2004-09-19-Lesson on Expectation

Session

Lesson

You are wondering about expectation. What to expect next. The best policy is to expect nothing, and yet to be open to everything. To discount nothing so your mind can become a fertile ground for new ideas. When you think too hard or concentrate too much, it often happens that no valuable thoughts come, because you block the creative flow of thinking. It is when you least expect it that thoughts come ‘seemingly out of the blue’ that you have an ‘Ahah! Experience,’ and you wonder where that thought came from. This moment happens when you expect nothing, so that anything can happen. So it is with life’s circumstances; you cannot really force anything but you can allow everything to unfold according to the will of God.

This is the most adventurous and productive way to live. It is not good to live a totally structured and regimented way of life. Many people are so rigid in their thinking, that they have deep ‘grooves/channels’ in their brain. Their thoughts always follow the same predictable path because ‘things have always been done that way.’ Therefore it is very difficult for them to accept new concepts, because they would need to change their view on how they see the world, and this can create fear of the unknown. It is this kind of thinking along the ‘old and trusted’ pathways which is unprogressive, and leads to a sleepy way of living, because spirit is denied the opportunity to ‘drop new ideas’ in those minds.

The synapses between the impulses have dried up because the gap between them has become to deep for the electrical impulses to ‘jump over’ to connect the thoughts. The more one engages in imaginative thinking, the livelier the synapses become, and the more connections are being made. Now we come to the left and right hemisphere of the brain. In the male, the mathematical/logical make sense of things left brain is more developed, while in the female the right intuitive/spontaneous feeling right half of the brain is better developed. The secret of life is to develop these hemispheres equally by over-bridging the Corpus Callosum which divides the two. This over-bridging happens already in early childhood through imaginative play and problem solving, with simple materials like building-blocks and other educational toys.

Children need to learn this without having too many electronic distractions, as their minds are as yet uncharted territory. In this manner they already learn not to expect a thing, and yet anything to happen, as long as they are not restricted with too many do’s and don’ts. This will prevent rigidity in thinking, while the urge to explore stays lively and connected to the reality of the spontaneity of spirit. In this way a valuable method of learning is being established at the best possible time for life-long ongoing learning.