So many of us have been conditioned to not get our hopes up about something we truly want. Calmness, unflappability, and affecting a Clint Eastwood-type of steely, cool, detached demeanor are often prized and associated with being “grown up.” Indeed, panicking and getting strung out about small things and minor irritants is not good for you or the people around you. But we may have been throwing the baby out with the bathwater, in that now we also find ourselves discouraging ourselves (and others) from even feeling the excitement of hope and positive anticipation.

I have an important meeting scheduled for this morning. Last night, I found myself subdued and withdrawn, mulling over the “what-ifs” associated with the outcome of this meeting. I realized I was experiencing fear: fear of the unknown, fear of disappointment, and fear of change. As I was listening to a self-hypnosis recording I made that assists me in doing guided astral travel, I set my intention to meeting with the person I am to meet with today, but on the astral realm. My intention was to meet with the person and work out a deal in which both of us would be happy working together, and both of our professional goals would be achieved and exceeded, to our mutual satisfaction and well-being.

This morning, I woke up feeling as if “something” had been resolved, and the agitation I felt last night had been replaced with a calm cheerfulness. Indeed, once my morning coffee had kicked in, I started to feel that wonderful, irrepressible excitement rising up in me. I started to smile, and have been enjoying my morning, picking out my clothes, cleaning out my briefcase and sorting the good from the bad from my previous job, and generally preparing to turn the page in my professional life.

Dear readers, don’t talk yourself out of feeling joy and anticipation! Don’t talk yourself out of setting yourself audacious goals, and expecting positive outcomes for what you attempt in your life. Yes, it is important to detach from the outcome when they occur, but while you are anticipating them, allow yourself the joy and the fun of feeling that excitement in your belly! I love watching children who are so excited about something that they are literally jumping up and down. They are doing this because they are getting completely stoked on the raw, pure energy of positive expectation. They are spreading around that excitement that is welling up in their little bodies, and sending it into the ground, and into the universe. Feel that in yourself, and don’t cheat yourself out of that wonderful, fantastic sensation! Believe me, your aura will thank you!

Have a wonderful day, everyone!