What Do You See in The Mirror?

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see YOU or do you see an imagined reflection of yourself, created from all of your past conditioning, all the events, all the things you were told, all the things that you believed. Everything working together to create that image you see. Keeping you stuck in judgement of yourself every time you look at yourself in the mirror.

Through the years you've taken all the hard parts, the rough spots in your life and covered them up, wrapping them in pretty paper, turning them into what you deemed were lovely little gift wrapped packages, gently placed in your memory box that you draw on, when you look at yourself. But, in order to find YOU, you must get down and dirty and get honest with yourself. You must smash open these pretty packages for they are keeping you stuck. Once you break through the protective covering of the pretty packages you will see the beautiful shimmers of light sparkling up at you from the remains exposing forgotten truths.

Do you see just how powerful you are, do you see what a courageous person you are ~ look at what you have done!!!

The real YOU, the you inside is the one that you need to see when you look in the mirror. The casing, the physicality of your body is only temporary, so why waste time criticizing it. Instead turn your attention inward and look at the real YOU, dissecting every thought, every feeling until you can let your inner beauty shine. Then when you look in the mirror ~ oh the beauty you will see. The beauty of the universe, the stars ~ all of it encapsulated in your soul.

How do you get past what you see and allow your beautiful inner self to shine? There are many ways to work through this. First you need to let go of all the past conditioning. Louise Hay has a marvellous book, "You Can Heal Your Life", which uses positive affirmations to replace the negative ones that run through your mind. For instance when you are thinking that you are not feeling well on a particular day, replace that thought with, "I am in my best possible health today". When you look in that mirror and instantly start to criticize, take a moment and focus on your positive attributes. And remember that you are uniquely you, there is no one else like you. You have your own unique beauty, your own unique personality, your own way of presenting your beautiful energy to the world. Focus on these things when you are drawn to judge what you consider your physical weaknesses.

Another method used to create a more positive self esteem is called mirror work. By standing in front of mirror, looking yourself in the eyes and expressing love and forgiveness for yourself over and over again, it will soon break down the walls, releasing all those hidden away emotions. Then letting the tears flow will wash away the pain.

Another important thought to keep here is that we all are part of the same universal energy, so holding kind and loving thoughts towards yourself with help move you towards a more loving, kind compassionate approach towards others.

As you step into the new you, your life will become a daily journey of wonder, curiosity, love and joy. Dust off those memory shelves for all the new magnificent parts of YOU that you will be placing there. The light of your soul will illuminate the shining truths that lay before you to claim as your true treasure.

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no-one alive who is Youer than You 

... Dr. Seuss 

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely 
... Roald Dahl