6 Ways To Receive More Love In Your Life
How do you receive love? How do you get better at receiving? This post discusses - Photo of two watercolor splash balloons by Akshar Dave on Unsplash
Updated 2022.03.08
Have you ever wondered how you could get more visual love in your relationships? Want to improve how much love you receive and can feel daily?
Learning to become more open to love in any way it comes to you?
In relationships, indeed, the giving is not always equal to the amount of receiving we take in.
And, while not all relationships are created equal, and not all love languages built the same, most relationships rely on a delicate balance between giving and receiving.
The scale tips one way or the other for too long in either direction; the balance is no longer in sync, the relationship becomes out of harmony, and disconnect ensues.
Improving how much you can receive in your relationship is just one way you can restore the balance.
Just as important as giving, is your ability to receive love when given and offered to you.
This article is about improving how much you can receive, so everything feels more abundant. Your life, your level of gratitude for partners, your day, this abundance spreads out into new opportunities coming in from all over.
Your career and your friendships may also shift.
Receiving has benefits on many levels, and yet so few of us take time to do it, to allow it to happen.
And when you’re not receiving love, it can affect how appreciated you feel, how valued you feel you are in the relationship. The level of connectedness and synchronization you can experience with your co-collaborators on earth.
Thankfully, in this article, we go over six ways to improve how much receiving that can directly impact how much love you’re feeling in your relationships and your life.
6 Ways To Receive More Love In Your Relationships
What does receiving love feel like? At first it can feel uncomfortable, but once you open, it can feel like Joy, or an intense burst or glitter or warmth in your heart and body. Photo of gold love balloon by Mandy von Stahl on Unsplash
1. Lean in and listen
Turning your body to your partner, drop your guard. Fully listen to understand, not to change. The first act of receiving is authentic listening.
When you do this, an act of receiving occurs instantly, as you are now accepting your partner’s thoughts and ideas into your energy field.
Your partner is whoever is in your space willing to give to you. So this could be on social media; this could be via technology. Taking in what someone has to say entirely, is an initial act of receiving.
2. Mention things you like to receive out loud
An excellent tip for manifestation, too, you want to mention the way you would like things to go. This helps people around you, and yourself, have ideas to get you there.
When a problem is spoken, empathy or defensiveness is usually among the first responses. People can help you then solve the problem by knowing where you would like things to go.
During your next casual trip out, for example, try pointing out something you like and drop the phrase, “If you ever want to get a special treat for me, I like this.”
Say it playfully and in passing, and it’s the million-dollar gesture. Highly helpful, this allows your partner to learn the types of things you like to receive, improving their ability to offer to you in the way you prefer.
This also works when you are in pain, and those around you want to help. Sharing where you want things to go in the future positively, frequently elicits higher responses to get you there - to more ways to receive.
If offered advice, I find it usually helps to take some of the information in and act on it, perhaps just one of two things given. Then if it works for you to continue.
When those around you see signs their offering has been received, usually, more is given.
If offered a gift, the same is true. The use of a gift usually elicits more similar or higher offerings of the same in the future.
3. Ground your energy
You can ground yourself by grounding others, through massage, care, or using loving physical touch.
Grounding your energy is simply a way to say coming back to nature and the body. When you ground your energy, you are usually more present to be with those around you.
When you help others ground, you assist them with becoming more present. When more than one party in your presence is more grounded, it generally helps with the flow of give-and-take here on Earth.
For ideas to ground, check out this post on the benefits of grounding and this post on different ideas for grounding.
4. Practice visualizing yourself receiving
Restore the balance of giving and receiving inside yourself, making this balance more likely to be reflected in your communion with others.
Focus on the sacral chakra, the first chakra related to relationships, and the balance and harmony between the two.
Imagine orange-yellow glowing light cycling back and forth through this area of your body. Then, if you have a willing partner, visualize the same energy passing through his or her sacral region.
Imagine it uniting the two of you together, weaving the energy between you and they until you sense harmony. This visualization can re-harmonize an out of balance relationship.
Without a partner, take five minutes and imagine your sacral chakra spinning.
Imagine it spinning out any energy that's collected there until it glows brightly. If you want, you can ask who's energy this is, or for any inner guidance on one thing, you can do personally to restore its balance.
Both are great tools to add to any breathwork you’re already doing.
5. Become a ‘let’s do it your way’ person for a while
I call this going with the flow.
Typically when one feels they aren't getting enough love, the other person feels the same way.
The best way to receive more love is to give it, at least at first.
If you have a specific person, you are working to reset the balance with, try moving into a ‘show me how’ mindset for a few weeks. Focus on observing and learning from them, rather than teaching them.
Most of the time, we get so busy teaching our lovers how to be better, we forget exactly what we came into the coupleship to do: to learn and to love.
Moving back into this state of wonder and learning from your partner, will put you back into a state of receiving and even better, into a state of awe with them.
Without a specific partner, follow the work flow for a few weeks. If you have a project you are working on, give to it. If you have advice you were given, accept it and start to put it into practice.
By giving to an area that needs love and taking love that was given, we become more receptive to the world around us. When we accept the world in front of us and what it teaches, it connects us on a deeper level to everything.
This sense of connection ultimately taps us into the flow of receptivity.
6. Pull your energy back
Too many times, when we want to receive more in our relationships, we end up giving more. We press more; we push more, we ask for more when the very thing we need to be doing is stepping back.
Withdrawing back to yourself, as an individual, for the time being, is a great way to start receiving.
It allows the pendulum to swing back in your direction. This provides some time for the natural order of giving and receiving to restore to a new state.
Think about one or two relationships you have where you've felt things out of balance. Pull in your energy and attention, and send love from a distance, at least until you feel whole again.
A meditation that’ll help you do this is the Call Back Your Energy Meditation in The Member’s Meditation Room or try cord cutting like the techniques in this post: How To Energetically Cut Cords.
Then, look around your environment and ask who in my environment sees my worth?
This is a great question to ask to identify where love is coming from. And for valuing those who are there sending it. So if you do pull back elsewhere, you have somewhere you direct your heart.
Most of us naturally want to love, but in relationships, the balance of giving and receiving is not always equal.
A lot of us believe we’re already giving more than we’re receiving.
When this happens, what’s typically going on is one party is giving in code the other has only begun to understand.
Learning how your partner gives to you in all the facets that they do is just another way to open up to receive more from them.
Once you understand their loving style more, it's easier to see it and catch it more often when it comes your way.
It could also be that the relationship has run its course, as this can sometimes happen in soul bonds. Two parties can come together for a particular time, only to depart for mutually agreed-upon reasons.
6 Ways To Receive More Love and Enhance How Much Love You’re Receiving and Feeling Every Day. Photo of two watercolor splash balloons by Akshar Dave on Unsplash
All these above actions merely help one move back into a state of listening, observing, and learning from your relationship, naturally moving you back into a state of receiving.
Love is ultimately a state of understanding and respect in any relationship that all want, and each of these steps can take you back it.
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