Mirror, Mirror....

Bonjour Friends

This week, I was thinking about how much our relationships with others are confusing and complicated. We can feel instantly connected with someone we just met, and without affinity with someone who shares the same blood and life.

Some people make us feel good and secure, while some others make us feel stress and unfit.

No matter how close or far the connection with the people of our lives is, spiritual teachings, as well as psychology agree:"Others are mirrors of ourselves".

Then... How come those "outsiders" (family, partners, boss...) appear to be the cause of our misery more than our support system and continuity?

Seriously!? Those people don't look anything like us! Not in the way they talk or behave.
We surely are different as: "The Beauty and... The Beast", and on top of that, they have 'the unique gift' to push our buttons like no-one else!

Well...Here a few things we should consider with an open mind to see what this is all about.

As a mirror do, people send us a reflective image of us. Even in the tale I just mentioned, the two characters are first shown to be opposite, but as the Beauty starts reaching to the Beast, she sees him in a different light, until his true kindness and hidden beauty is finally revealed.

The similarity is in our essence and appearances are just an illusion to create separation.

Once we go beyond the surface, and learn to look at life with a spiritual eye, we can see the true nature that we are all made off.

Then why does our surrounding keep triggering our own beast? Even when we do our best to think as them as part of us.

The answer is simple: The universe is helping us, transform our reactive nature by making us face those challenging interactions.

What I learned is that it is okay to feel pushed over the edge or frustrated when facing certain people in our lives.
Yet, we shouldn't runaway from the uncomfortable it causes us, neither should we 'emergency patch' the problem: It will come back!

Our job is to go to the root of the problem that is laying inside of us and fix it!

In this journey, the more we know about ourselves and the laws of the Universe, the more we'll see the world pushing us to grow as a gift.

Love & Light Always, Ilanit