Re: [BardonPraxis] Expectations

["Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>]

Dear Daniel,

>> In your opinion, do you think that reading about the results of a
certain exercise (not even specifically magic) and expecting them is
helpful to your practice? Detrimental? Irrelevant? <<

Creating expectations out of information can indeed be detrimental in
that working with expectations will shape and therefore limit your
results. However, reading about the *goal* of an exercise, or what will
*result* from the pursuit of an exercise, doesn't have to lead you to
*expecting* specific results. Instead, you can see them as standards
that you must meet in order to have successfully mastered the exercise.
Aiming for a standard is different than working with expectations and
whether you treat information as a standard to aim for or as an
expectation is entirely a matter of choice. In other words, you can
choose to *not* let information about the exercise affect you as an
expectation and instead, open yourself to fully experiencing what *is*,
in that moment..

My best to you,
:) Rawn Clark
11 April 2004
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