Do you ever feel that what
you’re chasing, what you desire, is just out of reach? When you think of your desire
for your future, and your intentions for yourself, whatever you are working
towards, do you ever ask yourself whether you fully expect it to be fulfilled; do you really believe it can happen? Do
you believe you are actually ‘good enough’ or that you deserve it - or maybe not quite?
Try to imagine having
achieved your desired state. Is it easy? Does it feel natural and right? Or is
it difficult? Your deeply held beliefs or the emotional expectations you have may not be the same as your desires
and intentions. If there is a gap between your desired goal or intention and
your expectation of actually achieving it, this will influence your actions
both consciously and subconsciously, because the choices you make and the steps
you take will always be driven by your emotions and emotional expectations. The
greater the gap, the more your actions will interfere with you achieving your
desired intention.
Author and teacher Deepak Chopra says; ‘Within every desire and intention are the mechanics for its
fulfilment’. I have seen countless indications of this being true, but I have also
learned that it requires the alignment of emotional expectations with the desired
intention, and the first step is being able to feel the feeling of the
desired intention – fulfilled.
It may seem counterintuitive, but if you can actually generate that
feeling, in your body, as if your wish was already fulfilled, you will find
that expectation gap gradually decreasing. The more you generate this new 'fulfilled' feeling, eventually
integrating it so that it is with you throughout your day, the smaller the gap
will become. In essence you are moving from feeling and thinking about the desired result to feeling and
thinking from it.
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to use the power of managing emotions) further, or for more information,
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