What is the accountability mirror?

When you look at yourself in that accountability mirror, what do you see? Are you proud of what you see? What feelings you get when you look there? Don’t just look through the filter of your mind. Use your heart and soul also. Your mind could say something and your heart says something else which is fine.

You might be wondering. But what is the accountability mirror. It is the type of mirror that reflects to you the truth. It tells you whether you utilize your full potential or you hide in the corner. It gives you back an important message of where you stand in life and what you do. Are you ready to take in that message? Most of us forget, ignore or avoid that part. We look into our mirrors, doing our make-up, dressing up and focus on our appearance.

But really look at you, the real you, the honest you and the truthful you. What do you see? If you start crying doing this process, it is ok. It is not easy to find yourself after all this time. Especially with our environmental set-up where the focus is more externally rather than internally.

I think this is a good way if you want to reflect on yourself, your current actions, dreams and inspirations. Don’t ignore that mirror. When you are preparing going to work, use it. When you brush your teeth or wash your face, utilize it. It contains messages you could be missing if you don’t pay attention.

And please don’t take this as judgmental or blame. This is where you open doors to enter the depth of yourself. Many times we cross through situations in life whether in childhood or adulthood. Then we burry those situations. We neglect them. We cover them with layers of ignorance, avoidance, shame and embarrassment. Probably we just don’t want to feel the pain again. So we cover and seal off those parts of ourselves.

But then what? Well those parts unfortunately don’t go away. They remain there. They get triggered when you face relevant life scenarios. And the worst part is they can turn to physical symptoms like disease or illness.

If that is the case, then come together with yourself. You might say: What is this nonsense. This doesn’t make any sense. Am I crazy or what. It could be strange and uncomfortable or even scary at the beginning. But this process of confronting your accountability mirror would tell you facts that probably no one else tells you. Be open to that. It is ok to feel the pain, to cry and go through those difficult suppressed emotions. This is how we heal and set ourselves free.

Finally, if you want to learn more about the mirror work, I recommend Louise Hay’s work and her book: Mirror work. It has got all the information and exercises of how you can practice this daily with compassion, self care and self love.