What If You Lived in a Hall of Mirrors?
Here’s the Key to Your Escape into Freedom

By Kaye Sturgis

Looking in the mirror, we see our physical reflection staring back at us. But what if we could see beyond our physical appearance? What if we recognized everything and everyone who touches our lives as a gateway to seeing ourselves as we are, already perfect, whole, and unified within and in relationship with one another?

Let’s explore and find out.

Specifically, to us human beings, it isn’t easy to believe sometimes that every person, place, and thing is a mirror of our consciousness. When we look at someone we love, when we’re happy and content, we see a reflection of our perspective about who we are, and likewise, when we look at a beautiful landscape, we see our inner beauty mirrored in nature.

It’s easy to see the Love we are in these loving mirrors. But what about the painful mirrors that trigger us and push our buttons? What good could they possibly serve?

Our most valuable insights come from our close relationships; the closer the relationship, the more likely we will bump into our pesky shadow realities. The great 20th Century seer Edgar Cayce once said, “If you want to be on the fast track to enlightenment, get married!”

Indeed, most realize that the intimacy of living daily in a long-term commitment with another person offers a literal treasure trove of mirrors upon which to self-reflect and grow. Wise Mirrors that appear to inflict uncomfortable feelings show us our shadow side, the parts of ourselves that we feel insecure about and don’t want to face — even though we are trying to get to the Love Consciousness we are.

These types of mirror reflections are painful, especially from those we love most, but they are essential for our growth and evolution. Without them, we would never be able to see areas in our lives that cry out to us to see the light of day.

So, the next time we look in any mirror (reflected by a loved one), we can remember seeing all of who we are – our light and our shadow. Both wake us up to our light. Rather than finding reasons to blame others while secretly judging ourselves and attempting to separate from the pain we feel, it works to pay attention to and do our best to understand what the mirror is reflecting about our inner nature. — It is much easier to get the message if we use humility, flexibility, and compassion.

We are perfect just as we are! This perspective can ultimately help us function as Love in all our relationships and in the face of all our mirrors.

Now that we know that all mirrors are reflections of ourselves, let’s explore more about how to work with them in our everyday lives.

Below are more insights on how to deal with painful reflections:

1. Be willing to try on everything outside yourself that is mirroring what’s happening inside you.

It is not as easy as it looks, but worth the work. When you peer into and master this Universal Law, basking more consistently in happiness and joy, they will be yours. You will have learned how to love yourself and even the parts of yourself and any others you once found uncomfortable.

Tip – If you break an elbow, forget the mirror. Go to the hospital to get your bone set! Using common sense is “doing Self Love.”

Self-reflect later in such cases that demand immediate action. Would it help you to slow down? Have you been “arming yourself” against life? Do you need to be more present in the moment?

Yep. The above was right out of my personal experience. The upside is that it turned out well, and I won’t run at night, not l looking where I am going again.

2. Don’t judge the mirror or take it personally.

When looking in the mirror and seeing something we don’t like, we can remember that it’s not personal. Mirrors aren’t “real.” They are reflections. But if we forget, no worries!

Sometimes, we slip back into the old patterns. We forget that reflections play a role in life, just as we play one. All of this is a play, a dream, a game. It’s temporary!

Pay attention to the context. The role of the mirroring factor is here to Wake Us Up, not to push our buttons. If we don’t have buttons, they can’t get pushed. Right.

Otherwise, we must gently look at the trauma causing the poke (uncomfortable feelings), accept it’s there, soften it, and bring ourselves into balance. Learning to detach with compassion brings deep inner peace and freedom.

3. Unusually severe mirrors are blessings in disguise.

These are here to wake us up, too, so we have to contend with them. There is        no other way around it. And ultimately, we must come to terms with them, for their intensity shape and transform us.

When we get hit with a harsh mirror, i.e., such as an apparent illness, abuse, poverty, death, etc., we can feel deep despair, resistance, anger, sadness, grief, jealousy, or other life-force suckers that rise with paralyzing fear at their helm.

Yes. Life and its mirrors are very intense at times, but the Truth is we are so much more than our circumstances, no matter how dark or dire. Our role is to get humble enough to ask for healing mirrors that burn through that stuff to the Light we are.

Work things out inside before sharing too much with others. It is empowering to turn within for answers, as it’s on the inside where we ultimately clear out the distortions and, in our pure childlike state, once again meet up with Love Consciousness or Who We Are.

Again, use common sense, and if you’re stuck, get a mirror that can help. We save ourselves and everyone a lot of suffering that way.

4. Choose wisely what we spent time on and with whom and what we spend time.

Soaking in the mirrors that support, affirm, and uplift Love Consciousness, Balance, Freedom of Perspective, etc., will help keep us afloat throughout whatever or whoever shows up.

People, images, places, and other mirrors of this type that continuously bombard our well-being with fear and pain are toxic. As we learn who we are, we also realize that we are not who we thought we were – and neither are we the mirrors we see.

The people we love who are toxic people are probably not be ready to look into who they are. We can offer a mirror, but not be attached to the results. It is arrogant of us to think we know what path they need to walk. We cannot change others. Remember all change comes from within ourselves.

Toxic people can sometimes be great “heyoka” teachers for us. Even so, arrogance toward those less fortunate will get equally toxic consequences. One of the gifts this stuff has is to help us to practice humility (flexibility), compassion, and loving kindness while claiming our sacred space.

Recognizing the mirrors we get in life helps guarantee a smoother sail in the inevitable stormy waters ahead and the solutions for the calmer ones that will most assuredly follow.

These are just a few tips on working with mirrors daily. Seeing mirrors for what they are is essential to unlocking the vast reservoir of who we Really are. Check it out consistently to see how much evolution you can handle.

Love, Peace, and Appreciation,

Kaye