When it comes to building every step of our personal growth, we focus excessively on the interior, when a lot of what we could learn is really out or in our environment, when we trust. Several legends and myths have taught us since ancient times that we see in others reveals sacred information about ourselves: it is like a mirror.
There are many studies on personal psychology that claim that the outside acts as a mirror in our mind, a mirror in which we see reflected different qualities, characteristics and personal aspects of our own essence, of our most primitive being.
- We talk about situations that often happen in our day to day when we observe something that we don’t like in others and we feel some disgust.
- A discontent.
- Well.
- We are in front of the law of the mirror.
- Which states that one way or another.
- That aspect that disgusts us in a certain person also exists in us Why is it so?We will explain below and detail its function and the origin of this law.
The law of the mirror establishes that our unconscious, aided by the psychological projection that we carry out at that moment, makes us think that the defect or aversion that we perceive in others exists only “there”, not in ourselves. Psychological projection is a defense mechanism because we attribute our feelings, thoughts, beliefs or even actions that are unacceptable to us to others.
Psychological projection begins to act on experiences that bring us a kind of emotional conflict, or at times when we feel threatened, both internally and externally, when our mind understands that there is a threat to our physical and emotional integrity, sends a sign of rejection outward, projecting these characteristics and attributing them to an external object or subject other than ourselves , so, apparently, we took the threat out of ourselves.
Projections occur with both negative and positive experiences, our reality is extinguished without filter in the outside world, building the truth with our own personal characteristics A typical psychological projection experience occurs when we fall in love and attribute to the loved one certain characteristics that really exist only in ourselves.
The law of the mirror is reflected when we claim to know others very well and, in fact, what we do is project upon them our own reality, when this happens, we place our projected vision of ourselves on the physical image of the other person. captured by our senses.
Being aware of what we project in others allows us to discover how we really are, when we acquire knowledge of this mental mechanism, it is easy to regain control of what is happening in us so that we can use it and work on the aspects that interest us. are present in us but that we do not want to maintain, or that we want to transform in one way or another.
It is essential to remember that everything that comes to us through our senses has already been taken for granted, without acknowledging that interpretation occurs frequently and that our subjectivity influences perception, we live according to this way of perceiving reality, believing in negative distortions or causing Us uncomfortable when it comes to referring to the people around us , including ourselves.
If we want to use this natural resource of psyche by projecting it in a healthy and complete way to achieve healthy inner growth, meditation will help us draw that limit, making it easier to learn to see things as they really are. Always remember the principle that “observation says more about the observer than about what is observed. “