that you are - knows all you have been, all you are now, and all you are becoming, and is aware of the countless possibilities available for your growth and success and that which will serve you optimally. You also have unseen friends and spiritual allies – guides, helpers and angels, that also have love, guidance, support, healing and assistance to offer.

You are loved beyond measure. There is nothing you can do to lose that love and nothing you need do to win it, for you are loved completely. The more you open to receive this love, the more it will fill every aspect of your life.

The more you recognize that you are eternally connected to an all-loving infinitely abundant source, the more you will allow in the gifts and synchronicities that require only a willingness and openness to receive.

Receiving is so often the missing ingredient to success. Any blocks to receiving are blocks to the realities you desire. Practice receiving in all areas of your life, whether it’s compliments, gifts, the experience of another, the beauty of nature. When you appreciate something and are grateful for it you allow it in, you receive it.

Know and own your inherent value and deserving and divine innocence and worth. You deserve the very best simply by being alive. Anything within you that says otherwise is based on a faulty perception or belief about yourself or life and a misunderstanding of your true nature and the true nature of reality.

You are loved unconditionally beyond measure. There is nothing you need do to win that love and nothing you can do to lose it, for you are loved completely. The universe loves you more than you are able to fully know or comprehend.

Trust in this love. Open to its presence and receive it. It is there for you in every moment."

Knowing the importance of connecting with Oneself, I found the following exercise a most powerful tool to begin with to allow receiving. 

Loving yourself enough to allow yourself to have what you desire is imperative and elementary to successful manifesting. 

The following exercise is offered from Kim Romaner & Possibilities Amplified, Inc kim@possibilitiesamplified.com. 

I thought this exercise a perfect way to start the process of receiving; by writing a love letter to yourself, you confirm that you are worthy to receive all you desire!  Now let's have some fun and share our letters when we are complete! 

Write a Love Letter to Yourself (From your Higher Self) 

When my clients write down their visions of a dream life, they often leave themselves out. They list the material items, the places they'll go, the money they'll have, and so on, but they don't describe how they'll feel when it will all comes true. If you are stressed now, will you want to be stressed in your dream future? If you feel badly about yourself, do you think it would make any difference if you had all the money in the world and wore a size 0?

If you give yourself a hard time on a regular basis, I can assure you that your dream life will take longer to create. This emotional misalignment creates drag on your forward motion. Treasuring yourself in the now will prepare you to be treasured and well loved in the future.

To help you begin treasuring yourself, I suggest the following: write yourself a love letter. Tell yourself everything you admire and cherish about you. Make some promises about how you will treat yourself from now on. Tell yourself that it's okay not to be perfect. Use this opportunity to break through the old messages and crap that you've been beating yourself over the head with and replace them with new, more loving thoughts. By doing so, you will also be producing nurturing chemicals in your body, rather than the harsh and damaging chemicals of anxiety and stress.

I suggest keeping the letter you create for yourself to re-read and add to; in conjunction with your vision for 2011.  Review them both regularly, with excitement and anticipation. 

I am so excited to be part of and a witness to the unfolding of my and your dreams and desires in 2011!

It has been my personal experience that writing your intentions and gratitudes prior to coming to our Circle gives them more meaning and power.  Taking time for yourself, allowing yourself time to be specific and detailed; to recreate the feeling is most powerful.   

Will you allow yourself to "receive" the time from yourself for this very important and powerful task?  Will you allow yourself a special journal or notebook and the time to write your gratitudes and intentions prior to our Circles with thought, feeling and appreciation?  

Are you ready to manifest?  

If not now, when? 
See you Tuesday?
Nancy