LEAVE THE MIRROR

Leave the mirror and change your face.

A lot of people apparently think that they can keep doing the same things and get different, better results.

This is kind of what we call a nothing-ventured-big-expected-gains belief that has many corollaries, but it's just the one we have chosen to make our point.

Mirrors are often used to see into the future. But just as often they are reflections of the past. Think aging here.

In medicine there's something called sub-clinical disease. That means the disease is there, in many cases, long before the symptoms or signs show up. It's just another way of letting one know, contrary to what many believe, that signs are not leading but following indicators.

Most of us have had the experience of driving down the street, seeing a sign or building and asking: "When did they put that up?" only to be told, "It's been there for years. You must've not been looking."

In the musical. "Fiddler on the Roof," there is a line in a song about children growing up and leaving: "I don't remember getting older. When did they?"

When you decide to leave the mirror you are burying the dead, the past with all of it slights and slings and arrows. Changing your face is a metaphor for changing your consciousness, changing your thinking and how you see things.

It's a growing up, growing out of the past and those self-imposed limitations we all erect around our lives. It's a doorway to stop blaming circumstances and others for our less-than happy life.

If you change your consciousness your external experiences have to change. As within, so without.

Don't just try it. Become it.