When Receiving Becomes A Spiritual Opening

There is a kind of receiving that has nothing to do with getting.

It has nothing to do with asking for more money, or wanting a certain outcome, or hoping the universe will finally send the blessing you’ve been waiting for.

This kind of receiving is quieter.
More interior.
More like the softening of a muscle that has been clenched for so long you forgot you were holding it.

It is the moment when the heart — tired from striving, tired from planning, tired from trying to be good enough or responsible enough — finally exhales.

And in that exhale, something sacred becomes possible.

Receiving.

Not from a place of neediness.
Not from entitlement.
But from a place of trust.

The Muscle We Forget Exists

Most of us aren’t taught how to receive.

We are taught how to perform.
How to achieve.
How to plan, produce, accomplish, manage, stabilize, and take care of everyone around us.

We’re told that independence is maturity.
That self-sufficiency is strength.
That asking for help is weakness.

And so our nervous systems learn to brace.

We learn to be grateful, but not receptive.
We learn to pray, but not soften.
We learn to ask, but then secretly try to do everything ourselves so we don’t feel like a burden.

We forget that receiving is a skill.
A spiritual skill.

One that requires practice.
One that asks something very brave of us:
to be open where we are used to being guarded.

The Moment That Woke Me Up

Years ago, during a season when everything in my life felt tight — money, time, energy, all of it — I found myself praying constantly.

I prayed for clarity, for support, for guidance.

And one morning, in that early quiet before the day began, I heard a sentence that changed the trajectory of my whole relationship with receiving:

“I’m trying to give to you.
You’re not letting Me.”

It wasn’t harsh.
It wasn’t judgmental.
If anything, it felt almost amused — not at my expense, but the way a loving parent might gently smile at a child who keeps tying their shoes into a knot.

I sat there stunned, realizing how many ways I had been blocking the very support I was begging for.

I was asking for Divine help while clutching the steering wheel with white knuckles.
I was praying for ease while micromanaging every detail of my life.
I was asking for abundance while simultaneously preparing myself for disappointment so I wouldn’t be caught off guard.

I wanted to receive…
But I didn’t want to need anything.

That morning cracked something open.
Not in a dramatic, cinematic way.
But in the tender way a door quietly clicks unlocked.

What Receiving Actually Looks Like

Receiving isn’t passive.
And it isn’t about getting.

Receiving is the willingness to let something good come all the way in.

It is the moment you don’t talk yourself out of a blessing.
The moment you don’t shrink from being supported.
The moment you don’t explain away the help that arrives.

It looks like allowing a compliment to land in your body rather than arguing with it in your mind.
It looks like letting someone else carry a bit of the load without apologizing.
It looks like saying “thank you” instead of “you didn’t have to.”
It looks like opening your hands — energetically, emotionally, spiritually — instead of bracing.

Receiving is a posture.

A way of sitting inside your life with just a little more softness and a little less defense.

Money and Receiving: The Hidden Link

In the Money as a Spirit Ally class, this is why the very first lesson is about learning how to receive.

Because you cannot build a relationship with money — not a spiritual one — if your body is still holding the belief that support is unsafe.

If money is one of the ways the Divine provides for you…
Then not receiving is, quietly, a form of refusing.

And most of the time, we refuse without even realizing it.

We refuse when we downplay our needs.
We refuse when we discount our gifts.
We refuse when we over-explain why we deserve something.
We refuse when we only feel comfortable giving but not being given to.

Opening to receive is the doorway through which every other transformation in the course flows.

It changes how you pray.
How you notice synchronicities.
How you listen to intuition.
How you relate to abundance.
How you interact with money itself.

Because money is not separate from Spirit.
And Spirit is always trying to get something to you — comfort, reassurance, opportunity, clarity, peace — in every moment.

The question is never, “Is support available?”

The question is always,
“Is my heart soft enough to let it in?”

A Practice for This Week

If you want to begin opening this muscle in yourself, here’s a gentle practice:

Let something small be for you.

You don’t need to leap into radical abundance.
You don’t need to declare anything or affirm anything or manifest anything.

Just let one small thing be for you.

A warm patch of sun on your face as you walk to the mailbox.
A friend texting you right when you were feeling discouraged.
The cashier who says, “I like your earrings.”
A moment of quiet right when you needed it.
A bill that ends up being lower than expected.
Someone holding the door open.

Don’t explain it.
Don’t dismiss it.
Don’t shrink from it.

Just receive it.

Let it land — all the way into your heart, as if it were placed there by Someone who adores you.

Because I truly believe it was.

The Shift That Follows

When we practice receiving, something begins to rearrange itself from the inside out.

We stop living like we are alone.
We stop carrying more than is ours to carry.
We stop bracing for disappointment.
We stop trying to earn what was always meant to be gifted.

And then — quietly, steadily — abundance begins to feel less like a chase and more like a companionship.

A presence.
A relationship.
A flow.

Receiving becomes the way we participate in that relationship.
Receiving becomes the way we say yes to the Divine.

And in that yes, everything in our life can begin to open.

If this teaching on receiving touched something inside you, consider joining my Money as a Spirit Ally class.
We’ll explore money as a living ally, learn to listen for guidance, and open the pathways that have been closed for far too long.

You’re welcome in this circle.
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