Online StoreThe Importance of The Attitude of Giving
The problem is largely due to our understanding of giving. For those who contribute and give on a regular basis, they will know what giving truly means. However for those who dont have this habit, they would have developed a distorted and generalized perspective on giving.
The way the world and society generally views giving causes misunderstandings on many levels. It is the general belief that giving only means to try to be being helpful, sympathize with others and being the good guy.
People view giving as a way to ‘get into’ heaven, to collect good karma, to be rewarded something in return in the future etc. Not to say that any of this isnt true at all, but these are just very small parts of giving.
This narrow perspective of giving actually encourages the (false) assumption that by giving, the giver gains nothing and only loses out. Too much attention is paid on what is being given out. The focus isn’t on what the giver might get through the act of giving at all. Rather the belief is that the giver will only lose out.
This is not true. In fact, we gain something back in return immediately when we give. The happiness, feelings of significance, purpose, and feel good factor of giving is worth more than what we gave out. All these have positive physical, emotional and spiritual effects on our being.
In addition, giving also puts you in a frame of mind that you are already abundant. How does it work? Think about it, when can a person give? Only when he or she has got something to give. If you have nothing to give, you cant give. Thats the only logic. When you give, it can only mean that you already have something.
Every time you indulge in the act of giving, what you are doing unconsciously is telling yourself that you already ‘have’ it. If you give time it means you have time, if you give money it means you have money. Because there is evidence of this (the fact that you gave it), your brain will infer that you are indeed abundant. Gradually you will develop the belief that your life is filled with abundance. Through that belief you will naturally attract more and more abundance into your life.
