The Magic Mirror

Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all?.We are all familiar with the scenes from Snow White when the Queen would ask the magic mirror that infamous question and the mirror would retort Thou, O Queen, art the fairest in the land.

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If you are honest what is it that you think when you look in the mirror. Do you feel pure unconditional love for yourself or do you pick yourself apart, singling out what you don’t like about yourself?

What if I told you that we should all be using our mirrors as magic mirrors as a tool for self-love but instead of asking the mirror who was the fairest in the land we would be taking the power into our own hands and telling that girl in the mirror that we love her.

Self-love is so important. If you don’t love yourself how do you think you can possibly love anyone else. It’s almost impossible and as they say love makes the world go around so it’s your responsibility to those you love to learn to love yourself first.

We are all born with the utmost of love for ourselves. Have you ever seen a baby look in the mirror and grimace when they see their reflection? Nope you haven’t. That’s because we are all born with the grace and innocence to love ourselves and life itself. Over time we get conditioned to pick ourselves apart, measure ourselves against others and slowly start to lose that love.

I want you to ask yourself a serious question. Does it serve you to not like yourself? Does it make your life or anyone else’s live better? I am going to take an educated guess that the answer to that question is no, so, why do it?

This exercise is fabulous at getting you back to your natural state of loving yourself and its super easy all you need it a mirror and yourself.

Tomorrow morning when you wake up go to the mirror and really look yourself in the eye and sincerely tell yourself ‘I love you, I really love you’. You might feel silly at first, actually I don’t know many people who don’t feel silly the first time they do it but fake it until you make it.

Every time you see yourself in the mirror tell yourself that you love yourself, bombard yourself with love. Pick out the things you love and tell yourself what they are. If you find your mind wandering back to the negative things you see try your hardest to put those things out of your mind and really reinforce that love.

Over time I promise it will become second nature and you will genuinely start to really love yourself.

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Look guys I will be completely honest. Loving yourself is so important. I cannot stress it enough. A little bit of my soul dies every time I overhear girls tearing themselves apart and I really want you guys to know that you are perfect the way you are. You deserve to love yourself and be loved by others. If you take nothing else from this article please believe that.

If you want to grow your self- love muscles try out this little magic experiment. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Aisling

xoxo

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