Your expectations can become powerful currents of energy creating the conditions you desire and dream of, if they are allied to prayer, belief and faith. Therefore, choose to expect nothing but the best!
There is an inviolable law of life: whatever you expect will come to you.
We all wake up with certain expectations: some of us literally spring up from bed with the thought, ‘I know that today is going to be a wonderful day!’ Others, open their eyes to the new day with a depressing thought: ‘Oh no! I know this is going to be one of those awful days when everything will go wrong!’ You are creating your day with your own thought forces!
Your expectations can become powerful currents of energy creating the conditions you desire and dream of, if they are allied to prayer, belief and faith. Therefore, choose to expect nothing but the best! Develop a strong sense of focus on all that is positive. Do not let your mind oscillate between anxiety and fear; just repeat to yourself that reassuring mantra: All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds! Tell yourself, in the words of Robert Browning: "God is in his heaven and all is well with the world!" We must never underestimate mind power, the power of the will. Finding health, happiness and harmony in all that you do — depends on thought-habits. Truly has it been said that even happiness is the product of habitual right thinking!
Imagine a huge square slab of ice one-and-a-half miles, and 92 million miles high. It would reach from the earth to the sun. Scientists tell us that this gigantic cake of ice would be completely melted in 30 seconds — if the full power of the sun were focused upon it.
Mental sunshine is equally powerful! When you have the will to live for your ideals, to live your passion, the sunshine of your faith and confidence will melt the ice of insecurity and uncertainty. Mental sunshine will cause the flowers of peace and joy and serenity to bloom wherever you go!
Therefore, cultivate the will to be positive — create your own mental sunshine! The universe works like an echo. Whatever thoughts you may have, they will rebound on you. The picture that we paint of ourselves is assimilated by our subconscious.
There are people who focus their attention only on problems and difficulties. Tell them of your dreams and plans, and they will say, "No, No! It is impossible! It will never work." They will point out all the drawbacks and weakness in your plan, and try their best to convince you that you cannot win. These are the people who can boast, "Bring me a solution and I will give you a problem!"
Be positive in your approach and you will find solutions to all your problems. The man with the positive attitude may be surrounded by adverse conditions, but he will look for a place to stand on; he will seek a solution; he will expect the best results; and he will invariably succeed. Remember, this is the great law of life. That, which you expect, always comes to you. It may come to you tomorrow, it may come to you fourteen years hence, but it will surely come to you. Therefore, why not expect the very best? Expect success and you will achieve success!
David Hartman of Pennsylvania became blind when he was eight years old. He had always dreamt of studying medicine; but the medical school to which he applied for admission discouraged him severely by pointing out that no one with visual disability had ever completed a medical course. Hartman refused to be negative. Courageously, he took on the task of "reading" by having twenty-five medical textbooks audio recorded for him. At twenty-seven, David Hartman became the first blind student to complete medical school.
cultivate the will to be positive — create your own mental sunshine! The universe works like an echo. Whatever thoughts you may have, they will rebound on you. The picture that we paint of ourselves is assimilated by our subconscious
How wonderful is a positive attitude! "You are not what you think you are. You are what you think," said Thomas Jefferson". Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his (or her) goals. Nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude."
When people say to themselves again and again, ‘I am unhappy’, ‘I am miserable’, ‘People are against me’, ‘Conditions are against me’, ‘I am overwhelmed by my problems’ and so on, they are gripped by a misery of their own making from which there can be no release except through their own effort. They imagine that they are injured beyond repair, and they simply cannot rise above their problems.
Instead, they must affirm to themselves, ‘I was born to be happy’, ‘Happiness is my birth right’ and ‘God created me to be happy’. As their conscious and unconscious thinking changes, conditions and people will also change miraculously. Thought by thought, step by step, as their minds change, the world will also change. And the best that they expect will come to them!
By Dada J P Vaswani
