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...