Mirror Mirror…..
Continuing our conversation on self-care….self-love and self-nurturing…this being our inner self..the place from which all things in our lives begin. Louise Hay was a woman ahead of her time – she wrote a book many years ago entitled You can Heal Your Life and became a model for healing and accomplishment. The publishing house she founded gives us many authors who focus on this area of growth. Louise herself taught a technique for developing self-love, which she called mirror work.
Of all the techniques I have suggested to clients over the years – this one is hand’s down the most unpopular of them all. It involves getting a hand mirror or standing in front of a larger mirror and telling that image how much they are loved and appreciated and full of light. Truly I get moans and groans and resistance and even those who manage to do it…always have that squirmy feeling of discomfort.
The cultural norms call for constant improvement of the self – of exercise, fashion, enhancement and yet none really advertise full acceptance and love of self. After all, if we really had self-love, we wouldn’t need all that enhancement to give us a temporary feeling of “ok-ness”. It’s a paradox that the more dis-satisfied with ourselves we are and the more we try to remedy that fact, the more dis-satisfied we are. Instead, true acceptance means looking into our eyes and seeing all the light and possibility that exists there. Man, woman or child could never become a ego centered person if they simply loved who they really are…not the personality or the resume – but the essence. Doing mirror work begins to force us to look for that aspect of ourselves – our unique design based on wholeness and yes, my favorite – love.
This week see if you can meet the mirror and nurture your own essence to come into view – and appreciate everything you see!
