Expectations and how they influence the way we live our life
Recently, I ran a ThetaHealing™ practice group on that very subject. Expectations seem to be a harmless enough thing to have or are they??
People in business and sales will use expectations as a way of motivating them towards success, e.g. I will be the number 1 sales person in my field by the time I am 30, or I expect that 30% of people I talk to will buy from me. But there is a darker side to the expectation that most people ignore. What about the sales person that expects the customer to hang up when they cold call them. This can be paralysing.
Let’s put this terms of our everyday life. From the very moment we are born, expectations are placed upon us. Or life is mapped out before us by our parents, the school system then locks us into an expedition of setting expectations that often stay with us for the rest of our lives. Eventually as we grow up and strive to be independent, we sadly realise that we will probably never measure up to what was set for us so long ago. In everything that you do you will have some type of expectation invested in the outcome. I know that for a long time I expected to be bad at math. Why? Because I was told when I was at school that I would never make anything of myself and maths was beyond me.
All too often we find ourselves wanting to live up to someone’s (including our own) expectation of us, but have you ever thought about the struggle that we have living down to someone’s expectation of us. I once had a Grandmother that, from the day I was born, would compare me to my cousins and say that I would never make anything of myself. I grew up with that belief because it was all I ever heard. I would work extra hard to prove her wrong, but always in the back of my mind her words would be playing over and over. Anytime that I would do something in my life, I had the expectation of failure, and of never being good enough. Have I ever blamed her, absolutely not! She is one of my many teachers, and now I have learnt the lesson, it is time to more on. My next teacher is waiting.
This belief had been a recurring theme throughout my life until I actually learnt to recognise these limiting expectations and by utilising ThetaHealing™ to change them in an instant. I am now free from my Grandmothers harsh words, free to be good at math and most of all free to be me.
I now am passionate about trying doing new things just to see what I really am good at. I no longer have any expectations of failure or of F**king it up (this is one of the most common expectations that people have of themselves). I challenge you to see what expectations you have holding you back. We will revisit this topic in future posts, we have only just scratched the surface.
Love and Gratitude,
Pauline Longdon
ThetaHealing™ Master
ThetaHealing™ Certificate of Science
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