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# Blood & Ink: Tuesday
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/30/
- Published: 2024-10-29T12:35:07.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:25.000Z
- Description: the external mirror / challenging conclusions / the greatest game
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

## **Your external world is a reflection of your internal world…**

An insight that often arises deep in the psychedelic headspace, and a go-to catchphrase of the new-age spiritual community.

*The world out there is just a reflection of the world in here.*

**I agree with this completely. I believe it to be true.**

But it has some challenging implications that I don’t think the spiritual community has fully wrestled with…

- If you’re so strong, why is your body weak and out of shape?
- If you’re so abundant, why are you broke?
- If you’re so loving, why all the self-sabotage and criticism?
- If you’re so beautiful, why do you look dishevelled?

*Something hasn’t clicked.*

I think the natural conclusions are too challenging or frustrating for most of us.

- Maybe I’m not as strong as I believe…
- Maybe I’m not abundant…
- Maybe I’m not acting from a place of love…
- Maybe I don’t value beauty…
- Maybe I’m not as great as I thought…

**… YET!**

Your external world IS a total reflection of your internal world. If you’re broke, out of shape, isolated, or self-sabotaging, it means you have work to do!

This is cause for celebration, not degradation.

*The game is still afoot!* 

Use your external world as a barometer for internal development. It’s not about specific X, Y, Z accomplishments and attaching too much worth to the externals, but they are great temperature checks to how things are going inside.

**The external is a reflection of the internal.**

Be honest, and act accordingly,  
Eric Brown.