When we build every step of our self-fulfillment, we focus on our inner side, while much of what we can learn is outside or in the circle of trust.
An infinity of legends has taught us since antiquity that what we see in others reveals a sacred information about what we are ourselves.
The studies of personal psychology on it are numerous. They say that the exterior acts as a mirror for our minds.
A mirror where we see different qualities, characteristics, and aspects of our own essence, our primitive being reflected.
We talk about situations that we often experience in our daily lives when we observe something that we do not like in others and that we feel a certain rejection, even contempt.
For it is the law of the mirror, which says that, in a certain way, what pleases us in a particular person exists in us.
Why does this happen to us? Today we will share with you the function and origin of this law.
The defect we perceive is therefore outside, and not in ourselves?
The law of the mirror says that our unconscious, aided by the psychological projection that we are making at this time makes us think that the defect we perceive in others exists only “out there out there,” and not in ourselves.
Psychological projection is a defense mechanism by which we attribute to others feelings, thoughts, beliefs or even personal actions unacceptable to us.
The psychological projection begins to begin in difficult experiences that involve emotional conflict or when we feel threatened, both inside and out.
When our mind understands that there is a threat to our physical and emotional integrity, it emits as a rejection outward all these qualities (positive or negative), attributing them to an object or a subject external to ourselves. So, in appearance, we place these threats outside of us.
Projections come as well with negative experiences as with positive emotions.
Our reality is transcribed without a filter to the outside world, then constructing external truth with our own personal characteristics.
A characteristic experience of psychological projection happens when we fall in love and attribute to the loved one characteristics that exist only in us.
We project on our surroundings our own reality
The mirror law is reflected when we affirm “knowing” other people when in fact we are only projecting our own reality on them.
When this situation occurs, we superimpose our projected vision of ourselves on the physical image of that person, sensed by our senses.
Being aware of the fact that we project on others allows us to discover how we are in reality.
Allowing us to be aware of this mental mechanism helps us regain control over what is happening in our home so as to be empowered and work on the aspects that we want to preserve or transform at home.
It is essential to remember that we take for reality everything that happens through our senses but we do not often recognize the part of interpretation or subjectivity that is there.
We live in accordance with this way of perceiving reality, creating negative distortions that provoke evil when we have relationships with people around us, and even with ourselves.
If we want to use this natural resource-projecting-in a healthy and full way to achieve a healthy inner bloom, meditation will help us trace this famous boundary, facilitating a different learning from the way of seeing things.
Always remembering the following premise: “observe says more about the observer than about what one observes”.
