Preparing to Work with the Mirrors Concepts
To understand the Principles of Existence, you have to gain direct experience of them. This work is not designed to produce another set of beliefs for people to follow. Beliefs are interchangeable and destructible, and this world is filled with beliefs about the purpose of Life. To really know the Truth about the deeper aspects of Existence, belief must be converted into knowledge through one’s own experience. Nothing else will do. The Mirrors Concepts is about helping you to experience Life in a way that will positively and permanently alter your perception of yourself. In the process, you will get a glimpse of the profound nature of Life, and may want to explore further.
In preparing for this work, it will be helpful for you to follow this advice:
1. Read the 'Principles of Existence’, and if you have had no experience of their authenticity, imagine them to be true just for the purpose of this work. In this way, as you perform the tasks in this workbook and you become observant of yourself and alert to the mirror that is your environment, you will naturally enter into direct experience of the nature of reality.
2. Speak the truth to yourself at all times. The beliefs that hurt you have been hidden because on some deep unconscious level you are ashamed of them. When we come face to face with those beliefs, it can be very difficult, and our first instincts are to deny that they belong to us. This is natural, but we must have the courage to own them. That which is not owned will continue to own us, and we cannot release that which refuses to be recognized. By writing these beliefs down, and working through the tasks in a systematic way even if you do not believe something to be true of yourself, you will eventually arrive at a place where you are able to own it. Be brave and dogmatic in your approach. The pain you feel on their discovery cannot match the freedom you feel when you discard these beliefs for good.
3. Be compassionate with yourself. No matter what we discover about ourselves, remember that none of it is real. Your beliefs are not the real you. These beliefs that hurt us are there for reasons we perhaps can no longer remember. Human beings are fearful animals and we operate out of a need for survival. We do terrible things when we are afraid. Hurtful ideas are often survival mechanisms that we once thought would protect us, and yet instead we see that they injure both us and those around us. Observe your beliefs with love for the person who was once afraid, and is now trying to gain freedom. You need to do this work in absolute kindness and respect for yourself if you are to be a loving, happy person.
4. Ask those you trust for input. Sometimes, identifying a negative pattern in ourselves is just too painful, and we convince ourselves that we cannot see it. When this happens, ask for the help of someone close to you that has your best interests at heart. This person must feel safe enough with you to be able to give you evidence that a specific idea is yours to be owned. This must be done with love and compassion, and not in an attitude of vengeance and spite, so choose someone you trust, and who trusts you.
5. Always act on the changes you intend to make IMMEDIATELY. This is important, since it is the transformation that will make the difference in your life, not the observation. Many people doing this work find it difficult to change even when they see the damage their ideas are doing, and so their experiences remain the same and the pain in their world persists.
In preparing for this work, it will be helpful for you to follow this advice:
1. Read the 'Principles of Existence’, and if you have had no experience of their authenticity, imagine them to be true just for the purpose of this work. In this way, as you perform the tasks in this workbook and you become observant of yourself and alert to the mirror that is your environment, you will naturally enter into direct experience of the nature of reality.
2. Speak the truth to yourself at all times. The beliefs that hurt you have been hidden because on some deep unconscious level you are ashamed of them. When we come face to face with those beliefs, it can be very difficult, and our first instincts are to deny that they belong to us. This is natural, but we must have the courage to own them. That which is not owned will continue to own us, and we cannot release that which refuses to be recognized. By writing these beliefs down, and working through the tasks in a systematic way even if you do not believe something to be true of yourself, you will eventually arrive at a place where you are able to own it. Be brave and dogmatic in your approach. The pain you feel on their discovery cannot match the freedom you feel when you discard these beliefs for good.
3. Be compassionate with yourself. No matter what we discover about ourselves, remember that none of it is real. Your beliefs are not the real you. These beliefs that hurt us are there for reasons we perhaps can no longer remember. Human beings are fearful animals and we operate out of a need for survival. We do terrible things when we are afraid. Hurtful ideas are often survival mechanisms that we once thought would protect us, and yet instead we see that they injure both us and those around us. Observe your beliefs with love for the person who was once afraid, and is now trying to gain freedom. You need to do this work in absolute kindness and respect for yourself if you are to be a loving, happy person.
4. Ask those you trust for input. Sometimes, identifying a negative pattern in ourselves is just too painful, and we convince ourselves that we cannot see it. When this happens, ask for the help of someone close to you that has your best interests at heart. This person must feel safe enough with you to be able to give you evidence that a specific idea is yours to be owned. This must be done with love and compassion, and not in an attitude of vengeance and spite, so choose someone you trust, and who trusts you.
5. Always act on the changes you intend to make IMMEDIATELY. This is important, since it is the transformation that will make the difference in your life, not the observation. Many people doing this work find it difficult to change even when they see the damage their ideas are doing, and so their experiences remain the same and the pain in their world persists.