Seeing What’s There: The Reflection We Overlook
Like all posts in the Inner Journeys series, this one is inspired by an Inner Voice session—a practice of tapping into intuition to uncover deeper wisdom. In this post, I share the lessons and insights from my own Inner Voice during a recent session with my friend and fellow Inner Voice Facilitator Em Strong. For those curious about Inner Voice sessions, I’ve also included the full audio of the session at the bottom of this post so you can experience firsthand where these insights originated and what an Inner Voice session is like.
A little girl walks up to a window, expecting to see something inside, to find something waiting there for her. But instead, all that greets her is a reflection—her own.
This glass is so clear, so clean, that it can’t help but reflect an image back at her, even while she looks right past it. She hadn’t come to the window to see herself. She came to see what’s on the other side of it, to find something, to discover what she thinks should be there.
But it’s empty.
“All there is to see is right in front of her on this side of the glass.”
She strains her eyes, on the brink of tears, searching for something, hoping for something, convinced that what she’s looking for is beyond that glass. And yet, nothing. No matter how hard she tries, there’s nothing there. Nothing to see.
All that’s visible, all that’s actually there, is her own reflection—staring back at her on the pristine glass, waiting to be seen by her.
This reflection has no value to her - a prize that can’t compete with what she thought would be there for her in her searching. So she dismisses it. It’s not what she came to see. It’s not enough.
And yet, it is the only thing that is there. The glass, so pristine, so flawless, cannot help but reflect her back to herself. It can’t not. She walked up to a glass window that could only be a mirror and refused to see it as such. And therefore she sees nothing, she looks right past herself and finds nothing.
How long will she stay on the outside, looking in, searching for something beyond what’s actually there, what’s actually enough, what’s right there with her on this side of the glass?
Then, the vision shifts. The girl is no longer at the window. She is outside, playing, jumping rope, carefree and full of life. There is no glass in this scene, no reflection to see—just her, in her own joy, existing without searching.
And then, the glow.
Thick, radiant, soft, blinding in the gentlest way. A glow so powerful that it removes sight entirely. It’s so bright that sight is meaningless anyway. If something was there, they’d be lost in this glow.
This glow, this magnetic pull it has on her, so potent it weakens every desire to see or feel something else, is suddenly the only thing she would ever want to see or experience. There’s nowhere she’d rather be than inside of this glow. It’s the end of searching. It’s enough. It’s more than enough.
The Shift: From Searching to Seeing
These are the visuals my Inner Voice shared with me to convey the message that what we seek is ourselves and what we find when we choose to look at ourselves is more than enough. It’s beyond anything we thought was waiting for us on the other side of the window, anything external.
At the window, she had only herself, and it felt like a disappointment because that wasn’t what she valued. It wasn’t what she wanted. It wasn’t what she was looking for. But in the glow, she also only has herself, and it feels complete. It feels more than enough. It is the same truth, experienced two different ways—one filled with searching, the other with the end of searching.
“It is the end of searching. There is nowhere else I would rather be than right here.”
The difference between the two is in seeing.
To those who still search, the vision feels empty, like a painful reminder of what isn’t there. But when you stop searching—when you allow yourself to look straight at what’s actually there—you realize the only thing that’s ever been there is all you need anyway: Yourself.
See what’s there. See yourself.
The invitation here is to look into the reflection that has always been there waiting for you to notice it. Train your eyes there, not on what’s through the glass. Forget what you thought you were supposed to find through the glass. What’s there for you is on the glass. A reflection that when seen, when truly seen, takes you to a place that feels like that glow—where there’s nowhere else you’d rather be. The end of searching.
Listen to the Inner Voice session that inspired this post:
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If this message resonates with you and you're ready to shift from searching to seeing, I invite you to experience your own Inner Voice session. Let’s explore what’s already within you, waiting to be seen and heard.
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