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My last article touched on the topic of receiving – whether it be a physical delivery, an intangible lesson, or a gift of any type – with more openness and ease. The morning after that article was sent, I became preoccupied with the idea of sending. I wondered what factors might help in the process of sending anything well, including material objects, energy, or communication in its various forms.
It occurred to me that sending could be synonymous with giving, but it’s not always the same thing. For example, I can send a request to get a refund for a faulty item, a request which would unlikely be considered a gift by the customer service representative who receives it. I might be instructed to send the item back to the store it was bought from – again, the sending does not equate to giving. And sometimes I hear people say they’ve been “sent angry vibes” by another person. I’ve never heard them say that they’ve been “gifted” such vibes.
I decided to write a Letter from Love for guidance specifically about sending. Below is a summary of what came through.
To send anything with ease, it’s important to:
1) Have fun and be playful in the preparation process before sending.
2) Send from a positive emotional and energetic state, such as from a space of love, happiness, etc.
3) Ensure there’s a recipient who is willing to receive what you’re sending. They don’t have to be overjoyed by it, but there must be someone there who is available to receive.
4) Enjoy a reward afterwards – this could be as simple as a pat on your own back or smiling in acknowledgement of a job well done.
5) Celebrate with others when relevant, particularly if it was a particularly challenging (or fun) thing to send off.
After starting to apply the above steps, I can say that it’s been working well so far. I’ve cleared away some things that have been on my to-do list to send or give away for weeks, months or years. Here are some examples:
- Dozens of good-quality books have been dropped off at little public street libraries. It was fun to search for these while on foot in various suburbs, to cheerily place them in each box while intending well wishes towards their future readers, to reward myself by going to the beach afterwards, and then to celebrate by having lunch with the person who walked with me and found how to locate each library.
- After discovering that electronic appliances could not be accepted by my local charity shops, and that no free council cleanup was available until two weeks away, I brainstormed other ways to re-home a couple of old air purifiers that were no longer required. I set myself the challenge of listing those air purifiers on Gumtree as quickly as possible, like it was a race (which it obviously wasn’t) and using my intuition to set the price (which was about a tenth of their value). Both went to a very grateful recipient who paid me straight away. The cash felt like a reward, and it felt celebratory to pass on that money to others, one of whom had originally lent one of the purifiers and then didn’t need it back.
- I had been procrastinating for a long time on sending an email that was proving difficult to write. It wasn’t urgent – hence the luxury of being able to postpone – but it was important. I treated it a bit like a creative project, played with different ways of constructing sentences and bullet points, and managed to draft and send a message from a place of hopefulness rather than the stress I’d been feeling about it up until then. The satisfaction of having sent it was its own reward. And while it didn’t necessarily warrant a celebration with others, my husband and I went out to the movies for the first time in ages.
Is there anything you’re wanting to send away but feel stuck? Could you make the process more fun or playful somehow? To get in a positive state before you send it to a willing recipient? Then enjoy a reward and/or celebrate afterwards?
I’d love to hear how it goes :)
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