The 2nd Law of Yoga: The Law of Giving and Receiving! This Law Can Be Applied to All Areas of Life

Giving is based upon being, for you can only truly give what you are.  This means that you must go within to tap your infinite reservoir of intelligence, power, and joy. Meditate, read, journal, go for walks ~ let all of your activities bring you into alignment with your essential being.

"Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift.  And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands." ~ Leo O'Donovan

As we were growing up, many of us were taught that "it is better to give than to receive."  Yet both giving and receiving are required to keep the flow of love, joy, and abundance circulating in our lives.  To take a simple example, every time we breathe in, we're taking in life-giving oxygen produced by plants and trees; and when we exhale, we're giving back the carbon dioxide that in turn nourishes plants and trees.

In receiving, we're giving.  Think of how much joy you feel when you truly give and get to experience the joy that comes from seeing the happiness of the recipient.  Imagine how you might feel if they refused your gift...if they stopped the flow of energy.

At the deepest level, giving and receiving are the same thing ~ different aspects of the same flow of energy in the universe.  If you have trouble receiving gifts, help, compliments or anything else, consider the words of one of the most giving, enlightened beings ever to live ~ Jesus: "It is in giving that you receive..." and the Buddha:

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere.  You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

excerpt from: The Chopra Center 21-Days of Inspiration