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DO YOU LIKE YOURSELF AND LOVE LIFE?
Welcome to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments, where you’ll find of marvelous & magnificent pieces of knowledge about yourself. My plan is to help you like yourself and recognize your own talents. We all have them and until someone shows us, we often miss seeing them.
Hi, I’m your host Linda Gullo and it appears that I’ll be touching base with you on Friday each week. There are so many things I’d like to share with you. So thanks for joining me again and taking this time to listen to an episode on Reflection!
A reflection is an image turned backwards. If you ever had prints made of a photo and it looked all wrong, it may have been because the negative was backwards. It used to happen more before the days of digital photos. We had a dog by the name of Petey years ago. He had one ear and his opposite eye brown in color. He was really cute and comical in his manner. I remember seeing a picture of him reversed and it made him look frightening to me. A crazy image that caught me off guard. He would stand in front of a mirror and bark at himself.
Reflections
The most common thought that comes to mind about reflections is when we see ourselves in a pool of water. One sees himself or herself in the stillness or the rippling of the water.
One of my first reflections was in murky lake water. Sometimes those reflections are unclear and confusing. I also recall the shadows that are cast along the outside of windows that may seem almost threatening at first. They were of other people not me. We need to see ourselves, good or bad, and accept ourselves with approval. You are unique. I am unique. We need to appreciate our differences and help each other with a spirit of acceptance
Reflections can occur in the glass of a store window. I recall seeing myself as the leader of a group of walkers on a State Street department store window. What a cool image it was. At first I didn’t recognize myself. Not all images are clear or make us think so much, but that one did. I was 18 years old and walking briskly.
I walk fast and probably learned the habit back then to walk with determination and drive. I had motivation and a purpose. I didn’t second guess myself or my reason for being there.
I was moderately dressed with a bounce in my step and feeling the cool breeze coming down Jackson Blvd. It was Fall and refreshing. I can tell you the incident still is vivid in my mind because of what I saw.
Think for a minute about your own image? Pause the podcast if you’d like. Take time to journal on it or take notes. (Pause)
Reflections are valuable. They make us who we are and they enable us to move ahead. They also come from the people who love us the most. Even the smallest child will look to Mom or dad for confirmation. They look to see if they are able to do something. They check to see if they’ll get into trouble turning the dial or pressing the button on the controller.
We are all testing our own reflections. Do we appear to others as we want them to see us? Do we modify the way we dress or the profession we take on? Do we make ourselves more present to our family, our work, or our friends?
The reflections we get from spouses are precious. I recall making a change in a stock portfolio many years ago. I actually bought stock on a recommendation from someone I trusted. I thought about it all day and when I came hoe I told me husband. “I’m not sure I should have invested that money”. He said “don’t worry about it Linda, you make good choices!” This is coming from a man, who has trusted me with his life and medical decisions for years. Thank you honey for all your encouragement!
Wow what a perfect reflection that was for me. He trusted me. He believed in me. He was just what I needed to put the “energy wasting” concerns aside. Those are the reflections we need to receive and the ones we need to give out too.
Just one note as I wrap up today. Being careful to accept healthy reflections is important and to know who is giving them to you. Saying things for the sake of being kind isn’t good. We need to be congruent with who we are and what we are really good about doing.
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