Have you heard it said that if we want to know ourselves, to look deeply into the mirror? In my two decades of experience with helping people to identify and transform what ails them, I’ve watched the miracle of discovering the unknown dark corners of the mind and spirit.
While experiencing a chronic pain between my shoulder blades, I asked my chiropractor what might have begun the downward spiraling pattern. I told him that I’d been waking up with my arms crossed above my head. “Why?” he asked.
“I don’t know.”
“What if you did know?”
I should never play games of chance that may be affected by the expressions on my pixie-like features. If I’m thinking the thought, the attached emotion is there on my face for all to see. I’d just told him that I didn’t know why I was sleeping on my back in the strange posture. I had never before slept on my back. “I don’t know,” I repeated.
“But . . . what if you did know? If you pretended to know, what would you say was causing this?”
Feeling very silly, I ran the question through my intellicomputer again. “Well,” I speculated, “I don’t ever sleep on my back, and sleeping with my arms above my head, crossed at the wrists, if I was looking at it outside myself . . .”
“Yes?” he prompted.
“Well, it kind of reminds me of the Spanish Inquisition–how they chained people to the wall with their wrists crossed and in shackles.” I shuddered as I answered, thinking of other gruesome tortures inflicted by the Church hierarchies at the height of their power.”
“Is there a situation occuring in your life right now that reminds you of a situation like that–being shackled or tortured–having control taken away from you–rather than making your own choices?”
Presto/ Chango. Yes. I was experiencing more than one condition in which I was being challenged to make peace with, or escape from, situations that were out of my control. “Yes.” Without detail, I explained.
He was right. I did know. The whole time I had been aware of what my body had been trying to tell me. My chiropractor-friend had just shared with me a very powerful tool for facilitating healing.
Now, when I ask a client, “How do you think this happened?” -or- “Why do you think this continues?” -or- “What do you think this is?” they look at me with the same stunned expression I’d given my friend. “I don’t know,” 99.9% of them will say.
And I reply, “But, what if you did know? Just make something up. Pretend that you are your own best friend, viewing YOU from outside. What would they say?”
They think for a few moments; sometimes I prompt them with what symptoms their bodies are displaying. Nearly every time, when they believe that what they’re GUESSING is just a guess, the lightbulb clicks on above their crown chakra.
I watch the realization flood their expression with a sense of wonder.
I have been their mirror, and they mine. Look. Listen to your body, to your spirit.
The answer is always inside you.
You are your mirror. View your image often. Correct what appears to be skewed. Face the fears that are twisting your psyche and creating pain in your body.
Be a mirror. Be a light. Enjoy a healthy, more authentic life. Be yourself fully, and be happier for it.
