How Is The Mirror Of Life Treating You?
What you see in the world and much of how others interact with
you is a based on what is within you. The world you live in is a
mirror, reflecting to you what you feel and project.
This can be hard to face, as we don't want to think that we are
anything like all that we see in the world. This is not to say
that you are alone responsible for everything going on in the
world. However, you bring into your personal world most of what
you see and experience by what you perceive and believe. If you
are annoyed and frustrated with drivers on the road, you will
find many feel the same about you. Someone who feels irritated
with a crowd of people will not see many friendly faces looking
back. While, also, if you are considerate and polite, you will
experience much of the same.
Your attitude governs how you see the world and how you interact
with it.
Sure, There are many things going on in the world that are
unpleasant, but if you bring the thinking into your thoughts,
you are bringing it closer to your life.
Haven't you noticed that the people that appear happy are the
easiest to approach and talk with than those that seem grumpy?
Are you the happy one or the grump?
We tend to think that it is up to the world to provide us with
what we want, where the opposite is actually true. It is our
responsibility how we feel, think and act, which can effect how
others interact with us.
If your thoughts throughout the day are mostly on anger,
anxiety, distrust, fear, aggression, superiority, and you are
looking to one-up everyone, when can you fit in the happiness
you want?
Two things are going on: 1) Your mind is listening to what you
feel and say all day and responds to them as a command for more.
If your mind is engrossed in some form of negative thought all
day, when exactly where any happy thoughts going to fit in.
2) The people you interact with are reading you, your body
language, your vocal intonations, your behavior. You exude how
you feel and the attitude you hold. People will then react,
usually in kind. You will get back from them what you project.
We all know that we are 'reading' other people all the time.
What we feel they are exuding, effects how we behave around
them. How do you want people to behave you around you? How do
you want people to treat you?
You are trapping yourself with your own thoughts and behavior.
In order to have a different life experience you need to choose
to project to yourself and the world more of what you do want.
Your thought space is fully consumed with whatever thoughts you
are involved with all day. You need to make room for better
thoughts if you are going to have them. Thoughts of joy don't
happen along with thoughts of anxiety, it must be either or.
Now you might be saying to yourself about now, "what about
everybody else?" They should treat me better, and then I will be
nicer to them. Well, most people feel the same way, all waiting
for someone else to start it, to be nice first. Guess what, this
method is not working and if you continue to wait for it to,
better not hold your breath.
The only way for you to experience a more positive, happy,
joyous, loving life is to start with yourself. You be the one to
instigate better attitude for others to respond to. Guess who
responds to it first, yea, you do. Your own mind will act in
kind with whatever attitude you project, why not make it what
you want?
Make an effort to seize command of your perceptions, your
attitude, your thinking and your actions so that you can project
to the world what you want back from it. Only you can choose
what object to place in front of the ever-present world mirror
in order to get the reflections you desire. The mirror doesn't
lie; it reflects what it sees. Choose to become more of what you
want. If you are hoping for a happy experience in life, be happy
and seek happiness. Express happiness in all that you do and in
all personal interactions. Choose to look for it everywhere.
Grow out of your old thought habits when you notice they no
longer support what you want for your life. Personal development
and growth may not be the easy way out but you will like,
appreciate and admire yourself more for working at it.
Stand in front of the mirror, be the image you want reflected
back. Others will follow, somebody has to start, will it be you?
"... at any moment in time what we see outside of us reflects
our internal field of consciousness. As such it is a mirror for
us. Looking in this mirror can be painful, but it is not nearly
so painful as pretending that the mirror is not there." - - Paul
Ferrini