Receptivity is an exquisite practice.
If you are straining to listen for something, it requires silence. Your mind isn’t wandering, it is focused. Yet it isn’t thinking; it’s attentively waiting.
When we actively practice receptivity, we listen with the entire body and mind. No expectations are helpful; they are forgotten. Instead there is openness, like seeing a puzzle for the first time. This functions optimally in the setting of relaxation rather than tension or strain.
In doing so, we create room for the possibility of life-shifting changes that may occur in an instant.
A number of techniques engage such receptivity:
Prayer. We sometimes use words to get into the mood of prayer but its essence is opening our smallness to the vastness.
Inspiration. The eyes of the inspired see old things in fresh, entirely new ways. Revelation comes through the field of perception, not from the reshuffling of old perceptions.
Energy perception. If you would like to sense what is meant by energy, energy centers, auras, and the like, it requires finely developed receptivity. It is a subtle art and if you are not receptive, you will not be able to see beyond the clouds of your own energies.
Relaxation. The secret to relaxation is reception.
Healing. In practices such as reiki, you do not use your own energy to heal others. You tune your energy field to a universal frequency and that energy comes through you. This is also only possible with the openness of receptivity.
Love. There is the small love that is your own personality’s desires, preferences, and aversions aligning such that devoted pleasure arises around a particular object, person, or circumstance. Then there is the profound love that has no cause and no prerequisites. It pours forth from the heart that is awake and opened.
Receptivity is a fundamental technique that endlessly subverts the ego. It will always take you beyond your fixed limitations and your self-centeredness.
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