When you look into your bathroom mirror, what do you see? Are your eyes drawn to a flaw? Do you check the depth of your wrinkles, see the flabbiness of your muscles, the little zit on your cheek, the imperfection of a tooth? That your hair is sticking up or that more of it is missing?
Then notice that you have a mirror, hanging on a solid, decorated wall, and light to see by that illuminates at the flick of a switch, and a room to stand in, with a floor under your feet and a roof over your head.
Let yourself appreciate all the behind-the-scenes magic that allows you to enjoy the abundance in this one small room. Think of all the ideas, energy and effort behind the design, the research, testing, fabrication, packaging, marketing, and transport of each item it contains. You are living in the midst of the miraculous, right there in front of your bathroom mirror. All it took was a shift of perception to see it. And the one who is doing the seeing is a miracle, too?a miracle of sensory awareness, thought, emotion, cells and systems, movement, growth, and choice.
Sometimes the flaws require our attention. Sometimes they lead us to inventing or applying new ideas that address a genuine need. It?s when they hypnotize us into believing they are the center of our universe and that everything else revolves around them that they become stumbling blocks.
Remember the miracles the next time you look into your bathroommirror. Carry that awareness with you into the remainder of your day, and you will find it opening all kinds of beneficial new perspectives. Remember that you can always choose to see a broader, deeper, more wondrous context?one in which the ultimate miracle is your ability to choose what you will see.
