01-17-2017, 01:12 PM
(01-17-2017, 09:46 AM)sw72hw Wrote:(01-17-2017, 05:42 AM)Shannon Wrote: You can, on the contrary, do anything you choose to do. You have expectations because they are self limiting, and you are using them to hide from fear of the unknown, which would be, not knowing what to do without them limiting you.
In the end, all of our limiting beliefs are self imposed because we can't handle the freedom of living without them yet. But that doesn't mean one cannot let go of their expectations.
Just work toward that goal. It's not a binary situation.
I don't think I understand, how I can do it, or how I should approach it. Perhaps I am equating goal = expectation something similar. But fair enough. Any advice on how I should do that?
Does the dandelion expect to bloom? Does the acorn expect to become the mightly oak? Does a frog expect to be a frog?
Of course not. They simply "are". They are expressing their natural existences. They are what they are without need for expectations. They simply "are".
Letting go of expectations first requires that you know you have them. Then you must identify what your expectations are. And then you must understand that you created those expectations, and just as you created them, you can dissolve and release them - if you so choose.
Expectations that we create to give ourselves comfortable limitations are by their very nature self limiting. Beyond them is the "Great Unknown", and that can be scary. But it;s really nothing to fear; you just don't have the "program" to run when faced with that circumstance, to know "what to do in response to it" yet.
Having a expectations regarding others will lead you to disappointment, because they will not always follow your expectations. They are not you, and they do not all have your circumstances or point of view, or desires, or needs, or fears, or beliefs.
You know now that expectations are limiting your success. Now focus on identifying when you are responding with expectations, and what those expectations are.
When you get good at that, start asking yourself... why do I expect this? And explore they "why" of it.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!