A strong community support system. And to offer myself the same type of unconditional love and support I want to share with others.

criticism. it's a strength and my downfall.

Love. Self love and intimate love. This has been the hardest lesson for me in my 35 years on earth.

Success. I have finally healed myself from the purgatory of thinking one should live a punishing life! I now am on the pursuit of a calm, meaningful, SUCCESSFULL life.

Thank you for all of your inpsiration.

a healthy pregnancy.

I am willing to receive prosperity. And Cafe Gratitude sounds absolutely wonderful, thank you for sharing! :)

friendship.

Wellness

This topic is a hot one. It seems to be appearing everywhere. I think the universe is trying to tell us something. I wish there was a Cafe Gratitude around here. Thank you for this post.

sensuality

hbnd

The GOOD FLOW of life *

THANK YOU! Thank you.
You inspired me, so I answered here
http://callmezari.blogspot.com/

Love.
Finally. Completely and wholly from myself and others.
And?
Success! Not in material terms, just in terms of doing what I love and having it work in the world, in some way. Why is that so hard to receive? Why the sabotage? No more.

I'm ready for both of these. Bring. It. On. !

Compliments and constructive criticism for my art medium which I am not yet comfortable in.

Thank you!

(ps-care to do lunch? I would love to eat there!)

humor, laughter, enjoyment of humor. Always 100%

I think I have a hard time receiving; and that being this way can be very selfish because it deprives others of the pleasure of giving.

Blessings.
His gaze.

Oh, and one of my favorite things to receive these days: awe at the beauty of a moment.

Help. Adoration. Caring. Love. All of those things that I've excelled at giving to other people and been incompetent at receiving. I thank my wondrous child and a healthy partnership for helping (there it is!) me to realize that it's not just okay, but vital, to receive these things. Not just for myself, but for the people who give them.

The world is infinitely more lovely with those things being passed around.

I am willing to receive abiding love, endless showers of abundance, hail storms of inspiring ideas, at least 5 wonderful and synchronistic surprises each day, and kisses... many many kisses!

I am willing to receive all the riches and opportunity the Universe can come up with and then some more!

I notice, answering this question, sometimes I have been less than graceful at receiving love.

I'm on this great e-mail list of people (about 15 of us?) in Europe and N. America who write ten things we're grateful for every morning... to create the day. Most of the people I "know" only through their e-mails and we have created a powerful community in love with our lives. I highly recommend the experience. It's a great way to create an empowering context for the day.

I look forward to going to a Cafe Gratitude some time.

a secure and nurturing work environment without a despotic boss who sacks people on a whim!
success for our business
a clean, calm home

I am willing to accept that I am good enough as myself.

wow, what a good question.
difficult to decipher sometimes what you would like, and what you really are willing to receive.
i realize how difficult it is for me to receive.
i fear a bite, instead of nourishment.
but i can get past that (i think).

i open myself to the possibility of success, new friends who love me, and more easy, joyful times with my children.

This is such a great post!!! I am also willing to receive help, love, healing of all kinds, my healthiest body ever, mutual caring and respectful friendships and healthy extended family relationships! Acceptance, joy and prosperity! Gratitude to you Andrea for this post:) -L

My friend went there and the question was,"What did you contribute to the world today?" Well, of course everyone she told afterwards said, "Well...I pooped."

Oh brother!

My friend went there and the question was,"What did you contribute to the world today?" Well, of course everyone she told afterwards said, "Well...I pooped."

Oh brother!

I am willing to receive ease and joy in every aspect of my life. I am willing to receive abundance and support. I am willing to receive perfect health.

Thanks for this! What a gift.

love.

i feel like answering this!

i am willing to receive small kindnesses and compliments. today someone complimented me on a necklace, and i found myself, instead of graciously accepting it, saying "oh, ha, this was $3 at target." i always wiggle out of accepting anything graciously... someone offers me a sweet and i say "hmm, thanks, not like i NEED this"...instead of just reveling in the fact that people have kind words and deeds for me, sometimes!

I would love to go to Cafe Gratitude. I actually chose a word to focus on for the year instead of resolutions or goals and my word is gratitude. It really has helped me change the way I "see" things and react. As for an answer to your question...I am willing to receive help. I think that I've come to realize that I don't have to do it "all" and if someone offers to help me in whatever way that means, then I should accept their offer with a heart full of gratitude! Thanks for the rockin' post!

I am so willing to receive guidance and miracles right now. My arms are wide open, Universe!

Oops, I really didn't answer the correct question in my post a moment ago! The one thing I am most willing (and wanting) to receive is appreciation. I think I get enough of that from family, but wish I got more of it at work....

I think what people can depend on me for is being a punctual team player. What I'm worshipping now is good, good music....I am just adoring some classical and choral music right now and will always worship these same pieces no matter what other genres I'm enjoying

Thanks for the continued inspiration. I wrote a post about it on my blog. Cheers to you!

Andrea you have given so much via the superheroes website you would take for years before being 'out of balance'.

I am willing to receive my future. I've been afraid of it for too long.

I am willing to receive a healthy body, and lifestyle. I am willing to receive the messages that I keep being sent telling me I can do this and deserve it.

I am willing to receive love and affection from my wife, friends and family.

Thank you for this post. I love it.

I am willing to receive help. This sounds small, but it's actually big for me; I've never wanted to put anyone out, or show weakness, or make anyone worry, or be construed as lazy....

It's funny, though - especially lately - how life eventually exposes rules like this that I make for myself for what they really are: 1) needlessly stress inducing and 2) barriers against knowing something beautiful about life and people.

After a long time in a job that's really bled me dry, I'm starting my own business. This is something I've needed to do for years, but I insisted on waiting till I could do it all on my own. And then finally I realized I just couldn't wait anymore; I'd have to accept help from my husband (who was only too happy to give it - he's a gem!), and I'd have to ask friends for contacts and colleagues for support and understanding as I embarked on something new. All of this scared the daylights out of me! But - oh my goodness - I finally did it, and I'm just floored by how gracious all have been, as well as by how thirstily my soul soaked up that care once I let it in, how joyous it is to experience such goodness from others, and how much stronger I feel for having a network than I ever did as Ms. Lone Tree.

I'm also struck by how a willingness to receive feels like flow, like a natural order of things I've been missing.... Giving and receiving: it's kind of like tides coming and going, isn't it?

Affection and physical touch from my Husband

I am willing to receive many more laughter- and lesson-filled years with my husband.
I am willing to receive a family of our very own.
I am willing to receive a light-filled home with an herb garden.
I am willing to receive sparkling health and fitness.
I am willing to receive radical self-acceptance.

(Thank you, Andrea.)

i am willing to recieve my baby.
i am willing to recieve this home.
i am willing to recieve sparkling good health and fertility. i am willing to recieve my license in the mail . i am willing to recieve new glorious and tru friendships. i am willing to recieve a trip to paris, france. i am willing to recieve forgiveness. i am willing to recieve an atmosphere of blamelessness. i am willing to recieve support. i am willing to recieve a way to work it out with my husband., i am willing to recieve love.

I'm willing to receive compliments on my new short hairdo.

I'm willing to receive people telling me my youngest child is beautiful and that my oldest is so unique and smart.

I'm willing to receive help from someone on just about anything that I need help on because I realized a long time ago I can't do it all.

I'm willing to receive the fact that some days as a mother absolutely suck a rotten egg and make me very unhappy...while others make me so joyous that I feel I will burst.

I'm willing to receive the fact that there is never enough time for everything and that eventually it will get done.

I'm willing to receive advice from people who have experienced more than I have or simply know what I don't.

I'm willing to receive options on the way I live, whether it's buying CSA produce or NOT ever buying another Chiquita banana after finding out they gave money to militants who kill children.

I'm willing to receive that I am not perfect, yet my husband loves me anyway and finds me sexy.

I'm willing to receive that I sometimes am not the best mother, but nonetheless my children seem to adore me (no accounting for taste, lol).

I'm willing to receive all the small things in life that make me happy...coffee, my new flower beds, sun on my skin, picking strawberries with my children, walking through an antique store and buying 100 year old homemaking magazines.

I'm willing to receive each and every moment, bad or good, because the alternative is not...and that is not an option.

P.S. Andrea I absolutely adored your photos of Ben in your Mother's Day post. I had a bad Mother's Day

http://faydean.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/so-this-post-sh.html

...so seeing that very realistic shot from a mommy's point of view made me giggle out loud and sigh a breath of relief that I know you and ALL other moms can relate to those kinds of moments. I am NOT alone. I TOTALLY receive that fact...and rely on it most days to get me through, lol.

I am willing to accept whatever another will offer. Knowing that sometimes it will give me greater opportunities to learn something every day, even if that lesson or adventure may seem difficult initially.

We often fail to see the message in things that are not necessarily invited but come upon us anyway. I hope to receive these things as gracefully as the more welcome things some day....still working on it!

I guess that's the path to enlightenment !

andrea-
my two friends and i went to cafe gratitude the last time we were up in berkeley. unfortunately we couldnt leave all of our cynicism at the door and couldnt help but giggle at our waitress. the best part was when the woman next to us ordered: "i am insightful" and the waitress breathily responded-"OHHHH you are SO insightful."

we all dissolved into puddles of giggles. :)
good times....

andrea-
my two friends and i went to cafe gratitude the last time we were up in berkeley. unfortunately we couldnt leave all of our cynicism at the door and couldnt help but giggle at our waitress. the best part was when the woman next to us ordered: "i am insightful" and the waitress breathily responded-"OHHHH you are SO insightful."

we all dissolved into puddles of giggles. :)
good times....

I am willing to receive everything that my magic superhero bulls eye pendant brings me!( and has already brought to me! )

I am willing to receive the love my husband brings me, the abundance that surrounds me daily in the warmth of our home, the love and adoration of our 15 year old cat "pretty girl", the love and support from my friends and family, healthy joyful food, joyous health, creativity that is overflowing at the moment, and my senses that help me experience the tree out front, the wind, the song of the birds in the morning, the taste of chai tea, the feel of grass on my feet, the sound of my husband breathing next to me in bed, etc etc etc!

I am willing to receive and know that I am enough, I am worth it, my artwork is strong and important, my point of view matters and is helpful to others.

I am willing to receive the fact that I am dazzling, I am thriving, I am prosperous and abundant, I am cherished, I matter, I am a magnet to all things that I desire, and I am willing to receive everything that is manifesting in my life right now and more. I am willing to receive avalanches of abundance and wealth, health and happiness, success and honors, gallery representation, clients, filled up workshops and coaching sessions, collectors of my work, and the universe saying YES YES YES!!!! All of this equals receiving help, love, and accepting myself exactly as I am in this moment and rejoicing about all of it!

My husband

I am willing to receive all kinds of love and the overwhelming pain that it sometimes bring.

Help. Simply that.

i am willing to receive
self-forgiveness
the feeling that letting go of some things is okay
the house i want (am i looking too hard?)
time alone without feeling guilty or self-indulgent

I am willing to receive abundant jubilant love and happiness

I am willing to recieve constructive crit

I am willing to receive the love and gratitude of my friends!

I am willing to receive the love and gratitude of my friends!

I am willing to receive the love and gratitude of my friends!

I am willing to receive the love and gratitude of my friends!

affirmation...I am a good person and I don't need to deny myself acceptance and love from others based on a false sense of pride.

the gifts the universe has to offer

i am willing to receive:

a good, deeply satisfying night of sleep
all the money i need for my trip to Rwanda (about $1000 short after debacle with first printer)
a decent secondhand computer
help packing my 400 lbs. of luggage (not kidding)
a foot massage from a small child
a deep sense of trust that everything will come together
a major breakthrough in my marriage
a renewed sense of excitement about my trip (i am very tired now)

how's that? :)

I am flying to San Francisco from Indiana to shoot a friend's wedding. I want to receive freedom from my own inner critic that weighs me down. I tried using your contact button on your website, but couldn't get it to work. Would you have any interest in meeting up while I'm out there for a few minutes to, well, I don't know, let some of your inspiration rub off on me? :o)

~jayne

Sometimes I have difficulty receiving what is being offered. But bring it on universe... I am willing to receive a life partner, kids, a lovely house, travel, my dream job and happiness ... and everything that comes with that!
Thanks for the question :)

Vitality.

The first thing that came to my mind was success.
I am now willing to accept success into all aspects of my life; my career, my health, and my relationships.
I've not been very good about letting myself be successful at anything, nor have I allowed myself to fully realize when I am successful. That needs to change. :)

I am willing to receive endurance.
I am training myself for bigger and better things and a sense of endurance and persistence is what I need right now.

Today I am willing to receive constructive criticism and advice, especially when it helps me to see that my self-loathing isn't doing me any good and that I can be the person I want to be even if others think it odd.

Healthy love.

I tend to seek praise. But when I receive praise, I reject it because I feel like I don't deserve it. So basically, I'm never satisfied when it comes to this issue. So starting today, I am willing to receive and accept praise. And if I can do that, then maybe I can finally stop hunting for it! This would change my life completely :)

Oh, and I think it's a fantastic idea to have a superhero question of the week!

not an easy question when you really think about the answer. I am ready to receive whatever the Lord brings my way. I like knowing what is ahead, so this is really big for me to accept and receive what comes with not knowing.

make sense?

I am willing to receive success. I have spent so long convincing myself that I don't deserve to be successful, and that I don't need to excel. It's time to stop self-sabotaging, and to welcome the opportunities that come along.

I am willing to receive days that flow easily and enjoyably, without effort or striving.

Well, I think I will start with the very words you uttered at the end of this post...

I am willing to receive abundance and gratitude :)
(without feeling an ounce of guilt)

Thanks for getting this started.
eek is right!

Into my mind popped "love". I am willing to receive love. My heart is filling up now in this realisation. Thank you for asking the question.

I am willing to receive criticism, and I'm a little surprised that this word is what came to mind first, but it is true! That is so far from who I've been before, but I think with time and with a growing sense of freedom and solidity of my identity, criticism isn't the world-rocking experience it once was. Criticism is not always easy to hear, don't get me wrong, but I think I'm better able to step back a little bit and examine a criticism more instead of automatically taking it in as truth or as judgment. Hooray! That's a sign of healing in my life! :)

Divine guidance.

I pray for the willingness to accept and enjoy the prosperity in my life.
I pray for the willingness to enjoy an abundance of relaxed, wonderful time with true friends, strengthening the bonds of love and unity between us.

love.
i'm willing to receive and accept more love in my life!
(and love of all forms...not just the expected ways).

i'm going to be spending lots of time in berkeley next year and one of the things i'm most excited about is getting to go to cafe gratitude! it sounds so delicious for the belly and the soul!

and i'm excited for the superhero questions to come!

LOVE

For so many years I've (rather unknowingly) built up walls and defenses around myself. Now I'm slowly but surely deconstructing those and...just.letting.myself.be.loved.

Peace. I am willing to receive peace.

Now, if I could only find it ... ;-)

I am willing to receive permission to play with all my art supplies without feeling guilty about letting the dishes, clutter or laundry pile up.

I think I am ready to receive help from others! Of course this means I have to share how I feel with others - eeek! that's very scary and painful!

I am willing to receive love.
I'm opening up to all of it lately, and it feels really good. I never realized how much I was denying myself and how much love I need, now that I have it.

I am so with you guys on the help thing!

I am willing to receive HELP and support
and not feel like I owe them one... I am guilty
of the tit for tat thing, feeling like I can't receive
without giving back quickly and in equal measure.
I always try to be sure I am doing more so that I
don't owe anyone anything.

I am willing to let that go and receive more than my share.

!
eek.

I am so with you guys on the help thing!

I am willing to receive HELP and support
and not feel like I owe them one... I am guilty
of the tit for tat thing, feeling like I can't receive
without giving back quickly and in equal measure.
I always try to be sure I am doing more so that I
don't owe anyone anything.

I am willing to let that go and receive more than my share.

!
eek.

cafe gratitude is COOL! i wanted to play the game...

I think that Help is a really great answer for this. So many of us are so used to doing things on our own and figuring that we can do it all. This ultimately can leave us feeling unfinished or stressed. That said I would have to agree with the Help.

You know, I've tried to take my better half there since I went with you. He's a vegtarian, and I think he'd really enjoy the food. But after I explained it (I did the, "come on, try it. It's a Bay Area original") he absolutly refuses to put his foot in the door ;) It's a little much for me too, but fun at the same time. I'll get him eventually... sigh.

I am willing to receive the right doors opening at the right time. Things seem to be lining up recently and I am trying to be grateful instead of wondering when/if that other shoe will drop.

Help, I think. And I might be wrong, because I've only realized this recently. I definitely know one should be able to request and receive help. Recently, I seem to have been able to.

Will you tell us your own answer?