Over 40 million people have lost their jobs here in the United States this year. People are losing their homes and finding themselves having food insecurity. These people are stuck in the ebb and flow of giving and receiving cycle through the universal law of cause and effect. When we are stuck in this cycle, we watch every penny we have. We not only get stuck in the flow of giving and receiving, we get stuck in survival mode. I know, I went down that road back in the 1970s. During that time, we experienced a deep recession as a nation. I was forced to gather pop bottles just to feed my kids. It wasn’t pretty and very humbling.
Everything changed for me, when a woman saw how much I was struggling literally gave me her sweater off her back so I could be warm. She looked into my eyes and said to me, “I think this sweater looks better on you than on me.” Later I found out her family was worse off than mine. I will always remember how much gratitude and love I felt in that moment of giving and receiving, it immediately made me want to give to someone else. That life experience taught me a really huge life lesson, how one act of kindness can change perception and how perception creates reality. If you feel you are just surviving in life that is what the Universe will give you back. If you feel like giving something away to make someone else happy the Universe will give you back more happiness. I know it doesn’t look like it now if you are struggling, it really is about choice. From there on out I learned how to manifest and direct my destiny aligned with my dreams. I can actually say I am living the dream even in this pandemic and economic crisis. Why? Because I still have my creativity!
If you find yourself in a hard place right now, give something away. It doesn’t have to be money, it could be a smile, a good deed, a compliment, or love. When we stop giving, the universe stops giving to us. This ebb and flow I have been talking about is your energy circulation of giving and receiving. If it gets stuck you become stagnant. It is part of your life force. Another example: your blood also holds your life force, if the flow of your blood stops, the blood coagulates and life becomes yucky. As you can see, it is really important to get your life force flowing again.
Usually, if your giving cycle is stuck so is your receiving cycle stuck. Hence, your next step is to open yourself up to receiving. I can hear you say, “yeah, and how do I do that?” It is really easy using a hand mudra. I have talked about hand mudras before in my blogs. For those who are just joining in, for thousands of years in many different traditions as a way of awakening the divine within, mudras are used as tools to free up energy and redirect it to where you need it. There are different hand mudras for different energy blocks. Hand mudras flip the circuit breaker, allowing the energy to flow again. Then it is up to you to give gratitude to keep it flowing.
How to do the Lotus hand mudra for opening you up to divine flow again?
Sit cross-legged (or in a seated position where you feel comfortable) bring the base of the palms together at the heart center touching the thumbs and pinky fingers together. Spread the rest of the fingers out like the lotus flower opening toward the sunlight. Hold this position for five minutes, pause for five minutes then repeat the cycle for a total of 5 cycles. Do this 5 days in a row.
Then sit back and allow the opportunities to come to you. However, it is your job to take action on these opportunities. Always remember true prosperity and abundance comes from within through the act of giving and receiving.
Linda Sylvester, R.M.T., S.R.M.T.
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