Imagine having a gift you wanted to give someone.

The anticipation of their reaction on opening it makes you practically giddy. You know they deserve and want the gift. It makes you feel awesome to be able to give the person something you know will be of great value to them.

The time and moment arrives!

You try to give them the gift . . . and they refuse it!

They won’t even look at the package, much less open it.

They tell you all the reasons they don’t deserve it or are not worthy enough to receive it—all of which you know to be bogus.

You tell them this, yet they still won’t receive it.

You have to walk away with the gift still in your hand.

How would that make you feel?

Disappointed? Frustrated? Maybe even a little hurt?

That’s what you are doing every time you don’t fully accept a compliment or positive acknowledgement.

You are refusing a gift that someone wants to give you, knows you deserve, and that you actually really want!

How does it feel when you are acknowledged and appreciated? 

The funny thing is, many women overeat because they are truly hungry to be acknowledged, appreciated, seen, and heard.

And yet many won’t allow themselves to receive the very attention they want.

Here’s a tricky way to get around that block to receiving that you may have that I gleaned from Christian Pankhurst.

Find the things about others that you appreciate . . . and then share how it makes you feel.

Instead of telling them that they have beautiful eyes, for instance, stop for a moment and think about how their eyes make you feel.

Maybe you can feel love there, or their passion and intensity, or gentleness. Maybe you feel seen.

Then share this with them.

“Wow. I really feel seen when you look at me. Your beautiful eyes convey so much.”

Not only does this make the compliment easier for the person to receive (you have gone around their internal blocks because you have made it about you rather than them), but you have also tapped into and received the positive emotion yourself.

Bonus! You get the positive energetic boost from tapping into the emotion.

Feels good doesn’t it?

Now turn that positive emotion on yourself. What about you can you appreciate?

Even if all you can acknowledge and appreciate is that you just made that person’s day, you have shifted your own ability to receive.

Here’s one of the keys missing from every diet and exercise programs you have ever tried: Learning to receive is critical to getting the body you want.

Rather than being selfish, receiving fills your energy reserves so that you have more to give to others—and gives you the energy to create the body you really want.

Today, take the time to find the beauty in others—and then tell them how it makes you feel. The day you make might actually be yours.

Together we can do it!

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