Lisa Hart Lately I have been practicing what I call Receive and Allow. I have a history of codependence and over giving that has exhausted me and filled me with resentments and anger over the Givers and the Takers and I have worked with healing this extensively. It will come as no surprise that I have always hated the story, “The Giving Tree” and was SO grateful to the woman who re-wrote the ending.
Recently I read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Serviceberry“. She speaks of a Gift Economy as opposed to one predicated on lack and competition. I highly recommend this small but powerful book.
Working with the Infinity Wave, Qigong and Astrology I have recently come to this idea that I will open to receiving from the Universe and allow my Light to shine forth and express. No giving. No taking. It may not work for everyone but it speaks to me and, just as Ms Robin seeks to create a new economy predicated on relationships and reciprocity, this new way (for me) of releasing grasping or trying or making or doing more, or doing more correctly, frees me to just be me and allow others to just be them.
I think of the sunflower or the dandelion: they just are. They receive from the Earth and Sky and shine on as themselves. They don’t manage who eats their seeds, what happens to their seeds, or who ‘gains or loses’ from their presence. They just grow and shine and fulfill their Beingness. They allow anyone to partake of their medicine or to walk on by.
This concept and way of being is vastly relaxing and nourishing for me.
As we create new paradigms, new words and new ways of being with each other and the Earth/Sky may we Receive and Allow with the gratitude and grace of the sunflower, the dandelion, or the serviceberry.
Photo Credit: Shutterstock: I call this pic Sunflower Joy
