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Everything is your mirror Featured

We have so much access every day to seeing other people and how they look to us. We know the facial expressions and gestures of our loved ones, colleagues and friends so well that we can imitate how they move and the way they look at us- with great accuracy in our minds. The funny thing is- we don’t have a way of actually seeing how we look to the other, in quite the same way as we are seen!
Yes, we have mirrors, pictures and videos which capture some moments of us in real time- but we really don’t know how our face looks when we sit across from someone else and empathize with their sadness over a recent breakup or how we look when we kiss someone we love or greet our pet at the door. This is probably why we spend a whole lot of time looking in the mirror- trying to see what others see in us… trying to get some glimpse of how we appear to others in our spontaneously lived lives.
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