Mirror Meditation for Self-Reflection and Seeing Your True Self with Tara Well • X91
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- The dangers of identifying too closely with our reflections.
- How to transform your relationship with mirrors.
- 5 basic steps to start a daily mirror meditation.
Most people know their flaws so well they practically identify with them. And many people can’t even stand to look in the mirror because the feelings of shame or repulsion are so intense.
The good news is, with awareness and intention, you can use the same mirror to reverse these patterns. The mirror can be a powerful tool for self reflection and for finding the you underneath the persona you’ve built up over the years.
We just have to consciously practice with it. And that’s what we’re learning today.
Our guest is Tara Well. She is an associate professor of psychology at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York, NY, where she developed a mirror-based meditation called “a revelation,” in the New York Times. Her new book: Mirror Meditation: The Power of Neuroscience and Self-Reflection to Overcome Self-Criticism, Gain Confidence, and See Yourself with Compassion was just released.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love Premium, episode |
| 0:02.0 | episode is all about mirror meditations for self-reflection and seeing your true self. |
| 0:09.0 | Whatever we're feeling inside, oftentimes, it gets externalized in the mirror so the mirror |
| 0:14.9 | creates a way for us to see sort of what we're feeling and actually how our |
| 0:18.8 | thoughts are affecting us because we can see how they change on our face. So this is why we love face-to-face contact |
| 0:25.6 | when we're in an intimate relationship with another person because what we do |
| 0:30.5 | is we we marry each other. We like to mirror each other's facial expressions and body |
| 0:35.2 | movements we can even get our breathing in synchrony with a person that we're really |
| 0:40.3 | feeling close to and having an intimate conversation with. And it's really that face-to-face |
| 0:46.3 | contact that helps us know ourselves grounded in ourselves and also the |
| 0:53.0 | with other people from face-to-face contact, |
| 0:55.0 | but there's also the concept of creating more intimacy |
| 0:58.0 | with yourself. |
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| 1:24.0 | When you look in the mirror what do you see? |
| 1:28.0 | Do you see your whole self beautiful and perfect as you are? |
| 1:32.0 | Do you see your essence shining beyond the |
| 1:35.4 | barriers of your skin? Do you see your soul shining through your own eyes? Or do you hone in on your flaws? The slight bump on your nose that you've |
| 1:46.1 | hated since you were 12? Or the roll of skin that extends beyond the waste of your |
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