Can you Receive Support, Love, Abundance? (Soul Wisdom Series)
The Soul Wisdom series is a deep dive article, offering alternative “ascension” perspectives to traditional views on a variety of spiritual themes…all to initiate your Soul Awakening.
How supported do you feel?
Do you feel worthy to Receive - support, love, abundance... from your life, others, the Universe?
During my earlier journey I thought I was so open to wanting & having a relationship - yet felt continually blocked and I couldn’t understand why. It was through reflective work I saw I was essentially holding one welcoming hand saying Yes whilst the other hand said No.
This conflict creates a still-point.
I was blocking my own desires / manifestations due to conflicting beliefs. I realised deep down I didn’t feel worthy of a relationship. So this became my focus - meeting my unworthiness so I could receive.
Why is it so easy for many to give, yet so hard to receive?
Why do many find it easy to receive, yet so hard to give?
There is a yin yang balance that all souls are seeking, in all areas.
Giving and receiving is a monumental one.
A testament to spiritual growth, I met this part and transformed it, experiencing relationships as I allowed myself to receive…
Yet I later found I hadn’t healed it.It is an area I continue to “heal” due to many conflicts of beliefs that I am continually discovering.
Only I Can Do This
On the spiritual path, we can find ourselves experiencing many of these conflicts, because of our definitions of healing and empowerment.
I deep dove into empowerment to arise from depression. However incredible that was - it simultaneously created a strong belief that only I could heal myself.
Only I could take myself forward.
I found myself rejecting support externally and became attracted to ideas that supported my belief system:
You have all of the answers within.
No one can help you but you.
No one can heal you but you.
Whilst this is all true on some subjective level…
It doesn’t need to be extreme.
It isn’t meant to be polarised.
This is a big revelation.
It decides the length of the journey we take towards what we want.
The revelation asks us to be honest about our journey.
For me I had to honestly reflect to realise I didn’t in fact single handedly take myself out of depression. I had immense help from others. From healers, workshops I attended, books I read. Even the ones I didn’t resonate with - helped me.
The journey of empowerment is an incredible one… yet it isn’t solitary.
We live in an interactive world and we are always learning from others, whether we like it or not!
On a deeper level, it means we can ask for help in many ways.
When I began to scan the rest of my life I realised I had it everywhere.
I thought being a healer and spiritual guide meant I should not need outside help...Or why would I be a guide or a healer?
It is a strange belief that we have in all areas of society, engrained within our psyche.
That asking for help is somehow weak.
That it reveals our vulnerabilities of not being somewhere we are somehow supposed to be. That vulnerability itself is somehow wrong.
As I began to reach out to others, I realised the power of being lifted up. It is pure acceleration.
I had to climb down off a mantle I had created for myself which had always been impossible to attain. It had always created immense anxiety and inauthenticity.
The relief alone was immense and I know many, many healers, teachers and guides who go through this process.
Depending upon your personality, upbringing, belief system, you will have your own unique perspective on what you should receive and what you shouldn’t. What others should receive. What you need to do before you deserve support….What is fair in life and what is unfair.
There are many streams this river can take and one of them is Self Worth.
Not feeling worthy to receive blocks what is rightfully ours - from others, Life, the Universe.
You deserve to receive.
Repeat these words
I deserve to receive
I deserve to Receive
I Deserve to Receive
It may feel liberating. It may feel challenging. It may feel…shameful to say it.
This shame is related to many factors.
Shame for wanting more. Shame for having more than others. Shame for not suffering like we perceive others to be. Shame for asking for help. Shame in not being able to do it on our own.
Shame is intrinsic in healing our relationship with Receiving.
What about Support?
A few years ago I had a sudden irrational fear of ceilings or floors beneath me collapsing.
If I was on a second or third floor, I would feel like it would collapse if I brought too much luggage into the room. It quickly spread and I felt that beds would collapse when I got on them!
During this, I experienced a strong earthquake whilst in Bali that shook the building so violently the walls and floors waved like water. Everyone was OK yet it was a clear sign the Universe was speaking to me and I needed to listen!
This fear was related to Support.
Feeling supported by the floor equated to feeling supported in life. By the Universe.
I realised for a long time I hadn’t felt supported by the Universe. I had worked so hard and tried to follow all of the spiritual “rules” yet everything in my life was so challenging. I had experienced so many hardships with money, with experiences, with projects and businesses. With relationships.
There were always mighty challenges that left me feeling unsupported. Why was it so hard? Yet I continued.
Over time this feeling of being unsupported despite my seeming faith was manifesting through this fear.
I soon realised I had lost my faith…And it frightened me to admit that.
Yet this was OK
I realised I was lost…
This was OK
I was tired and frustrated in trying to do everything right, yet nothing felt right or was going right.
And this was OK
It led me to a place of surrendering my deeper spiritual beliefs and revolutionised my spirituality (explore my Living In the Mystery Course). The point here is that it highlighted my dysfunctional relationship with support.
I wasn’t receiving support because I didn’t feel worthy of being supported.
At a deeper level I didn’t feel adequate of supporting myself.
I didn’t feel I had the know-how to support myself.
We all learn to support ourselves based on the upbringing we have. If we aren’t taught vital skills in learning how to support ourselves, then of course how could we know. This isn’t about blaming what we didn’t receive (another aspect to this healing process). It is about learning the wisdom to apply to ourselves now.
The first step towards supporting ourselves is to believe we can.
This may seem simple yet is perhaps the hardest aspect.
To believe we can support ourselves, is the essence of empowerment. It is to know we can handle our experiences. We can adapt to them. We can transform them. We can be resourceful enough to create the foundations upon which we stand.
This takes faith….in our selves.
However the trap again is to polarise this teaching of believing we have to support ourselves on our own. Only. All the time.
This leads to more struggle and suffering as we do not open to other ways.
Other much more mystical, interconnected, synchronistic ways that the Universe provides.
Receptivity & Support
The keys to all of this is are a collection of insights… Approaching a lack of support as life experience, an Initiation to spiritually grow from. To also know you can ask for support to help you move through things and to reach for more. To receive by opening the heart. We may feel our hearts are open if we are very giving. Yet it can only truly be open if it is flowing - giving and receiving. As the saying goes, to give to another brings great joy. So when we receive, we are allowing another to experience the same gift of giving.
Here we are receptive to the Universe’s Gifts.
Manifestation and synchronicity occur when we are open to life’s treasures by Receiving. Being receptive to the magic of life, magnetises more of this magic towards us.
Learning to receive and learning to be supported takes us into a powerful space where we open up to the Universe’s natural flow.
The Universe wants to give to you.
The Universe wants to support you.
The Universe wants you to experience joy…
Do you believe it?
Can you believe it?
Blessings on your journey,
Vaz
Go Deeper with an activational transmission:
In this transmission we will begin by doing the foundational work. Clearing limiting beliefs related to receiving passed onto you via conditioning, ancestrally, societally, your environment related to Receiving and Support.