Are You Paying Attention? If Not, Tarot Cards Can Help!

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Are You Paying Attention? If Not, Tarot Cards Can Help!
In the latest installment of Laura Rowley's Money &
Happiness column on Yahoo Finance, she discusses a new book
on the science of happiness. In the book, "Rapt: Attention
and the Focused Life," behavioral scientist writer Winifred
Gallagher concludes that if you want to be happy, you need
to pay attention.

"Pay attention to what?" you might ask.

"To whatever your brain is focusing on," Gallagher would
answer.

As she explains in her book, allowing your mind to become
monopolized by negative thoughts only makes the situation
worse. If you are constantly thinking about a negative
situation, your conceptual reality and options are limited.
You are not allowing your brain to recognize that
alternatives to the current situation exist. You can even
become paralyzed by the fear and anxiety that the situation
causes. By trying to refocus your brain to think more
positively, you broaden your conceptual horizon and are
able to recognize more options. This leads to better
decision-making on how to deal with the current situation.

Tarot cards can help with training your brain to refocus.
The imagery on each card serves as a guide and literally
gives your mind something on which to focus. The cards can
help you view your circumstances in a different light.

One way to use tarot cards to broaden your conceptual
horizon is through a daily reading. You can use your entire
deck or just the cards of the Major Arcana. First, sit in a
quiet part of your home and take a deep breath. Now spread
your tarot cards, face down, in front of you and select
one. Pay attention to the pictures and symbols on the card
and what they mean to you. Do you identify with any of the
figures on the card? What imagery on the card, if any,
sends you a negative message? What imagery, if any, sends
you a positive message? Now ask yourself how the situation
at hand is influencing the way you view the card. Is there
an alternative way to read the card?

For example, let's say you drew The Tower for your daily
reading. Initially, you may see the card's imagery as only
reinforcing how you already feel in your current situation
-- out of control, chaotic, disastrous. But is there
another message here? Could it be that you feel overwhelmed
because you are only focusing on things over which you have
no control?

Instead, what if you began to focus on the parts of your
situation that you can control? In doing so, you will have
expanded your options and increased your ability to make a
better decision. Instead of feeling helpless you can begin
to pay attention to the things in your life that you can
influence, however insignificant they may seem at the time.

Or what if the card is offering a suggestion on how to
better handle the same situation in the future? On the card
the tower is severely damaged by lightning, but what if the
tower could be rebuilt to better withstand lightning?
Notice, I'm not saying that it won't ever be struck by
lightning again. The lightning is an act of God and is not
something that can be directly controlled. What I'm
pointing out here is that, should lightning strike again,
the tower could be better equipped to handle the blow in
the future. How might you prepare yourself to deal with or
avoid a similar situation in the future?

Again, the above illustration is only an example. The
meanings you gather from your daily reading will depend
entirely upon you and your circumstances. But it does
illustrate how using tarot cards can help refocus your
brain away from constant negativity and thereby help you to
recognize alternatives.

The power of paying attention is nicely summarized by the
poet W.H. Auden: "Choice of attention -- to pay attention
to this and ignore that -- is to the inner life what choice
of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is
responsible for his choice and must accept the
consequences, whatever they may be."


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Lisa Ray is the creator of the Ultimate Tarot Trainer, an
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read tarot cards. ***Be sure to test your psychic powers
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