You Are What You Eat
In choosing this card your Higher Self has signalled that you are ready to undergo a restructuring of your mindset, a shift in your perspective and perceptions.
Beware! You are what you eat! Pay attention. In this card you are being asked to be aware of your most common patterns of thoughts and emotions, which create your mindset. The role you play in your life is reflected in what interests you. What are you consuming by the ‘truckload’ – murder mysteries, Armageddon miniseries or the foodie channel on television? Are you a voracious eater of gossip or poor-me stories, actions and behaviours? Do you consume too much work? Or are you a course junkie and consume inspirational stories ad nauseam? You have one of the most complex pieces of machinery on the planet focused entirely on your subject of interest. Each of these areas represents an aspect of you that dominates your mindset: martyr, aggressor, victim, loner or abandoned. You train the whole of your life force towards whatever subject you focus on.
You are being asked to develop an awareness of your existing mindset so that you can shift in your perspective and perceptions to develop a connection to your true self. Once you stop seeing through the eyes of the role you play, once you stop spending all of your energy filling this role, you open yourself to the potential of your core self.
Your life force is programmed to carry out both your conscious and unconscious directions. Understand that through your mindset you filter everything you see and experience. This mindset is your global view. It shapes everything in your life. You bring your mindset to your job, to your relationships. It is the same everywhere you go.
Thoughts such as ‘I am good enough’ or ‘I am not good enough’ create the structure of the mindset and the boundary of each thought is set and activated by emotions. Emotions act as filters to qualify an experience, to give it a value – desirable/undesirable, safe/unsafe, etc. In so doing they sieve out any potential danger. They reinforce both your sense of safety and your sense of self-identity. If the thought reflects your true identity you will emotionally engage at your core to connect to Source. If the thought is in opposition to your core self you will emotionally resist the thought and disconnect from Source. If you have a victim mindset you experience the world through this victim lens. If you’re a martyr you constantly take responsibility for everyone else. If you carry a mindset of the abandoned child you approach every relationship with the fear that you’ll be abandoned again – once an orphan, always alone. Whatever the case, the emotional filters of your mindset no longer work for you.
The emotions aligned with your mindset that you currently use to filter out potential risks are composed of the emotions that disconnect you from yourself and therefore from others. These toxic emotions such as shame, blame, guilt, resentment, humiliation, and so on, are designed to make you pay attention to the rules of your mindset that no longer work for you. At the moment these emotions are what you know. They once kept you safe and are now what you react to in a repetitive cycle. The good news is they are now a signal for change. They are calling you to gain the perspective of and the freedom from your mindset. Look first at the roots.
Your mindset develops through the wide variety of childhood lessons, which form the complex system of safety rules and procedures that are set into place with strong emotions attached. Live by this ‘rule’ for safety and avoid this feeling. Each of these rules has an associated behaviour with it. What happened the first time is often the repeated response because it worked; it’s what you learned to do, were taught to do. This reaction becomes the go-to, automatic and unconscious response. It’s your first-response system with a set of internal on/off switches signalling when something is safe or unsafe. The response system is programmed into the software of your mind filled with a suite of programmes designed to help you navigate every experience you might encounter. The rules of conduct in this how-to manual are learned from your family, your friends’ family, your school environment, your physical education environment, etc., each of which has its own structure (often in contradiction to each other). Each teacher contributes their own set of rules to this how-to manual based on their own power base, nuances and fears. You form a sense of yourself in relationship to all of the inconsistent impressions of what you heard, copied and reacted against. Your views and perceptions of the world around you developed in alignment with or opposition to these impressions/lessons to create your current mindset.
Growing up you learned that you could play in your best friend’s garden but at home you got punished for walking on the grass. When you followed your family’s habit of throwing food wrappers out of your car window you were scolded by your friend’s mother for littering. You were strapped for certain behaviours when someone else received a laugh from their parents. And like a sponge your young brain soaked up everything, filling itself with all the contradictions of the myriad lessons to form an imbalanced mindset with competing beliefs. So as an adult you believe ‘I deserve a raise’, ‘I want more love in my life’ or ‘I am ready for a vacation’, but you also believe and focus on a stronger emotion attached to the more common thought of ‘I’m afraid to ask for what I want’. Your focus becomes fixed on this weightier fear-driven emotion, which is based on a safety system from the past. Repeated stories of how others don’t appreciate you or treat you badly, saying ‘I don’t know how’, ‘I feel powerless’ or ‘I’m tired’ several times a day each day of the week indicates your system is out of balance. Focusing on what doesn’t work for you (creating your fearful thoughts instead of your happy thoughts) will disconnect you from your Source, from that which connects all that is. Disconnected from your Source you unlink from the abundance you wish to experience. You are disarming the hidden forces of the natural world to support your goals. Connecting to your core will bypass these old lessons from an out-of-date how-to manual and allow you to tap into Source to create what you want.
The essence of creation is based on balance. Balancing your mindset is the key to balancing your inner and outer energetic (sometimes invisible) forces to connect to your core, experience equilibrium and flow. The chair you sit on does not exist in isolation. The unseen force of gravity supports the chair in its position on the ground. The chair is surrounded by space and defines the space it sits in. It is the same with thoughts and feelings. They do not exist in isolation. They define the space you are in. They exist in relationship to all the unseen forces that you are connected to. These unseen connections impact your thoughts and feelings much like the unseen force of gravity impacts the chair. Awareness of these unseen connections is a doorway to creation.
Take, for instance, the mindset of a rescuer. They still want to create happiness but their automatic programming to help others (mindset) is what is supported by the universe. They unconsciously are creating this reality in all that they experience. Through awareness a rescuer can come to understand that they automatically approach every individual they meet looking to see where they can be of service. With this awareness they can choose differently. When their mind automatically creates a list of everything this other person needs, instead of offering unsolicited help and thereby becoming exhausted and resentful that others are not giving back, the rescuer can make a conscious choice not to act on this list. They can choose to look after themselves and acknowledge the other person is responsible for themselves. And in this choice their world is transformed. They release their need to rescue (whereby they have been creating false relationships based on needs rather than the creative play of mutual give and take) and create a new possibility in connection to Source. Without awareness the rescuer is unable to see the world differently. Their global view is fixed in place. Their disconnection from their core self and what they need means they are disconnected from Source and flow.
Look around you to see what you have created. Is it what you want? Design your life through your thoughts and feelings. See them as an exten-sion of your arm or as a magic wand. Align your thoughts and feelings with exactly what you want to create. Tap the Source that is already within you. On the count of three, wave your wand: one, two, three! Magic!
