Why expectations hurt

• Expecting that life will turn out the way we want it to be is a sure-fire way to experience disappointment, because life does not check our expectations before happening.
• If our unfulfilled expectations involve other people who have ‘failed’ to behave how we expect...

To make sense of the world, our brain makes neural pathways from its past experience. These pathways allow us to become efficient and not doubt every move we make.

However, when we need to update our expectations to a new reality, our brain has to create new pathways....

We fear often to the things we know something might bad will happen. We tend to visualize in our mind that if it goes this way, maybe this way will turn out this way.

But what if I tell you that it is all wrong? because what you are thinking...