Self Sabotaging will Keep You From Your Dreams
Hey guys! It’s Jessica Bowser Nelson. And I wanted to share something with you that I was just reading today.
I’m reading The Success Principles by Jack Canfield and it talks about how we get what we expect in life. Which is something I was SCREWING UP in my own life for many, many years. I thought if I expected nothing than I was protecting myself and I would never be disappointed because if I got nothing, well, I expected nothing. But I wasn’t considering:
WHAT IF I got what I expected? And I expected NOTHING then I was kind of self sabotaging my life.
It shared an example how our own thoughts and beliefs and what we EXPECT is how our life goes.
There was an experiment and they took some patients that all had knee problems. They had TIRED, WORN OUT, RICKETY knees..which I can relate to due to many years of waiting tables and I used to run a lot. My knees literally crunch when I bend.
They took these 3 groups of patients…
One group they fully operated on…probably did a knee replacement.
The second group, they just kind of, dealt with the cartilage.
With the third group, they made three incisions where it looked like the other two groups, simply with their tools. They did nothing to the actual knee. They just left the three scars. They didn’t touch the actual issue or try to correct the knee problem.
So they watched the three groups of patients over time and they ALL healed the SAME way. Of course, they weren’t TOLD they depth of surgery that happened to them, but they all ended up with fully functional, non issue knees.
Why?
Because our brain can play tricks on us. Their brain believed that they were better and they literally followed suite.
This has been done in counteless tests. You might have heard of other tests dealing with migraines and they give people sugar pills or pills that do NOTHING and it CURES them. Now the studies have been proven that neurologically we literally can change the way we feel by the way we think.
So, I just want to challenge you in your own life and I was looking at myself too..
What is it that I’m expecting? What is it that I’m not getting? Because odds are that’s what I’m NOT expecting.
If you want MORE in life..
If you want to be HAPPIER..
If you want BETTER relationships..
Are you expecting THAT?
Do you expect greatness to be around every corner OR do you expect THE SKY TO FALL ON YOU (self sabotaging)? So stop self sabotaging and definitely watch your expectations because you WILL align to it. And be intentional about it. I know naturally, I don’t naturally go to expecting the most awesome thing, so I have to train my brain to find the best and expect the best and it IS going to come to me. Just wait and see.
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