Affirm Your Way to Healing: How Mirror Work Helped Me Walk Again
I still live life with a heavier dose of fear than I'd prefer–maybe you do too?
I know there's a lighter way of being. I've felt it. And that's what I'll forever seek. If I had a five-year plan, it would simply be this: shake off the density of life and feel the lightness of my Spirit.
Navigating Fear & Uncertainty Is an Inside Job
The truth is, no one else can walk this path for us. Mentors, friends, therapists–they provide love, support, and a safe space. But when it comes to navigating fear, uncertainty, or the unknown, the real work is ours to do. Every single day. We're all students at Earth School. Some of us are skipping class. But the invitation is always open to return, sit down, and get curious.
I learned this first hand after my accident. Lying in a hospital bed, uncertain if I'd ever walk again, the voices of fear and limitation felt deafening. But I realized something powerful: the voice within–the voice of possibility and healing–was still mine to reclaim.
The Problem: Reinforcing the Negative Bias
Here’s the pattern I see over and over, in myself and others:
We chronically reinforce our negative bias.
We chronically doubt our positive bias.
Recovering from a near-death car accident, relearning to walk, and piecing my life back together illuminated a crucial truth for me: we must consciously reorient our inner compass toward the Best Case Scenario (BCS).
Best Case Scenario Is Your Spiritual Factory Setting
I genuinely believe that the Best Case Scenario mindset is part of our original blueprint–our factory setting before spiritual amnesia sets in. When we're born, Earthside, we naturally embody this state of wonder and trust. Every time we sit with Spirit, meditate, or experience something mystical, we peel back another layer of amnesia and remember our true nature. Maybe that's the entire purpose of our lives–to meet our Divinity even amidst life's density.
Mirror Work & Affirmations: Rewriting Your Reality
For me, affirmations aren’t fluffy feel-good quotes. They're powerful reminders–sacred declarations of who we truly are beneath conditioning, doubt, and fear. Think back to childhood. Most of us carried far more ease and lightness. Adulthood? Dense AF. Layer after layer piles on until we forget our innate clarity. That’s why so many of us are drawn to inner child work: we're reclaiming our original brightness, returning to wonder, reconnecting with the Source within.
The Affirmations That Carried Me Through Recovery
Throughout my spiritual journey, affirmations have always been part of my toolkit. But post-accident, they became lifesaving. They weren’t optional; they were essential.
Here are five affirmations I recited daily during the hardest moments of my healing:
I am a walking miracle.
My body heals rapidly with ease.
I am far more supported than I know.
There is no order of difficulty in miracles.
The present is my point of power.
I stood in front of the mirror, made deep eye contact with myself, and spoke these words aloud over and over–hrough tears, resistance, and doubt–until eventually, belief took root. I went from a walker, to a cane, to walking freely on my own two feet.
Why Mirror Work Is So Powerful (And Why It’s Hard)
This practice is rooted in what Louise Hay called Mirror Work. Her classic book, You Can Heal Your Life, became a lifeline for me, especially Chapter 8: Building the New.
She writes:
"We are culturally taught to fight the negative mentally—thinking that if we do so, the positive will automatically come to us. It doesn’t work that way...The more you dwell on what you don’t want, the more of it you create."
The reverse is true: the more you dwell on what you do want, the more you magnetize it.
Sounds simple, right? But here's where it gets tricky: when you stand face-to-face with yourself, affirming a new identity, you encounter every Inner Critic, every doubt, every fear, every old story desperately clinging to you. That’s why saying “your thoughts create your reality” is only the beginning, not the whole conversation.
Facing yourself in the mirror confronts you with every limiting belief you’ve unconsciously accepted. It's raw. It's confronting. It's transformative.
Discipline Dissolves Doubt
The key to mirror work is persistence. Keep showing up. Over time, the Inner Critic softens. Your affirmations transition from feeling forced to feeling natural. Gradually, the Best Case Scenario mindset feels less like fantasy and more like inevitable reality.
Discipline and dedication to spiritual practices–affirmations, meditation, or communing with Spirit–gradually dissolve doubt.
I've lived it. I know that the Inner Critic fuels the Worst Case Scenario, but Mirror Work affirms your Best Case Scenario. Facing yourself honestly, consistently, is never easy, but it’s worth it.
I’m walking proof that affirmations, rooted deeply and practiced daily, hold immense power to heal and transform. Mirror work was my bridge from doubt to belief, from pain to healing, from limitation to liberation.
My invitation to you is simple: look yourself in the eyes and reclaim your truth. Your Best Case Scenario is waiting.