What does "life is a reflection" mean?

In spiritual conversations, someone often says, "Life is a reflection." I've also heard a lot of talk about other people and one's experiences being a reflection of one's vibration.

But what does that mean?

Does that mean you attract others with specific issues because they're yours?

Does it mean the negative ideas live in you when you see something negative?

Does it mean that all the bad things you see and experience are happening inside you, and you're reflecting them?

To have a meaningful conversation, I always start at what I consider the "beginning." The above conversation won't make sense unless we are on the same page.

1. You are an eternal being. You exist. You can never not exist. To exist is a quality you possess. By definition, you cannot—not exist. Nonexistence is already full of everything that doesn't exist, which you are not a part of now or ever.
2. You are, first and foremost, a love-based, connected to Source energy, NONPHYSICAL being. This is the part of you that is eternal. Think of yourself as a cloud-like substance, vibrations, or energy. In whatever way you can make sense of the concept of Nonphysical, go with it.
3. The Nonphysical you decided to create in real-time the physical experience you are having now—INSIDE your overall consciousness. [Nothing is happening outside the parameters of your consciousness.] Why would you do such a thing "to yourself" with all the ups and downs of being human? To know yourself from a new POV (point of view). This unique physical reality POV could not have been created any other way. The human experience is incredibly unique and special. Being able to create the experience of separation from All-That-Is makes this reality so intoxicating. You can never truly be separate from Source energy, but you can create the experience of being separate. 
4. There is not one reality (one Earth); there are infinite. Your Earthly experience looks quite different than everyone else's!
5. You "piece together" the idea of one Earth from the infinite choices.
6. You create the experience of time (one Earth) by collating reality "frames" one by one into a consistent experience from the infinite choices. This "movie making" creates a story structure for yourself, and you get to experience the idea of a timeline. Feeling as if you are "traveling along" one consistent timeline is one of the rules of this reality. Feelings create the sense of being "grounded" in this reality. If something feels real, it creates the experience of realness.
7. There is not one timeline you must travel from start to finish. You are not "moving along" one fixed timeline with fixed events you're destined to experience. Instead, you "stand" at the center of your experience and perceive individual moments of now at such a fast rate that it looks like you've created a consistent timeline called a consecutive "start to finish" life experience.
8. There are upwards of nine billion collated frames in each second, creating the sense of consistency you rely on to create a feeling of continuity. You decide what frame to put before this one and after that one according to the themes you decided were exciting to experience in physical reality. There are infinite frames (moments of now) to choose from.
9. A theme is a general idea (similar to an umbrella concept) you decided to experience, such as martyrdom, freedom, genuine connection, or victimhood. HOW you experience that theme is up to you. Think of a life theme as a hallway. You'll walk down this hallway no matter what, but how you walk down it is up to you. You can run, crawl, or skip. You can yell, whisper, or sing. You can open all the doors and windows or keep them all shut. It's up to you.

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Now that you understand you're an eternal, love-based being here to experience variety, let's talk about the idea of life being a reflection.

As a Nonphysical, energy being, you perceive energy that is not yours. Humans rely on the physical interpretative senses of sight, sound, touch, hearing, and smell. Other ways are intuition and "telempathy." Telempathy is a combination of telepathy and empathic skillsets. 

You can perceive the energy of others, such as people, animals, plants, faeries, transitioned loved ones, angels, soul teams, and multidimensional and extraterritorial beings—to mention a few.

"Perception" means your interpretation of their energy in ways that are meaningful to you, incorporating them into your experience or not. HOW you interpret another being's energy is based on your active beliefs, experiences, and the soul themes you decided to explore in this reality.

Let's pause for a minute to examine The Law of Attraction. LOA confuses a lot of people. It is explained in many different ways. The most common misconception is from the word attraction. It gives the impression that something is always coming toward you ("at" vs. "through" you) from somewhere else via magnetization.

If you think the LOA is a means to interpret what is inside you and that something outside of you is gravitating toward you, you often come to inaccurate conclusions about yourself and the world.

Examples:

• If I "attract" financial stress, it must be because of my "low" vibration.
• If I "attract" a negative relationship, it's because I'm holding a negative vibration.
• If I "attract" a health issue, it's because of my fear of getting sick.

This is a misunderstanding. The Law of Attraction doesn't hold value in and of itself. It doesn't reflect innate value judgments of positivity (good) or negativity (bad). Also, it is not always an overt one-to-one "reflection" of a lesson you must learn or held vibration.

Remember, nothing is happening outside of yourself. Everything you experience is happening inside the confines of your overall consciousness. There is no place outside of you, geographically speaking.

Think of it this way.

How many situations do you see happening globally that have nothing to do with you—personally? How many wars do you see in broadcasts that do not involve you? How many arguments do you witness other people having on social media that don't involve you? 

Do you attribute these awarenesses to LOA? Or do you understand you can be a neutral observer?

How many abundances do you witness that you don't experience yourself? How many "advantages" exist in the world at large are you aware of but are not "inside" your life experience?

Do you say that your lack is due to LOA? Or do you understand the variation in perceptive power you can access at any moment?

Not all experiences are an "attraction" or a "reflection" of your vibration. Some are, and some aren't. Develop discernment to determine the difference. 

We are at a critical time in the development of the human psyche. We can see so much of what's happening around us due to our technical achievements without being part of that experience. We have developed reality this way to understand better that we can observe the energy of people and circumstances without feeling as if they are being "attracted" or directly reflecting our current energy/vibration. We are re-engaging our true sense of spiritual liberty.

Imagine operating with plexiglass between you and the rest of the world. Plexiglass is a durable, transparent acrylic plastic often used as a glass substitute. You can see what's happening around you, but it doesn't impact you. You can decide what meaning to give the situation based on your active beliefs and life themes.

Just because you can see a war a continent away does not mean you have a global war vibration inside you. What does being aware of the situation bring up for you?

If financial or relationship stress is being "reflected" in your experience by and for yourself, you get to decide if it is a positive, negative, or neutral experience. It is not the experience that holds the value, but you who brings it forth from within. What would you need to believe is true about yourself in regard to this situation to feel the way you do?

If you witness an experience outside of you and understand it's not something directly impacting or "explaining" your experience (plexiglass), you can decide its relevance and what you'll do with that information.

Beings create experiences because the act of creation is an essential aspect of All-That-Is. You witness these beings and their creations to the degree it is relevant for you to see and always get to decide HOW you perceive them and their meaning in your life.

Nothing in life has innate meaning. YOU decide a situation's meaning. Everything in this reality has a positive, negative, or neutral value because everything exists simultaneously. All value judgments exist simultaneously and can be applied to any situation.

Imagine you get into a car accident. This is a positive experience because the insurance money allows you to buy a better car. It's a negative experience for the other person because their insurance rates go up, and they must drive a loaner while their new car is repaired. It's a neutral experience for the insurance company; it's the nature of the work.

Reflections are your interpretations of experiences. They do not hold specific meanings. You get to decide if something is positive, negative, or neutral based on your active beliefs and experiences.

I often say that my kids have three different mothers. I can say one thing that gets interpreted differently depending on the child, their personality, active beliefs, and life themes. I am not presenting myself differently to each child. Instead, each child can interpret me and what I said based on their experience.

A reflection is not a static perception. It is not a single interpretation.

It is a dynamic interpretation based on the creator's needs. Whatever the reflection is, including its meaning, is being created in each moment of now to know yourself better. The [situationally specific] reflection changes when you become aware of something new about yourself, such as when a limiting belief is no longer necessary.

So, you see, the idea that Life's a reflection is not as simple as once thought. 

Reflection is a complex, individualized idea based on the person's perception, beliefs, and life themes. Feel free to question the reflection you see occurring in your life.

You might ask:

• Is this situation something for me to observe "from afar"?
• Is this event relevant to me so I can examine my limited beliefs?
• Does this situation mean something different to me than the others involved?
• Why do I see the "reflections" I do—meaning, what active beliefs color my interpretation?
• How do my experiences influence my interpretation of this momentary "reflection?"

Examining my definition of a word, idea, or concept, such as reflection, provides great clarity about what's occurring in my life. Once I understood that nothing happens outside my overall consciousness and that perception is specific to me based on my beliefs and life themes, I felt a freedom that only comes from understanding true spiritual sovereignty.

Nothing is happening to me; it's all "occurring" through my perception and active beliefs. I am building this story one frame at a time. I can change my interpretation of a memory, idea, or experience at any point. I am free to create as I wish; it all serves me: positive, negative, and neutral, creating the dynamic interpretation of a lifetime.

I am a Source-connected, love-based Nonphysical consciousness. I'm creating the perception of separateness to know myself in a way that would have been impossible otherwise. Understanding what and how I perceive my reality is the control I thought existed outside myself for the first 50 years.

Knowing that I'm choosing the "frames" to "collate," creating the movie of my Earthly existence allows me the creative control I previously ascribed to ideas such as the Law of Attraction.

You don't have to live believing that life is outside your control, waiting for the reflection to "tell it like it is."

A reflection does not contain built-in meaning. The meaning depends on how you perceive the situation and what is relevant for you to get out of the interaction with the situation or information. 

A reflection (energy interpretation) might reveal your current vibration or allow you to use your awareness of interpretative choice: positive, negative, or neutral.

So many choices!

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