Let's directly dive into the subject : How to be beautiful. My article is targeted towards women but you are welcome male reader, you could learn one thing or two about women!
While I'm writing those words, I just came out of a difficult situation during which all my beauty/feminity has been put aside, and so I am in the process of conquering my beauty back. I'm overly skinny, pale, I have pimples, my hair is dry and I don't feel on my best day ay all. The logical answer to this would be to grab on all my usual products and, hurry! let's get it all back, just like it was before!
Get back to the self
Yeah but here's the thing, what I want is to feel beautiful, to feel good. TO FEEL LIKE MYSELF. Getting back to my usual routine seems harsh, not in tune with my body's wisdom, who is simply tired and want to rest. Trying to impose otherwise on myself feels cruel, at the opposite of what I truly desire. Because, yes, I'm saying it again, to feel beautiful, to feel good is to feel like oneself, before everything else. To let go of what needs to be letting go of, without worrying about what we look like, let the body do what it needs to do. So the first thing to do to be beautiful is to stop being harsh on oneself. No, you do not need to suffer to be beautiful! Quite the opposite in fact, you need to learn to relax and be less perfectionist. It's in he heart of the vulnerability, the authenticity, in the small cracks of a being that beauty is to be found. Not in a piece of make-up, although the value of this one is undeniable as well.
Exquisite Sensuality
The second thing to do is to reconnect to your sensuality. Sensuality is a word wildly used without really knowing what it truly is. Well, it's very simple, sensuality is what uses our five, our even six senses : sight, smell, touch, taste and the magic one, intuition. When you gently touch a tree's leaves, you're using your sensuality. When you're listening to your favorite tune, you're engaging your sensuality as well. To connect and deepen the relation we have with our own sensuality often requires some work on our part; modern life often tends to cut ourselves from our sense of having a body. Yet, it's really in the body that pleasure takes place. So if you're looking for happiness, that's the way in!
The body, the body and again the body!
This might look like a repeat, mais it's so important to note tua I've decided to make it into a whole new paragraph. Just like life, sensuality, happiness and beauty all begin and end in the body. It is incredibly important for anybody that wishes to sail on the adventure of his/her own inner and outer beauty, to commit to a real work of gaining awareness of the body. This can be done through activities like tai-chi or massages, but it's completely possible to create your own method day by day. I can help you with that personally if you wish.
Enough with guilt
A lot of women are being criticized for their desire to be beautiful; it is often said of them that they are shallow, stupid, that they don't understand what is truly important. To which I'd answer that it is the accusers who do not understand women, nor beauty. To tell you the truth, beauty is deeply spiritual. It is the essence of beings and things that radiates through a body, a face or a canvas.
From a whole being.
From you.
Very nice, Sonja! :)
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