Learning to Receive
Learning to receive is another important step in connecting to Higher Consciousness. There are many things we do feel we deserve, and those things — food, friends, creative ideas perhaps — may flow effortlessly into our lives. There may be other things, however, that we think we don't deserve. And these things either are missing or they appear only after a lot of hard work.

From his perspective, Orin says that most people are allowing into their lives less than two percent of the good things that Higher Self wants to give them!

People who have more abundance are not necessarily more deserving or better, they simply know how to allow more good things to come into their lives. It is not working hard or deserving that brings good things, but simply the ability to "allow" and "give permission." Also, we can stop having worries, struggles, problems, and crises in our lives by simply allowing them to leave.

Orin claims that one way to increase our allowing of good — our ability to receive what the Universe wants to give us — is by making a daily list of everything good that we allowed into our life that day. This process will acclerate and increase the energy that brings good things.

And in one sense, we become linked with our Higher Self simply by allowing this to happen, by giving permission — by surrendering the idea that our world cannot work the way we want it to.

The next exercise helps teach us how to receive.

Allowing Your Higher Good

1. Sit quietly. Take a deep breath, and imagine you are opening your heart to allow good things into your life. Think of something you easily received into your life. Observe the feeling of receiving on as many levels as you can. How does your body feel when you received? Does your breathing or posture change? How do you feel emotionally? Can you enhance this feeling of receiving?


2. Stay with this feeling of receiving, and mentally invite and give permission for good things to come to you. Imagine yourself receiving all the good things your Higher Self has for you. Notice how much you can receive, and then let yourself open to receive even more. Open to new thoughts, more harmonious emotions, physical energy, and abundance in every area of your life. As you do you become one with the abundance of your Higher Self.


3. As you draw in these good things, imagine you are creating space for them, mentally, emotionally, and physically. All you need do is imagine you are opening up the energy around you to create room for these good things when they come.


4. Imagine that your Higher Self is handing you a silver chalice filled with life-force energy and complete abundance. When you are ready to have more in your life, drink from it. Fill yourself with as much abundance and energy as you can receive.


5. As you come back into the room, feel yourself opening to receive even more good things, and affirm that you are ready to have them.

COURTESY-SANAYA ROMAN AND DUANNE PACKER

Devoted practice can bring into our lives a clearer sense of direction, a greater feeling of being in control, a deeper understanding of why things are happening, and an increasing calm.