{"id":600,"date":"2010-06-23T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2010-06-25T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:06:49","slug":"we-shall-receive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"We Shall Receive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n<p>One of the challenges I have faced in the past is learning how to  receive. Coming to believe that I deserve a gift has been a process  which has involved a great deal of healing work.<\/p>\n<p>It has paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday a woman on the <a href=\"http:\/\/sivanandabahamas.org\/\">ashram<\/a> who has been attending the Inspiring  Sessions I&#8217;ve been leading offered me a free <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reiki\">Reiki<\/a> session with her. She  is a healer and invited me to receive her gift in thanks for the  healing work I&#8217;ve been doing throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>While in the session, I began to think of how I could pay her back. I  could offer her a free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?page_id=449\">Inspiring Coaching<\/a> session! \u00a0But something  stopped me. What if I didn&#8217;t have to do anything to pay her back? What  if I could just accept her gift unconditionally? What then? Then I would  be affirming that I am worthy of the gift of healing.<\/p>\n<p>When the session was over I said nothing but thank you.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Inspiring Message of the Day: <\/strong><\/em> The open heart receives. Today I will  allow myself to receive a gift that is offered to me and I will give  nothing but my word of thanks in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers, One of the challenges I have faced in the past is learning how to receive. Coming to believe that I deserve a gift has been a process which has involved a great deal of healing work. It has paid off. Yesterday a woman on the ashram who has been attending the Inspiring Sessions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[384,836,405,404,325,834,391,403,372],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ashram","tag-cultivate-your-courage","tag-heart","tag-inspiring-coaching","tag-inspiring-message-of-the-day","tag-meditation","tag-meditation-practice","tag-reiki","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}