Avoid Burning Out This Holiday Season With A Ritual To Receive, From An Intuitive

How open are you to receiving? In other words, being the one who is accepting a gift instead of the one giving or sometimes surrendering and letting things happen for you instead of always being proactive and making things happen?

Being assertive and proactive are healthy, practical, and necessary ways to move through the world. However, balancing this energy with its opposite—receiving and allowing—promotes greater well-being and easier manifestation.

If receiving feels uncomfortable or vulnerable for you, that's very normal. Many people experienced childhood wounds or very challenging seasons from their pasts that can make expecting help or good things now feel unsafe or unrealistic.

You might be a natural caretaker or even an earth angel and just love to give. Yet at times, you could go into burnout because you're giving all the time and not receiving enough from yourself and others to balance all that giving.

Set the intention that you'd like to rest and receive more, instead of giving and doing as much, for the next week or seven days. You can set this intention silently in a prayer or meditation or by writing it down in your journal.

For the next seven days, go about your life normally. Take care of your regular responsibilities and help others in ways that are appropriate and healthy. But also take a more surrendered, relaxed attitude toward issues in your life.

Receive more from yourself by leaning into your self-care and self-love practice. Speak lovingly and encouragingly to yourself in your own mind, take time out to rest, and engage in your favorite activities.

Your favorite barista might treat you to a coffee, your child might offer to fold the laundry for you, or your boss might invite you to knock off work an hour early. You may receive in very big ways this week, but this isn't about winning the lottery or getting a call from Oprah—or getting exactly the outcome you desire.

At the end of each day, look back at anything you received—from a smile or kind word offered by a neighbor or co-worker to material resources like a surprise financial windfall to helpful signs and synchronicities from the universe.

Take a moment to let yourself really register these gifts in your system, feeling more supported and grateful as a result. By attuning your energy to receiving, you might notice more often when someone or something is giving toward you as well as receive some unexpected blessings.

Have days and weeks when you mindfully give more to others too and are more proactive about pushing your own agenda forward.