Day 342 - Mirror Mirror on the Wall

How often do you look at yourself at a mirror for a longer time? How often do you look at yourself in the mirror not to see how your clothes fit or how your necklace look, or to put your make up on or to fix your hair. Do we ever look at ourselves at the mirror to see us - not the things on us. Pilates has brought a big revelation for me.  I have never been “forced” to looked at myself - my whole body and self - for a longer period of time… I am looking and cannot recognize the person I am seeing. How did I not see the pound by pound get on me? I am not judging myself, on the opposite… it has brought kindness and wonderment. I wonder, if I had slowed down and taken the time over the years to be kind to myself and look at me in the mirror and even talk to the person in that mirror… where would I be today, how would I look, how would I be feeling? I really really saw myself today. And I realized that I had not seen me in years, if ever. Hello, beautiful! Great to meet you! It felt as thought I met a whole new person. I hear myself, I see myself in the manner in which I walk by things and places… but I had never really meet ME.