We live in a time where everyone’s lives are being pressed, with the most intimate of issues being pushed into our awareness, demanding us to look deeply into the truth of why we make the choices we do. We are reevaluating if the decisions we are making daily are truly “who” and “what” we choose to be today. Or are they simply a duplication of the same old patterns we’ve lived off of for so many years?

The denial to address these intimate issues brings with it great pain and discomfort, as well as illness. Are you aware of what this time of Divine refinement is pressing us all to move into? Better yet, how can we move through this time of refining the most successful way possible?

Here are a few items that can be used to assist your process by addressing and bringing these into balance. Should you choose to address these, I believe you will find that a multitude of feelings and physical issues are resolved.

Expectations:
Of all the items we’ve addressed, we have never really hit this one head-on. Now is the time to complete this process, as expectations are creating a very big problem for everyone!

There are three aspects of expectations that beckon to be addressed. Identify and write down all the ways that these expectations affect you.

1) The expectations that we place on ourselves. This one tries to hide in quite a tricky way. This is the biggest, for sure.

2) Expectations that we feel other people put on us. I think you may find some interesting things happen with this one.

3) Expectations we place on other people.

Do we get disappointed, frustrated, or agitated? Do we feel like people and things/situations let us down?

Furthermore, as we teach people how to treat us, are we experiencing resentment from the way that people are (or are not) responding? When something needs to be done, do you wait for the person responsible to do the task, or do you do it yourself? Do you do it yourself because you can do it faster, better, etc… Are you having fun with how this teaches people not to listen to or honor you? If they leave it, you’ll do it for them, even if you grumble and feel resentment for not being heard, etc.

Do you never really expand your intuitive skills because you have set up an expectation on how something is going to look and, because it hasn’t shown up that way yet, you believe you’ve failed or can’t do it? Are you excited about how your gifts come through to you, or do you deny your natural flow, instead focusing on what you are not experiencing?

How are those expectations working for you? Are you having fun with those?