Jennifer channeling Divine Mother on the Balance of Giving & Receiving
Jen: So, Mama, tell us something about why we resist taking care of ourselves. (A motorcycle roars past outside.) It’s noisy today…
Mother: This is a an example of the kinds of distractions that you have in your world. And it is not that there is a desire to be neglectful of your own true self, or to not take good care of yourself. There’s no desire in the way of deliberately wanting to cause this kind of neglect. It is really just that you live in a time, an era, when there is enormous pressure on you, socially and financially.
In many ways, there is a lot of pressure, and therefore the distractions are multitudinous. There are many ways in which you can become distracted from any intention you might have to take better care of yourself.
You also have a history – another factor within you – of lifetimes in which your intention to live as good a life as possible involved adhering to the recommendations of the church. And the church, in many ways, found it useful to point you to others, to helping others, to putting others before yourself, because it kept you off balance.
Frankly, if you can see this for the manipulation that it was, understand it, forgive it, let it go. We’ll clear the energy for you to be able to say, “Oh, I so wish to be in balance. I wish to offer the wisest possible experience for the personality and for the soul that is using this particular body” – yourself.
You can remember that balance is intrinsically valuable in any situation. Realize that the energy going out from you needs to be replenished, the energy that you spend loving the world or caring for your loved ones. Caring for anything in your life needs to be balanced by an incoming energy of self-nurturing.
That will take different forms, some of them helpful and some of them more, say, useless rather than destructive. But there are those of you who nurture yourselves in a so called “adult” way, by pouring alcohol down your throat. This is not particularly helpful. It has its uses. It has an effect of relaxing you and relaxing your inhibitions, so that you can revel in feeling a little freer and more relaxed. So it is useful in that sense. However, it is not in balance as far as self-nurturing. So this is a misuse of the idea of giving to yourself that which will be pleasurable, which will balance that which is supposedly difficult or challenging for you, which is what you give out.
You know this, you can understand and see what it is I’m speaking, that there is a mis-figured, misguided, a warped – if you want to use that word – sense of the coming in and the going out of the divine energy filling you and flowing through you.
I would say, I would characterize this as a Third Dimensional system longing to work more efficiently and more productively, if you are creating recreational opportunities for yourself that don’t truly give Life to your body or inspiration to your mind, don’t give or allow love to your heart. You truly are nourished by love, and so you seek it in lots of ways in this world that are not helpful or not productive, but there is always the longing.
So we would bring you back to a higher dimensional perspective, which is one of seeing yourself as created out of love, and therefore needing love to sustain yourself. So if you want to be of service to the world, as so many of what you call your light workers, your love bringers, your love holders, if you want to bring light and love to the world, then you need to bring light and love into yourself through a deliberate choice of opening your chakras, opening your heart, opening your crown, opening yourself to receive.
This is what is so valuable about the meditation practices. But there are other wholesome and energy-supported practices which are not as formal as meditation, and that is the enjoyment of being in a loving relationship with anyone of any age that you know, children are particularly helpful for this.
Also, to find some experience of yourself outdoors, in the fresh air, in nature, with your feet on the ground, so that you are in balance with Divine Mother in the Earthly representation.
So the balance in, the out, the flowing down, the flowing through, flowing back, the giving up, giving up to Us, which is All That Is, Source, in the way you give prayer, the way you give your longing, the way you ask us for help, you speak with us, you offer us relationship. This is a giving up, giving up to a higher vibration, and then you open the door for that to flow into your being.
All of these things are things you know about, but we have just put it into a context here of how to nurture your own sweet self. Thank you for this time. I am your Divine Mother and I love you, each and every one, dearly.
Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, April 9, 2026, South Portland, Maine USA
