My partner and I were having breakfast on the shore of Lake Ontario, looking out over a beautiful marina with the sun dancing across the clear blue water. “Pinch me” I said, in awe of the beauty around me, the love I feel from him and for him, my spirituality, gratitude for my health, kids, my accomplishments and so on. We began a deep conversation about the meaning of “pinch me”.
I returned to my hotel room and checked my phone. A text message from one of my coachee’s (people I coach) said “I’m having such a great time with my Dad on the Athabasca glacier in Alberta. After losing Mom, I realize how precious these moments are. Pinch me out of this dream!”
‘Pinch me’ became a theme for me for the day, and a contemplation that I wanted to share with you.
In my understanding, ‘pinch me’ is a phrase that says that things are so amazing, I must be dreaming, and need to wake up, or to make sure that this is in fact real life. In that idea then, it seems that unintentionally we’re somehow sabotaging the situation that we’re speaking of.
Dreaming as I see it in this context is not real, but imaginary. Assuming we must be dreaming because things are so amazing invites us to believe that this isn’t normal, or natural. Waking up as I interpret it is coming back to reality, which is obviously not as heavenly as the place I felt I needed to be pinched in.
Why can’t we be in the amazing moments and really stand in them, and receive them fully, and really feel worthy and deserving of them? Then perhaps ‘pinch me’ would sound more like, ‘I’ve arrived’, or ‘I’m fully standing in who I was meant to be’, or even just ‘I am worthy and deserving of this abundance’.
One of the questions I have been asking myself over and over again in the past 6 months is “How much am I willing to receive?” This has pushed me beyond so many limiting beliefs that it has completely changed my life.
The next time I hear someone say ‘Pinch me’, I am going to do just that. I am going to pinch them so hard that they squeal, and realize that they are already awake, and that pain of being pinched is not at all what they want to feel, but receiving, worthiness and a sense of deserving is.
If you liked this post, you will love the whole chapter titled Receiving in my new book, Give and Be Rich – Tapping the Circle of Abundance.