If the world is our perfect mirror - a reflection of our joys and challenges - how can we harness the power of the insights we gain? And what would we like to reflect back upon the world? Reflection comes in many forms crystalizing our inner journey of personal and spiritual exploration. We can discover deep sources of intuition, creativity and wisdom. One way to harness the power of reflection is adding a life review to your practice and harvesting moments from the cycle of your life. It can bring a profound awareness of wholeness. We tend to forget many of our experiences through childhood, adolescence, middle age to wherever you are now. I am beginning to understand that I had many great experiences in my life - I just wish I had be more present for them. Now I can grasp the larger patterns that connect them. As moments surface you reflect on them without judgement. You might do these in cycles, seasons or months. For myself, I chose seven-year periods over twelve months which puts me in the October of my life. Each time I go back to add to my life review I find my memory is sharper and more focused as stories and scenes surface - long hidden from my consciousness. The richness of our lives are both joyful and sorrowful, we need to take it all in for the overarching pattern to emerge. Often there are incomplete stories that may yearn to be completed - made whole. while others may be best left incomplete. This exercise becomes part of an elder mastery practice and does not need to be finished all at once - it can be picked up over time. In fact - you really don’t need to commit anything to paper - reflection can be done anywhere, anytime and for however long you choose. It it’s to be - it’s up to you.