What Do You See in the Mirror?

I recently watched the Sorcerers Stone and was reminded of all the impressive psychic tools J.K. Rowling employs in her Harry Potter books. In this first story, Harry wanders into a secret room at the Hogwarts School of Magic and finds the beautiful “Mirror of Erised” (Desire spelled backward).

When you peer into it, it magically shows your reflection enjoying your heart’s deepest desire. Harry sees himself standing with his deceased parents and feeling truly loved and accepted. It is so real to him that he reaches for them and speaks with them. They seem to hear him and smile lovingly back at him. His friend Ron sees himself as the class president of Hogwarts, powerful and important. The images in the mirror are so real that many people get mesmerized and cannot pull themselves away from it. They fall in love with this image of their greatest selves.

The head wizard, Dumbledore, explains to Harry that a happy man will stare into the mirror and only see himself as if it is an ordinary mirror. He is seeing himself just as he is. How would this mirror of Erised work for you? What would you see in this mirror?

The concept of this mirror can be used as a clairvoyant tool for manifestation.
In order to manifest what you want such as love, abundance, or success, you must become the person demonstrating the qualities who can receive those things. For example, to manifest love, you must display qualities that allow you to receive love, such as openness, acceptance, and receptivity.

Your imaginative part of the brain is the frontal lobe.
To use this magical mirror, you must use your imagination. Your ability to imagine something beyond the external reality activates a part of your brain called the frontal lobe, which also contains the ability to change your thoughts. The frontal lobe in the center of the forehead corresponds to your sixth chakra or clairvoyant ability. Your changed thoughts create a new attitude, which then changes your way of being in the world.

When activated, the frontal lobe enhances your ability to:
• make dreams, goals, and intent more real than external circumstances.
• concentrate and exclude your surroundings.
• stay present with self and internal thoughts.
It is activated when you visualize and ask new questions. With conscious use of the frontal lobe or sixth chakra, your brain creates new neural networks and a whole new you!


Mental Rehearsing – a technique for manifestation.
Joe Dispenza in his book Evolve Your Brain refers to this conscious rewiring of the brain using visualization and questions as Mental Rehearsing. Your thoughts will naturally go to creating a vision of you that is totally different. This will ultimately create new neural connections in the brain. You will notice that the task of speculation blocks out all other thoughts as your brain uses its imagination to seek new answers.

Steps to Begin:
1. Find a comfortable chair in a quiet place and close your eyes.
2. See your own beautiful Mirror of Erised.
3. In the mirror, see your most ideal vision of yourself smiling back at you.
4. While staring into the mirror, ask yourself the following based on what you desire.

• What if I was…, what would I look like?
• What would my life look like if…?
• Who do I know that exemplifies these qualities? What do they look like?
• What situations in my life did I experience this feeling before? What did I look like then?
• What do I already know about or have just learned that I can apply in the next moment?

5. Continue asking questions and revising this vision of yourself. See yourself talking with people, acting in the world, and encountering your day.
6. Stand up when you feel you are that version of yourself in the mirror.


Become mesmerized with the Mirror of Erised
You can consult the mirror of Erised in the morning to envision and charge your day. Then throughout the day, as situations arise that cause you to be less than your ideal self, you can see yourself in the “mirror” as often as needed. For example, before and after a difficult phone call, see the mirror with your reflection of your ideal self involved in the conversation. It is important in this technique to fall in love with looking at this vision of your ideal self. Be tempted to look into it frequently. Practice a full 30 minutes to one hour each day.


You become an observer of your life.
Using this technique often will allow you to take charge of your imagination to develop new thoughts, new attitudes and then a different way of being in the world. “If the mind and body are aligned, we have the force of the Universe behind us. … When we use mental rehearsal on a regular basis, we become someone else to the point that when we finish, we are a new person with new thoughts and mannerisms.” Joe Dispenza

Like Harry Potter, you can stare into your own magical Mirror of Erised. You can fall in love with this new image and see it whenever you can. Love becomes the only emotion associated with this vision of self. Use this mirror technique to break free of survival and reactivity-based thinking and move into a proactive, playful life. Eventually, you will be like the happy man who sees only himself in the magical mirror. -- Tori Quisling