I’ve been on my Spiritual path all my life and it’s only been since finding Abraham (Abraham-Hicks), that I started to understand what faith, belief, desire and expectation are all about and how they work together.

Faith got lost to me when I found Abraham, the word faith just didn’t seem to fit into my new ideas of life.  It felt old, like it was part of my past, old, outdated religious doctrine I'd learned from childhood that didn't fit anymore.  So belief became my touchstone.  Then I realized that it didn’t matter what word I used, belief or faith.  I am a woman of spirit who believes in everything, a woman who believes deeply in miracles, in Source, in everything . . . at least . . . everything good!

Still, believing miracles happen . . . isn’t enough necessarily to attract them to me.  Belief is like a candle that must be lit.  Desire and expectation are match and flame to belief, the three work together and become creative.  I must believe whatever I want is possible, I must have strong desire for it and I must live in a attitude of positive and delightful expectation of it.  It’s a trinity. 

Belief is the foundation, the structure of my life.  Desire is the passion, the fire.  And expectation is the charisma, the magnetism that ignites and blends all three, creating the vibration that powerfully attracts what I want to manifest, and putting me into a confident and unwavering place of allowing it to come.

Alone, if strong enough, each is capable of creating.  For example with enough desire we can manifest our dreams even if we don’t believe in our worthiness.  Many the celebrity diva/pop star has proved that, as she attained her dreams at the cost of what would appear to be (to others) her soul.

If your desire is strong enough, it doesn't matter what your beliefs are. If you have a desire that is strong enough, that desire will be the dominant vibration, and it will over-ride any other vibration that you have.  Excerpted from the Abraham-Hicks workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 13th, 1997 (Abraham-Hicks) 

Also, believing strongly enough in something can attract it to you, as can expecting it strongly enough, but individually both are slow and not very easy paths.  Certainly not the most fun or easiest ways to create.  Belief alone, desire alone, expectation alone will create, but each is a slow and tedious process.  Individually they simply are not as powerful.

The magic is in how each; belief, desire and expectation, complement and enhance each other.  How they work together.  The strength of all three blended together create a vibrational stance of power and allowing beyond our ability to imagine.  We become super magnets for our good, attractors of our dreams, open vessels for the power of the universe to position our greatest desires into our lives.

When I think about how each of these relate to allowing a perfect body, I realize how important each is to creation.  But I also realize that generally anyone who weighs more than they want to, has the desire factor down.  I’ve never met anyone with extra weight on their body who hasn’t radiated strong . . . very strong . . . desire for thinness.  It’s a part of the package, if we carry around extra pounds, with every step our desire to be thin intensifies.  And often our desire to be thin is directly proportionate to the amount of weight we carry.  The bigger we are, the more we want to be small.  It is also proportionate to how long we’ve carried the extra weight, the longer we’ve carried it, the stronger the desire to release it.  Yes, we’ve got desire covered forward and backward.

But belief . . . well that tends to be a sticking point for us.  When I ask myself what my beliefs really are, I’m met with such a jumble of mixed up signals it’s amazing.  How can one person, thinking about one topic, be so befuddled and complex.  (OK so the answer is there are so many differing opinions on the subject, which I spent my life listened to instead of my Inner Voice.  But I digress . . .)

Still important questions arise:

Ultimately do I believe I can be successful at releasing the extra weight I carry?
I’ve seen other’s do it, do I honestly believe it’s possible for me to allow it too?
What is the difference between me and them?
Do I believe I deserve to be thin, attractive and vibrantly healthy?
Do I believe it’s going to be difficult or easy?
What exactly do I believe would be required for me to be successful?
Am I willing to do that?
If not, how can I change the beliefs I hold to new ones I desire?
Is there a “diet” plan I believe in?
How do I feel about food?
Do I honestly believe food made me fat . . . or was it really my thinking?
Do I believe changing my thinking is all that is necessary to allowing weight release?
Do I believe dieting is necessary?
How important do I believe exercise is to allowing my body to find it’s perfect setpoint?
What combination of things do I believe will work for me personally?

Yes, my beliefs are the foundation of any possible change, and expectation is the catalyst.  I have to decide that Yes, I do deserve to create a healthy, vibrant and slim body and then I have to know it’s going to be the easiest thing I’ve ever done in my life.  I have to anticipate the answers coming.  To remember that every single answer I need, is within me right now.  I have to have faith I’ll be inspired to uncovering what works perfectly, and easily and joyously for me.  I have to expect success!

Which of those vibrations is stronger within you . . . your hoping, your anticipating or your expecting?  That expectation is a very powerful vibration.  Think about what the word expect means.  It means I’m thinking about something that is important to me . . . and I have already decided how it’s gonna turn out.  Ooooh, that’s big!  I’ve already decided how it’s gonna turn out . . . well I expected that . . . well that’s about par for the course . . . well I saw that coming . . .  In other words I expected it.  And we say . . . doesn’t that feel good to know that you are the creator of your experience and that you expected that right into being???  Excerpted from the Abraham-Hicks workshop in North Los Angeles on August 17th, 2003 (Abraham-Hicks)

I have to believe I can finally let go of the armor I’ve been carrying, I can finally lay it down and walk away into a new life.  And I have to expect . . . as I believe, as I desire, and as I allow, it absolutely will happen.

When I shake my fist at the Universe and claim “I will have this!  Once and for all I WILL create the experience of having a body at it’s perfect place of health, weight and energy!  And it will be everything I’ve ever dreamed it would be!!!” . . . I have to believe that it WILL come, it MUST come. 

I expect the answers will come, the ease of it will come, the joy in it will come.  The weight will gently go and the process . . . every step of it . . . will be inspired, expansive and fun.

What do you expect?

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