Mirror neurons: Easy, practical science for a badass life.
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when a person acts
and when a person observes that same action performed by another person.
It’s like when someone yawns and that makes you yawn.
Or like when you realize you and the person you are talking to both have your hand on your hip and are taking a sip of your drinks.
Mirroring.
This has all sorts of implications.
If what we see is what we project, we can consciously create what we project to others by who we hang out with.
Who do you want to see reflected in your mirror?
Who has the kind of relationships you want to have?
Who handles their money in a way you want to graciously use your abundance?
Who moves through life like the kind of badass you want to be (or not be)?
Mirroring is unconscious. But you can utilize it consciously.
Who do you want to mirror?
The brilliant minds of the poets/artists at Flying Edna make my brain hurt a little in the best possible way.
Their thoughts on change:
“change takes time, I said
& she laughed.
time takes time, she said.
change only takes changing.
but, she added, it can take time
to get the hang of that.”
Change can happen in an instant.
Change only takes changing.
It’s my brain that is making change hard.
You can tell what someone values by where they spend their money.
If they value family and they take the family to the beach every year, that makes sense.
If they value personal freedom and spend the money to add a home office to their house, that aligns with their values.
It’s when your spending and your values don’t align that life feels crappy.
When you follow society’s rules instead of your own heart, that results in inner discord.
When society says you need a certain size house, but you like small and cozy, a big house feels like an albatross.
When society says you should eat brunch out with your friends every week to be social, but you would rather spend your money on day trips to festivals, you start resenting your eggs benedict.
Even when the folks in your neighborhood ask you to donate to send relief to the folks who are flooded out of their homes in Appalachia, if you value something more, that is not spending in correlation with your values.
You are in harmony when you spend your values.
Even when other people have different values.
You are not a bad person by not giving all your money away.
And you are not a good person if you give everything you own to charity.
There aren’t right values and wrong values.
There are YOUR values.
Synchronizing what you value and what you spend is the path to financial peace and happiness.