Wanting

It was well into teaching the Receive courses and working on my book that I really got the importance of wanting and how conditioned people are to think of wanting as being a bit unseemly when it comes to their own desires. For example: can you make a wish for yourself without adding all of the footnotes about wanting world peace, that no child go hungry, if it is in the universal will (who is the universe except us?!), etc., etc, etc.

I love how Cinderella transformed her life from days filled with sweeping up after her stepmother and step sisters (perhaps your life has an equivalent) and finally expressed a wish, a want, a desire.

What I love the most about this story is that her wish was to go to a dance! She wanted to go to the Ball and she wanted a great dress. Now that I can relate to! She didn't say she wanted to go to the Ball as long as all of the children in the kingdom were happy.

As soon as she asked, her fairy godmother appeared. You know the rest of the story.

Sometimes we are so busy excluding ourselves that we don't realize we have lost the ability that many of us had when we were very young, to have a great BIG wish.

This may sound weird to you, but I believe that wanting is spiritual and that we can't be effective wishers for world peace for example, if we cannot want something for ourselves. So, it is good to practice wanting. You'll be more helpful to the world by developing this skill.

You already know you want all children to be fed. What do you want for you?

Today I am going to practice wanting. I invite you to join me!