Softening & Expanding - Being Receptive to What You Want

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Softening & Expanding - Being Receptive to What You Want

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things & still be calm in your heart.

In a world of harshness, it is time to soften & expand how we go about our life. In order to get what we want in life, we have to be willing to receive it when it appears & in order to do that we have to be open. Often we go through life with defenses we developed early on in order to protect ourselves. These defenses act as barriers, walls we needed at one time to feel safe, but that now serve to shut out desired influences, like intimacy or love. So an essential part of being receptive to what we want is to soften these barriers enough to let those things in when they show up. For example, we may spend a lot of time alone as a way to protect ourselves from being hurt by other people, but we can see how this is now preventing us from meeting new friends.

Another obstacle to our receptivity can be our tendency to believe that we have to act aggressively in order to achieve our desired goal. This can cause us to become mono-focused & to fail to see, & be open to, opportunities on the periphery of our vision. So becoming receptive involves a softening of our defenses & a willingness to remain open to possibilities outside our immediate realm of vision. If we are looking for love or friendship, it means first looking within ourselves to see where we are shut down & second, not getting too fixated on where we might find the love we want. In this way, we become more open as individuals & more expansive in terms of what we see as possible.

Often, the things & people we want to draw into our lives elude us because we are unconsciously blocking them out, either with our defenses, or with tunnel vision that causes us to not see them when they appear. When this is the case, we can take action by exploring & softening our barriers, & expanding our vision to encompass new possibilities. These actions are the essence of receptivity.