LOOKING IN THE MIRROR

Several years ago, Michael Brown’s The Presence Process: A Healing Journey into Present Moment Awareness, grabbed the attention with “I acknowledge my reflections in the world.” And today this statement went much deeper after listening to a Carl Jung video about love of a partner who minute-to-minute offers reflections, as opposed to projections… the wants, needed changes, the desires, the wishes, the visions, the complaints, the upsets, the anger spurts…What are you seeing in the mirror as YOU note and contemplate the partner’s reflections of John? What is beneath the projections? What is the mirror offering you? The words, the behaviors, the fears…the reality, the authenticity. How have you been seen, heard, and accepted? What has the relationship timeline and activities looked like during the phases of the relationship, the lust phase, the love phase, the parenting phase? Good questions.

The learning reinforces the genius of Michael Brown’s, “I acknowledge my reflections in the world.” Today all experiences are simply reflections in the mirror… the challenge is to take the time to be with the reflection, simply look in the mirror and be with the reflection, go deep, grasp, and accept what the reflection is offering, and behave and respond accordingly with next steps. When one authentically looks in a mirror the necessary changes that one sees can be owned; and if the desire is to accept the message and make a change (s), then accept the message and make the change (s). Blaming simply does not evolve anything and creates more of the same stuff… take 100% responsibility for the reflections in the mirror… life happens because of me, not to me.

What is the partner offering in the mirror? Insight with respect to relationship skills of: Self-esteem? Self-awareness? Boundaries? Co-existence? Moderation? Hiding with ego? That is a bunch to grasp. The power of love is empowering and can be revealing when one is open to receive it.