Talking to yourself in the mirror is amazingly beneficial

The Motivation Mirror : That's your treasure!

For most people, talking to the mirror is a sign of craziness.

For most most people, talking to yourself in the mirror means you're losing it.


Now, it became very common that we consider people who talk to themselves in the mirror crazy.

But what is the ultimate proof that proves me they are right?




What if they are wrong after all?



In so many cases, people do talk to themselves all the time, sometimes they even do it out loud. I have heard my friends talking to themselves out loud so many times, i am sure you did too. Maybe you heard your friend, brother, family member or your parent talking one day, but when you went to their location you were surprised they were alone, nobody else is there so that makes you wonder, who you were talking to?

Maybe you've done it sometime before, or maybe you're still doing it. You know what? It's totally normal and you shouldn't be ashamed of it anymore - it's just like thinking out loud. You talk to yourself to give yourself ideas, to discuss a topic, to find a solution / answer or to just have fun, the reasons are unlimited.

Many psychologists do agree that self talking is not a sign of craziness. Linda Sapadin is one of them, she said a very important thing in her article Talking to yourself is a sign of sanity , she said when you’re feeling lonely, chances are you’re neglecting to give enough attention to a very special person, this person is YOU. Then she said :  talk to yourself not just in your head, but out loud.

If talking to yourself out loud is fine, how about talking to the man in the mirror? How about talking to your reflection in the mirror? Well let me tell you one thing about it, only one thing. It's super beneficial !

Read on to know why doing some mirror exercises and talking to the mirror is good for you. You don't have to ask the following question ever again : I talk to myself in the mirror... is it alright?

Because of course it is!

How You Currently See Yourself in The Mirror ?

Okay let's start with the most important thing here. Go stand in front of a mirror and look to your reflection, look at that person in the mirror and see how you feel. This is the phase where you conclude something significant, it's the moment when you figure out what the most important person in your life thinks about you. It's your own opinion about yourself.

We are all human being, and we all like it when someone gives us a compliment, even if it's a slight little one. And we all dislike it when another person criticize us no matter what the situation is. In fact, we do care about other people's opinions about us, that's why you're dressing the way do, that's why you're speaking in that particular style, and that's why you're eating differently when you're in a public place where you can see people everywhere around you, and where people can see you too.

If other people's opinions about you affect you this much, how do you think your own opinion about yourself effect would be? that's right.. it's significant!

However, if you think that your own opinion about yourself is not important to you then you're kind of right, because you can't feel the effect of your own opinion about yourself the same way you feel other people's opinion about you. Makes sense?

But the thing is, if you can't feel that effect doesn't mean it doesn't affect you. Let me put this easy for you. Here is what Wikipedia says about the unconscious mind of a person.

The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memory, affect, and motivation.

For further information about that, you can visit that Wikipedia page by clicking here or you can just simply google the word unconscious mind.

Now notice with me that the unconscious mind includes thought processes, memory, affect and motivation. I wrote the most significant ones in a bold font to make it easy for you to understand. That's right! it also includes MEMORY and AFFECT. When you're opinion about yourself is negative you both affect yourself in a negative way and create a long term memory of that opinion you said about you. The same thing goes for when you're opinion about you is positive.

Simplifying Things : The Power of Your Unconscious Mind

1.    If you think that you're a good person and you accept yourself with a smile, in your unconscious mind, you will create a long term memory about that and that's going to affect you in a positive way for sure.
   
   
2. If you think that you're a worthless person and that you have nothing to live for, your unconscious mind will affect you in a negative way, and the worst thing about that is that it's a long term effect. 

Your unconscious mind is very power, it's able to collect a huge amount of information and store it for long. That's why it takes time ( usually weeks ) to get over some bad habits or to create new useful ones.

The Conclusion Mirror Test

Now after you know how important your opinion about yourself is, it's time for me to ask you to do a little test. Ready? Here what you have to do.

     Go and stand in front of a big mirror

     Look at yourself directly in the eyes, look at your body, your face.. your everything!

     Stand there for 2 minutes or atleast 40 seconds

     It's time to ask yourself this question : What do I think about myself?

After you've done doing that you must have found an answer for the above question, it can be a simple answer or a complicated one. For better results, stuck to the simple answers.. make it as precised as possible and be clear and honest to yourself.

Remember, it's totally okay and acceptable either you concluded that you think about yourself positively or negatively. Now continue reading as there are much more interesting things to know.

How Do You See Yourself in A Mirror ? ( a different one this time )

I know this sounds stupid but it's not.. really.. i promise you it's not.

Mirrors are different as there are many types out there in the market, and i am sure most people have more than a single mirror in their houses. Now the thing that i want you to do is to go and stand in front of another mirror, i want you to see yourself in a different mirror and ask yourself the following question - What do i think about myself in this different mirror?

Believe it or not, most people see themselves differently right after the look into another mirror. As an example you can be happy and satisfied about how you look in your bathroom mirror, but you sometimes surprisingly feel down and unsatisfied about yourself when you look at yourself in a mirror outdoor.

Again that was just an example, but what i was trying to say is you cannot conclude and know your opinion about yourself by standing in front of a single mirror. Try different types and shapes in different places, atleast 2 different mirrors.

Using The Morning Motivational Mirror Technique

You're wondering.. what's that? i will tell you in the next few sentences.

The morning motivational mirror is a morning exercise that i call The MMM Technique, its goal is to make you start your day perfectly by reminding yourself with the most important things that you want to do, those things could be your daily tasks, goals and things that you want to do, or your future goals, dreams and things that you want to reach.

How Does The MMM Technique Works?

It's quite simple and quite effective. Here is how to start doing it.

1. Get a notebook or a piece of paper and a pen

2. Sit in a place where you can write, focus and think briefly without being interrupted

3. Think about things that motivate you to be a better person, to be successful

4. Write them down on your notebook and make sure to precise them to fit in one page

5. Now grab that piece of paper with the things that motivate you in it and pin it in the corner of your mirror

6. Every time you wake up in the morning, stand in front of that mirror and read those things you've wrote on that paper out loud. ( make sure to read them out loud, it's important )

7. Repeat the same process everyday until you memorize all those things that motivate you

8. Now when you stand in front of the mirror, say all those things that motivate you while looking directly to your eyes ( don't look to that paper anymore, but leave it there anyway ), and say them out loud

9. Keep doing that everyday and i promise you'll see good results in a month or less ( depends on you )

10. Edit your motivational list and add more things if necessary


After doing this everyday for a month, you'll notice that you're having more motivation in your life, and you'll also notice that your life becomes much more better. If you still don't know what to write on that paper, or if you don't know what things that motivate you yet, here is an example of things that i tell myself.

Heeey! it's a New Day To...

     Be a better person

     Live the life you ever wanted

     Try a couple of new things

     Inspire yourself and other people around you

     Prove people wrong and show them that you are able to do all the things they told you you can't

     Close a couple of failure doors and open a few success windows

     Get one step closer to your goals

     Get one foot closer to make your dream come true

     Get one inch closer to become successful

     Fail as much as you can and prepare your stairway to success

     Prove yourself that you're capable of achieving your goals and dreams

     Prove yourself that you can improve, that you can become a better person

I know you are capable of doing this, i know you can do this... and today is another opportunity to prove it.

Talking To Yourself in The Mirror Makes You Smarter

I don't mean by that making you more intelligent, but some studies shows that it makes you memorize more effectively. Here is the proof.

Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swingley made an experiment to test whether speaking to oneself was actually beneficial, in which the participants were asked to perform a virtual shopping task. They were provided with a list of things they would technically found in a supermarket, then they were asked to find those things silently without saying a word. Then later, they repeated the same experiment but this time they were asked to talk to themselves while performing the task ( they were probably saying things such as : i need to get a one more orange juice and 2 pounds of meat.. ). Surprisingly, they managed to complete the task much more quicker than before.

I can say the same thing about talking to yourself in the mirror, it helps you to remember all the things that motivate you, and keep you on the right path to improve yourself and achieve success much more quicker.

Talking To Yourself in The Mirror Makes You More Confident

Self confidence is built, the more you improve it the more it gets higher.

The question is... How to build self confidence by talking to yourself in the mirror?

Use the same MMM technique that i explained above, but this time instead of reminding yourself of things that motivate you everyday, compliment yourself. That's what i call The Complimentary Morning Mirror Technique or in short, The CMM technique.

Follow the same steps just like those i mentioned in the MMM technique, stand in front of the mirror and compliment yourself as much as you like, take at least 2 minutes of your time to compliment yourself in front of the mirror, and then expand the time amount as much as you like. Here is a list of things you can tell yourself.

     I believe in myself

     I know i can

     I am getting better everyday

     I am not afraid of any future obstacles

     I love myself

     I love the way my eyes sparkle

     I love my smile

     I like the way i stand

     I highly admire my personality

     Thank god for creating me and made me beautiful

     I know i am beautiful

     Every one is beautiful and unique

     Even when i see a very ugly person, i still don't think he's too ugly and that's the case for almost everyone. Then i must be just fine too. What?  I am more than fine. I am gorgeous!

The list goes on... You can say as many compliments as you can, the more the compliments are genuine, honest, deep and close to the truth, the better your unconscious mind will receive them.

Is Talking To Myself in The Mirror Abnormal?

If you're already talking to yourself in the mirror or you have done it sometime before, you may be asking the question.. Is it normal that i talk to myself in the mirror?

The answer is a big YES, it's completely normal and not something abnormal or a sign of craziness... like most people think. I've done a little bit of researches and digged in many forums and Q & A websites to see if people ask questions about that too. I've found much people who have asked the same question and the funny thing is, people who answered their questions also talk to themselves in the mirror. I would like to share with you some of them.


That was one of the questions i found.

This is a bunch of people's responds to that question.

This guy mentioned that it's normal to talk to yourself in the mirror, and also suggests not to be habitual to this because you can replace talking to the mirror with talking to a real person or writing down your ideas on a paper or blog. Good suggestion! but talking to yourself in the mirror is a technique that can be used to improve yourself, not just a habit.


Here are some other answers.

Another answer.

And another one.

This is some out of the box answers.

And this guy decided to add some fun to the answer.

Yeah mates, every guy does that!

PS : the picture is just for fun, a woman should always appreciate herself in the mirror.

Other People Talk To The Mirror Too?

Yes they do! i included a couple of examples in the pictures above, and I'll include a couple more here for you. There you go.

Talking to The Man in The Mirror is Sometimes Better Than Having a Conversation with Another Person

This could be true because sometimes you feel like you want to have a specific kind of conversation, maybe you want to talk about spiritual, historic or deep philosophical subjects. This is a couple of good examples.

It's true! sometimes people around you don't give you the chance to have an intelligent conversation, so why not talking to the man in the mirror and having an intelligent conversation with him?

Bonus : 30 Self confidence affirmations to tell yourself in the mirror

Alright sit back, this is the first and last thing you want to do before heading to sleep. Why? It's a simple exercise but it's effective, it gives you the chance to tell yourself everything you need to hear just before going to sleep to burn them in your mind, and keep them there for long.

Saying positive things about yourself doesn't just help you in your self improvement journey, it also gives you inner peace and makes your relationship with yourself stronger than ever. Here is a list of affirmations for building up your self confidence.

Stand in front of the mirror in the evening and say...

1. I love you and i accept you

2. I trust you

3. I believe in you

4. I know you can make it

5. I am positive you're a good fighter

6. Life loves you

7. I appreciate you

8. Your eyes are very beautiful

9. Your hair is awesome

10. You are awesome!

11. You are the most important person for me

12. You are my darling

13. Happiness is beautiful

14. I am happy for you today

15. I am proud of you

16. Your existence is such an honor

17. You exist in this world for a reason

18. Don't you ever give up

19. You had a great day

20. You deserve a better tomorrow

21. I am sure you'll have a great tomorrow

22. Every new day is better than the previous one

23. You are my bestfriend

24. Tomorrow you'll rock it!

25. You look good today

26. You're getting better everyday

27. You are strong enough for anything

28. Many people love you

29. Haters hate you cause you're actually standing up

30. You're own opinion about yourself is the most important opinion after all

Now you got the list of 30 confidence affirmations, you can go find a quite room where there is just YOU, and YOU. Then stand up in front of a big mirror and look at yourself in the eyes and get it out! say all of them and add some more if you feel like it. 

Important point : while looking at the mirror and talking to yourself, it's better to talk in your first language. However, it's also effective if you talk in another language ; e.g : your second language.

The next time you see somebody talking to himself in the mirror, you'll be sure that he is smart and sane, not stupid and insane. ( okay.. maybe you'll see an insane person do that. That's an exception! ) 

What do you think?

Now i want to hear your opinion about that.

Maybe I've missed an important mirror technique?

You have a unique technique that you use? 

Either way, leave a comment below right now to let me know.