How to Cultivate Worthiness to Open up to Receiving

In the Article Angelic Healing for Physical Pain Rooted in Trauma, I talk about feeling guided in Meditation to share this Healing Journey with you, and I mention a quote from A Course in Miracles: “I give as I receive”.

Today I’m expanding the topic of receiving, while also bringing into discussion worthiness, since the link between the two is undeniable, as we will see below:

Worthiness & Receiving Are Intertwined

Worthiness is the deep inner knowing, the feeling with every fiber of One’s being that One is worthy and deserving, just by Being. In a culture where we are conditioned to link our value with our performance, our achievements, and to look for external validation to prove our worth, we may equate our worthiness with external constructs. Yet worthiness is the inner acknowledgement that we are valuable regardless of our external circumstances.

Receiving is opening up to the beauty and goodness of life, and allowing it into our life, in different forms. When we are open to receive, inspiration comes naturally, we feel guided to follow our heart, and we let good people and beautiful things come into our life.

Worthiness and Receiving are intertwined: when we are conscious of our worthiness, we don’t doubt it and cover it with unworthy thoughts and self-hatred or resentment toward others, and we are in state of naturally receiving.

Why Feeling Unworthy Blocks Receiving

I think that worthiness is natural, and feeling unworthy is a side-effect of going through difficult experiences. For example, experiencing one or more of the 5 Soul Wounds and not yet having done the work to heal them. We can unconsciously draw untruthful conclusions from the experience(s), make limiting beliefs about ourselves, and wrap ourselves in a shell of protection which actually keeps us from receiving the good in our life.

And if we have experienced series of trauma after trauma, restoring our innate sense of worthiness and opening up to receiving can be significantly more difficult. Our sense of self-worth may be crushed, our nervous system stuck in fight, flight, freeze and/or fawn, our emotional bodies plagued by shame, guilt, anger and resentment, and our behavior consequently not congruent with our Highest Self.

How to Cultivate Worthiness to Open up to Receiving

The Answer: Practicing Forgiveness and Self-Love.

Forgiveness frees us from the chains of suffering that keep us imprisoned in the past once a hurtful occurring has happened. It releases us from the pain of guilt and blame, and restores us to our peace of mind and happiness. (Forgiveness: The Key to Inner Freedom)

I know forgiving others and even ourselves is easier said than done. When I’m in post-traumatic aftermath, and I hear “Just forgive”, or oh “Why did you attract this?”, I get so pissed. So, I’m not telling anyone to forgive. I’m just saying that it is the key to liberation from the heaviness of not-cool dynamics. We forgive to set ourselves free.

Forgiveness may come instantly, as in a blink of revelation. Or, it may take us a whole journey to release and forgive. It all starts with our willingness to forgive though.

Also, Acts of Self-Love. No matter how small: a walk in nature, a meal prepared with love and the intention to nourish ourselves, meditation, doing something that brings us joy, etc. No matter how small, these acts of self-love matter. Together with practicing forgiveness, they help cultivate worthiness, which allows us to receive the Blessings Life has in store for us.

Today I Give As I Receive

I hope you’ve been enjoying this contemplation on worthiness and receiving!

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