Seth Weekly Wisdom: Working with Expectation Through Trust

 Seth Weekly Wisdom: Working with Expectation Through Trust


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    Thu, Dec 11 2025 at 5:24 PM

    👋  Dear Mark M,












    Welcome to this week’s Seth Weekly Wisdom. The Seth Weekly Wisdom is really a joyful exploration of the Seth Material and how it can be continually combed through, worked with, and understood through the lens of our daily lives. We’ve explored many themes across these issues, including the importance of expectation in how we create our reality. But how to work with expectation is a question that comes up again and again. So this week, let’s explore the idea of working with expectation through trust.

    💬  Quote of the Week


    The healthy person takes health for granted. He takes it for granted as he does the air that he breathes. He can appreciate his health as he can appreciate the air, without feeling that either is going to be taken from him. He is not concerned with his health because he takes it on trust unthinkingly, as he takes his life on trust.


    You take your artistic ability on trust. You consider it a part of you. Ruburt considers his writing a part of him…


    The rich man thinks of wealth as a part of himself. He takes it for granted he has it and will achieve more. The poor man takes his poverty for granted, actually on trust, and takes it for granted he will have more of the same.


    In all of these areas expectations bring about physical reality.


    The life that you two personally have, has been brought about through trust and expectation. Your artistic endeavors are the result of trust and expectation…The danger is in concentrating upon the lacks, the ‘sore spots,’ building up greater concentrations of mistrust. In very important issues, both you and Ruburt are in excellent health…except that one upon which he has concentrated negatively, and given up trust…


    The resulting symptoms then served to reinforce the initial lack of trust. A state of faith in reverse therefore operates…


    Up to now you both have been playing the illness game strongly, in your imagination both creating symptoms, imprisoning Ruburt within them in the present, seeing them in the future, and examining future events in the light of present symptoms.


    So you understand how to play the game. We just want it reversed.


    You need some reminders. I have said this before: remember areas of health and vitality. As far as your living quarters are concerned, enjoyment of them, taking spaciousness for granted, loving the idea of it, will bring you more.


    Ruburt’s enjoyment of the trees will lead you to an area of greater trees. His enjoyment of class money will lead to more. In any of these areas however concentration upon the lacks would reinforce these. I want you to see what you do right, so that you can apply it to these other areas…


    An overconcentration in those areas helps bring about those conditions in your own experience…To some men there is no good. The world is not to be trusted, and their experience proves it. Others dwell in a world that is filled with all kinds of abundance. Both worlds are real, both are created by those who experience them.


    —Seth, The Personal Sessions: Book 1, August 16, 1971


    Commentary:















    The understanding that expectation is a threshold of concentrated belief that is held in your body—and that this is the actual trigger for manifestation into physical form—is revelatory. As Seth says elsewhere, “If a man wants to change his fate, desire is not enough, but expectation is. Expectation is actually the main trigger that switches inner data into the realm of physical construction. Without it, no physical construction results.” This allows us to expand our understanding: while beliefs shape and magnetize our reality to us, expectation is the activation threshold where energy tips into physical form.


    But the challenge is that expectation is hard to shift directly. You may believe that you deserve to be paid better or to be listened to with patience and compassion, but how does your body react when those circumstances arrive? Can you simply tell your nervous system it’s wrong? Can you override your felt sense with logic? Not usually. Expectation is downstream from many layers of consciousness and experience.


    That’s where this week’s quote returns us to something powerful and far more accessible: trust. Trust is the action that leads to the felt-sense state of expectation. And trust is something we can work with.


    Many of us can easily name what we don’t trust. Whether it stems from a current situation or a much older rupture, mistrust often feels painfully clear. It represents a break from our natural innocence and desire for connection. And beyond that, we live in a world that elevates mistrust. To be skeptical is to be smart. To worry is to be responsible. We’ve turned mistrust into a moral virtue and trust into a liability. How often do we equate worrying about someone’s safety with caring for them? How often is trust seen as naive, weak, even delusional?


    What is more challenging and infinitely more powerful is to identify what we do trust, whether positive or negative. Do we trust that our car will start when we turn the key? That the mail will arrive? That we’ll continue to struggle financially? That our health will eventually fail? That regardless of the outcome, we are always trying our best?


    We each have a life full of things we trust, yet rarely take the time to examine. And hidden in that landscape are the very seeds of what we most desire. We expect to struggle, but how often have we had enough to eat, to pay rent or mortgage, to have all our basic needs met? We expect to be met with criticism and a lack of understanding, and yet how many times have we shared a joyful afternoon conversing easily with a friend?


    Your life is already filled with evidence of health, ease, support, and beauty. And when you consciously begin to notice where you already have what it is that you desire, you begin to reinforce those neural and energetic pathways. You shift the emotional baseline. You begin to see where you already trust what it is that you desire. And trust builds the momentum that leads to expectation.


    🔬  Experiment: Working with Trust


    This week, bring your awareness to what you trust and don’t trust—and begin consciously building momentum in the direction you want to go.



    Step 1: Start with mistrust.

    Make a list of everything you don’t trust right now. Be honest and specific. These might be concrete (e.g., “I don’t trust I’ll be able to save any money this month”) or more emotional (“I don’t trust people to treat me with respect”). Don’t censor or rationalize, just write them down.



    Step 2: Now, list what you do trust.

    Shift your focus and begin listing all the things you do trust, no matter how small or mundane. This might include:

    • I trust that the sun will rise tomorrow.

    • I trust my coffee maker will work.

    • I trust my dog will greet me when I get home.

    • I trust that I have food for dinner tonight.


    Keep going. Let the list get long. Include anything that feels automatic or stable in your life.



    Step 3: Look for connection points.

    Return to your list of mistrusts. Are there any items that relate to something on your trust list? For example:

    • Mistrust: I won’t be paid what I’m worth.

    • Trust: I can cover my rent/mortgage. I have enough money for food. I can buy a gift for someone I love. I have the skills and experience to find another job if I wanted.


    This isn’t about “fixing” mistrust, it’s about noticing where trust already exists in adjacent areas.



    Step 4: Focus your attention.

    Choose one or two trusted realities from your list and consciously dwell on them throughout the week. Let them serve as evidence of the greater trust you’re building. You might say to yourself:

    • “I trust that support has shown up before, it can show up again.”

    • “I trust that some parts of my life are full of ease and abundance.”



    Step 5: Repeat and refine.

    Throughout the week, keep adding to your trust list. Let it become a growing body of evidence. Trust is a seedbed. What you nurture there builds the momentum that becomes expectation.


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