To expect is to act with certainty that an event will occur. Your thoughts, your physical perceptions of reality, your beliefs and your feelings provide cross validation and work in unity to ensure results. Expectations work within our belief structure. They are our believable outcomes. We do not expect what is not believable to us. Expectation is exactly the source used to draw into existence our painted thoughts. As we think with clarity of our ideals, we come to expect their results.
However, you cannot forge expectations. There is a correlation between the strength of your expectations and the materialized result. The greater the expectation the more likely the result will produce accordingly. Doubtful expectations produce imprecise results. Similar to the monster under your bed or the rich uncle showing up on your doorstep, that which you hold any doubt about will not show. Hence, your expectations are indications of what you believe will happen; not what you hope will happen.
Believing in your abilities is the only way to gain expectancy of the results. You must have unwavering faith in yourself, solid and enduring. When you act in absolute faith results will follow. Checking constantly for results only produces skepticism. You would not need to check if you really believed you would receive. For example, it is normal for you to expect a bill to come in the mailbox. You do not have to inspect the mailbox several times a day for the result. You know a bill will appear. However, you do not expect an unanticipated check. Therefore as you approach the mailbox, you do not expect the unanticipated check with the same fervor as you do the bill. You know the bill will be there. You doubt delivery of a check. Guess which shows up?
Consider how you have come to expect: your weekly paycheck, your car to be in the garage when you awake in the morning, or the morning newspaper to be delivered in the paper box. These examples demonstrate your ability to expect a result with absolute certainty. That feeling of absolute certainty is how you want to expect your ideals and it is that feeling that you want to get in tune with. By in tune, I mean, get to know the frequency by paying attention to your thoughts and feelings as you check the mailbox, retrieve the newspaper, or slide into your car. By concentrating on reproducing the expectant feelings towards your ideals, your thoughts become in sync with your ideal since you think first, feel second.
Feelings are produced from our thoughts. We do not always know what to think in order to produce a result, but we do know which thoughts produce specific feelings. If I ask you to produce thoughts that will secure an abundant future for you, would you know which thoughts to think? What if instead, I ask you to think thoughts that make you feel emotionally elated, sad, or angry? You could easily muster up thoughts.
Since we navigate our thoughts through the use of our feelings, we are very comfortable with our feelings. We know the right thoughts to extract to produce the according feeling. We quite commonly are interested in how people feel, not such what they think. We want to know what it feels like to win the lottery, be famous, successful, well, etc. If we know the feeling, we can produce the thoughts. Since we do not know what feelings unknown experiences produce, we are curious as we search for clues.
Ultimately, you do know what it feels like to expect. You will come to know what living your ideals feels like too. However, you must expect them first through your known thoughts of expectancy. As your ideals arrive, you will become comfortable enough with their feel as well in order to perpetuate them. Using the feelings you are familiar with to produce the results you have come to expect is where you begin.
Be aware of any doubt settling in. Recall doubt always caters to your present belief system. It signals that your thoughts (I am getting a check in the mail) are contrary to your beliefs (unanticipated checks do not appear). You know cannot draw forth that which goes against your beliefs since the vibrational strength of your beliefs energy will repel it. Doubt is your present beliefs making a strong show of strength. You have to deliberately concentrate on laying the groundwork of the new thought avoiding doubtful thoughts entirely.
Expectations fall short when they are unbelievable to you. The size or the amount of what you are expecting does not matter unless you think that smaller or less significant amounts or items are easier to produce. If you hold a belief that a dollar is easy to produce but a thousand seems impossible, then for you expecting a thousand dollars will be very difficult until you alter your belief.
We know that our thoughts are attractors of energy. Energy can form anything. It is just as easy to produce one million dollars as it is to produce one dollar. Your thoughts attract the energy that binds into form. To the units of energy, it does not matter what form it is molded into…one million dollars, one dollar or even a five dollar bill…energy attracts and forms based upon the vibrational frequency of your thoughts. It is equally easy to produce either option. Your beliefs are the only limiting factors influencing the frequency drawn.
Think of you current beliefs, including doubt, as a gigantic magnet. Consider your fresh new thought as a much smaller magnet approaching this super-sized giant. Both magnets approach each other with a show of repelling sides. What happens? The smaller magnet cannot endure the force of the much larger magnet and is thus cast off. Knowing the strength you are up against, you must empower this fresh new thought by attentively standing behind it. You have to hold this thought intentionally in your focus which allows it to gain the strength necessary to stand its ground. As you hold the new thought in your mind, its power grows through attraction. With enough practice, this thought will become large enough to challenge your old belief.
People who have successfully drawn abundance to themselves held a belief that they were able to succeed. These thoughts were planted firmly in their mind. Others worked on restructuring faulty beliefs that prevented abundance from coming their way. Either way, the end result is that they needed to believe first, receive second.
Often our belief that money, success or wellness is on the way is doubted because the source of that relief is not known to us. Where could additional money come from? How are we going to be successful? Who would provide our cure? How are these bills going to disappear? How soon will change occur? Focusing on the where, how, and who are all obstacles as we have learned. All we need to do is focus on the end result letting the path work its way out. Focus should always be kept on the ideal not the path to the ideal. An infinite amount of paths exist to connect you to your ideal. When you hone in on just one or two paths, you eliminate all other potential pathways; pathways you might not even consider otherwise.
Life is unplanned event. Treat your ideals with the same zest, vigor, spontaneity, and excited enthusiasm as you would an upcoming surprise party. Excite yourself with the anticipated arrival. Know your ideals are coming and look forward to their appearance. Do not try to plan each step in the process as they make their way to you. Enjoy the moment and look forward to their expected arrival.
I held a firm belief several years ago that money would find its way to me. I did not know how. However, I held the belief. Within just a few short weeks, not one but two checks arrived in the mail each for roughly $1,000. The money came from a title company. Apparently, there had been a mistake in closing costs associated with rental real-estate we had purchased over a year prior. Money finds a path. Wellness finds a path. Success finds a path.
How many times have you focused on abundance only to disregard a good idea that pops in your mind? Or maybe you walk right by that hidden treasure at a garage sale? How many times have you been pessimistic about a new health regimen that you just read about in the latest version of Reader’s Digest? What about that empty building you drive by each day that would be perfect for the auto body business you dream of starting? Opportunities that are trying to connect with you flop when action is not taken and beliefs are unsupportive.
In just a moment, I will share another story with you that I believe illustrates heartily two points. First it confirms that we do not need money for things and second it demonstrates that things find a path. Before I tell you the story, consider that the major obstacle that we need to overcome with our expectations is this: We do not need money for things. Attracted energy finds a path. Attracted energy does not need to be purchased. It is not for sale. It needs thought excitement to mold it. That is all. Break money down and you will find it is made of the same energy that you are made of. Excite its energy and it will be drawn to you, just like in cases of people winning the lottery multiple times. It is that same excited energy that draws these repeat winnings to them. Unfortunately, as these big winners focus changes from winning the lottery to spending their winnings, they lose it all. Money is never what we are after. It is always the accomplishment of creating that pleasures us. Focusing on what is an attractive outcome for you (your ideal) ensures you will not only receive it but keep it. Lottery winners attract money because they lend obsessive thoughts to money. Most of the rest of us want what money buys but end up focusing on obtaining the money to get the thing. When you fail to expect because you think you need money to get the thing, then your eye is on the path not the thing. The thing is then held from you because your focus is on the money. Instead of focusing on the thing, you focus on not having enough money for the thing. So nothing is returned to you. You get lack because that is the only thing you gave focus to.
Now to my story: During a particular week, my mother began thinking how nice it would be to have a wrought iron bistro set for her patio. She cut out a picture of a patio bistro set she liked from a magazine setting the photograph on her countertop. Off she went to the store looking for similar bistro sets to the picture of one she had clipped out. She did find a couple similar sets for several hundred dollars, but the prices were too high and the quality was flimsy. She continued to think of her bistro set for the next couple of days without knowing how she would acquire one but keeping the idea of the set planted firmly in her mind.
Unbeknownst to me of her desire for a bistro set, I set out to garage sale on Thursday of the same week she began her search. She never mentioned to me that she was looking for a set, nor did I have any idea she wanted one. That day at a garage sale I found a beautiful vintage wrought iron bistro set for $13. The set looked weathered but it was solid. I knew that vintage sets like the one I found can easily be refinished and sold for top dollar. I immediately purchased the set for $13 and brought it home with the intention of touching it up to resell.
I had the opportunity to show that bistro set to my mother later the same day I found it. Her eyes lit up when she saw it. I could tell immediately she had an interest in it so I asked her if she wanted it. She told me that she had searched for a bistro set just days ago but had come up empty handed. The story ends this way. I gave my mother the bistro set as a Mother’s Day gift the Sunday immediately following my purchase and just days after her search began.
Things find paths. My mother did not need to spend or acquire several hundred dollars to purchase a bistro set. She did, however, get a vintage bistro set worth so much more than the new models, and she got it for free! She received it as a Mother’s Day Gift. When you believe, you expect. When you expect, you receive. The path finds the way to the object.
What you believe matters when it comes to getting what you expect. Half-hearted attempts at expectation will provide second-rate results. Forcing yourself to feel the elation you will feel when that check arrives or when you get that job promotion aids in attracting the experience because thought power is focused on producing those feelings just like I mentioned earlier. It is the way that you think when you are expecting that changes your course. You cannot expect without thinking of what you are expecting. You also cannot feel emotionally charged without thinking about how you will feel when you receive. So it is not the feeling of expectancy that you are trying to force, it is always thoughts!
You cannot feel emotion without first thinking a thought. Emotion always follows thought. It is not the other way around. Forced elation (feeling) is forced thought first. At first thoughts do need to be forced since you are not accustomed to having them occur naturally directed towards a purpose. You have allowed them to roam. However, by directing your thoughts towards accomplishing a specific feeling the right thoughts are produced.
How do you think with certainty in lieu of your current beliefs? You do it with deliberate intention by changing your beliefs, reforming your thought and altering your expectations. Your beliefs serve as filters for your thoughts, but your own free will allows you freedom of thought choice. Since you are the master architect of this seemingly impenetrable system of beliefs, you too can alter the plan design.
You have to be diligent in your thoughts and expectations for your beliefs to alter. Expectation becomes your ally in that it reminds you to think diligently about receiving. What are you expecting right now? If your ideals are not on that list, then you have not readied yourself to receive them. This is another of those profound secrets that guide you towards the ideal you! Knowing what you are expecting gives you a glimpse of where your thoughts are.
Often we hold our ideal in our future never to be presented to us because we do not expect our ideals to occur now. We expect them to arrive someday, just not today. As long as we hold our ideals at bay, they will stay at bay because they will exist where you put them. If you are waiting to catch up to your future ideals, you won’t! Now is all you ever have.
You view your world through points of inspection. Remember time is motion. If you expect time to lapse in order for you to expect your ideals, you will never catch up to them. You will always think that not enough time (motion) has elapsed. The only way to catch up to your ideals is to expect them now. You are responsible for setting that energy in motion. Energy comes through your drawing power. Your inspection point, which is energy already drawn to you, changes as you change it.
All sorts of thoughts run rampant through your mind. The thoughts that you turn your attention towards and focus on are the ones that you, knowingly or unknowingly, expect to materialize. Thoughts coupled with excitement, looking forward to something, confidence and great happiness are powerful attractors. Vacations in the near future, a visit by a loved one, an assured job promotion are examples of confident expectations. These events will become your reality.
Fear, worry, dread, doubt and all other forms of intensely negative emotional feelings are also great forms of expectation. Remember that. What you fear, worry and fret over are exactly those things you are attracting towards you through diligent negative thought expectation.
For many of us, we get stuck in this negative cyclical thought pattern without even realizing it. The more we worry over what to expect, the more things we get to worry about causing us further worries over what to expect. It is a powerful patterned attractor effective because we are quite adept at using it. These negative emotions, recall, are signals to us to change our thinking or else. When we ignore these signals, the undesirable appears. Unfortunately, we have come to expect bad things when these feelings present themselves because of our past history of allowing the thoughts and feelings to continue.
You can steer away from destructive outcomes only by changing your thoughts, forcing yourself if you must, to think of anything but what you dread or fear. However, if you do not hold your thoughts, allowing the pendulum represented by your thoughts to swing back to the side of lack and doubt, than you will be rewarded with lack and doubt.
Your intentions will produce results only when your focus is on the result appearing, not the absence of the result. You must always state what you want never what you do not want. Your focus needs to remain always on expecting your ideal.
