As a child one of my favorite attractions at the local London fair was the Hall of Mirrors. As I ran through the exhibit I never tired of seeing the fantastical shapes and images reflected back to me. In one mirror my squiggly thin legs and wobbly body supported a huge misshapen head. In another a bug-like elongated face housed beady eyes and a pencil-thin mouth. Still in another my hula hooped, flat feet were planted squarely on the floor while my accordion body careened off sideways at a weird angle.
How the image of that little boy was reflected differed only on the size and shape of the mirror. Some likenesses were funny, some distorted and warped. A few were really scary. Yet the origin of each was always me. Little did I know that such a fun attraction would itself morph into a powerful metaphor for life.
Saints and sages knew that the world was a vibrational reflection of them and that their inner state of being was mirrored back in all people, places and situations. Life still happened and they were still triggered. However the level of reactivity to life dissipated.
Life is a Journey of Completion
In any moment, one of two things is happening. Either the wholeness of who you are is being reflected back to you or those aspects of you that are unresolved are being triggered. Your husband, boss, children, the news, the traffic jam, the deadlines at work – each with its traits, charms, flaws or challenges – are serving to stir up those things that are vibrationally still unresolved within you.
When someone or something upsets you know that you are being given an opportunity to come into greater harmony within yourself. Let’s say your husband refuses to wash the dinner dishes and, once again, his lack of perceived teamwork upsets you. What’s going down is a precious opportunity to embrace an old wound that still exists within your being. Your unexperienced emotional charge has you create a story to justify your blaming him. The fact is he didn’t wash the dishes. That’s all that happened. As long as you remain impacted by the behavior of your husband – or anyone else, you remain a victim in your own reality.
Breathe with Conscious Awareness
Instead of judging the messenger, stop, slow down, and take a breath. Allow the emotion to arise. Feel it. Continue to breathe and remain consciously focused on you. The more you embrace your experiences, the faster the illusion of separation begins to dissolve.
Life will Still Continue to Happen
Things will still go down. People will continue to push your buttons. Regardless of how evolved you become, you will still feel everything there is to feel in life. However, instead of holding someone else responsible and accountable for your feelings, you’ll be empowered to navigate what’s unfolding within with grace and ease.
End the game of projection, reflection and judgment and begin seeing, experiencing and embracing yourself in all things. Mirror, mirror on the wall… you’re still the fairest of them all – because there is only you!
Let this truth set you free.
Panache Desai is an inspirational visionary and contemporary spiritual master whose gift of vibrational transformation has inspired and shifted the lives of tens of thousands. He shares eternal truths, inspirational insights, and vibrational tools to create the life of your dreams. Panache is a modern-day avatar who acts as a direct link to Divine consciousness empowering people of all ages, economic and educational backgrounds to transform their lives by connecting them with their limitless Divine nature. Young, hip and funny, Panache brings his global community together weekly via LIVE webcasting. http://www.panachedesai.com/
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading Panache’s reflections about “Why are you Upset.” It’s delightful to have my own belief and feelings regarding the subject affirmed and reflected so eloquently.
What to do after ’embracing’ the emotion – the irritation or frustration or anger – if it is still with you or keeps resurfacing later? Just keep
pausing with palms up and deep breathing?
One of the greatest blessings of being human is feeling and yet that is often the one thing that we resist in life the most. The more you are open to feeling your emotions as they arise within you, the more you will begin to notice a greater spaciousness around experiencing them. It’s not that your emotional content goes away. But more accurately the intensity of experience diminishes and can even become blissful. When you are triggered rest in the awareness of your breath, fully feel whatever is arising within you and feel it through to completion. Life is a never ending journey of integration. Smooth sailing my friends <3
I am so grateful for reading this yesterday. I was feeling very upset about an issue, the intensity was so strong in my body I was shaking. I started to ask the universe and all the divine for help and I came across this article. Talk about divine intervention 🙂 the breathing was so helpful and just honoring these emotions, letting them come up to surface without judging myself was very calming.
With gratitude to you Panache Dasi
I enjoyed this article but I must say that i wish ppl would not use small things as an example. What aboout finding out your husband bankrupted you unbenounced to you as a friend of mine experienced. Something major as I find many, many women(almost epidemic) are experiencing major stuff in their life now.