It is said that we attract what we expect. During my lifetime and in the past several years of conscious study, I have seen this to be very true. Because of our childhood programming, we have been conditioned to expect mostly lack and not enough; especially in the major areas of our lives: career, family, relationships, health and finances. Unless we have retrained our brains and reprogrammed our minds, chances are the choices we make about these life areas are similar to our parents and their parents before them.
How many times have you heard a parent refer to her toddler as shy or timid when she scooted away from you? That child hears that long enough and she will come to believe herself as shy. Now, the fact is, that child is not innately shy – there is no such thing – she learned to become shy because it is what she constantly heard. In similar situations, if that child did not want to be bothered, she perhaps turned her head or averted her eyes. What she expected then was for her mother to make the excuse of shyness. There are hundreds, if not thousands of such examples.
If you have been told all your life that you have some kind of ailment – because your uncle and grandfather had it – then, guess what? You too have that ailment! If you expect it, then you will attract it. Try expecting the opposite of what you believe. If you believe you have some ailment or illness, expect health and wellness. If you believe yourself to be shy, expect to be outgoing and friendly. If you believe yourself to be poor and struggling, expect prosperity and financial abundance.
Everything is created twice – first in your mind, then in your reality. Create in your mind what you expect to be, to do and to have. What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
