THE MIRROR-A GREAT RECOVERY TOOL

THE MIRROR- A GREAT TOOL
One of the tools all my clients own, and learn to use during sessions, is the mirror. It may be a great tool for you, it certainly is for me!

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
--Carl Jung

In our worst time, we have been irritable and difficult to live with. And when we feel most irritable, we are least likely to look at ourselves. Now in recovery, when someone irritates us, it is very useful to ask ourselves why we are so annoyed. We often find that the very thing that irritates us about someone else is the very quality in ourselves that we don't want to face.

When someone's whining bugs us, maybe it is our own capacity for whining that we reject. When someone's self-absorption gets under our skin, maybe we are sensitive about our own self-centeredness. Sometimes we find it easier to complain about a quality in others than to admit we are like that too.
Want some real answers to life's challenges and to questions you ask yourself about what you are feeling? Go to your mirror. You may well see the answers to the question why or what is it.

When I started the process of life recovery, the mirror was not my friend. I did not like the person I saw nor want to hear the answers.
Today, I am comfortable with that image I see! (www.hopeserenity.ca home of Coached To Success)
Work at it. One day when you ask “Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose as solid as them all?” you might just like the answer!