Do you like chocolate? Not so much? Oh! you love it! Okey
because I do too, so much that I think chocolate loves me too, it is kind of
mutual between us :)
I do not have 101 reason I tell you from now but I have one good reason.
I live in the centre of the city in an apartment that is big
for @ Japanese, very small for #Northern American and so so for #Middle Eastern
Standard but in Europe we call it spacious because the ceiling is high so I
find whole lot of air here to breath. Why did I mention that? Yes because in
this spacious apartment I am not finding any chocolate and it is Sunday.
If you receive a beautiful #decorative box of #refine chocolate would you open it? Do you think maybe you should keep it and give it as gift
to someone else?If yes, why do you do that? Do you think someone else deserves
to receive such a# beautiful/#delicious gift. Why not you? The person who gave
it to you thought you deserved to have it (and of course eat it). Why is it you
do not want to accept if fully?
After the war broke in south of Iran, when I was a child, we
had to flee to a small village with wonderful people and lots of traditions some
of which were really good. They had the habit of giving gift, actually a lot.
They were so called givers very generous people, not so much of receivers. When
they gave wedding or newborn gifts they always, in addition to the main gift,
gave a box of bon bon, always always!
It didn’t take me
long to find out those bon bon boxes were going around for ages.Yes I opened
few. We didn’t have the culture of expiratory dates in the Middle East so you
had to eat the food and either from the consequences or, if you were lucky,
from the first taste you would know something was very wrong.
We as human beings have both the giver and receiver side to us.
Since we live together and we are social beings we need to allow others give as
well and, for that we need to be in a receiver position at least sometimes.
Some of us may think receiving makes us less! Or giving places us in a higher
position. Think about it. How about if we see each other, always, in an equal
relationship?
To start with that take big bites of air, take in life
fully. If you breath deep and exhale long slowly your capacity to receive increases.
I am not a tough trainer, I often tell my patients 5 deep breathing in the
morning, 5 in the evening. Because I know once you taste oxygen, you will crave
for it, it never gets outdated, has no after taste and it is life-giving. As
you take the oxygen in fully, tell yourself :
” I take in life
fully.”
” I am loved”.
” I am love”
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