I and others wanted, needed, a certain outcome, so I did what most people do and set a level of expectation of someone else to deliver an outcome.
As the day unfolded I had this strange sense that the 'other' person who had volunteered themselves to organise the evening, had not done so. My frustration started to rise, my emotion with it, and the 'edge' we put on ourselves sharpened to a point of razor-like delivery.
Then, in a moment of clarity, I realised how much expectation I'd placed on the outcome, how this had built an energetic prison around my friend, and in doing so had suffocated any possibilty for an unfolding other than that which I had expected.
Spontaneity had no chance of expression in my reality. A 'no win' situation.
What happened next?
Well, literally in the minutes after I had owned my expectation, understood its suffocating and blanketed delivery, decided to withdraw and 'let go' of any outcome or expectation, and own my frustration and grumpiness, a phone call happened, plans were made, the 'someone else' seemed to display characteristics of freedom, and the evening unfolded in what can truly be described as magical and spontaneous!
What did I learn?
That to create an environment of expectation on another (or even ourselves) creates an energetic matrix which confines and limits any possibility to only one: the outcome we expect! And if this is not in keeping with anothers' unfoldment, then we do indeed create a prison of expectation which for the 'other' cannot be escaped.
By seeing this, owning this, withdrawing this, we remove the energetic shackles and allow for the unfoldment of possibility, sometimes a possibility beyond anything our limited self could possibility expect!
Wow.
Is it really that simple?
On this day, it was ... and it was wonderfully magical!
