What You Expect, You Receive

Yes, what you expect you attract into your life. When you are told by parents, friends, peers, and most important of all by self-talk, that you are not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough, or can’t ever do anything right, and you choose to believe it, then it will be so. Over and over again, this reinforcement to the subconscious mind will ultimately manifest as your truth.

The subconscious mind believes all that it hears as truth. The self-talk and doubt is also believed as truth. The subconscious mind is like a child, willing and ready to accept all input, especially if it receives the same messages repeatedly.

Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember ~ Rhonda Byrne

It is often difficult to separate what is truth, or just something the subconscious put together from watching television, or self-talk, or someone else’s story. For example, you could be watching a show on television that is purely delightful and fun, then fall asleep while the television is still on. A show about war that is horrific comes on and the subconscious mind accepts what it is hearing. It then creates a dream or mental story that is far from the truth. That is a good reason to turn off devices that the subconscious mind is recording that unknowingly may affect our life.

Self-talk is one of our most important assets that can help us make positive changes in our lives. It can also be the most detrimental when it is used to put yourself down. As the saying goes, if you tell yourself enough times you can, you can. If you tell yourself you can’t, then you can’t.

One must also bear in mind that whatever you may say to others, your subconscious is recording, and will remember. Lies can become truth, and may well catch up with you in the long run.

We often read and hear people say that you just need to change your thoughts to change your life. Well, it is easier said than done. To change your life you can listen to all the self-help CDs, read all the self-help books and attend as many seminars and workshops as you possible, but their always seems to be a ‘but…’ In the end it’s about believing that it is truly possible to achieve the change you desire.

For many of us it is difficult to trust that change can truly happen. I like to refer to the popular book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Some of my clients often tell me they are doing everything the book says to do, to attract into their lives what they really desire, but it’s just not working for them. Then they ask me, “How come, what’s wrong with me? Doesn’t the universe want me to be happy?”

Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Spirit always gives the same answer, “The universe is on your side. So, ask yourself instead, do you have a pinhole of doubt that you request will be answered?” The answer is almost always, “Well, yes, just a little.”

If you ask the universe for anything and have doubt that it will happen, that is like saying, “I am wishing and hoping for this, but I don’t really feel it could happen for someone like me.”
So, in essence, you are getting just what you expect. What you put out to the universe you will receive in return.

We really do have to do our part in the process of manifesting the life that we desire and deserve. All roads have a few curves and bumps, hills and valleys along the way. Sometime you have to blaze the trail on a road that you have ever traveled before, to arrive at a place you have never dared to go before. Eventually with persistence and true belief you will arrive at the desired destination. Why? Because you expect to.

When you start out on a journey to an expected destination, you start with the thought of where you want to go, make the plan, research the route. And you expect to arrive without a pinhole of doubt.

If you expect less you will attract less. If you expect to have the highest and best outcome for yourself, you will. Gifts don’t always arrive looking the way you might expect. Nevertheless, a gift remains a gift.