The Mirror You Have Not Yet Looked Into

Most of the work in the first two weeks looked outward. The new job. The new home. The new lover. The healed body. The repaired relationship. The Law, applied to the things you want the world to give you.

Today the work turns inward. Neville said it more than once and most students missed it: change your concept of yourself, and your world cannot help but rearrange.

Your self-concept is the sum of every quiet sentence you have ever said about yourself when no one was watching. I am the kind of person who. I am not the kind of person who. I always. I never. Each of these sentences is a brick. The wall they make is the self you live behind.

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You do not need a new life. You need a new concept of yourself. The new life is the long shadow that follows once the new self is in place.

Today, walk through that wall and find out what is on the other side. Ask: who would I have to be, in private, for the life I am imagining to be a natural fit? Not what would I have to do. Who would I have to be?

Then, for ten minutes, be that person. Not in performance. In private. The way they sit. The way they breathe. The way they think about money, love, time, themselves. The way they walk into a room.

The new life cannot be poured into the old self. The vessel has to change. Today the vessel begins to change. With Love,

Dr. Athena ❤️