Raise Your Anticipations

Some years ago I made a conscious shift in the way I was going to live my life. I was no longer going to base my expectations of life on what had happened in it prior. Instead, I decided to base my anticipations on what I wanted to see and feel going forward. As a result, I went from being penniless and confused, to earning a masters degree and finding great success.

The central premise here is that our life is based heavily around what we are looking at. Failure to understand or believe this does not change the reality of it. Even when we do begin to understand it, we then have to realize that 70% of what we do in a day is based on our subconscious programming (some experts say north of 90% is subconscious). For many of you reading this, that won’t be news to you.

But what may be news to you is that more than anything else, the primary element that is determining your fate is what your own programming is set for you to look at and notice in a typical day. I will restate that another way. Your anticipations largely dictate your manifestations.

*  Your anticipations about how people will treat you, is largely how most people will treat you

*  Your anticipations about how much money you will have will largely determine how much money you will have

*  Your anticipations about your health largely determine how healthy you will be

*  Your anticipations about romantic relationships largely determine what kind of relationships you will have

In other words, what you are anticipating about of all of those things is very often how they turn out. And remember, I’m talking mostly subconscious here, which is how we operate most often. If I ask you consciously if you want people to treat you well, of course you will say yes. But often times your subconscious anticipations tell a much different story. Deep down you may believe that people don’t tend to like you as much as you would hope, so that is actually what you are anticipating.

This is a key point. There are two sides to every coin in our subconscious. There’s abundance mindset, and scarcity mindset. If the issue is about getting a job you love, you could be consciously hoping for it every day. But your deeper mindset may be coming from the scarcity side of things, as though there aren’t enough good jobs, and you really aren’t all that deserving or qualified. In that case you can desire the new job all you want, but if you deep down don’t expect it, it may not probably won’t happen.

Another important factor to understand here is that these anticipations are not the kind you put on others. For example, I may expect my friend to call me today, and if they don’t then I may get hurt or disappointed in them. Those kinds of expectations will almost always fail you, because you are trying to manipulate what others will think and do. Instead, the important thing is to know that you are worthy of love and friendship. Once you truly believe that about yourself, more others will too. After that you won’t even be upset if that friend didn’t call you, because you won’t take it as a rejection of your own worth. It will simply be what it is. Internal and internal circumstances will change based on your internal anticipations.

This isn’t some deep and mystical type of thing. For instance, if you are deeply anticipating being healthy, you will naturally feel inspired to do healthy things, such as exercise, eat well, and hang out with more healthy people. Those things will lead to actually being healthy in your physical reality. And since your actions are coming from inspiration, you will enjoy them and sustain in doing them long term. It’s often really that simple.

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This is the blog of Eric Alexander Crawford, Founder of Raise Your Elevation. For more about Eric’s background, see here, or for more about Raise Your Elevation, see here. Thanks for reading!


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