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Today’s Miracle Moment Is About The Miraculous Power of Receiving…
It’s absolutely fabulous to receive: whether it’s love, financial prosperity, kindness, appreciation or gifts, each can be a wonderful blessing to our lives. Having the power to receive means we have the ability to fill up and enjoy greater love, connection and prosperity.
However, many of us grew up hearing the message that it’s better to give than to receive. While it’s incredibly rewarding to give, it’s possible we’ve overlooked the hidden downsides of prioritizing giving over receiving. We may have unknowingly created blocks to our ability to receive based on a perception that it’s somehow selfish or wrong.
Far too many people end up depleted, exhausted, and unfulfilled without realizing they haven’t learned how to fill themselves up. They haven’t learned to receive and this pushes away the abundant gifts that come flowing in from living in the Miracle Zone.
If that feels familiar, you’re in the right place! In this Miracle Moment I’ll share a wonderful process you can try to practice joyful receiving.
Now, it’s surprisingly common for folks to feel uncomfortable receiving. For instance, do you silently squirm inside when someone offers a kind word or a present—or do you allow yourself to deeply receive the gift of kindness, caring, and connection?
Here are some reason you might feel uncomfortable receiving:
- Distancing Intimacy: When we fear intimacy we may disallow ourselves from receiving a gift or compliment, thereby depriving ourselves of opening up to a deeper connection.
- Fear of Vulnerability: Receiving invites us to welcome a vulnerable part of ourselves. Can we allow ourselves to surrender to the good feeling of receiving a gift?
- Feeling Selfish: Through family, society, or religion you may have come to believe that it’s selfish to receive. We may have lost touch with our inherent worthiness and the right to relish in life’s pleasures. We might have forgotten that when we receive with gratitude and delight, we are gifting the giver; who’s true desire is to bring us joy.
- A Feeling of Guilt or Pressure to Reciprocate: Some people have difficulty receiving because they believe they’ll then be indebted to the giver. We reject a gift to defend against a self-imposed obligation to reciprocate. If this is you, see if you can release yourself from your expectation to reciprocate and instead, simply receive. Rather than projecting into the future about what comes next, allow yourself to enjoy the present moment and greet the generosity with true appreciation.
There are many ways we can block ourselves off from the pleasure of receiving. That’s why it’s important to bring awareness to these areas so we can begin to soften them and expand our hearts into joyful receptivity.
So here’s an exercise that I invite you to try out to practice joyful receiving…
- Become Aware: The next time someone offers you a compliment, a present, or looks lovingly into your eyes, notice how you feel inside. What’s happening in your body? Is your breathing relaxed and your belly soft or are you tensing up?
- Open Your Heart: Breathe into your heart and see if you can soften into a place of allowing. Can you simply be with any sense of caring and connection you feel in your heart?
- Remain Present: Bringing awareness to the pleasant and delightful experience of receiving might allow you to be more present in that moment. Allow yourself to stay in your heart instead of your head.
- Offer Gratitude: See if you can respond with genuine gratitude as you deeply receive the gift. Remember your appreciation is a gift you can share with the giver.
Learning to receive is a healthy step in experiencing a fullness and richness in life. It’s a confirmation of your own worthiness and a deepening of self-love that leads to a higher vibration in the Miracle Zone.
I want to end this Miracle Moment with a wonderful quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson who said “Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.”
Here’s to saying yes to life and yes to the miraculous power of receiving. I’d love to hear from you! What is your experience with receiving gifts? How might you shift yourself into receiving with more joy? I wish you many moments of relishing in the gifts of life and experiencing all of the abundance that the Miracle Zone has to offer.
Thank you, Marcie! A good reminder…
You’re welcome, Sandra! Hope you say yes to the miraculous power of receiving and live more in the Miracle Zone.
Hope I’m not over sharing. I feel giddy with being in the miracle zone. Several different times some one said, “I love your hat, I love your jumpsuit.” ” I have two trips for you. One was a 2-day mi I vacation and the other was a 7-day trip. My sister drove us to a destination 8rs away. We broke the drive up and did 4hr driving times. We had the best time bonding, giggling, laughing. I was not surprised because since HFNR, I’ve been using a gratitude journal.
Thank you so much for sharing your Happy For No Reason experiences, Barbara!
Genuine gratitude is truly a wonderful way to start living in the Miracle Zone. Much love to you!
Thank you Marci for highlighting the miraculous power of receiving. This presentation allowed me to reflect on my discomfort with receiving. I will definitely be more aware & show gratitude. I will lead from the heart. ❤️ I felt ease.
I am glad you found the exercise I shared today helpful, Lyshah! I hope with the help of the practice of joyful receiving you’ll reduce your discomfort and be more receptive to the abundance of the Miracle Zone.
YES REALLY THANK YOU . Marciel! A good reminder;;;;
You’re most welcome, William! Hope this helps in your journey to living a miraculous life.
Wonderfully well said n done, I’m so amazed how u laze that presentation it’s breath taking so awesomely said it wakes my heart ups much thanks and respect for the highlight ♥️
Thank you so much for those kind words of appreciation, Junior! Much love to you.
That’s so wonderful, as I always feel burdened to give back when I receive something from someone and blocked myself from abundance. This miracle moment you shared today was need of the day for me, and I will practice the techniques you shared today now after. Much gratitude ♥️
Gratitude is the gift the receiver gives the giver❤️
So it is never one-sided when we give and receive from the heart and with gratitude-Love this!
Yes, you got it, Sharon! Genuine gratitude truly helps us live in the Miracle Zone.
So glad that you found it helpful, Suman.
Hopefully, the exercise that I shared today helps you in relishing all the gifts of life.
So simple! I already sincerely accept compliments, but never stopped to see how they make me feel inside. It would increase the gratitude I already feel by leaps and bounds! Would also do the same for them with my response!
Mahalo💞
That’s a great way of looking at The Miraculous Power of Receiving, Booey!
I bet this approach will ensure more genuine gratitude that’ll help you live in the Miracle Zone.
Thank you Marci,
I am learning to receive and welcome these gifts of abundance. Just recently a miracle occurred for me with my birth mother’s passing. All of the siblings( I’m the oldest of 7! ) voted unanimously to include me in all of my birthMom ‘s accounts for inheritance. I was blown away and so grateful. I am positive the work I’m doing here in YOM prepared me to open up to this gift and receive. Many blessings and thank you!!!!🙏🏽
I just wish my luck would change for the better 😪
Hi Margaret,
I hope you try the exercise I shared today and start saying yes to life and abundance.
More miracles to you!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful story with us, Beth!
Your work towards living a miraculous life, along with the positive energies you receive from the Your Year of Miracles community will definitely help you experience the abundance of the Miracle Zone. Much Love!
Yes the heart receives the gift of the breath many times in the day! Gratitude for the gift of receiving, the reminder that the dance of giving and receiving is needed to reciprocate and allow others to give to us!
Receiving the gift and sending gratitude back to you for the share today. Opening more and more to receive all these gentle reminders!!!
Wonderfully said, Mora!
Hope you receive more joy and abundance that the Miracle Zone has to offer.
I changed my theme for this year recently to Letting Go Letting In. The latter is all about receiving. Compliments are easy for me, but listening to your message the feelings that came up for me told me I still have old programming running in the background that limits what I receive. I needed this today.
Hi Joie,
So glad to know that today’s message is helping in your journey to live a more miraculous life. I love the theme of “Letting In” as it captures the essence of the exercise I shared to practice joyful receiving. I hope you try it out and let me know if the technique helped you live more aligned to your theme of this year. More miracles to you!
Thanks for your delicious message,do you know one thing on social media there are some other people who use that platform to deceive masses, because of fraud now I have stop giving. When I give at the end things become difficult for me. Now if I ask also I did not get proper response
Hi Albert,
I know it’s difficult to navigate through the misleading side of the world, but I hope today’s Miracle Moment and the exercise shared within helped you open yourself up to joyful receiving. More miracles to you!
I didn’t realize I had this problem until you gave examples that I categorized as paybacks a bitch not a block so I’ll add it to all the brainwashing I’ve had to clear lol
I am glad you found this Miracle Moment informative, Tanja, and I hope you try out the exercise to reduce the blocks to your ability to receive!
I have Always been a giver all my life and due to circumstances as a child being the oldest girl of a mother who bore 6 children including myself, so I didn’t have a childhood. I had to become a Caregiver for my Mother and all my siblings and that’s all I knew . As an Adult I became very independent and never asked anyone for any thing , as I never wanted to rely on anyone else.
That being said I have learned to be thankful when someone compliments me and are kind as I loved to learn so I made sure I was being the best I could be🥰
Although I have a difficult time asking for help when I need it and a lot of that is because I’m fearful I will be used abused etc… as I went through so much of that but in the end I am open in the right environment and all to receiving Love with an open Heart❤️😘🙏
Hi Gloria,
Thanks for being so open and vulnerable with us by sharing you story.
I know it’s not easy to receive but if you treat receiving joyfully as an assurance of you knowing your worthiness and of deepening self-love, it might help you live more in the Miracle Zone. Please try out the exercise I shared today and let me know if it helped you in any way. Much love to you!
I’ve been brought up with the saying ” It is better to give than receive” but I have slowly been coming around to the thought that I am cheating someone out of that great feeling of giving if I turn down the gift. Yes it does feel great both ways, giving and receiving. Thank You Marci for ” Your Year of Miracles”
Hi Jim,
It’s true. Many of us unknowingly create blocks to our ability to receive based on old stories, experiences or beliefs. I hope with this Miracle Moment you feel more ready to say yes to the miraculous power of receiving!
Just grateful for this reminder, and the wisdom that it embodies. We do tend to get lost in the minutia sometimes, and the conditioning the has brought us to today and this moment – to not seeing the beauty that each of us holds, or acknowledge it when someone else sees it in us. Yet, countless other moments have also been lived with an open heart and welcoming with gratitude. So, living the journey with awareness, self-compassion, and reflecting upon those moments where “shadow” appears, guiding the direction toward the light, toward wholeness, bring me to full presence within and without. And gratitude with a healthy dose of self-compassion are indeed the gateway that opens the heart to all the possibilities and joy that comes from saying “Yes” to Spirit, to the essence of my being and to welcome it whole-heartedly. Thank you Marci! ❤️🙏🏼
Beautifully worded, Ursula! Thank you for capturing the essence of the Miraculous Power of Receiving so well and sharing it with us. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
More miracles to you!
Many thanks for your message
You’re welcome, Bitumba! Much love.
I am praying for a better life of lasting relationships and abundance .
Thank you for your guiding words of miracles .
Hi Nicole,
I hope today’s exercise helps you shift yourself into receiving with more joy. More miracles to you!
Thank you Marci,
This message came exactly in the right timing. My true lesson at the moment.Thank you for all your giving!!! You are a beautiful and truly giving soul. Such gratitude and love.
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Trust the timing of the Universe, Susie!
Thank you for your kind and loving words. More miracles to you!
Yes, Marci, I have a problem: receiving a gift touches my heart, but instantly,
I ask myself what to give back.
Hi, Giselle.
In such instance, you can lean more towards responding with genuine gratitude rather than felling indebted to the giver. Let go of the pressure to reciprocate and simply receive by bringing awareness to the pleasant and delightful experience of receiving.
I appreciate this miracle moment alot!! I had to learn how to say thank you and not play down the compliment because I didn’t feel worthy of the compliment or gift. This is my first year with YOM and I am so happy I joined!! What a blessing this experience has been!! and continues to be. I will keep in mind today’s message the next I receive a compliment or gift noticing my heart and my breath. I am grateful to you and all the mentors!!!!I (only wish I learned about you years ago because I really needed YOM.)
So glad to have you as part of our Your Year of Miracles community, Anna!
Thank you for your kind and heartfelt message.
I hope you experience more learnings, growth and miracles the rest of the year. Much love!
What exact timing. I received a big present today from the barista and I said “I feel funny.”. Instead of thank you.
Pauline, I am glad that you noticed this feeling. That’s the first step of the exercise to practice joyful receiving!
I hope next time you’ll be more open to receiving and offer gratitude. More miracles to you!
Thank you for that sweet message of receiving. It is so hard for me to do, however when I think of the tables being turned when I give someone else a gift, what feelings would I like to receive back from the recipient. Surely it would be one of gratitude, which would make my heart full. So when I remember it from that perspective, It makes it easier to receive.
Yes, Ronda! You’re right. Genuine gratitude is truly powerful when appreciating the gifts we receive.
“Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.”
Thanks a lot.
You’re welcome, Bhavesh! Glad to know that this message resonated with you.
Very good advice will practive myself to see what respond I feel
Thanks, Pearl! Do let me know if the exercise helps you to receive the abundance that the Miracle Zone has to offer.
Some people are lucky that they receive.Unfortunately there are also those who have had to give all through life.
It might look that way many times, Manoj. However, offering gratitude to our ability of give is also a great way to open up to receiving the abundance that’s possible in the Miracle Zone.
I’m relieved it is one area I do well with. I am known to be generous and I also know how to receive well. It may be due to being a somewhat outspoken or assertive woman, in that I learned early on how to ask for what I want, being prepared to receive. It is a valuable skill in accepting my good.
That’s wonderful, Maggie!
You have shared some valuable advice here. Thank you!
Loved your talk, Marci. I am a white-haired senior and used to say “I’m okay” or something equally inept, when offered a seat on a crowded train! Not any more! Now I accept gratefully and I hope graciously, and acknowledge the thoughtfulness behind the gesture. Sometimes one has simply got to receive happily!
Lo!
Yes, the mantra is simply receive, Lou. You got it!
It’s interesting to see how just by changing our perception about a situation we come by often (like the one you mentioned), can change our overall outlook for the day.
Thank you for this. Messages I got are you aren’t worthy to receive. My mom NEVER accepted compliments. She always brushes them off. Poor role model for me in that way. Thanks.
Hi Alita,
The good news is we can change our beliefs we grew up with if they don’t align with our current growth. Try out the exercise and ease your way into the practice joyful receiving. More miracles to you!
I have been working on receiving for years now and thanks to you and YOM I have come to a place of comfortability with it. I am now able to smile graciously and say “thank you.”
something that someone once said to me which settled deeply into my heart and helped me with this is: you know how good you feel when you give to someone.. (yes) well, if you do not allow others to give to you, you are DEPRIVING them of the same joy.
that really hit home for me. I share it so that perhaps it can help others. Thank you, Marci, for all you do. <3
Thank you for sharing those wonderful words with us, Roberta! I really enjoyed this perspective, and I bet this will help people be more open to receiving graciously.