IS IT More Blessed to Give Than To Receive?

Jessie’s comment reminded me of a Prosperity Workshop I once attended. One of the exercises was to go to the streets in Boston and give away one-dollar bills.

People would say,
“What?! Do I look like I need money?”
Or
“What's this for?! Why are you doing this?”
Or even just
“I don’t need it.”

I love to give and so do most people. However, there is an art to receiving that will honor the giver. If no one can receive then how can the giver give?

Okay, so if I’m ready and open to receive money then someone ought to tell my chest.

It’s the place in my body that constricts when I’m given money. My mind then thinks, "What strings are attached? Do I deserve it? Did I EARN it?" and a level of shame enters into my being. I feel that I SHOULD have done things differently and produced all the money myself. Growing up, my Mom always said I could have anything I wanted as long as I could pay for it -- she didn’t know about credit cards in those days... ;-)

T. Harv Eker -- in his book “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” -- talks about how our comfort level with money is like a thermostat in our house: it's set for one temperature. If it gets too hot, it cools down; and if it gets too cold, it heats up. It's always keeping the set point the same.

So, my question all day today has been, how can I raise my internal money set point?

Thank you, to each of you, for opening your hearts and sharing so honestly about your relationship with money. Each one of us has valuable insights to offer and I, for one, am extremely grateful to be learning and dancing this dance with you!