We cannot give more that we receive. This is a universal law.

If you’re feeling bedraggled, even just a little bit, perhaps this transmission will expand the experience of being in your body, and your life.

Yesterday, I received some news that brought me to my knees.

Afterward, I woke many times in the night feeling tight and heavy, so many thoughts racing. “There isn’t enough. The work I did, it wasn’t enough.” At dawn, desperate to make sense of things, I made my way to the rocking chair in my garden. 

I spoke to God. Out loud. I could have said Source, or Universe, and I said, “God, what would you have me do? Please, show me what you would have me do.”

Just then my hands began floating, on their own. Swirling as if to conjure something outside myself. Within moments, the attention flowing out in my plea turned and began moving in. It was as though other hands had reached down and redirected a stream of bright, warm fullness into me.

In those few moments, I felt I was shown that what I was asking for was already there. It was already there, and it had always been there, but to have it, I would have to become willing to receive it.

I thought I had become pretty good at receiving. At that moment I was shown that there was an even deeper, more fundamental level receiving that I hadn’t yet known.

That’s what happened this morning.

I’m taking time today to sense into that stream of bright, warm fullness, and the power and direction of its flow. I can feel it moving into my body in a way I hadn’t before, and I know that there is enough, and all is well. I know it.

There’s so much to explore around receiving . . .

Giving is comfortable and familiar. Receiving? Not so much.

When we are drawn to a healing or nurturing role, it is so easy, and so so common, to give. Giving is comfortable and familiar. Receiving? Not so much.

Osteopathy seeks to deeply understand the laws of the natural world, and how these laws govern health and disease. In this way, osteopathy is similar to the many older lineages of healing on the planet.

We look at the elements of health: balance, alignment, integration, resonance. And then we ask, “What would nature do?” We cannot give more that we receive. This is a law of nature.

In the Taoist theory of the nature of nature, receiving (taking in) is a feminine, or yin, essence. Providing (giving out) is a masculine, or yang essence. These roles, which have little to do with the gender of a person, are simply complements. Opposing poles that together create a potent, balanced system. YinYang is one word in Chinese. There is no separation. There is consensus among the lineages of the planet, and math and physics agree: we cannot pour out more than has poured in.

“If you love to give, and you know you cannot give to others if you don’t receive, then the receiving you’re doing is for others. Do it for us!”

In my past, it was almost impossible not to over give, and it was often twice as impossible to ask for even the simplest things without at least some awkwardness.

Years ago a turning point (and some laughter!) came when I received this guidance: “If you love to give, and you know you cannot give to others if you don’t receive, then the receiving you’re doing is for others. Do it for us!”

In other words, if receiving is difficult, which it simply is, you are not alone. Go ahead and fake it till you make it. If it’s confronting to receive directly, get it in there sideways. Receive for the rest of us, because we can only truly receive the amount spilling from the edges of your overflowing cup, and heart.

For perhaps the first time in my life, my “work” I receive at least as much as I give (the practice gatherings, not so much the tech!). I just listened to these few clips followed by a meditation below and received a lot. I was able to quickly return to the frequency, the consciousness, the “location” of what deep receiving feels like. Can you feel it? If so, “book mark” it!

Remembering is most certainly more forthcoming when we gather. We all have medicine in our bodies; knowing, intelligence and potency that is uniquely ours. It is our nature to share. To give and receive all of it. It takes a tribe.

“In your own body . . . where might you be holding, not breathing, not receiving . . . that you didn’t see before?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djyYnHsECU0&list=PLOyreV6zAvP1BICKNuywak4w_snnROhkp

LISTEN

Sharing Space

“I just want to say you start these classes with such gentle, inviting awareness . . . there’s this wonderful sense of support . . . I started out with this very tense situation on my back and from just breathing and being present it’s all gone.”

https://youtube.com/shorts/lyqLKlNkn1k?si=UMvvN4yJIC64EdE8

Movement is what we are, not what we do.

You are flow . . . more verb than noun.

“The nourishment we are yearning for comes through shifting our focus toward the people and things we truly love. With finding our Flow.”

— Dr. Michelle Veneziano, DO

If you’re game for a little “receiving research” this week and are willing to spoil us with news of your experience, we’d love to hear all about it.

Keep me posted by replying to this email, or by writing to me through my website.

Thank you for being here!

Receiving IS Medicine.

In celebration of your emerging flow,

Dr. Michelle Veneziano

& the Flow is Medicine Community