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Mindset Matters!




Someone called me a wise ol’ bird the other day – it has taken me a long lifetime to learn some of the apparent wisdom I have gleaned, and I am still learning!  Oh, boy!  Does life give me opportunities to see where my past mindset has led me?


There is an old saying in the Book of Job the thing I feared has come upon me.  We know that energy goes wherever we focus, whether consciously or otherwise.  I had feared early in my life not being able to keep my family home or maintain my car.   A couple of years ago, I could see the writing on the wall about where I was living, and my car gave up the ghost.  It took me a while to recall my earlier life thoughts and to recognise how their energy was manifesting in my life, yet again.


Do you keep a diary?  I have only done so sporadically, but I did (and still do) keep a note of the spiritual mind treatments, affirmations, afformations, that I have put together over these past couple of years, working on my gratitude, etc., in an endeavour to tease out the patterns I have kept repeating throughout my life one way or another, and to align myself, my unconscious mindset and energies, with what I profess to believe.  After all, if I can’t bring about positive changes in my life, how can I put up my shingle to potentially help others?


Claiming my truth as an expression of the Infinite – as perfect means of transportation and housing were the dominant themes I was working on, and re-building my financial strength, with the following results:  A dear friend took me in when I had been very unwell just when I needed to move out of my house, and looked after me whilst I regained my strength.  Two other dear people, husband and wife, were getting a different vehicle to do more travelling in and gifted me their old car.  On both counts, I am so lucky to have such people in my life.


For a number of reasons, I didn’t drive the car as much as I could have, took my eye ‘off the ball’ - the battery died on me, and the self-locking was ‘on’.  No problem, you’d think.  Use the emergency key, get in that way to pop the bonnet and re-charge the battery.  Only, with this make of car, if the battery dies, the emergency lock doesn’t work.  Just a minor design flaw …


Long story short, after a couple of friends tried unsuccessfully to help me open the car, and me having moved to a new location, I found a garage that could tow the car over and get it sorted.  There was a degree of urgency in that the government vehicle licensing authorities were pressing me to re-register the car, which I could only do with a certificate of road-worthiness, or get fined.   I had no option but to get my head around the issue and get it sorted.





When the bill came, it was a lot more than I had expected, and I panicked.  All the more so because the garage needed me to collect the car by the end of that day, and I would need to pay them before I could do that.  I am now aware that panic in the immediate moment is a pattern with me, in the first instance, I only then take deep breaths to get out of the sympathetic nervous system’s flight or flight response and give myself a form of talking-to – and go to a Higher Power to help sort it out.  Knowing the Infinite is Absolute Abundance, Provision of Plenty in perfect and divine right timing, I asked for guidance on what I could do for the bill to be covered that day.  I sat, made myself take deep breaths, and an idea came to mind.  Consciously, I had no idea whether I could implement it, but I had to trust that prompting, that intuition from wherever it came from, set it I motion and the bill got paid – another good friend helped cover me on the day. 


When I got to the garage, there was no fuel in the car so it wouldn’t start.   Borrowing a jerrycan, I had to walk some distance for fuel as the garage only dealt with mechanical stuff, not fuel provision. It started spitting with rain on my way down to the fuel place and by the time I was setting out to walk back, it was tipping it down and I got soaked.  But fuel got put into the car, it started, and I was thankfully able to drive away, in the pouring rain, trying to remember where the various controls were, with the windows steaming up a treat (and of course, there was no cloth in the car to wipe the inside of the windows). 


The rush hour was fortunately by now well and truly over, it was still daylight, and I found I could somehow handle driving the car much more smoothly than I had before.


Whereas before I had been thinking of giving up driving, a friend suggested I might as well keep using the car as long as I could, which I am now doing.


Having started out with a mindset of fear, lack and loss, based on childhood experiences around homes being left with moves to different countries with parents’ work, possessions being lost or stolen in transit, life gave me opportunities to look at what ‘drivers’ were still operating in my sub-conscious and redress those thoughts, neutralise them so they can not affect me any more.


I wonder what drivers you have held onto subconsciously? 


What patterns of mishaps keep showing up for you? 


Whatever the challenges you are presented with, are you able to practice gratitude? 


In my diary or journal, I wrote how I was grateful for the shelter I had been offered, the means of transport available to me, the food there for me to eat, my clothes, the bed for me to sleep in, water to bathe with, the air to breathe, greater financial ease and, most of all, the kindness and support of so many good friends  – there are so many everyday things and people we can focus on. 


And, as we know, what we focus on grows.  



 



Dr Erica is based in Christchurch, UK. She is devoted to guiding you to living in alignment with the true you. Do you really know who you are behind the conditioning of family and society? Join Erica in one to one coaching or her masterclasses to make previously unimagined strides both personally and professionally. 





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