If You Could Find A Way

I was asked last week about the area of expectation in how it relates to manifesting.

I figured writing about it in my blog is perfect medium to share my understanding of expectation in regards to results we are striving to achieve in each of our lives.

Some people say expect nothing and you won’t be dissapointed. Philosophically I see that as a very pessimistic view. Not one I subscribe to but certainly understand the sentiments why someone could easily want to adopt such a view. Having high hopes and dreams not be realised can be a very painful experience. Taking the view not to expect anything can certainly protect us from possible emotional pain in life. But part of the magic of life as I see it, is in having goals and striving to achieve them. Some we go beyond what we dreamed up as potentials and some never come to realisation. That is all part of the human experience with all the emotional spectrum of life as a human being that goes with our personal journey we are each living.

Manifesting what we truly want is an artform. Manifesting we always do. The art involved is consciously doing it in such a way as to create what we say we want. Dissapointment and missing some goals is certainly part of the life journey as a human but to not have goals and dreams we strive to achieve is not a way to live life in my view. An apathetic, passionless and purposeless life holds no interest to me as an experience.

I don’t pretend to understand why some things in life work for us and others don’t. What I do know, is there is so much of us we are unconscious of, that is part of our own personal energy, that determines what shows up for us in each of our own lives. The more awareness and self knowledge we nurture and develop for ourself the more empowered we feel and can artfully create more of what we really want deep down at our core of being.

This is what I’m keen on. Finding a way to achieve any desire we develop from within and bringing it in to our everyday waking life as an experience to be lived through and enjoyed in the process.

That is the thing about self-development. There is so much reward to be gained by investing in our own development but it is not always easy to work through personal issues that our ego mind likes to keep us stuck in. Finding a way is something I believe we can all do.

Ok, I will finsh my philosophical take on expectation here and move onto the manifesting aspect next. I see having expectations is neither good or bad. Labelling something as good or bad is merely getting caught up in the tricks our ego mind likes to play with us in being judgemental. Things are neither good or bad as much as we are conditioned to make things seem that way. We choose what meaning we give to anything and it is that subjective choice that decides whether we view something as good or bad.

When having a result in some area of life we wish or hope to see, the wishing and hoping energetically is not a powerful manifesting force. Wanting, needing, wishing and hoping are basically not attractive forces in relation to our dreams, goals or desires. However a very strong force in what we actually manifest is what we actually expect. I may have something I wish or hope to see in some area of life but if my expectation is of a different result than I’m actually desiring then all the wishing, wanting and hoping won’t get me anywhere in manifesting that desired result because the personal vision and attitude associated is in conflict with what I say I’m wishing to create for myself.

So the expectation we have is our personal vision. Our attitude to a desire is determined by our expectation and our expectation is based on our own programming or conditioning which can often have been formed unconsciously in the past.

One of my favourite teachers once said the word expectation means to “out picture” which meant to me with the energy of our minds we project or send into the universe what we are visualising with our minds eye. It is worth some personal investigating to ask what are you expecting ? or “out picturing” ?

This means to me to ask myself; what am I communicating with the universe in an emotional sense that draws to me results in such a way as best fits what I’m picturing in my mind ? Am I outputting energetically a communication that says I feel it will show up in my life in harmony with what I desire or do I have a personal vision I’m communicating that is outputting energetically a view that is in conflict with the desire ?

So my advice in relation to anything you are desiring to create in any area of life that is a source of frustration is to take a good look at what is actually your expectation there. See if there is any confliction going on with what you are desiring to see and what you actually expect to see. If there is some conflict going on there you can be sure you need to look a bit deeper at any core beliefs you may have about that area and actually deal with them so you can have your expectation is in phase with what you are desiring to see. Our expectation is closely related to our attitude towards our desires. If our attitude is a positive one around our desire we stand a wonderful chance of attracting our desire into our everyday reality. If it is not a positive attitude you are going to have to find a way of dealing with your own beliefs systems that have you holding an unharmonious attitude with that desire. Until you form a harmonious attitude and expectation for that area of life you will stand little chance of attracting that desire into your life.

Until next time, happy personal investigating and manifesting