Releasing yourself of past associations is the key to having the expectations of a child. You must first realized that your now is a continuation of the past. The only reason it is a continuation of the past is that you will not let go of what has already happened. As long as you hold onto the experiences in the past, disappointments of the past, they are sure to be recreated time and again in your present now. How often have you heard someone tell a story that sounds and feels as though this experience happened only yesterday? When you realize that this thing happened twenty years ago you are surprised at the amount of pain that this person still carries. Yet most people do this to some degree bringing their past always into the present.
Once you realize that the past is over and only affects your now due to your thinking and feeling about it. You can choose to think and feel something different. Through self discipline you can retrain yourself to think thoughts and to feel emotions that are more in line with what you would wish to experience. This is not hard to do, although it does require daily practice. Each time you catch yourself going back to the old experiences simply laugh at yourself and choose a different thought. As you practice new thoughts and emotions the world will begin to unfold as a magical field of possibilities as you continue to adopt the attitude of a child towards life itself.
Be as a little child and open up in the doors of possibilities each day. This is the surest way to live a life in which you thrive rather than simply survive. It's always up to you to choose the path that you walk down through your thoughts and your emotions. Choose to see yourself and experience yourself as a magical being living a magical life choosing what you get.
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