{"id":240,"date":"2015-12-23T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/?p=240"},"modified":"2015-12-30T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T00:39:38","slug":"week-13-reciprocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/2015\/12\/23\/week-13-reciprocity\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 13- Reciprocity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I promise to<i> give without expectation of reciprocity<\/i> from the channels I enrich because I know I am in the dynamic flow of giving and receiving.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is another one I thought would be easy. After all, I have a few chosen charities I contribute to, \u00a0and I expect nothing in return. But wait! There&#8217;s more!<\/p>\n<p>Reciprocity isn&#8217;t only about monetary donations. What I&#8217;ve come to realize for about the last month or so is each time I am irritated or angry because something I&#8217;ve freely given isn&#8217;t appreciated, that&#8217;s an expectation for reciprocity&#8211;in the example used, appreciation is being sought in return for whatever action I&#8217;ve taken.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, what I thought might help isn&#8217;t helpful, so why would the person appreciate it? Sometimes, it just needed to be done, and the doing was &#8220;reward&#8221; enough.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what the right answer is, and I&#8217;ve discussed it imperfectly here, I have learned &#8220;expectation of reciprocity&#8221; has a much broader application than when I first began making the promise several weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>As I am able to better keep this promise, I will be much happier. I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy. I always keep my promises.<\/p>\n<p>JeanS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I promise to give without expectation of reciprocity from the channels I enrich because I know I am in the dynamic flow of giving and receiving.&#8221; This is another one I thought would be easy. After all, I have a few chosen charities I contribute to, \u00a0and I expect nothing in return. But wait! There&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/2015\/12\/23\/week-13-reciprocity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 13- Reciprocity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mkmma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6MHaR-3S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}