Receiving is deeply ingrained in the metaphysical. In fact, several of the Universal Laws have a receiving component built in to them including, law of attraction, law of cause and effect, and the law of action.
To receive is to be given or presented with something. As natural law states, receiving is part of the deal.
Let’s take a look at how receiving works in nature. A flower wants to grow so it opens itself fully and moves toward the sun. There is no block to growth because the flower is fully open to receiving the sun’s nourishing light. If it’s blocked by another plant, it simply finds another way to receive the sun’s rays. It never enters the flower’s mind that it doesn’t deserve the sun’s rays or that it should deprive itself sun for another plant. The flower inherently knows that it needs sun to thrive and grow so it stays open and available for the nourishment. It fully trusts that if it stays open to receiving what it needs it will come. And it does.
The human relationship with receiving is trickier. Giving and receiving in service to ourselves and others is natural law, how things work. However, only half the law is reinforced in our culture. We are programmed to give and give and give to others at our expense. We are told not to be selfish and that getting what we want and need is just that, selfish. This inability to receive anything—help, compliments, gifts, or acts of affection—results in distrust of ourselves, others and Source.
Unlike flowers, we humans often block ourselves from receiving what we need and want. These blocks are caused by the creation of energetic frequencies that are misaligned with our desires via thought and action alike, such as: not believing you deserve something, not believing you are good enough to receive what you want or desire, feeling like you are lacking something, fear of failure, success and judgement (think law of attraction, like attracts like). These blocks will then keep you from taking action, which is an act of opening up and receiving, moving toward the sun if you will.
Blocks can be removed with awareness, spiritual growth work, and energy healing. Receiving isn’t luck, or only for the enlightened. It is Universal Law.