Dear Guides,

Some people hold lower expectations so that success is a happy surprise and failure stings less. Does this doom and gloom approach work to ward off bad results?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 4.7.2010:

Dear ones,

We are very excited to answer this question since it encapsulates the mindset of many people surrounding you in many of your cultures on Earth, although not all. But those of you who do live in this environment have just a little bit of an increased challenge to overcome, like a little bit more drag on your cars, a little less motor power and speed and agility.

So you can deduce from this statement that it is not exactly an attitude that works in your favor. It comes with a lower vibration, a coarser vibration, and does not bring forward the smooth grace and ease with which you can be gifted, if you so choose.

It is like having two choices for a desktop. One is raw wood which will have many splinters if you run your hand across it. The other is sanded smooth and even varnished with a glossy finish, so that your hand glides over it with the least amount of friction and even with a sort of momentum.

The belief that you will prevent problems by naming them and predicting them can seem appealing in that it stems from that valuable precept of old of naming your enemy, knowing who your enemy is.

And the truth is that to know and be aware of your challenges and pitfalls is extremely valuable. That is the first step to deciding how to change your attitudes, beliefs, actions to take, choices to make. So the basis of the precept is valuable.

But where it falls short is that if you name any unknown as an enemy you prejudge and cut yourself off from remaining neutral until you are much more sure if in fact it is a real enemy or not. In other words, you close your field of vision, prejudice yourself as to what a situation or person might bring into your life, and color your perceptions of it too early to give it a chance to bring in its own possibilities.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Low Expectations: The doom and gloom failure-prevention system 4.7.2010

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