97: Taking vs. Receiving — Part 1 — Permission to Take… Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking, Receiving, and Giving

This conversation offers an investigation and self-inquiry around taking, receiving, and giving. We often overvalue giving and stigmatize taking — that taking is selfish, impolite, or that we shouldn’t… we certainly shouldn’t take too much. And we often moralize that it is better to receive than to take. Does that limit us in our fullness?We need to be able to take. It is an assertive action we can play with and use when we need it. Taking space, taking your own time, taking up space, taking what we need, and ultimately taking our place. My teacher, Suzi Tucker, says that it is first “take, then give.” Taking comes before giving.In this episode, I discuss our developmental need to take, what beliefs may interfere with our ability to assert and take what we need or desire, taking too much and its relationship with scarcity, and the wounds and messages we may have received and internalized that make it hard for us to take and receive.This is part one of the series: Cleanse Your Ideas of Taking Receiving, and Giving. Next week: Opening Your Capacity to Receive Links, Article, and ResourcesAll Show Notes for This Episode📝 https://candicewu.com/taking Podcast Homepage🎧 https://candicewu.com/podcastNewsletter & Embody Community💌 https://candicewu.com/embody-communityDonations – Your Support Means So Much!💝 https://candicewu.com/supportCandice Wu Page on Facebook👫 https://facebook.com/EmbodyYourNatureFollow Candice on Instagram📷 https://instagram.com/EmbodyYourNature Sponsored by the Ally With Death Audio ExperientialIt’s important to let die what needs to die.Our relationship with Death gives us Life — if we do not honor death, can we really know what it is to live? Are we able to assert our lives fully and be present to life?When we resist death, we resist life.I am thrilled to announce that the Ally With Death Experiential is now a guided audio recording full of moody and provocative music and my voice guiding you through a death of old ways of being, habits, and beliefs, and a rebirth into what would feel more like you, life-giving, and present!This is a beautiful recording featuring music from Larry Saint Germain to shake up the decay and stagnancy inside. If you are feeling stuck, stagnant, ready for what’s next, curious, depressed or anxious about life, uncertain, intrigued about how death can support life, want to get clarity for yourself, or just interested in following nature’s guidance to go inward and let die what needs to die.On Sale now until Nov. 15, 2019.Learn more and order the Ally With Death at CandiceWu.com/death Show Notes00:00 Intro01:11 Opening02:21 Sponsored by the Ally With Death Audio Experiential05:50 Birthing New by Embracing Death07:08 Letting Go of Protecting Others Around My Desires08:22 Opening Up Through Forgiveness Statements09:34 Feeling More Aligned With the Present Moment… Less Attached to the Future and Outcomes10:39 Horses Just Go for What They Want!11:05 This Does Not Mean Not to Think About the Future11:31 What in You is Dying?12:27 Honoring Ourselves Around the Holiday Season13:26 Meditation: Take This Moment With Some Letting Go and Being With Yourself15:21 Taking - Part 1: The Meaning16:50 Clearing the Stigma Around Taking18:06 the Overvaluing of Giving: Depleting Yourself, Why Are You Giving?19:42 the Developmental Experience of Taking: Taking Before You Can Give23:13 Being Able to Ask for What We Want and Take It24:15 Taking: Not What is Not Yours or More Than You Need25:38 Greed: Taking What is Not Mine as a Proxy to Fix Basic Needs27:26 Check-in: What is Your Relationship With Taking?31:12 Our Place in the World: The Right Place is Always Taken, Not Given - Suzi Tucker37:42 Messages and Judgments We Hear When We Take38:34 You Decide What You Need, and What You Need is What You Need39:17 You Have a Place in This World. That’s a Given.40:11 Check-in: What Kinds of Beliefs Come Up for You?41:10 Having and Creating Boundaries for Yourself to Take What You Need42:04 Outro — Part 2 Comes Next Week42:33 The Embody Newsletter43:00 My Gratitude & Support Options for the Podcast43:58 The Embody Meditations Database44:25 Sending You Into the Week