Mirrors

A couple of days ago we went to an exhibition called "The Illusions" and one of the ones that caught my attention was one where there was a dividing wall with a hole in the wall that acted as a "mirror" and one person stood on one side and the other on the opposite side and when you took the picture from an angle, you could see the body of one with the face of the other person who was on the opposite side of the wall.

This reminded me how in life, the people we meet and relate to are MIRRORS, each person reflects aspects of ourselves, they can be aspects that reflect love, compassion, tenderness, inclusion and other times they can reflect rejection, fear, anger or other contractive emotions that are in our psyche.

In Transpersonal and according to Carl Jung in analytical psychology, the shadow represents the dark side of our personality, those traits and attitudes that the conscious self does not recognize as its own and by repressing them it projects them outside.

Those people that we dislike so much, that cause us rejection and contractive emotions are there to help us integrate parts of ourselves, they invite us to be more compassionate, more loving and more inclusive with those aspects of our psyche that are just asking to be healed, dissolved and integrated.

The same happens with that which we admire so much about the other, deep down, that same thing that you admire is found within you, which is called the Golden Shadow.

When we begin this journey of inclusion, of giving ourselves the opportunity and space to do this integration work, we are able to feel more peace, more love, more compassion naturally as parts of our psyche will stop being in conflict with each other, dissolving unconscious guilt, feeling fuller, more connected with life and with those around us, living life from the adult Self, from presence and letting go of childish and victim attitudes.

Little by little we will be projecting less and less, being able to see more clearly the other as someone integral and worthy, and consequently we will perceive ourselves in the same way.

I invite you to do an exercise of inclusion with that other person that causes you rejection.

TAKE A FEW MINUTES OF SILENCE AND SAY TO YOURSELF:

"I AM DETERMINED TO SEE THIS PERSON OR SITUATION DIFFERENTLY."

SET ASIDE JUDGMENT, SILENCE THE MIND AND OPEN YOURSELF TO RECEIVE A DIFFERENT FORM OF PERCEPTION.