You get what you expect

I keep reading and hearing that our world is a feeling based universe. Makes sense, as before language, we were just communicating feelings, much like animals.

And I've read, ask for what you want with the feeling of already having received it. So you thank for what you want as if you have it in your hands.

I can see my flawed thinking. I've lived as if what I want is out of reach, the feelings I have on a regular basis are; not yet, or it won't really happen, or oh well, I'd better take what I can get, cause the 'real' thing ain't coming.

Now I can see my 'job' is to catch myself inside of those feelings and chang them to one of prosperity, or 'I have it already and I am grateful".

It's a harder job than I ever thought to catch myself thinking inside scarcity, lack, doubt and worry. That is so common, that's the normal way of thinking. I risk looking foolish, and like a kind of dunderhead with my mind in the clouds. I didn't realize I was so influenced by what others thought of me. Must be something I learned as I've aged, cause I certainly never cared before. Like a gentle snowfall, my worry of what others think of me has crept silently into my thoughts, indistinguishable.

So the phrase "You don't get what you want, you get what you expect" now makes more sense than ever.

Could it Really Be That Easy?

I read, or study, about 1 hour a day. In all that reading, each author states to get what you want, three things are needed.

1. Focus on what you want
2. Create the feelings of having what you want
3. Take actions consistent with the thoughts and feelings you are creating.

If it is that easy, why do we have so many books written on this material?

Is it our rational mind discounting what we know 'is' and how things 'work' around here?

What if it were that easy? What would that mean? What about all the struggle we have experienced? What of all the pain?

When I ask these qustions with no attachment to how I think things should be, it expands my vision. But not just ask these things once and feel confient I have an answer, but ask these things again, and again.