I was pondering the other day just how much the decorations we put up in our homes represent and influence our lives. I was specifically thinking about how mirrors and pictures influence us and how the symbology that our unconscious associates with each and interprets them.
What got me started thinking about this was more of the eye accessing cues that I’ve mentioned before. I was finding that I was spending a lot of time internalising thoughts and deconstructing stuff which is all internal discussion (down to the left in my eye accessing cues diagram). Now I’m sure that most of us have, at one time or another, experienced times when we are far too internally focussed and over-think stuff.
I hit upon the idea of making a conscious effort to spend more time looking up and around. By doing this, it immediately reduced my ability to access the internal dialogue area and increased the time I spent accessing the visual and auditory areas.
I found a complete shift in the way I was thinking!
Suddenly I was externally focused and where I was looking up I found visual memories or fantasies (calm yourselves not those kind of fantasies) popping into my head. Of course initially, I found that my eyes kept wandering downwards as my thoughts turned inwards but as soon as I realised I was looking down (and thinking too much about stuff), I forced myself to look up. It didn’t take long to turn this into an automatic response to look up instead of down (incidentally this has all sorts of additional benefits and I thoroughly recommend that you start looking up more).
What has this to do with mirrors and pictures?
I’ll tell you.
There are two parts to this: Mirrors and pictures, and positioning. I will talk about mirrors and pictures in this post and positioning in the next.
Mirrors and Pictures
It is often said that people with lots of mirrors in their houses have a tendency to be slightly vain or self obsessed.
I’m not sure I agree here as there is a counter argument that people who like to see images of themselves are happy with the way they look and that they are therefore happy in themselves. Of course the images here are present “live” images displayed in a mirror whenever they happen to look in one. For those who like NLP, you could say that they are in rapport with themselves through use of mirroring…
What about people who have a lot of pictures of themselves? Well my thinking on this as an idea, is that this is very similar to having a lot of mirrors around the place: the person gets to walk around and see pictures of themselves. Invariably these pictures are of happy or exciting times that they have experienced in the past.
Can you see where I’m going with this yet?
If a person who lives with a lot of mirrors is happy with the way they are now then is a person with lots of photos of themselves happy with themselves in their past?
My thoughts were this: if a person is feeling depressed because they feel their life isn’t going anywhere and they can’t see themselves having fun/excitement in the future, perhaps if they started placing mirrors around the house, they might start to mirror themselves and find that actually they aren’t so bad after all…
Its just a thought that I had.
So what about positioning?
You’ll just have to wait for the next post! 
Feng Shui enthusiasts believe that by having taller mirrors in your home, which allow you to see more above you, will enable you to achieve more in life. Supposedly your unconscious metaphorical “ceiling” for yourself would be set higher.
JP, You’ve already guessed some of my next post! LOL
[...] is part 2 and while it does kind of stand on its own, it is born from my previous post on memories and mirroring, so I don’t know whether you’ll want to read that first or perhaps decide to read it [...]