It is a most liberating experience when you are able to live
life with an attitude of no expectations. When you have expectations, you have
preconceived ideas of how things should be that you are attached to.
Expectation creates fear because you think what you desire may or may not
happen. Free of expectations, you can just go with the flow of the universe and
not be affected by the outcomes that you encounter. Every outcome can serve to
move you towards greater realization of your desires.
When you are attached to an outcome, you expect things to
happen at a certain time in a certain way. But when it does not happen at the
expected time or in the expected manner, then what results is a feeling of
fear. Having expectations about how your desires should manifest will produce
negative feelings when your expectations are not met. That is why it is better
to act on your intention without expectations about the when and how it manifests.
Fear, doubt and worry are the last things you want to
experience in the process of manifesting desires. That is why the best way to
create what you want is through detachment. Act on your desires with a detached
involvement. You do what you are guided to do by your heart but you do not
judge the rightness of your actions by the results that you get. As long as
your actions are based on purpose, you have done what you were meant to do
regardless of what seems to happen from it.
When the universe is in the process of working things out
for the realization of your intention, there might be things that happen which
make it seem as though things are not working out. It is your expectation of
how things should happen that makes you think that things are not working out.
But actually you are not seeing the whole picture, because what you are seeing
is only a piece of the larger scheme of events where everything is really
working out the way it should.
Expectation colors your perception of things. You don’t see
how things are really happening when you expect them to happen a certain way.
This prevents you from recognizing the good that comes your way and causes you
to push it away thinking that it is evil. Without preconceived ideas to limit
your perception, you are able to accept what comes your way as part of the
solution to realizing what you truly desire in life. You are able to receive
and not resist truth and love.
Many a times we feel discouraged when things are not
happening the way we want them to happen. We might even lose hope thinking that
it’s not meant to be, and even give up pursuing it altogether because our
actions are in vain. But we do not realize that we are right in the process of
it all coming to pass, and we turn away when we are closer than we ever were
before. Let go of expectations so that you can surrender to the process and let
the outcome fall in place in the right way at the right time.
When we do not know how things will really turn out, we have
to trust. There is no need for hope when we already know how the outcome will
be like. Hope is confident expectation of good. The only expectation you need
is the expectation that everything is happening for good and not evil in your
life. You can expect good no matter what the outcome seems to be. To expect
good is to trust that God is good and God never fails, that is why hope will
never disappoint ultimately.
The best way to live life is to be like a little child,
having no cares and expectations. You are just doing what brings you joy and
expressing yourself fearlessly in every moment. You completely accept yourself
and whatever is happening without judgment. You are trusting that you are
always provided for and there is nothing that is stopping you from attaining
all that you truly desire. You are free to live fully in the moment without
worrying about the future.
Live with an attitude of no expectations and you will
experience more freedom than you can imagine. Failure does not stop you anymore
because it doesn't exist in your perception. You can keep doing what you
believe in simply because you are not expecting a particular outcome but you
are just expressing the truth that is in you. You are able to let go of
anything negative and nothing holds you back from going on in the direction of
your desires.
When you hold no expectations, you are committing the
outcome to the Lord. You can always experience much more from a place of no
expectations than from having expectations because God is able to do above and
beyond all that you can ask and even think of. Leave the outcome in God’s hands
while you continue acting on your desires. Surrender to the process and know
that good things come to you when you least expect them.
In the context of having no expectations, what is meant by
expectation is attachment to an outcome. You should expect what you desire to
happen, but you should also expect that anything can happen. Therefore it is a
state of unexpectant expecting. One should have a relaxed and confident
expectation that the desire will come true. Have no expectations or no
attachments to expected outcomes, but expect or look to see your desire to
manifest.