{"id":6015,"date":"2012-09-18T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2012-09-18T17:30:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:30:48","slug":"finding-a-good-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2012\/09\/18\/finding-a-good-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Good Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nGood mirrors matter.<\/strong> It’s important that I see myself as I truly am. It’s good for my heart and for my growth to have an accurate picture of who I am.<\/p>\n

So I’m learning to be a wiser shopper when it comes to mirrors. Just any old reflection of me will no longer do. I’m getting serious about the mirrors I choose to use.<\/p>\n

Finding the good mirrors, I’ve learned, is easier when I am clear on what a true reflection of me might look like<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Then I can confidently say “in this mirror I look fatter than I am”. Or “in this mirror I feel like too much of a caretaker”. Or “in this mirror I appear less whole than I actually am”. By knowing what I want to see reflected back at me, it’s easier for me to spot the mirror that shows me as “the funny and clever person full of love” that I am.<\/p>\n

After all a mirror can only reflect what it knows, what it feels capable of showing, and what it chooses to see. A good mirror it will have no trouble showing me as I truly am, reflecting back the whole of me. While other mirrors, perhaps more cracked, may prefer not to reflect certain things. In their reflection, if I stay conscious, I might find my colour is muddled, or a strand of my hair is missing. In some part of their reflection I am something less than whole.<\/p>\n

It makes sense that a mirror that does not feel complete itself can not reflect back completeness in me. It’s own feelings of lack create distorted reflections of others as less-than-whole too.<\/p>\n

That’s why it’s important for me to find good mirrors, those who see themselves as complete \u2014 they are capable of reflecting the same truth onto me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

photo credit: nualabugeye<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Our<\/a>
\nGood mirrors matter.<\/strong> It’s important that I see myself as I truly am. It’s good for my heart and for my growth to have an accurate picture of who I am.<\/p>\n

So I’m learning to be a wiser shopper when it comes to mirrors. Just any old reflection of me will no longer do. I’m getting serious about the mirrors I choose to use.<\/p>\n

Finding the good mirrors, I’ve learned, is easier when I am clear on what a true reflection of me might look like<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Then I can confidently say “in this mirror I look fatter than I am”. Or “in this mirror I feel like too much of a caretaker”. Or “in this mirror I appear less whole than I actually am”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,97,99,98,101],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-completion","tag-mirror","tag-reflection","tag-self","tag-strength"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}