Positivity: Expectation
What do you expect for the New Year?
Expectation is a reflection of your mindset, whether positive or negative. If you are expecting good, exciting, fun and awesome things, you’re thinking positively. If you are expecting bad, depressing, bothersome, terrible things, you are thinking negatively.
If consciousness creates reality, and I firmly believe that it does, then expectation of positives needs to be empowered more than that of negatives. I don’t want to create a world of terror, failure, misery and other negatives for myself or anyone else, so I would far prefer to create a world of joy, success, relief, abundance, happiness and other positives.
I seldom get into the concept of collective consciousness, but I think it’s important, especially in the here-and-now, not to disregard it. The idea is that when enough people get into a similar mindset, it gives more power to manifesting it. If we are all focused, thus, on expecting something horrific, the odds increase that we will get exactly that.
Which, inevitably these days, brings me to politics. There is a great deal of expectation that we are about to see a lot of helpful social progress discarded, corporate greed taken to new heights, and institutional racism, bigotry, sexism and disenfranchisement re-empowered after decades of decline. While there is all sorts of empirical evidence to support concerns about this, if we continue to expect it we inevitably are working to create it.
I am not saying that we should not prepare ourselves to protest injustices, I am saying we need to give less focus to that which we can only indirectly effect, and instead look at our own, individual lives, where we are here-and-now, and what we expect for ourselves for this New Year. Do we expect health, prosperity and other good things, or do we expect sickness, poverty and other bad things?
Expectation is a powerful mindset. So rather than focus your expectation on things that you can only indirectly control, it is not selfish to focus on expectation for our own personal lives. We can do this without ignoring what is going on out there, but if we can create positive expectations on the individual level, it will be far easier to expand that to the collective consciousness, and turn things around. If we expect good things for our personal new year, we can use that to build more good things for the collective consciousness.
Expectation is thought impregnated with emotion. Add action, and you begin to manifest. I want to manifest good things for myself, the people I most care about, and the world at large. I want to empower people to do the same. I know that feels like a tall order in the current social climate, but that doesn’t lessen its necessity. Focused expectation will create manifestation, so consider if you want to manifest positively or negatively with what you are expecting from this New Year.
Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that expectation is a powerful tool for manifestation, we get to choose if we want to expect positive or negative from things. When we work on expectations of positives, before we take that from the individual to the collective consciousness, we empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings in the collective consciousness. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.
This is the one hundred fifty-third entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.
In relation to Positivity, check out my Five Easy Steps to Change the World for the Better.
