Expectation

[sdbl731]

Sounds a lot like me I've still got a lot of work left to do about that...

No, you haven't. Get it?

Oliver

I get it...

This is hardly new - at all. But the more I expect of a practice, the more I want something out of a practice, the more I am focussed on a result, achieving a state or getting anywhere at all, the less result I get.

This is simple law of attraction. When you are in expectation, you are focusing on lack. Lack is what you bring to yourself. Expectation says "I don't have it now, but I will in the future." That keeps your desired outcome in the future.

Believing that the outcome is a present thing. Behaving as it is already so. A fact.
That's why affirmations only work if you state them as if they are already true and present.

Looks like everyone is on the same page here, which is excellent...

Andy