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the mirror.

we are embodied into a world that serves as mirror. we look into this mirror and we make our wishes.

“mirror, show me love. show me abundance and health. show me that i matter. show me connection. show me validation; show me what i want to see.”

and this is a mirror everyone looks into. we learn as children but we aren’t taught that the mirror is reflection. it’s not the thing itself. we come to find later that the only way to see our wishes come true in the mirror is to gift ourselves.

you want a love that lasts? you find it in yourself first. you want abundance that sticks? you live it first and put it on your own back. you want good health and happiness? you find and heal everything that is keeping you sick and small inside. you bring your shadow into the light to be honored as your weapon of love and not lack. you want safety and connection? you find and protect who you are inside. you connect with yourself and your own story before you go around offering yourself for crumbs and pouring yourself into the cups with holes in them.

it’s funny that we learn the steps, the choreography, backwards at first, before the dance finally pushes us into forward motion. we make sure to create safety for the exact people who are not safe to themselves or to us. we make sure to lavish abundance and care upon those who are not here to love us, but to teach the sacred lesson that we must detach from our own giving. we make every bargain, and compromise everything we have, just to negotiate survival, when our deepest desire is to thrive. we’ll love what we see in the mirror when we remember how to use the mirror properly.