{"id":264,"date":"2014-11-13T13:11:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/?p=264"},"modified":"2015-08-15T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T18:46:40","slug":"expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">\u00a0&#8220;I ski to reclaim my spirit from a conditioned world that is always seeking to limit my being&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">\u00a0On the limitations lists we find &#8220;expectations&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Peace begins when expectations ends<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Your EGO teaches you to believe that you have to have a really good reason to be joyful\u00a0and happy\u2026Whilst at the same time it is also teaching you that you only need a tiny reason to be\u00a0upset about something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">The more powerful your ego is, more expectations will drive you crazy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\"><strong>The energy of expectation\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #0a1960;\">For the energy of expectation to exist, the energy of disappointment also <em>needs <\/em>to exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #0a1960;\"> One cannot <em>be<\/em> without the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_265\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/valdisere-fog.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-265\" src=\"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/valdisere-fog.jpg\" alt=\"Whiteout\" width=\"800\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/valdisere-fog.jpg 800w, http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/valdisere-fog-300x131.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/valdisere-fog-600x263.jpg 600w, http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/valdisere-fog-250x109.jpg 250w, http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/valdisere-fog-150x65.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whiteout<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Let\u2019s say that you arrive in resort Saturday evening in a blanket of fresh new snow and you awake on Sunday morning in a total whiteout\u2026<strong>you are disappointed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">You can choose to be disappointed and you can mutter and whinge all day in your misery. <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Or you can recognise that it is your <strong>attachment<\/strong> to your expectation, to what you wished for, that has soured your view of the world.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\"><strong>The whiteout just is\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">The whiteout just is, it\u2019s nothing personal and your personal cloud of grey will not affect it one bit. Your disappointment will only feed your insistence on being disappointed; it will only heighten the contrast between the day you had in mind and the day that is. Your disappointment can only exist within the self-imposed misalignment between your expectations and the reality that is.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\"><strong>Positive thinking?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Should you then douse your mind with positive thinking and pretend that the day is blessed with sun when it is not? No, because if you do that, you\u2019ll create another misalignment between <em>pretence<\/em> and <em>the reality that is<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">There is no need to pretend anything because there already is a reality. To squeeze disappointment out of your mind, <strong>you have to choose, welcome and embrace the reality that is.<\/strong> You are now in alignment and there is no room for disappointment.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\"><strong>\u00a0The eternal now<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Ski in the eternal now, in the ever present here. That\u2019s all there is anyway. And when you do ski here\/now, <strong>the gates of all possibilities slide open and problems disappear.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/contact\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-flat\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#73d1f5;border-color:#5ca8c4;border-radius:11px;-moz-border-radius:11px;-webkit-border-radius:11px\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 28px;font-size:21px;line-height:42px;border-color:#9ddff8;border-radius:11px;-moz-border-radius:11px;-webkit-border-radius:11px;text-shadow:none;-moz-text-shadow:none;-webkit-text-shadow:none\"> <span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Transform the \u201cbeing\u201d aspect of yourself.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\"><strong>Clearing the\u00a0mind<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">As you free yourself from beliefs, judgements and emotions, you body becomes more and more relaxed and your antenna becomes more and more clear, allowing your being to perceive more and more of what it is you are meant to do to express your joy and your freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Clearing beliefs is the biggest aspect of the process of eternal development because it is the most powerful one.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a1960;\">Bernard Chesneau<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;I ski to reclaim my spirit from a conditioned world that is always seeking to limit my being&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0On the limitations lists we find &#8220;expectations&#8221; &nbsp; Peace begins when expectations ends Your EGO teaches you to believe that you have to have a really good reason to be joyful\u00a0and\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/expectations\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ski-mastery.com\/plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}