Personal Development: What Do You See When You Look in the Mirror?
Author: ophelia | Category: Law of AttractionMost people don’t know what they see anymore because they’ve stopped looking; they brush their teeth, fix their makeup, maybe notice a pimple or two, baggy eyes…but never stopping long enough to realize that the person they keep looking at every day is changing, has changed, is continuing to change.
REMIND ME TO SEE MYSELF THE WAY YOU SEE ME - Imagine me loving what I see when the mirror looks at me ’cause I imagine in a place with no insecurities and I’m finally happy because I imagine me. I admit it was hard for me to see that you could be in love with someone like me. Letting go of my past and glad that I have another chance because finally I can imagine me.
Those are the words of Kirk Franklin’s song Imagine Me. Lately I’ve felt really lost and the image that people saw of me was not one that I saw of myself. I would get simple compliments and think that these people were crazy. For example I really hated my legs – I think they are horrible from some illness I had as a child – but lately I’ve had 5 men mention how great my legs were – Yikes!!! What were they seeing that I couldn’t because all I saw was a miserable human being with horrible legs?…We go through life with this image of ourselves that may have nothing to do with reality, that may not even be the person we now are. Maybe we are looking back at our former selves, wallowing in that reality.
Most of the thoughts about who we are as a person stem from something in the past, but what happens when you are no longer that person, or when that description no longer applies and you keep judging yourself by those same standards? When I look in the mirror I seem to see someone totally different from everyone else. Everyone else may see strong and outspoken but I see weak and fragile. Everyone may see amazing and beautiful, yet I see ugly scars from the past; not really letting go of my past, not really embracing this reality.
Most times in Law of Attraction we talk about that your present doesn’t reflect the things you’ve already set in motion. But what happens when you keep viewing your present with color of your past? What happens when you view every situation based on the person you were 5 years ago and not the one you are today? What happens when everyone sees the real you but you only see a bad reflection? Now may be the time to re-assess the person you see when you look in the mirror, because that person may no longer even exist and a new and better version may be there waiting to be noticed.
