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A man acting as an instrument of the Force, consciously or unconsciously the man must receive, also he must be able to work out what the Force puts through him. He is a living complex instrument, not a simple machine. So if he has responsiveness, capacity, etc. he can work out the Force perfectly, if not he does it imperfectly or frustrates it. That is why perfectioning of the instrument is important. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/receptivity-to-the-force?search=receive#p17</ref>
Only then can we receive the Light, know perfectly the will of the Supreme, attune all our movements to the rhythm of its Truth and execute perfectly from moment to moment its imperative commandments. Till then there is no firm achievement, but only an endeavour, seeking and aspiration, all the stress and struggle of a great and uncertain spiritual adventure. Only when these things are accomplished is there for the dynamic parts of our nature the beginning of a divine security in its acts and a transcendent peace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/partial-systems-of-yoga#p58</ref>
The more one gives oneself, the more the power to receive will grow. But for that all impatience and revolt must go; all suggestions of not getting, not being helped, not being loved, of going away, of abandoning life or the spiritual endeavour must be rejected. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-love#p18</ref>
If rightly done, the mantra can be a means of opening to the light and knowledge etc. from above and it ceases as soon as that is done. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/mantra-and-japa#p7</ref>
==Receptivity in the Parts of Being==
===Receptivity in the Physical===
The method of relaxing the contraction may be different in the mind, the vital or the body, but logically it is the same thing. Once you have relaxed the tension, you see first if the disagreeable effect ceases, which would prove that it was a small momentary resistance, but if the pain continues and if it is indeed necessary to increase the receptivity in order to be able to receive what is helpful, what should be received, you must, after having relaxed this contraction, begin trying to widen yourself—you feel you are widening yourself. When one does that one becomes really receptive. One can act through thought, by calling the peace, tranquillity (the feeling of peace takes away much of the difficulty) like this: "Peace, peace, peace... tranquillity... calm." Many discomforts, even physical, like all these contractions of the solar plexus, which are so unpleasant and give you at times nausea, the sensation of being suffocated, of not being able to breathe again, can disappear thus...</ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p18</ref>
===Receptivity in the Mind===