OPEN YOUR MIND TO RECEIVE

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I thought it would be good to look at the Law of Giving & Receiving. Most of us have issues with one or the other, if not both.

Below is an edited exerpt from Catherine Ponder's book Open Your Mind to Receive.

Monday's study group, Every Monday night we meet to discuss various aspects of the metaphysical laws that govern how the Universe gives back to us. If you'd like to attend our group regularly, occasionally, or just once, please do. The format is simple - it's a round table discussion for people who are old to New Thought and newbies to New Thought. All opinions and questions are welcomed and respected.

There is no fee to attend - everything is by available donation. We meet at the RSL rooms on the lower level of the Mudgeeraba Memorial Hall (Gold Coast) Monday 6.30 to 8pm.

.THE FIRST KIND OF GIVING

Giving is the first step in receiving. When you want to receive, give! However, there are three kinds of giving. All three are equally necessary to your long term growth and success.

Various schemes have been suggested for getting rich quick. Most of them fail because they are based on ''getting'' -- not ''giving.'' They have no spiritual basis. The reason many people fail to receive their good in life is because they do not practice giving or returning impersonally to the universe on a systematic basis a portion of all that the universe shares with them.

When any person withholds that which belongs to the universe, his life is thrown oot of balance, and he experiences lack in some form. It may be lack of supply, lack of health, lack of love, lack of spiritual understanding, or lack of directlon in his life. It is only as we let go of our littleness that we can expand into the larger life.

THE SECOND KIND OF GIVING

Second. Give to yourself. Yes, open your mind to receive by giving to yourself, because all progress begins with self-improvement. It is just as possible to overgive to others as it is to undergive to yourself. Overgiving to others and undergiving to yourself unbalances the law and keeps your good from coming through. You must first give your allention to the improvement and development of yourself before you can possibly help others.

You cannot possibly give to others unless you first have something to give. You must first have strength, wisdom, and substance before you can share these qualities with others. There are those misguided people who think it is selfish to emphasize self-improvement first. But it is only after self-improvement that you are capable of helping others.

When you do just the opposite, when you overgive to others and undergive to yourself, you feel depleted and you are. This causes within you a sense of lack which is degrading and limiting. Because of this, overgiving to others is self-defeating. It accomplishes nothing constructive.

.THE THIRD KIND OF GIVING

Third. Give something to someone else. After you give something to someone else, bless whatever it is that you give. Bless the person or persons to whom you gave it. Then release both the gift and the recipient.

When you aren't sure what to give to others, that is the time to declare, "I GIVE UNDER DIVINE DIRECTION." Then watch the hunches and ideas that come. You'll be shown what to give, where, and to whom.

Many of the blessings you want most are within your reach! By your acts of giving, you open the way to attract the blessings you desire. These blessings have probably been waiting to reach you, but they were blocked by your own lack of giving. There was no free channel through which they could pass.

By giving, you open a channel through which these blessings are freed to arrive.