I hope this post will stimulate your thinking about how to create more positive energy around the Law of Giving at your workplace, your home, and wherever you go during this holiday season!
“The universe operates through dynamic exchange…giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.”
That is why you must give and receive in order to keep wealth and affluence – or anything you want in life – circulating in your life…In order to keep that energy coming to us, we have to keep the energy circulating. What goes up must come down; what goes out must come back. In reality, receiving is the same thing as giving, because giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. And if you stop the flow of either, you interfere with nature’s intelligence. The more you give, the more you will receive, because you will keep the abundance of the universe circulating in your life. In fact, anything that is of value in life only multiples when it is given. If, through the act of giving, you feel you have lost something, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase. If you give grudgingly, there is no energy behind the giving. The intention should always be to create happiness for the giver and receiver, because happiness is life-supporting and life-sustaining and therefore generates increase….the frame of mind has to be one in which you feel joy in the very act of giving.”
Forrest King couldn’t believe that scene. Dozens of Federal Express employees were cheering as he and his wife stepped out of the chartered Boeing 747 airplane. King had come to Memphis with other Flying Tiger employees whose company has recently been bought by Federal Express, to see if he wanted to relocate. The welcome, complete with a red carpet and a welcoming committee that included the mayor of Memphis and FedEx’s CEO, was King’s introduction to this unusual company. According to King: “It seems to me that when another company takes you over, they are not necessarily obligated to give you a job in the first place. But everyone – and it was communicated in a memo and later in video – was offered a job.” CEO Fred Smith’s “people first” management style can be summed up by one FedEx’s slogans: “People, Service, Profit,” or P-S-P. “Take care of our people, they, in turn, will deliver the impeccable service demanded by our customers, who will reward us with the profitability necessary to secure our future.” And FedEx does take care of its people. When the company’s Zapmail program was shut down in 1986, all 1,300 of the employees who had worked in the department had first priority in internal job posting applications. Those employees who could not find positions with equivalent salaries could take lower-level jobs and retain their previous salary for up to 15 months, or until they found another higher-salary job. And when FedEx discontinued much of its service within Europe and reduced its European work force from 9,200 to 2,600, FedEx received praise from the London Times, among others, for the way in which it went about the layoffs. For example. FedEx put full-page ads in several newspapers urging other employers to hire former FedEx workers. In Belgium alone, 80 companies responded to the ad with a total of 600 job offers. FedEx people stick together in hard times. As a specific example, I offer a recent experience of mine as proof. On Saturday, November 17, 2007, my wife and I decided to participate in a fund-raiser for the local crew team. They offered to rake our leaves (a nice benefit in itself) for a certain donation. We felt it was a very good offer to save us some work and we wanted to help the crew team. At this point, we were implementing the Law of Giving at a lower level. The next day, I was up in my office working on the family finances and bills when the crew of several teenagers and some parents began working on our yard. I peeked out a few times and was very impressed with the work the crew was doing. While the crew was still working, I privately told my wife that I was going to increase our donation and I ultimately decided to double our donation in the true spirit of giving. We did not inform the crew because we wanted our 2-year old daughter, Catherine, to surprise them with the extra donation. We were now implementing the Law of Giving at its highest level as we were experiencing pure joy in the expanded giving. Because we did this giving just to give more and not to receive more, we incurred some expected receiving. When the crew finished, they handed my wife a pair of eye glasses that they found. These were eye glasses that I lost two weeks ago and thought we were going to have to replace at two to four times that additional donation amount we gave. The next day, I received totally unexpected new income unrelated to any current efforts of mine that equaled ten times the amount the additional donation. We hope you too will find ways to expand the positive energy around you, and in the world, by giving thanks for all your blessings and applying the Law of Giving. Please feel free to share this message with others as one application of the Law of Giving.
Deepak Chopra provides one of the best descriptions of the Law of Giving that I have seen. Below are some exerts from Chapter 2 on the Law of Giving in his book, “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success”:
“Your body is in dynamic and constant exchange with the body of the universe; your mind is dynamically interacting with the mind of the cosmos; your energy is an expression of cosmic energy.
A “Chicken Soup for the Soul” Story
A story from Chicken Soup for the Soul® at Work
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