Mindful
What the Mirror Can Teach You About Yourself: Advice from a Mirror Gazing Expert - Mindful
February 10, 2025 - Notice any sensations or emotions that come up and allow them to simply be there without judgment or interpretation. Let your feelings and thoughts simply pass by as you breathe, relax your body, and gaze at yourself with no goal other than to be present with yourself.
Healthline
Mirror Gazing Meditation: What It Is, Benefits, and How to Do It
September 27, 2020 - To mirror gaze, you use a mirror to make eye contact with your own reflection instead of closing your eyes and turning your attention inward.
Videos
April 24, 2025
Mirror Gazing Is a direct portal to the Unconscious
Mirror Gazing Is a direct portal to the Unconscious
There is a reason they tell you not to look in the mirror on psychedelics. What you are describing happens instantly, and it is greatly amplified. More on reddit.com
Mirror gazing
Mirror gazing
I don’t know the science behind it, but it does weird things. For example, after about 30 seconds of staring at my eyes in the mirror, my face started changing. It was like I wasn’t looking at me anymore. One of my eyes started to slowly get erased and I only had one eye on my face. More on reddit.com
Staring at yourself (in your eyes) in the mirror for long periods of time
Staring at yourself (in your eyes) in the mirror for long periods of time
This may interest you: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0276236620969632 Mirror gazing is fascinating, and an easy quick way to reach altered states of consciousness. Have fun. More on reddit.com
Please do not stare into the eyes of your reflection in the mirror.
Please do not stare into the eyes of your reflection in the mirror.
When I look in the mirror I see a smiling handsome kindly man. Does that mean that I'm the evil version? More on reddit.com
PubMed Central
Visual Perception during Mirror-Gazing at One's Own Face in Patients with Depression - PMC
In normal observers, gazing at one's own face in the mirror for a few minutes, at a low illumination level, produces the apparition of strange faces. Observers see distortions of their own faces, but they often see hallucinations like monsters, ...
Medium
Mirror Gazing Meditation- A True Out Of Body Experience | by Ethereal Being | Change Your Mind Change Your Life | Medium
December 28, 2021 - This form of meditation requires you to stare at yourself in the mirror for an unspecified amount of time, with no distractions.
Pathlessyoga
A Reflection on Mirror Gazing – pathless yoga
One of those practices is mirror gazing as a meditation, as an exercise in “interchangeably playing the roles of object and subject.” (From Ruvinsky et al., translation of verse 3 in The Recognition of Our Own Heart.) I gaze at my reflection in a mirror, first as the subject, then as the ...
Frontiers
Frontiers | Face yourself: The social neuroscience of mirror gazing
October 20, 2022 - Through mirrors, we can perceive ... externalized perspective on ourselves. The mirror image is an objectified representation of ourselves and allow seeing us as through the gaze of an another....
HighExistence
Awareness, Squared: The Power of Eye Contact and Mirror Meditation | HighExistence
June 25, 2019 - Gaze into your own eyes, taking it all in. When you realize you’ve become distracted, return to non-judgmental awareness. Sam Harris’ Meditation app, ‘Waking Up’ has a fantastic guided mirror meditation that I highly recommend.
Amazon
Mirror Gazing: Predict the Future, Look Into the Past, Unlock Your Creativity: McGarvie, Irene: 9781926826011: Amazon.com: Books
It can enable you to access information previously hidden from your conscious awareness. A simple black mirror can be your doorway to a whole new reality, free from the constraints of time, space and gravity.
Dalkey Archive Press
Mirror Gazing – Dalkey Archive Press
Mirror Gazing
Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the printed page. It is an archival project, based on a wealth of material collected daily by celebrated critic Warren F. Motte over thirty-five years and squirreled away for some eventual winter. It is also a love letter, a confession, a tale of deep obsession, and a cry for help addressed to anyone who takes literature seriously.--Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the p
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MasterClass
Mirror Gazing: How to Practice Mirror-Gazing Meditation - 2025 - MasterClass
February 1, 2022 - Mirror gazing is a style of meditation that involves maintaining a deep and direct gaze at your reflection in front of a mirror.
PubMed Central
Face yourself: The social neuroscience of mirror gazing - PMC
Through mirrors, we can perceive the visible aspects of our own face and body as others can see them and acquire an externalized perspective on ourselves. The mirror image is an objectified representation of ourselves and allow seeing us as through the gaze of an another.
Murad
Mirror-gazing isn’t vain—and does wonders for stress and mental health, according to this unusual mindfulness practice - Murad Skincare
October 13, 2021 - Well developed a mirror-based meditation program that is designed to help people see beyond their surface appearance in order to release self-criticisms, focus their attention and develop a kinder self-awareness.
Sage Journals
Mirror- and Eye-Gazing: An Integrative Review of Induced Altered and Anomalous Experiences - Giovanni B. Caputo, Steven Jay Lynn, James Houran, 2021
In the modern psychomanteum (Moody, 1992), typical instructions are to gaze at the mirror and to think about feelings, memories, and dialogues with a person (usually deceased) with whom the participant wants to connect.
TIM Makeup Company
Mirror gazing meditation - connecting to myself — TIM Makeup Co. - TIM Makeup Company
I was struck by the mirrored image of my Dad’s face! It didn’t look anything like the painted image. I remember the questions that began to surface. “Is this is how he saw himself! My Dad was a handsome man, and his reflection was not! Is this how we all see ourselves in the mirror?
FOX 26 Houston
How mirror gazing improves self-worth and compassion | FOX 26 Houston
November 15, 2021 - Mirror gazing is a meditation practice but instead of closing your eyes and focusing on your breath, you keep your eyes open and focused on your reflection in the mirror. As you look at your reflection and quiet your thoughts, you begin focusing ...
ScienceDirect
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze - ScienceDirect
March 3, 2024 - Mirror gazing has been linked to poor body image. Cognitive-behavioral models propose that mirror gazing induces self-focused attention. This activate…
Katie Couric
Mirror Gazing Meditation: How to Improve Self Esteem
May 5, 2025 - Now for the fun. Mirror gazing (or mirror meditation) encourages you to remove the other, the inner critic who’s with you whenever you look in the glass.