Taste is the feeling I get when one of my senses experiences awareness of this physical environment of which I am a part. There are several types of taste, including food in my mouth, the taste of sound waves against my ear
drums, or the glass iPhone screen that my thumbs taste. People taste my body language and eyes taste everything, sensing each other
better than anything else. One sense of taste that I often tend to
forget to pay attention to is the kind of thoughts that I make. Although many people refuse to believe in a sixth sense and think they
can only recognize or control the five original senses they learned in
school, it is true that I actually create the thoughts that go through my mind, just as I choose the flavors that go into my mouth.
I often forget or confuse the taste of thoughts, however, because it is easy to experience it as an emotion or mood that I think I do not control. I must actually use my mind to make every thought I taste. It sounds daunting at first, but then I realized that I could use this power to control the experience I have of my life. Just as the other senses in my body help me filter tastes and smells so I can make the enjoyable ones more abundant and avoid the unhappy ones, I can use my emotions to help my mind filter thoughts. Essentially, I can feel amazing at anytime just by thinking of a good thought, but it is just as easy to get stuck in a cycle of producing bad thoughts and make my experience of life absolutely miserable.
While it is true that I make thoughts myself, most of the time, my mind is not conscious of the creation of them because I am more focused on my bodily sensations. When I think of life as the making of an artistic work, however, I become very conscious of my mental taste. I aim to please the sense of imagination just as a chef aims to please taste buds. I know the types of sights I like, the sounds I like to hear, the touch that feels good, and the types of energy by which I like to be surrounded. One day, that energy could be loud bass, live DJs and a crowd of 30,000 while, on others, it could be the energy of just me in my apartment with the things, music, and people with whom I prefer to interact. So, while my physical tastes can have a profound impact on how my body feels, my mental tastes determine my emotional health. Just as I choose to put healthy food into my body and exercise routinely in order to keep my body functioning properly, I must choose thoughts that keep my soul living happily.
The world has survived because of the love living beings create and live in with themselves and others. It is essential to be aware that this love must be shared in order to keep the world going into the future. Until I fully understood this, my misconceptions of love had the to ability to (and did) hurt me, for I did not know exactly what I was looking for. I even tried to force love with someone who seemed like the definition of the person I could love. Even after I met my love, it was not until I believed that it could exist in me without the presence of the person I felt it for. I realized that I would not be able to forge love with anyone, and I would know the real thing when it came. Now I know what it is to love and be loved. It is having the taste of love in my mind and letting this taste pick up on the love of others. I can try to explain what it is I love about another, but the best way is just to say that my sense of love matches theirs. Our loves recognize each other and our souls want to be mates.
It is important to always keep the taste of love in my heart and also in my mind so that I will recognize real love when it is shared with me and others will always be able to taste the love I share with them.
