Receiving is just as important as giving. It sets the flow of abundance and helps others to attract their good as well. When you refuse to ever receive you can be robbing someone else the chance to give. Science has even shown that your health may depend on your ability to receive.
There are many reasons that people have for not receiving.
They believe that:
If you feel as that you have taken someone else's good from them, you cannot do this. The Universal laws, when you are in harmony with them, are set to your advantage. You can have whatever you desire, as long as your integrity is in order.
In many societies, the belief that we shouldn't receive can start to reach extremes. There are people who can't even receive a compliment or even a "thank you". In their attempt to be polite, modest or not appear stuck up they are actually really annoying the person who gave them the compliment.
For example, a person may say:
Alternatively, when you have helped someone and they say thank you, if you start saying, "Oh, it was nothing", It undermines the value and worth of the help and some people feel it undermines them.
I remember when I was in college, I had a hard time at accepting compliments. One year when I had completed a year-end project. I had fellow students coming up to me saying what I great job I did. I didn't want to appear better than anyone else or whatever it was I was feeling, so I would say, "Oh, it was nothing." Or, "It could have been better."
I had one friend get mad at me. She said, "Why can't you take a compliment? When you say it was nothing, when it was better than ours, just what are you saying about what we did?" I had never thought about it that way. I definitely didn