Rainbow Life Reflector™
See the wider picture
Life can feel quite different depending on where we place our attention. One area may feel steady while another feels stretched. Some parts of life may have plenty of colour, while others may feel quieter than we realised.
The Rainbow Life Reflector™ gives you a way to step back and look across seven areas of your life at the same time.
Each area is paired with something that may help you reflect on how that part of life feels for you right now:
Life & Leisure — Balance
Home & Living — Safety
Health & Wellness — Wellbeing
Career & Learning — Growth
Finances — Stability
Relationships — Respect
Community — Belonging
You will create your Reflector in two different ways.
First, you will colour it from instinct, based simply on how each area feels to you.
Then, if you choose, you can complete the Rainbow Life Reflector™ questionnaire and create a second version based on your responses.
Neither version is intended to be right or wrong. The value is in noticing what each way of looking helps you see.
Meet your Rainbow Life Reflector™
The seven arcs represent the seven Life Categories.
Each arc is divided into seven sections, giving you a simple way to show how much of the associated quality feels present for you right now.
You are not trying to create a perfect rainbow. The Reflector is simply a visual way of noticing what feels present, what feels quieter, and where your attention may naturally be drawn.
Start with your own sense of things
Your first Reflector is based purely on instinct.
Look at each Life Category and its associated quality. Without analysing it too much, choose how much colour feels right for you today.
For example:
Life & Leisure — Balance
How much balance feels present in this part of your life?
Relationships — Respect
How much respect feels present in your relationships right now?
Colour from 1 to 7 sections in each arc.
There is no right answer and nothing to justify.
Colour what feels true, not what you think should be there.
Colour online
Use the interactive Reflector
on this page.
Print and colour by hand
Download a copy and complete it
away from the screen.
Did you know rainbows are actually whole circles?
Rainbow are whole circles
What we usually see above is only part of them.
The horizon hides the rest from view.
Your Rainbow Life Reflector™ works in a similar way.
So far, you have explored the parts of life that are easier to see.
Now you can look beneath the horizon at some of the patterns that may be influencing what appears above.
What sits beneath the surface?
Fear
Pleasing
Worry
Bingeing
Perfectionism
Overwhelm
Procrastination
These are not labels or diagnoses.
They are simply patterns you may recognise in yourself from time to time.
Take a look at the lower half of your Reflector and colour each pattern according to how present it feels for you right now.
Colour online
Rainbow Life Reflector™.
Print and colour by hand
Download the lower half and complete it
away from the screen.
Pause and notice your whole Reflector
You have now coloured both halves of your Rainbow Life Reflector™ from instinct.
Before adding another perspective, take a moment to look at the whole picture.
You might ask yourself:
What catches my attention first?
Is there anything I expected to see differently?
Are there areas above the surface that seem connected with patterns underneath?
Is one pattern taking up more space than I realised?
What feels most important to notice right now?
You do not need to explain or solve anything yet.
For now, simply notice what your Reflector seems to be showing you.
Add another perspective
You have now created a Rainbow Life Reflector™ based on your own sense of things.
The next step is to look at your rainbow in a different way.
The Rainbow Life Reflector™ questionnaire asks you to slow down and consider a series of statements about different parts of your life and some of the patterns that may sit beneath the surface.
There are no right or wrong answers.
Try to respond from where you are now, rather than how you think things should be, how they used to be, or how you would like them to be.
When you finish, your responses will create a second set of results for your Reflector.
For now, you will first see how your answers relate to the seven Life Categories.
Later, you will also be invited to look at what your responses may reveal beneath the surface.
Answer instinctively where you can. You do not need to overthink every response.
Your Life Category Results
Your questionnaire has now given you another view of the seven Life Categories in your Rainbow Life Reflector™.
These results are not a judgement and they do not replace the rainbow you coloured from instinct.
They simply give you another way of seeing what may be present for you right now.
Colour what the questions revealed
Use these scores to colour the top half of a second Rainbow Life Reflector™.
If a category scored 5, colour five sections of that arc. Continue until all seven Life Categories are complete.
[ONLINE SCORED TOP-HALF RLR WILL APPEAR HERE]
Colour online
Your questionnaire scores can eventually colour this Reflector automatically.
Print and colour by hand
colour it using your results.
Compare what you see
You now have two versions of the visible half of your rainbow.
One came from your first sense of things.
The other came from slowing down and answering a series of questions.
Take a moment to notice:
Where are they similar?
Where are they different?
What surprises you?
Did the questions bring anything into view that you had not noticed at first
Neither version is more correct. Each is simply helping you look from a different angle.
What the questions revealed beneath the surface
You have already looked at these patterns from instinct.
Now you can see how your questionnaire responses reflected them.
These results are not labels, diagnoses, or a measure of how well you are doing.
They are simply another way of noticing which patterns may be taking up more or less space for you right now.
Colour what sits beneath the surface
Use these scores to colour the lower half of your second Rainbow Life Reflector™.
As before, colour the number of sections that matches each result.
[ONLINE SCORED LOWER-HALF RLR WILL APPEAR HERE]
Compare what you see
You now have two complete Reflectors.
One came from your own immediate sense of things.
The other came from slowing down and responding to the questionnaire.
Take a moment to look at both.
Where do they tell a similar story?
Where do they differ?
Which results surprised you?
Is there a pattern beneath the surface that helps you understand something above it differently?
Is there something you had sensed already, but can now see more clearly
You are not looking for which Reflector is right. You are looking for what each one helps you notice.
Look ahead
You have spent some time looking at your Rainbow Life Reflector™ as it feels today.
Now imagine returning to it a little further down the road.
If you looked at your Reflector again in 3 months, 6 months or 12 months, how would you want it to look?
This is not about creating a perfect rainbow or filling every section with more colour.
Some areas may matter more to you than others. Some may already feel right as they are. In another area, even a small shift could feel meaningful
Choose a timeframe:
3 months
6 months
12 months
Colour the rainbow that would feel right for you
Think about the seven Life Categories again.
How much Balance, Safety, Wellbeing, Growth, Stability, Respect and Belonging would you hope to see reflected in your life by then?
Colour my future
rainbow online
Print and colour my future rainbow by hand
Step back and notice
Look at your future Reflector alongside the ones you created for today.
What has changed?
Where would you like to see more colour?
Is there an area that already feels close to where you want it to be?
And perhaps most importantly:
What feels worth moving towards?
Your rainbow gives you something to move towards
Your Rainbow Life Reflector™ has helped you notice where you are now, what may be influencing you beneath the surface, and what you might like to see differently over time.
The next step is not to work out the whole journey.
First, it helps to understand what matters enough to guide your direction.
That is where your Compass comes in.
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