The Mirror Principle

Have you ever wondered what you would look like through the eyes of someone else? 

Observing yourself, the energy that you radiate, your unique mannerisms and idiosyncrasies.

Mirrors come close to this. You can observe every feature of yours through the mirror. Your smile. Your nose. The colour of your eyes. Even your aura. Every single imperfection. The mirror does not lie to you. It reflects everything as it is. 

Your mirror self only smiles if you smile. 

You control your mirror self. Whatever you do, your mirror self reflects that. This is synonymous to real life (the mirror being your life). 

Whatever thoughts, emotions and beliefs you have — these are the forces constantly projecting into your reality. 

If you believe you’re not worthy, your life will reflect that belief back to you. You’ll notice rejection, doubt, stagnation. Not because the universe is cruel, but because life is mirroring your identity built through these thoughts, emotions and beliefs. The universe does not know the difference between good and bad. It only knows energy. 

This is the law of attraction at work. You attract everything that you fear and everything that you love depending on the strength of which you believe in them. 

Fixing the mirror does not work. Trying to adjust the reflection does not work. Changing the mirror does not work. The mirror is not the problem. The reflection is not the source. You are.

Just like your mirror self only smiles when you smile, your life only changes when your inner world does  — your identity. 

Become the architect of your reality instead of letting your reality sculpt your identity. 

How do I change my identity?

I’ve already gone over how identity is built in one of my previous posts ‘Why You’re Playing Life on Hard Mode (and How to Fix It) (Part 2)’. 

There are two tools that we need to be able to change our identity. 

Attention & Intention. 

Attention

Attention is your most powerful tool. 

It’s what turns a small harmful thought into a bigger thought that’s powerful enough to create an emotion. That emotion creates actions and certain behaviours. These thoughts, emotions, actions and behaviours become solidified to form beliefs over time. When these become solidified to form beliefs, you begin to trust these as real. Eventually they become your reality and part of your subconscious or half conscious mind.  

Believing is therefore the result of intense concentration of thoughts  — attention. 

Having a problem means simply having your attention fixed on something and being unable to release the fixation of attention. Maybe something happened in your past and you gave it a certain meaning/story. These are essentially thoughts and you focused your attention on them. 

Energy flows where attention goes. 

It’s therefore imperative to be able to train where your attention goes.

It’s the force that controls the size of our thoughts, emotions and beliefs. 

We become what we place our attention on. 

What do you place your attention on the majority of the time? What kind of emotions do they usually create? Is there another thought you can place your attention on to create your desired outcome?

Intention 

Attention is a tool we can use to direct our thoughts and emotions to change our beliefs. Intention is attention tool 2.0. You can only acquire the tool of intention once you’ve mastered attention.

Once you’ve mastered attention and directed your thoughts towards something that you desire, you can now use intention to embody what you place your attention on. 

Intentions can be synonymous to affirmations. 

‘I am capable’

‘I am confident’

‘I am resilient and adaptable’

‘I am worthy’

All these affirmations aim at BEING what we desire to be in this very moment instead of wanting (wanting something means you don’t have it). BEING over wanting. Meaning, living as if you are the confident/capable/resilient.. version of yourself now.

Intention is about becoming the version of yourself that you give attention to. Or living the story that you give attention to.  

Visualisation is a form of intention. 

Conclusion

The mirror doesn’t lie—but it also doesn’t lead. You lead. The mirror simply follows. So if you don’t like what you see in your life, stop trying to fix the mirror. Stop waiting for the reflection to change on its own.

Instead, go within.
Redirect your attention.
Set new intentions.

Because identity is not something you're stuck with. It's something you continuously build—brick by brick, belief by belief.

This is how you shift from reacting to your reflection…
…to creating it.

Your life will always rise (or fall) to meet the story you’re living internally. So ask yourself:

What identity are you reflecting into the world right now?
And is it the one you truly want to live by?

The moment you take ownership of your attention and activate your intention, you reclaim your power to choose. And when you choose consciously, your life—your mirror—will have no choice but to reflect it back.