| Article title: Giving and Receiving | | | | the client, they must feel the client's pain, |
| | | | but this only serves to stick both client and |
| If true selfishness leads to selflessness, | | | | practitioner in the client's vibration. |
| then perhaps receiving must come before | | | | |
| giving. | | | | Feeling good while another feels horrible |
| | | | almost seems insulting, like the white-gloved |
| In order to give, one must first receive. If | | | | aristocrat who refuses to get his hands dirty |
| you are not yourself feeling joy and love, | | | | while others do all the work. However, that |
| what you are giving to another may not be of | | | | feeling of inappropriateness is just the |
| much value. In other words, it's important to | | | | result of non-matching frequencies. It |
| feel good yourself before you try to help | | | | certainly is true that in a roomful of sad |
| another! This is a little fact which I have | | | | people there is vibrational "pressure" to |
| often overlooked, and which has caused me | | | | feel sad as well, but that is only because |
| some painful set-downs. I have noticed that | | | | the amplitude of that signal is very powerful |
| when I'm purely resonating to well-being, | | | | indeed. In other words, there is nothing |
| others come to me voluntarily and are really | | | | inevitable about feeling crummy even though |
| interested in what I have to say. When I set | | | | everyone around you feels that way. Every |
| a vibrational example to others, there is an | | | | person is sovereign in his or her own |
| instinctive, and positive, response. But when | | | | experience, so it possible (and desirable) to |
| I'm helping because I feel that it's | | | | keep your balance when others have lost |
| required, or when I'm not really into it, or | | | | theirs. Once you show yourself you can do it, |
| when I'm trying to "fix" someone, I'm not | | | | and notice the positive results which |
| really very effective. I wind up bringing | | | | appertain, you'll never feel guilty about |
| others down to my level. | | | | maintaining your positive vibe even when |
| | | | confronting tragedy. |
| Receiving before giving (as I'm defining it) | | | | |
| doesn't mean refusing to love another until | | | | The subtle energy which I've been calling |
| they love you first, or declining to give | | | | life force energy may have its physical |
| Uncle Harold a birthday present this year | | | | counterpart in theoretical physics. Some |
| because he forgot yours last year. It doesn't | | | | frontier scientists believe that space is not |
| mean grabbing as much of the pie as you can | | | | empty at all, but a seething cauldron, or |
| before anyone else. All of these actions are | | | | flux, of virtual particles, and have called |
| based on a consciousness of scarcity and | | | | it the 'active vacuum' or 'quantum particle |
| lack, and are guaranteed to bring more | | | | flux.' Some scientists have estimated that |
| scarcity into your life. | | | | there is theoretically enough energy in a |
| | | | cubic centimeter of the vacuum to run all of |
| The receiving I'm talking about is | | | | the industries on earth for many years. In |
| vibrational. Just as a battery cannot provide | | | | this theoretical model, the planet earth is |
| power without first being charged, a person | | | | surrounded by energy which may eventually be |
| cannot give effectively unless he or she is | | | | tapped and utilized. In this model, we live |
| feeling positive emotion. Consciousness | | | | in an open system, not a closed one. |
| interfaces with life force energy, batteries | | | | |
| interface with electromagnetic energy! | | | | A good example of a closed system is a |
| | | | typical electrical circuit. Electrical |
| The feeling of giving is just a connection to | | | | generation is accomplished by constantly |
| or allowance of life force energy. It results | | | | feeding the generator with more energy as the |
| when you feel prosperous and abundant | | | | source dipole is destroyed by the back emf of |
| yourself. When you feel fulfilled, you just | | | | the spent electrons in the closed circuit. A |
| naturally want to share with others. | | | | closed system like this always requires more |
| | | | energy input than is output. A battery, even |
| Receiving has less to do with physical | | | | if it is rechargeable, will eventually drain |
| objects than it does with a state of being. | | | | and be come useless. |
| The difficulty is that we've been taught how | | | | |
| difficult it is to feel good, and how easy it | | | | An example of an open system is a windmill or |
| is to feel rotten, but it's just the | | | | a waterwheel which can take huge amounts of |
| opposite! Feeling good is the default - all | | | | 'free' energy from the environment. "Free" |
| you have to do is open up to the universal | | | | energy doesn't mean violation of the law of |
| ocean of life force energy that surrounds | | | | conservation of energy. It just means you tap |
| you. | | | | into the energy which exists in the active |
| | | | environment, so you get more energy out than |
| Physical objects are often used as | | | | you put in. A water wheel, for example, uses |
| substitutes for that connection to source. | | | | the flow of a river to turn a paddle and |
| The giving and receiving of presents makes it | | | | generate electricity. A windmill uses the |
| easy to feel good, for when looking at | | | | power of the wind. You have to put an initial |
| something pleasing outside yourself, it is | | | | energy investment of course to build the |
| easier to remember the inherently joyful | | | | paddle wheel or windmill, but once you've |
| person that's hiding inside. | | | | done that you have a continuous source of |
| | | | power. |
| However, like the guy who says one thing and | | | | |
| does another, material objects may not be an | | | | Whether or not it is possible to extract |
| accurate representation of our true feelings. | | | | energy in usable form from the vacuum, all |
| For example, Aunt Hilda gives you a card on | | | | beings have the ability to tap into the |
| your anniversary, now you feel obligated to | | | | subtle energy stream of life force and become |
| reciprocate. You don't really want to, but | | | | an amplifier of it, because consciousness |
| you do because it's polite. To you, sending a | | | | interfaces directly with it. This energy |
| card represents an obligation because Hilda | | | | stream has also been called prana, or chi, |
| is not one of your favorite relatives. | | | | and has been understood by almost every |
| Interestingly, when viewing things from the | | | | culture that has ever existed on planet |
| perspective of our vibrational model, the | | | | earth. Access to this energy is free and |
| card itself will have little effect on your | | | | effortless, and it doesn't require |
| relationship with Hilda. The non-local | | | | complicated machinery or government funding! |
| characteristics of vibrational interaction | | | | |
| suggest that Hilda is not likely to view your | | | | Your supply of happiness, joy, or well being |
| gift with enthusiasm if you have sent it with | | | | depends only on how much of it you ask for |
| the vibration of "I'm only doing this because | | | | and how much you allow in. Happiness, joy, |
| I have to." In other words, the physical | | | | well being, or any positive emotion is not a |
| object is less important than your | | | | depletable resource. It's free energy that |
| vibrational orientation. | | | | can be tapped into at any time. |
| | | | |
| This may seem like a strange and even | | | | How do you tap in? By opening up and asking |
| delusional statement, but if you carefully | | | | for it. Everything in the universe is |
| examine your own relationships from the | | | | composed of this energy. The human energy |
| viewpoint of consciousness and energy flows, | | | | field is a field of well being, and everybody |
| it may begin to make sense. | | | | has one. Meditation, for example, is just a |
| | | | process of stopping the flow of "junk |
| The kind of receiving I'm talking about is | | | | thought" and becoming receptive to your |
| not physical, it's energetic. Of course the | | | | personal subtle energy field. It's not any |
| physical object is very important, simply | | | | more complicated than that! Receiving your |
| because it's tangible. But physical objects | | | | full complement of life force energy is as |
| do not determine the way we feel about | | | | simple as thinking and doing things that make |
| ourselves or about others. When Beauregard | | | | you feel good. There are a BILLION reasons |
| Clifton Densmore IVth receives a new car for | | | | not to, so just ignore them. (You don't get |
| his 16th birthday, he is very upset. "But | | | | into trouble when you ignore the bad stuff, |
| mumsy," he complains, "I specifically | | | | because it becomes deactivated vibrationally |
| requested the blue Bentley, not the grey | | | | within you). |
| one!" I remember one of my old chums in grade | | | | |
| school got a new bike. He thought it was | | | | On planet earth there are lots of "Now I'm |
| awesome, but his parents were upset because | | | | supposed to's" and "Now I have to's" that |
| the bike was a gift from his uncle, with whom | | | | others have decided are good for you. But you |
| they'd had an argument. Same object, two | | | | are not a cog in society's wheel! You are a |
| entirely different reactions! | | | | sovereign, independent being capable of |
| | | | deciding for yourself what's best for you. |
| "Receiving must come before giving" just | | | | |
| means that it is helpful to first feel the | | | | A vibration of well being and abundance can |
| love before you outflow. And if you aren't | | | | only attract manifestations which mirror it. |
| feeling very loving, then your giving is | | | | Therefore, a focus on well being MUST bring |
| probably not going to provide a lot of | | | | forth a positive response from the universe, |
| comfort on the other end. | | | | a response which benefits you, and everyone |
| | | | else as well. This is true for an individual, |
| In order to give effectively you must | | | | or a whole planet full of people. In other |
| communicate effectively, and in order to do | | | | words, no harm can possibly come to another |
| that you have to be real to the other person; | | | | if you receive something from a positive |
| in other words, you have to be in | | | | vibration of well being. If our brother has |
| vibrationally proximity. If you want to help | | | | been in perfect health all of his life, do we |
| someone in grief you can't walk in whistling | | | | accuse him of depriving someone else of |
| a happy tune. However, it is possible, and | | | | health? It sounds ridiculous, but that is the |
| necessary (like Jill in the previous chapter) | | | | sort of mind-set that exists on our planet! |
| to maintain a firm connection to source while | | | | If Stephen Hawking is a genius, do we tell |
| accessing the lower emotional levels. In | | | | him not to hog all of the intelligence? These |
| fact, that is the only way to raise tone, for | | | | examples are exaggerations, but they serve to |
| without establishing a vibrational potential | | | | illustrate the idea that although mankind is |
| there can be no movement up the scale. This | | | | very good at dreaming up more and more ways |
| is counseling at its very best! (This is the | | | | to amplify scarcity, the universe contains an |
| system that Dr. Rosenberg uses in his | | | | infinity of abundance. As with health and |
| Non-Violent Communication methodology). In | | | | clarity, so too with prosperity, no matter |
| other words, it is up to you to be the | | | | what form it takes. |
| positive pole in the relationship. | | | | |
| | | | "If everyone on earth asked for and received |
| It turns out that ALL help is vibrational | | | | abundance, all of our resources would quickly |
| emotional help. For example, you join a group | | | | be exhausted, and pollution would destroy our |
| which passes out food to the needy. This is a | | | | planet." That's if the status quo (fossil |
| very helpful activity, but without a | | | | fuels) continues. However, the reason we have |
| vibrational movement on the part of the | | | | scarce fossil fuels is a consciousness which |
| recipients up the scale, conditions for them | | | | mirrors scarcity into the physical universe. |
| will not change. You will constantly be | | | | When that consciousness shifts to one of |
| catching fish, instead of teaching how to | | | | prosperity, cleaner and more efficient |
| fish. This again is a simple application of | | | | sources of energy will be developed in |
| the Law of Vibration and the Law of 'like | | | | response. It is silly to use the status quo |
| attracts like.' Help in the form of physical | | | | to argue for the impossibility of a shift in |
| assistance only postpones the inevitable | | | | consciousness, when it is a state of |
| vibrational reckoning, for life experiences | | | | consciousness which is responsible for the |
| (Flows 1 - 3) are determined by what occurs | | | | status quo! |
| on Flow 0. | | | | |
| | | | Is it really "better to give than to |
| Before giving, you have to fill your tank | | | | receive?" |
| first. | | | | |
| | | | Giving without first receiving drains a |
| When you receive, however, you do not deprive | | | | person's reserves and causes stress. And it's |
| another. | | | | no wonder that it does, for the idea that it |
| | | | is better to give than to receive is |
| It's always possible to fill up at the gas | | | | unbalanced. Receiving automatically opens the |
| station of positive emotion without harming | | | | energy stream not only for you, but for |
| anyone else. You don't have to come cash in | | | | everyone else. Have you ever been in the |
| hand and exchange for your share. It's not | | | | presence of someone truly joyful? It just |
| possible to run out of life force energy, so | | | | feels so good! That is what happens when a |
| gorge yourself. The better you feel, the more | | | | person connects to the energy of life. |
| valuable is your service to others. | | | | |
| | | | The primary attitude should be to allow one's |
| It is always appropriate to feel good, no | | | | self to freely receive, which allows giving |
| matter the circumstances. | | | | from a sense of joy and love. Receiving must |
| | | | come before giving. Even in a closed system, |
| Some feel that it is inappropriate to feel | | | | a battery cannot supply energy unless it is |
| happiness when others are sad. Some | | | | charged. |
| counselors feel that in order to be there for | | | | |