Thoughts and emotions working together create a kind of super spell: expectation.
‘Expectation’ is a bundle of thoughts and emotion that shoots out into the universe and draws to us
anything of a similar vibration. Matthew 9:29 says, "According to your faith, be it done unto
you" and ‘faith’ is in many ways synonymous with ‘expectation’. If you have faith something will
happen, you expect it to happen, and this creates a powerful energetic force that draws this thing to
you. The ‘placebo’ and ‘nocebo’ effects demonstrate this phenomenon.
You believe you have taken a healing medicine (really something like a sugar pill) and you get better.
You believe a medicine (again, say, a sugar pill) will create negative side effects and it does. What
the mind believes and expects tends to come true.
That is why Christ, one of the most famous healers of all time, still couldn’t successfully heal many
people in his hometown. The Nazarenes couldn’t believe in him and what he did and, because they didn’t
‘expect’ to be healed, they typically couldn’t.
If thoughts and emotions create expectations, and expectations are super spells that attract
anything of a similar energetic vibration, then we would do well to monitor our thoughts and
emotions and do whatever we can to change them where necessary.
Over the years, many methods have been devised to ‘upgrade’ our thoughts and emotions, and one is
simply to learn to control our point of focus.
As the saying goes, what you focus on grows, so it’s critical that we focus on things that will get
us more of what we want.
Unfortunately, we often need to override ‘biological engineering’ to do this, because as humans –
thanks to our survival instinct – we tend to be more easily drawn to focus on dangers than
opportunities.
We will be more motivated to keep an eye out for the ‘tiger’ than the ‘flower’. That is why the
so-called ‘news’ is typically the ‘bad news’.
Bad news has far greater powers of attraction for most people than good news. Therefore it sells
better.
The trick, then, is to rigorously focus on positive things. We must choose to focus on them even
when a quick scan of the Internet would reveal hundreds of wars and famines across the world.
We must focus on what is going right in our life, not what is going wrong. Because the actual truth
is that if you’re living in Australia today, the vast majority of your life is working. It’s just
that it’s easy to focus on the things that aren’t.
As a result, they are magnified, you start to think and worry about them more (note: worry =
negative emotions + thoughts), and before you know it, the universe is responding in kind and
pinging back to you more and more things to worry about. So if you have a metaphorical white wall
with five small black dots on it, focus on the white wall, not the dots!