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Title: Expand Your Expectations
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Blog Entry: It is said…unless you expand your context, your content will stay limited. If we go to the river to fetch water and carry a small container, we’ll be able to carry a small amount of water. Obviously, the river has plenty but we take a small container with us and then complain of the limited amount we are receiving. If we wish to receive more, we must carry a larger container. As far as the blessings of life are concerned, our expectations are our containers. For huge blessings, have huge expectations. You are a magnet that attracts events. Emerson says, “Beware what you think of, for you will get it”. I read somewhere that whatever you say about the future is falsehood, whether positive or negative. This is because something which has not yet happened can’t really be true… and so is technically false. If this be true, why don’t we say positive untruths instead of negative ones? Why say, “I’ll never get this done!” and not, “I’ll finish this in no time”, instead? If we remain focused on poverty, we’ll remain poor- whether the poverty is financial or emotional or of any thing else. Even if we’re focused on poverty because we wish to get rid of it, the focus gets it into your life. To stop being poor, the thoughts in your mind must be, “Oh! I have plenty and have more coming in every minute. I better get a system in place to handle the deluge”. Think constantly how you will handle the blessings that are pouring in from all corners. I’m reminded of a true story about a woman who was struggling to make ends meet. Her husband had passed away and task of bringing up her two daughters fell upon her alone. When her girls grew older, she wanted to arrange piano lessons for them. She found a teacher and somehow, scrimping and saving, managed to let them take the lessons for a year. Her elder (13 yr old) daughter turned out to be exceptionally talented and the teacher suggested that in order to truly help the girl, the mother should buy her a piano of her own so she could practice at home also. Of course the mother had no money, but the desire to buy a piano was very strong in her. A week later, she was unpacking some groceries and throwing away the newspaper wrappings. All the while she was thinking of some way to arrange for a piano. At night she went to sleep. Around 2 O’clock in the night she woke up with a start and went rushing downstairs. One by one, she took out the discarded newspaper wrappings out of the wastebasket and scanned them feverishly. At last she found out what she was looking for. It was an ad of a fair being held locally. In small print in a corner was an ad announcing 6 pianos for sale – real cheap. The lady also had a seventh piano which she planned to gift to a talented player. The ad was a month old and the next day was the last day of the fair. The woman lost hope. She was sure the pianos must all have been sold out. But she went to the fair next day anyway. She found an old lady sitting at the booth and asked her about the pianos. The old lady told her that all the pianos were already sold out. The woman was dejected and turned to go. Then the lady told her that the seventh piano, the one which was to be gifted, was still with her because she had found no worthy candidate. She asked the woman to fetch her daughter immediately and play for her. The woman rushed home to fetch her daughter and asked her to perform. The old lady was impressed with her and so gifted the piano to the child. This is the power of thoughts... to be able to attract your heart’s desire into your life. This is the most amazing true story I have ever read. It gives me hope, as I’m sure it does to you too. Your expectation is like a bucket. The amount of an abundance you collect depends on the size of your bucket. A thimble and a drum of oil obviously have different capacities. 95% people don’t have abundance because they are not expecting abundance. There is abundance all around you. You just need to go out with your bucket and collect it. That is all. The more you feel a right to, the more you will have. If you dream big and your brain keeps on telling you that you can’t get it “paata nahin ho payega ya nahin” you have already started nailing the coffin of your dreams. That one thought – that one doubt – can kill your dream. Don’t allow it in. It’s poison. An expansion of context can take place only in an individual who has a healthy self-image. Your context expands only when you feel worthy of having abundance. That is why indulging in any corrupt practices, which corrode your inner being, must be avoided. You can’t expect to feel worthy and so have abundance – if you short change life. Context expanding is a slow process. You need to push out the wall of your reality each time you feel you have reached a ceiling. And the amazing thing is that there is no ceiling actually. You just need to push it with determination and there is no limit to how much you can have in your life, in every area. Fame, money, love… you name it. That has been my experience… what about you?