17. How to Increase Your Capacity to Receive with Kate Northrup

Plenty with Kate Northrup

Kate Northrup

Personalfinance, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Nervoussystemhealing, Education, Womensempowerment, Wellness, Pleasure, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Abundance, Embodiment, Productivity, Timemanagement, Business

4.8 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that your nervous system plays a crucial role in your ability to receive? Discover how to expand your capacity to receive love, pleasure, and abundance by creating a safe space within yourself in this insightful solo episode of the Plenty Podcast.

I explore the topic of expanding our capacity to receive and how our ability to receive is closely tied to our sense of safety and how our nervous system is wired. Our nervous system has a thermostat setting that is based on our childhood experiences and ancestral imprints, which determine what feels safe and familiar to us.

However, in order to expand our capacity to receive, we need to signal to our bodies that we are safe. In this episode I share practical tools for doing this, such as noticing gravity and orienting ourselves to our immediate environment. I also cover the importance of feeling and processing emotions to clear out any stuck energy that may be blocking our ability to receive. By practicing these techniques, we can gradually expand our capacity to receive and create a more abundant and joyful life.

Key Takeaways

Our capacity to receive is determined by our sense of safety, which is encoded in our nervous system based on our childhood experiences and ancestral imprints.
To expand our capacity to receive, we need to signal to our bodies that we are safe.
Practical tools for signaling safety include noticing gravity and orienting ourselves to our immediate environment.
Feeling and processing emotions is essential for clearing out stuck energy and expanding our capacity to receive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Plenty. I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together we are going on a journey
0:08.1	to help you have an incredible relationship with money, time, and energy, and to have abundance
0:16.4	on every possible level. Every week, we're going to dive in with experts and insights to help
0:23.7	you unlock a life of Plenty. Let's go fill our cups. Hi, welcome to Plenty. I'm so excited to be here
0:33.0	with a solo episode for you, which was inspired by a question from my friend Vasavi, who has also
0:40.8	been a guest on the podcast. So the question was, how do we actually expand our capacity to
0:48.2	receive? Receiving comes up for so many women around love, around pleasure, around abundance, and it all comes down
0:59.7	to our relationship with safety and how safe we feel. And we don't often think about receiving
1:07.5	in relationship to safety because we think receiving is about more, right? And like
1:13.1	expansion. And at least until I began to study the nervous system, I did not understand
1:19.1	how fundamental it is for us to first feel safe before we expand. So before I get into how to actually expand your capacity
1:32.0	to receive, which by the way is something I'm also continually working on because the really
1:38.6	cool thing is there's really no limit to our capacity. It's not like, you know, a building that just has eight floors
1:49.0	and then you go to the eighth floor and you can't go any higher. In terms of our capacity to receive
1:54.8	and our capacity certainly to feel pleasure and joy and expansion and our ability to dream
2:00.7	and vision, there's no limitation
2:03.7	on that. We're not going to get to a point where we're like, okay, there it is. I've now
2:08.7	expanded to my full capacity. It can actually just grow and grow and grow. Similarly to how our
2:16.6	capacity for pleasure and presence in the body has no limit. And that's
2:23.9	why we say the better it gets, the better it gets, because the more we are able to stay present to
2:31.2	our pleasure and our expansion and our receiving, the more becomes available. And it's
2:39.0	like this beautiful ride that never ends similar to actually the way that the female body is wired
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