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See The Good In Yourself: Learn Mirror Work To Heal The Gaze Within
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6 dias

See The Good In Yourself: Learn Mirror Work To Heal The Gaze Within

Por Alison Potts

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O que você irá aprender
This course invites you to heal the gaze within, by offering you a heart-centered introduction to mirror work — a research-informed practice for self-acceptance, nervous-system healing, and emotional resilience. Guided by Alison Potts, a specialist in inner thriving and connection, this course helps you transform ordinary moments at the mirror into daily opportunities for connection, calm, and genuine self-recognition. Through short, accessible practices, you’ll learn how to meet your reflection with kindness, release old patterns of judgment, and build an unshakable foundation of self-trust and belonging. You’ll Learn How To: - Use mirror work to engage your brain’s natural pathways for calm, confidence, and connection. - Rewire habitual self-criticism into self-compassion through simple daily practices. - Cultivate gratitude, forgiveness, and soothing self-talk while looking into your own eyes. - Integrate these practices into ordinary life — turning quick glances and mirror moments into healing rituals. - Strengthen your sense of self-sovereignty and emotional safety, one reflection at a time.
Alison Potts is a wellbeing teacher, writer, and creator of Innate Being, known for her compassionate, grounded, and intuitive approach to self-care and emotional healing. Drawing on over a decade of teaching experience, she integrates neuroscience, somatic awareness, and meditation to help people reconnect with their innate resilience and...

Lição 1
Learning To See Yourself With Fresh Eyes
In this opening lesson, you’ll be introduced to the transformative practice of mirror work — a method grounded in both psychology and neurobiology that helps you develop a kinder, more conscious relationship with yourself. You’ll learn how the simple act of meeting your own gaze can begin to rewire long-held patterns of self-criticism and replace them with calm, curiosity, and care. Through gentle guidance and a short mirror practice, you’ll take your first step in turning the mirror from a place of judgment into a place of return — where self-recognition becomes an act of healing.
Lição 2
Is Who You See In The Mirror Really You?
In this session, you’ll explore how the image you see in the mirror is often shaped by memory, emotion, and old conditioning — what we might call the inner gaze. Together, we’ll uncover how past experiences, cultural messages, and learned self-protection patterns can distort how we see ourselves, and how awareness can begin to free us from those filters. Through gentle mirror-based reflection, you’ll learn how to recognise when you’re seeing through old stories and how to begin creating new, healing neural pathways through curiosity, compassion, and presence. Each conscious meeting with your reflection becomes an act of rewiring — a way to teach your body and brain that being seen can be safe again.
Lição 3
Choose What You See: Through The Looking Glass
In this session, you’ll explore the shift from using the mirror as a judge to using it as a looking glass — a place of discovery, recognition, and healing. We’ll look at how the critical gaze you may have learned was never the full truth of you; it was an adaptation, a way to stay safe in a world that rewarded self-surveillance over self-love. Now, you’ll begin to restore your original gaze — the one that knew curiosity, joy, and belonging. This practice is not about fixing or blaming the past, but about reclaiming your right to see yourself clearly and kindly. Research shows that when you look at yourself while offering care — through compassionate phrases, soft eye contact, or positive self-talk — you activate a powerful biofeedback loop. Neural pathways tied to emotion regulation, empathy, and safety light up, releasing calming hormones and strengthening your self-soothing capacity. In other words, what you see and what you feel in these moments literally work together to rewire your relationship with yourself. Through guided mirror practice, you’ll learn to pause the inner critic, reframe your reflection, and thank yourself for showing up with presence and courage.
Lição 4
The Mirror As Medicine
In this deeper practice, you’ll experience how the mirror becomes a living instrument of healing — not just a surface reflection, but a feedback loop between your gaze, your nervous system, and your sense of self. We already know that practices like gratitude, forgiveness, and self-compassion support emotional healing. But when you bring those practices to the mirror — when you literally look into your eyes while offering yourself something good — a new level of integration happens. The visual, auditory, and emotional pathways of your brain all light up together, strengthening your capacity for safety and belonging. Research shows that seeing yourself while expressing compassion or gratitude increases positive affect, activates empathy networks, and improves heart-rate variability — a marker of nervous-system calm. In other words, the mirror helps your body believe what your heart is learning. Through guided mirror practices, you’ll learn how to let gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion move from thought to embodiment — allowing your reflection to become a sacred portal for repair, self-worth, and wholeness.
Lição 5
Bring It To The Mirror: Micro Practices That Create Big Change
This lesson brings everything you’ve learned so far into practical, everyday action. You’ll discover a series of short, accessible mirror practices — each one designed to meet you right where you are. These micro-moments of awareness and kindness can be woven into the fabric of daily life: while you’re brushing your teeth, washing your hands, or preparing for bed. Neuroscience shows that real change doesn’t require hours of effort — it requires repetition and emotional sincerity. Each time you soften your gaze, say a kind word, or take a breath with your reflection, you activate and strengthen neural pathways of safety and self-connection. Over time, the mirror becomes less a place of judgment and more a space of grounding and belonging. These small, repeatable acts are the building blocks of a new inner pattern — one where kindness becomes instinctive, and seeing yourself becomes a source of steadiness and peace.
Lição 6
The Self Embrace: Gathering It All Together
In this final session, we bring everything home — gathering all that you’ve practiced and turning it into a felt sense of belonging within yourself. The mirror becomes a portal for gratitude and integration, and your own arms become the medicine. Through a gentle self-hug practice, you’ll experience how touch, warmth, and breath complete the healing circuit. Every time you embrace yourself, your body releases oxytocin — the bonding hormone that tells your nervous system, I’m safe, I’m cared for, I belong. This final act helps seal the new patterns of self-trust, kindness, and inner steadiness that you’ve been cultivating throughout the course. You’ll leave this session with a new embodied memory of connection — a way to carry your mirror work with you into daily life, long after the reflection fades.

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