The Power Within

Never underestimate the spell your words can cast!

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Often, we underestimate our own innate intelligence, intuition and knowledge. Human beings are much more complicated than we give ourselves credit for. There are layers to our psyche which are yet to be uncovered and explored.

Anyone who claims to be a psychic isn’t wrong, but then we are all psychics to a certain extent.

Some of us might choose to develop that inner voice by validating it and following it, while the rest may choose to remain oblivious of this inner knowing being which resides in all of us. The latter think that some people are lucky or that they are born with it.

When I was a little girl, I was the middle sister, strategically placed between two girls who were far prettier than me. I was dark, and when compared to my sisters, downright ugly. Body positivity, self-love are all new age concepts. I was born in that dark era when people didn’t hesitate to point out within seconds of seeing me how dark or ‘different’ I was, in comparison with my sisters. It didn’t matter how bright I was for my age, how agile, an all-rounder of sorts. Most days, I hated all those insensitive people and on other days I turned that anger and hatred towards myself.

But then, I don’t know what shifted inside me. I decided that I was beautiful, and I began telling that to my image in the mirror every single day. I had never heard of law of attraction or any of its techniques I just felt that if God chose to make me like that then I should just deal with it and if I had to live with it...

I might as well accept myself just the way I was!

I don’t know for how many weeks I stuck to this practice of looking at myself into the mirror and telling myself how beautiful I was, how fair, with beautiful eyes and sharp features. Few might cringe at my desire to be fair but please remember I was just a child and there was a lot of premia placed on fair complexion. In India, it still matters a lot to a lot of people.

Nevertheless, coming back to my practice, I was amazed to discover that people ‘s perception of me began to change. They started calling me pretty. I began getting compliments, just as my sisters did. I blossomed into a beauty overnight – it seemed! All that I was grateful for was that I began to be accepted by the people around me as one of the beautiful sisters, not the ugly duckling amongst the pack!

We have a name for this technique now – The Mirror Technique.

When I look back, I wonder how I knew that technique when I had no exposure to anything even remotely connected to it. Now, I think it could have been my inner being who decided to take charge on witnessing my anguish.

So, the takeaway from this little anecdote is to let your inner being take charge sometimes and do as it asks of you without questioning it minutely. If it feels right, it might be just the thing for you!

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