EXPECTATION

If you can’t get what you want, it’s because you don’t expect to get what you want. At first this sounds like doubletalk, but if we examine the concept closely, it is easy to see just how a being can be complete master of his own existence.

Expectation is a precursor of acceptance. Nothing can occur for you unless you accept its occurrence. When you reject something, what you end up with, what is left, is what was made acceptable to you; this is a standard that only the being himself can establish.

What is really unacceptable and remains unacceptable to you, never occurs. What makes all this extra complicated is that your expectations have expectations. If you have put the expectation on something – say that your son will do something – and then if he does not perform as anticipated you will get an unpredicted occurrence. You have expected that your son has capabilities, and so you are now subject to his causation whatever it may be. All matter is just condensed and solidified thought. And all matter and energy behave in certain ways. They have expectations. An atom of uranium can be expected to act in a certain way when put next to an atom of hydrogen. The more solid something is, the less thought or change per unit of time there is and thus the longer it lasts. Expectation is agreement. It’s a being’s willingness to inflow something. Thus, the more solid something is, the more agreement it contains, and the closer together its particles are which means it is denser. Science is concerned with measuring and predicting expectations. So expectation leads to agreement, and the more agreement there is on something, the more solid it is, the more real it is, the more of it you can experience. What you are the effect of is what you expected.

An effect is something that has a prior cause – something happens, and then you’re the effect of it. The bottle is thrown, and then it hits you. Your mother dies, and then you feel sad. You eat too much ice cream, and so you put on weight. What you expect is your future. What you expect to happen is what you’re willing to experience the effects of. It’s what you have agreed is going to act in a certain way which is going to affect you in a certain way. Once you agree to be the effect of something, you’ve empowered whatever you were agreeing to, to create effects on you. And it will continue to do so until you reconsider your original acceptance of the object in question. As soon as you do, it can no longer have any power over you.

Unless you expect something to do so, it will have no power over you. Thus, if you change someone’s expectation you will change what will happen to him. If you ask yourself what your expectations are, and you are really honest about it, you will be looking at your future. If you were to get “the idea of having good expectations”, you would be giving yourself a future that would be marked by only receiving effects from things that you considered would create good effects. A person can work on getting this idea and holding it. The degree to which you can consider holding and keeping that idea is exactly the amount that you will experience good effects in life.

Living is a thought game. He who controls and owns his own thoughts gets what he wants. The amount that you have agreed to other people or things affecting you is directly proportional to the amount that you will have control over your own thought – the more you agree the less control you will have over your own thoughts. If you control your thought, you can control your expectations. If you don’t control your thought, you will receive unwanted effects. But it all goes back to you original consideration that you expect to be the effect of people or things in this universe. If you change your original expectations, you can change your future.

The Guide To Unconditional Personal Freedom has drills addressing this subject.

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