This is the seventh in a series of posts on Creativity, Kindness, Love, Beauty, Expansiveness, Abundance, and Receptivity, which self-help author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the Seven Faces of Intention.
Receptivity
In many ways, we work against ourselves by creating our own prison walls made with bricks of negativity and mortar of victim-like helplessness:
Assumptions make us close ourselves off:
They won’t like me.
It won’t do any good.
I’ve tried six times, but I always fail.
Beliefs hold us back:
My Dad never did it that way.
This method will take too long.
It’s not right for me to take that action.
We blame others in ways that deny our personal responsibilities:
My mother is to blame for my anger.
It is not my fault that they didn’t understand me.
The insurance company is ruining me!
Negative inner views act as a damper to change:
I can’t change. My anger is just too deep.
I’m in a rut and will never get out.
My income will never allow me to get an education.
Doubt becomes like a ball and chain:
I don’t know if I can handle this.
My health isn’t good enough, so I won’t even try.
I’m afraid of what they will ask of me if this project succeeds.
All of these thoughts – every single one of them – are the exact opposite of what Dyer calls the Seventh Face of Intention — Receptivity.
Why?
- They reject the power of God or Intention to make things work out.
- They say, “No,” to betterment, improvement, and flourishing.
- They make us think it is impossible for life to actually align people and situations for us into a wonderful and successful outcome.
- They place failure in the “most likely to succeed” section of our yearbook.
Plants don’t question the growing process. The sun, water, and nourishment are just there. Babies don’t come out of the womb with a question mark on their face. They just become. So why not embrace the goodness, the grace, the grandness of life? Why not see the silver lining? Why not assume the best? Why not see bumps in the road as learning moments?
Being receptive means opening up to possibilities, freeing the heart and mind to more positive views, and accepting that life really can be creative, abundant, fulfilling, enjoyable, and nurturing. Even in tough times, a brighter view can be taken when you see the glass as half full.
Receptivity for me is a matter of quieting my soul until the neediness of want or the neediness to control is sleeping. Then I can look at the world with a let go and let God attitude. This allows me to flow instead of fight, to look for the open or opening doors, and to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this Louise Hay affirmation is true: I am safe. I rest securely knowing that only right action is taking place in my life at all times.
Do you have any idea how freeing that is? The weights come off, the mortar dissolves, and the bricks fall. Life is no longer a prison but a garden where every plant is beautiful.
If life handed you lemons, would you say, “Cool!” and be able to make lemonade, no matter what?
I love reading what you put in here, thanks! BTW, ‘not trying to nitpik but i *think this should be ‘seventh’ in the series, being that the last post was sixth?
I’m going to pass your blog on to my friend Pati to read too.
Love you!
D
Oops. That’s the kind of error that comes from copying and pasting too fast. Thanks for the catch. Thanks for stopping by!
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