Like a mirror, the world reflects back to us what we put out. What we put out comes from our mind (mental) and heart (emotions).

We project out into the world what we believe about ourselves. Judgments we have about ourselves, no matter how false, reflect back to us proving our judgments and beliefs.

Since the world reflects our thoughts back to us, we feel the need to protect ourselves. We then build tall thick walls onto the mirrored wall in an attempt to keep people from finding out how horrible we are (based on our false beliefs) and to keep the bad we judge from getting to us.

We become trapped in our self made fortresses never really making real contact with anyone or anything. It is rare that we let our true selves out for fear of being hurt. We may have a select few that we allow our true selves to come out to (let our guard down), and the rest of the time we are fake to a certain degree.

We wind up living fake lives and never really truly seeing the world as it is. We can’t see the world as it truly is when we are projecting onto it all the time.