Hi everybody,
I wanted to share a fun experience. I just returned from a wonderful soulful vacation. We went camping with old friends at Whiskeytown Lake. This is a group that I camped with for 15 summers when our children were little. Now many of our children were back with their own young children. It was fun to see old friends and to watch kids reconnect at young adults. Some kids were easily recognizable and some had changed so much that we had to really stretch to know who it was. Once we recognized each other it was so much fun. There were lots of experience around perception and my psyche and intuition were lit.
One of my favorite perceptual experiences I had there was with a pair of 3-year-old twins, granddaughters of a close friend. I was walking across the campground and I saw someone holding a mirror up to one of the twins. She asked the twin who she saw in the mirror. The little girl, answered “My sister!”
I was so surprised to hear that and pondered the fact that the reflection of herself in the mirror was perceived as that of her identical twin sister. She didn’t realize it was herself in the mirror. That stood out to me about how we perceive ourselves.
A little later, I laid down in the tent for a nap and I had a dream. I was walking in a hall of mirrors and could not get a clear reflection of myself. I saw a friend in the room with me and I could not get a clear reflection on him either. I was told by a voice in the dream, “This is why it’s important to get a good clear reading from the outside at times, as we can’t always see ourselves clearly.”
Later that afternoon, I ran into the mom of the twins. She told me that she had heard the second twin answer that it was her sister in the mirror! Both girls perceived the person in the mirror as the other. I loved it!
I invite you to notice that how you see yourself is not always clear. We might be seeing the “not self” in the mirror. Your perceptions of your image in the mirror are based in the programs and stories that you were taught growing up. It’s time to dissolve those and do your best to see the real you in the mirror. This shows through your eyes and the through the love that you can express for your own image.
I know that it’s challenging something to look in the mirror and love yourself. Can you truly love with all your heart, the reflection of your own inner being, the person behind the eyes looking back at you? You are beautiful no matter what and worthy of your own love. Can you love yourself as if that was your twin in the mirror? Can you love yourself as if that was only the divine looking back at you? Leave the programs behind and go for it folks. You are worthy of your own love because you are that. You are love.
Love,
Dawn Lianna, M.A.
Intuitive Counselor and Trainer
Portland, Oregon and Worldwide by Phone
