When You Stand at the Mirror, Do You Look Deeper Than Your Reflection?

What do you see when you look in the mirror?  Do you look beyond your eyes, your nose, your mouth?  If you are living an inauthentic life, looking at yourself too long may make you uncomfortable.  Your mind knows the truth about you, are you ok with that?

Hiding secrets (not whether or not you had a cookie but whether or not you are living a lie) creates destructive conflict in our bodies.  When there is too much distance between the outward picture and the inward reality, it takes a toll on us internally.

My wish for the world is tolerance.  It's important to have values and bring up our families with those values in word and in deeds.  But tolerance has to go hand in hand with our values.  The big lies will crush us!!  What we hide to fit in and belong can make us dislike ourselves.  And our relationship with ourselves is the most important one we have.

It's not easy to go through grade school and high school where people joke and mock for reasons big and small.  We can teach tolerance but when you add together peer pressure, group mentality and the fact that no one's decision-making process has fully developed as teenagers, there are a lot of negative variables involved that push against tolerance.  We all need to find an anchor, a parent or guardian, a trusted mentor or counselor, to give us a place to recharge and regroup.

Being proud of who we are is a skill that can be developed.  Loving ourselves exactly as we are is being authentic.  Finding a safe place to work through feelings of unworthiness is a key factor is our personal success.  

If you aren't proud of yourself, do you know what's blocking you?  I suggest making a list of what you have done in your life that you can be proud of.  We all have enough reasons to be proud, we need to focus on them.  

Have a great day!

Xo

Conni

Today's Mantra:  I intend to list reasons I have to be proud of myself.

Mantra for Every Day: I choose to send love to all; receiving love back multiplied in infinite proportions, creating and nurturing pathways of love.