Are Judgments Just Recycled Thoughts?

I work on watching my thoughts most of the time, especially judgments. I find it interesting that Wikepedia defines Judgment as the evaluation of evidence to make a decision. My husband, Ron, and I had gone to a party a couple of months ago. I didn’t realize how much I had been watching my thoughts. I felt really good about it because I was catching myself on things. Yet what startled me was the automatic judgments. Say what? Yes, I found myself doing these automatic judgments and I thought “whoa, where’d that come from?”.  In light of the above definition, I was evaluating what evidence to make what kind of decision?  I started paying more attention and sure enough, I caught a few more. read...

An Example of the Art of Mirroring

Even with all my writing and videoing about the Art of Mirroring, something happened to me at the Reconnective Healing trainings that startled me. I’m always reminding people that we are all mirrors for each other. Sometimes I’m blind. At the end of the Reconnective healing seminar, I got in the line to get my picture taken with Dr. Eric Pearl.  I love listening to him talk. He’s funny, bright, astute, and sarcastic.  He is also quite capable of pushing people’s buttons.  So I waited until the line was pretty much done. My turn soon came and I got my picture taken with him. read...

Mirroring: Learning about Yourself

A couple months back I wrote a blog on The Art of Mirroring.  It is a great technique to look into the world of you and learn more about who you are, what behaviors and characteristics you have.  What’s the best way to learn that?   Relationships show us what we need to do to improve ourselves. You don’t need relationship advice. You need to look at how the people you have a relationship with pushes your buttons, then ask yourself why. They are mirroring for you what you don’t like about yourself! You cannot see in another what you yourself do not have. It’s how we recognize things. And that goes for the good, the bad and the ugly! read...

The Art of Mirroring

Before I got on my spiritual path, I was very heavily invested in judging others: how they looked, talked, or ate along with their occupation, their mate, and their beliefs (especially if they didn’t agree with mine) to name just a few of them.  I started on my path due to an accident some 10-11 years ago. During my journey, I went to many spiritual seminars and  I began to realize how judging others was of no benefit to me, in fact, it causes me more harm than good.  Then I learned about the mirroring factor (and I’m not talking about disk mirroring for disc recovery here!).  Everyone we have in our lives is a mirror for us to learn from and use that information to improve ourselves.  At the time, I didn’t fully understand that. Now I do. I believe that’s part of our lesson, our growing and our evolving spiritual growth.  And if you’ve ever done this, you know it’s not always easy to do. Especially if the person, who is being that fabulous mirror for us right now, is someone we simply can’t stand!  The thought of having anything in common with them is just too much to think about. I’ve even argued with it at times thinking that there is no way in hell I have that same trait or habit or whatever. When that happens to me, I have some major angina (pronounced in a decidedly Italian way:  AHH – gi-nah, emphasis on the first syllable).  I keep reliving the situation and it fuels the anger. These battles rage until I remember that in...