The Maharishi Ayurveda approach to beauty and skin care with Nancy Lonsdorf M.D.

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"Every person is born perfect. Inferiority is a mistake of the mind, a cloud covering the light. Dissolve the clouds by observing a balanced life with healthy habits. Nourish your mind and body. Connect with your own inner self. Celebrate your own magnificence and your beauty will always shine through." -Dr. Rama Kant Mishra, renowned Ayurvedic physician and dermatologist

The Three Pillars of Beauty

Maharishi Ayurveda (MAV), the modern, consciousness-based revival of the ancient Ayurvedic medicine tradition, considers true beauty to be supported by three pillars; Outer Beauty, Inner Beauty and Lasting Beauty. Only by enhancing all three can we attain the balanced state of radiant health that makes each of us the most fulfilled and beautiful person we can be.

Outer Beauty: Roopam

The outer signs of beauty - your skin, hair and nails - are more than just superficial measures of beauty. They are direct reflections of your overall health. These outer tissues are created by the inner physiological processes involved in digestion, metabolism and proper tissue development. Outer beauty depends more on the strength of your digestion and metabolism, the quality of your diet, and the purity of your blood, than on external cleansers and conditioners you may apply.

General Recommendations for Outer Beauty

As we will discuss, the key to skin care is matching your diet and skin care routine to the specific skin type you have. Meanwhile, there are some valuable recommendations for lustrous skin, hair and nails that will be helpful to everyone, regardless of skin type.

1. Diet: Without adequate nourishment, your collagen layer thins and a kind of wasting takes place. Over time, your skin can shrivel up like a plant without water from lack of nourishment. To keep your skin plump and glowing:

A. Eat fresh, whole organic foods that are freshly prepared.

Avoid packaged, canned, frozen, processed foods and leftovers. These foods have little nutritional value and also they are often poorly digested which creates impurities that localize in the skin. The resulting buildup of toxins causes irritation and blocks circulation depriving the skin of further nourishment and natural cleansing processes.

B. Favor skin nourishing foods.

Leafy green vegetables contain vitamins, minerals (especially iron and calcium) and are high in antioxidant properties. They nourish the skin and protect it from premature aging.


Sweet juicy fruits like grapes, melons, pears, plums and stewed apples at breakfast are excellent for the skin in almost everyone.


Eat a wide variety of grains over different meals and try mixed grain servings at breakfast and lunch. Add amaranth, quinoa, cous cous, millet and barley to the wheat and rice you already eat.


Favor light, easy to digest proteins like legume soups (especially yellow split mung dhal), whole milk, paneer (cheese made from boiling milk, adding lemon and straining solids) and lassi (diluted yogurt and spice drinks).


Oils like ghee (clarified butter) and organic, extra virgin olive oil should be included in the diet as they lubricate, nourish and create lustre in the skin.


Use spices like turmeric, cumin, coriander, and black pepper to improve digestion, nourish the skin and cleanse it of impurities.


Avoid microwaving and boiling your vegetables. They lose as much as 85% of their antioxidant content when cooked in this way. Steaming and sautéing are best.

Caring for outer beauty through knowledge of skin type

Besides these general recommendations the key to Outer Beauty is to understand the difference in skin types so you can gain the maximum benefit from your individualized skin care regimen. MAV identifies three different skin types based on which of the three main metabolic principles (doshas)- present in everyone, but to different degrees- is most dominant in your body.

Vata Skin

* Description: Vata is composed of the elements of air and space. If you have a vata skin type, your skin will be dry, thin, fine pored, delicate and cool to the touch. When balanced, it glows with a delicate lightness and refinement that is elegant and attractive. When vata skin is imbalanced, it will be prone to excessive dryness and may even be rough and flaky.

* Potential problems: The greatest beauty challenge for vata skin is its predisposition to symptoms of early aging. Your skin may tend to develop wrinkles earlier than most due to its tendency to dryness and thinness. If your digestion is not in balance, your skin can begin to look dull and grayish, even in your 20's and 30's. In addition, your skin may have a tendency for disorders such as dry eczema and skin fungus. Mental stress, such as worry, fear and lack of sleep, has a powerful debilitating effect on vata skin leaving it looking tired and lifeless.

* Recommendations for care

With a little knowledge, you can preserve and protect the delicate beauty of your vata type skin. Since your skin does not contain much moisture, preventing it from drying is the major consideration. Eat a warm, unctuous diet (ghee and olive oil are best) and favor sour, salty and sweet tastes (naturally sweet like fruits, not refined sugar) as they balance vata. Avoid drying foods like crackers. Drink 6-8 glasses of warm (not cold for vata types!) water throughout the day and eat plenty of sweet, juicy fruits. Going to bed early (before 10 PM) is very soothing to vata and will have a tremendously positive influence on your skin. Avoid cleansing products that dry the skin (like alcohol-based cleansers) and perform Ayurvedic oil massage to your whole body (abhyanga) in the morning before you shower.

Pitta Skin.

* Description: Pitta dosha is composed of the elements of fire and water. If you have a pitta skin type your skin is fair, soft, warm and of medium thickness. When balanced, your skin has a beautiful, slightly rosy or golden glow, as if illuminated from within. Your hair typically is fine and straight, and is usually red, sandy or blonde in color. Your complexion tends toward the pink or reddish, and there is often a copious amount of freckles or moles.

* Potential problems: Among the many beauty challenges of pitta skin types is your tendency to develop rashes, rosacea, acne, liver spots or pigment disorders. Because of the large proportion of the fire element in your constitution, your skin does not tolerate heat or sun very well. Of all the three skin types, pitta skin has the least tolerance for the sun, is photosensitive, and most likely to accumulate sun damage over the years. Pitta skin is aggravated by emotional stress, especially suppressed anger, frustration, or resentment.

* Recommendations for care

Avoid excessive sunlight, tanning treatments and highly heating therapies like facial or whole body steams. Avoid hot, spicy foods and favor astringent, bitter and sweet foods which balance pitta. (Again, naturally sweet, not chocolate and refined sugar!) Sweet juicy fruits (especially melons and pears), cooked greens and rose petal preserves are especially good. Drinking plenty of water helps wash impurities from sensitive pitta skin. Reduce external or internal contact with synthetic chemicals, to which your skin is especially prone to react, even in a delayed fashion after years of seemingly uneventful use. Avoid skin products that are abrasive, heating or contain artificial colors or preservatives. Most commercial make-up brands should be avoided in favor of strictly 100% natural ingredient cosmetics. And be sure to get your emotional stress under control through plenty of outdoor exercise, yoga and meditation.

Kapha Skin.

* Description: Kapha dosha is composed of the elements of earth and water. If you have a kapha skin type your skin is thick, oily, soft and cool to the touch. Your complexion is a glowing porcelain whitish color, like the moon, and hair characteristically thick, wavy, oily and dark. Kapha skin types, with their more generous collagen and connective tissue, are fortunate to develop wrinkles much later in life than vata or pitta types.

*Potential problems If your skin becomes imbalanced, it can show up as enlarged pores, excessively oily skin, moist types of eczema, blackheads, acne or pimples, and water retention. Kapha skin is also more prone to fungal infections.

* Recommendations for care

Kapha skin is more prone to clogging and needs more cleansing than other skin types. Be careful to avoid greasy, clogging creams. Likewise, avoid heavy, hard to digest foods like fried foods, fatty meats, cheeses and rich desserts. Eat more light, easy to digest, astringent, bitter and pungent (well-spiced) foods as they balance kapha. Olive oil is the best cooking oil and a little ginger and lime juice can be taken before meals to increase your characteristically sluggish digestive fire. Take warm baths often and use gentle cleansers to open the skin pores. Avoid getting constipated and try to get some exercise every day to increase circulation and help purify the skin through the sweating process.

Inner Beauty: Gunam.

Happy, positive, loving, caring individuals have a special beauty that is far more than skin deep. Conversely we all experience the quick and deleterious effect on our skin from fatigue and stress.

Inner beauty is authentic beauty, not the kind that shows on a made-up face, but the kind that shines through from your soul, your consciousness or inner state of being. Inner beauty comes from a mind and heart that are in harmony, not at odds with each other, causing emotional confusion, loss of confidence, stress and worry. Inner peace is the foundation of outer beauty.

Maintain your self-confidence and a warm, loving personality by paying attention to your lifestyle and daily routine and effective management of stress (I highly recommend the TM technique for its scientifically-verified benefits on mental and physical health and reduced aging.) You will also be healthier and feel better through the day if you eat your main meal at midday and make a habit of going to bed early (by 10 PM is ideal.)

Remember, kindness, friendliness and sincerity naturally attract people to you. On the other hand, being uptight or tense makes people want to walk the other way, regardless of your facial structure, body weight, or other outer signs we associate with attractiveness.

Lasting Beauty: Yayastyag

In order to slow the aging process and gain lasting beauty there are two additional key considerations beyond those already discussed,

1. Eliminate toxins and free radicals in the body: The main deteriorating effects of aging come as toxins and impurities (called ama in Ayurveda) accumulate throughout the body. These toxins may begin as free radicals in the body, or over time may become oxidized into free radicals, all of which contribute to premature aging in the body. For lasting health and beauty it is essential to avoid and neutralize free radicals, to prevent impurities of all kinds from accumulating and to remove those that have already become lodged in the body.

The most powerful cleansing therapy in Maharishi Ayurveda is "panchakarma" therapy, a series of natural treatments ideally performed twice yearly, that involves 5-7 days in a row of massage, heat treatments and mild herbal enemas. Ayurveda emphasizes the importance of undergoing this cleansing program once or twice a year to prevent impurities from accumulating, localizing and hardening in the tissues. Just as we change the oil in our cars regularly for optimal performance and lifespan, Ayurveda recommends that we cleanse the "sludge" from our tissues on a regular basis through panchakarma treatments.

Best of all, panchakarma treatments are luxurious, blissful, and make you feel (and look) completely rejuvenated in just a few days time. I have had many a patient who told me that friends asked them afterwards if they had gotten a facelift, they looked so fresh and youthful!

Other free radical busters include: reducing mental stress, eating antioxidant foods like leafy green vegetables, sweet, juicy fruits and cooking on a daily basis with antioxidant, detoxifying spices like turmeric and coriander.

2. Add rejuvenative techniques to daily living:

The daily activities of life in the modern world systematically wear us down and speed up the aging process. Ayurveda maintains it is crucial to practice daily rejuvenative regimens to counteract the stressful wear and tear of everyday life. According to Ayurveda the most important rejuvenative routines for your life are:

Going to bed by 10:00 PM. This simple habit is one of the most powerful techniques for health and longevity, according to MAV.
Meditate daily. Any meditation that does not involve concentration (which has been shown to increase anxiety) can be very helpful. I highly recommend the twice-daily deep rest and enlivenment of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique, whose benefits have been verified by over 700 published research studies.
Eat organic, whole fresh food that is freshly prepared. There is an Ayurvedic saying: "Without proper diet. medicine is of no use. With proper diet, medicine is of no need." Be sure to avoid those leftovers, processed and microwaved foods for better nutrition and vitality.
Perform Ayurvedic oil massage in the morning (abhyanga). Morning oil massage purifies the entire body, reduces anxiety and stress, helps prevent and heal injuries and supports circulation. It is especially helpful in creating a radiant complexion and keeping your skin youthful. Research shows it may also help prevent skin cancers.
Practice yoga asanas. Maintaining flexibility and circulation is key to health.
Practice pranayama (yoga breathing) techniques. Pranayama enlivens the mind and body. Ideally practice the following sequence twice a day. Asanas, pranayama and meditation.

Summary

Everyone's unique beauty shines forth when they have radiant health and personal happiness. Beauty is a side effect of a balanced, fulfilled life. Supreme personal beauty is accessible to everyone who is willing to take more control of their health in their day-to-day life through time-tested principles of natural living.

For most of us, beauty is not a gift but a choice. Every woman can be radiantly beautiful simply by beginning to lead a healthier life. You will be rewarded by the glowing effects you will see in your mirror each day and the powerful, bliss-producing effect your special beauty has on everyone in your life.

Beauty, gratitude and the open heart

".. .beauty on Earth is a shadow of your beauty of heaven, and is a bitter thing to have a blindness to the beauty of the Earth, to do a larger study to see the beauties of heaven. ", spoken by an Irish spirit in the book the boy who saw True (anonymous author).

Counseling individuals, couples have, families and co-workers here 35 years and I am the author of eight published books. Since my work is based on copyright, I have developed many ways to help people open their hearts to love. Open beauty is one of the ways.

Always appreciate beauty. If I have a small child, I have a collection of beautiful things-shells, rocks, wood, and works of art, and there are always many plants around. There is nowhere in my environment where there is something beautiful to see, both inside and outside in nature. When you walk my home and the land around it, my heart fills with awe and love, as I appreciate the beauty around me. I've done so automatically that all my life ever did with that many people are not open for beauty and not create beauty around them.

When working with some of my customers to keep an open heart, you have mentioned, focusing on an object of beauty, and are surprised that many of them have no beauty around them-not plants, flowers, art works or objects of nature. When looking around seeing walls, appliances, computers and other buildings. Left brain functions just fine in this environment, but what about the right-the creative, intuitive, spiritual aspect associated with?

I would like to encourage everyone who reads this to discuss diet with the beauty of your soul. There is nothing like admiration and gratitude for something beautiful to open the heart and gratitude in General. If you can love the intricate planning by a tree, or the vitality of a flower, or the balance of a nice piece of pottery she-perhaps that will lead to love and welcome your beauty and your soul. You may be open to feeling gratitude for your life and sacred privilege to experience your journey on this planet.

How much time is spent thinking upset or unhappy about something? What if all that time spent in gratitude for what you have and for the beauty around you? What if you were present too will be amazed by the fact that you can turn on a faucet and have hot water coming at the moment? That you have food and a bed to sleep on? If you read this, it is likely that you have a computer, which means that you have more than the majority of the population of the planet.

Try this little experiment: find something beauty-can be as simple as a leaf, a flower, a photograph, a small work of art or at the top of a tree from the window. Now let yourself completely open for the thing of beauty. Let yourself feel the beauty in your body-in your heart, your solar plexus, stomach, arms and legs, in front of you. Let the beauty enliven your body and fill it with vitality. Inhale, beauty and feel your body's reaction to it. Open with gratitude, thanking God for this experience of beauty.

Watch your peace and joy in the moment with this simple object of beauty. What will life be like if you spent several moments like this are here with the beauty and all? How much time is spent with your own way?

Beauty and gratitude are soul food. When you open them, you can extend an invitation to love, peace and joy. This raises your frequency and opens the door for spiritual guidance. Your orientation is always here for you, helping you on your journey of the soul. Open for beauty and gratitude, with a deep desire to learn about what you love for yourself and others, will open your spiritual guidance.

7 Essential beauty tips

Beauty

Beauty is defined as the phenomenon of experience
joy to the concept of equilibrium and
percentage of stimulus. The cognition of a
balanced form and structure which elicits traction and
call towards a host creature, inanimate object,
scene music, idea, etc. As it was considered as a unit
or even Graces or even its properties to eye, the ear, the
Intellect, aesthetics School or even moral sense.

Beauty is a quality that gives pleasure to the mind or even
scans and related properties, such as
harmony of form, color, or even of artistic excellence,
sincerity and originality.

A common understanding of the beauty word suggests
that is the appearance of things and people. For
illustration, we Miss globe Pageant or even almost all the
beautiful female on Earth. Also a fully blossomed
Rose is called and a beauty. Unable to measure beauty
may not be counted. It is purely subjective in nature,
and understanding changes based on data from the view
total number of individuals.

Beauty always has been renowned since individual
the genre had developed basic senses. We have heard of
infinite number of stories in the history when used for wars to
be inflicted for the desire of beautiful females. Beauty
are all pervasive in nature and rises above any
distinctions of race, caste, religion, etc.

Many theorists and scientists have tried to deconstruct
beauty even more understandable parts. 1 idea is to
It is now, from the point of view how symmetry
It was discovered in the object. Some of the main contributions to this
regards the inborn inclination is for people who are
to attract symmetry in combination with physical want or even
pursuit of happiness leads the axiom of symmetry
It is, indeed, the symbol of beauty.

Deadly creatures is so engrossed with beauty that is
take an awesome shape the economy in the form of beauty
industry. There are many companies and organizations
taking part in beauty products sold. These range from
your next door to reveal beauty salon premium
brand marketing organization spread across 150
countries in the world.

Beauty care is an act of outstanding and game time for death
beings, especially women. Beauty is perceived to offer
attractiveness and confidence. Beauty care includes hair
care, face care, skin care, nail care, proper nutrition,
vitamins, etc.

There are many therapies dedicated to the cause of
beauty care. It is even more critical in this
aromatherapy, cosmetics, fine or coarse animal hair of laser action
slimming techniques, painting, etc.

Many authors have written the beauty. Please select some excellent
the quotes are ' a thing of beauty is a joy forever "by John
Keats. "Real Beauty lives in deep withdrawals, whose veil
unremoved, it is up to the heart in Concord with the heart beats, and
the lover is beloved "by Wordsworth. And we all know
that a thing of beauty is a joy forever and that beauty lies
in the eyes of beholder. It is interesting how the
the perception of beauty "by Anon.

Helen Keller adds all things almost all the beautiful
globe have not seen or touched. Marked with the
heart ".

Understanding beauty

Beauty is a phenomenal idea, which is as old as mankind. However, it is a concept that is very misunderstood. Different individuals hear divergent views of what beauty means that a great number of eventually frustrated and confused, honestly to leave. If someone were to walk right into you and asked him to define beauty. What would you say? You start describing a model coverage that you saw in one of the most popular magazines, or colors of the Rainbow? Or, you will receive a soft, melodious music piece or even a romantic verse by a lover? All this can be defined the concept of beauty, but one thing is clear, there is no clear definition of beauty. Beauty is something abstract and intangible. It is something about something. Something about this will vary from person to person. A popular definition of beauty is a characteristic that is about something that gives a sense of pleasure and satisfaction. Therefore, for the beauty perceived, it must encourage the sensations reminiscent of a feeling of joy, pleasure and satisfaction. By this definition, the judge of what is beautiful is the person who takes or fails to take the pleasure.

How is this sensuous beauty prevailing among human beings? What makes a considered beautiful and attractive? Is a person considered beautiful necessarily attractive? These are complex issues that do not have an immediate answer. How to view societies live in beauty is influenced by many factors. First of all, there are cultural factors. In the past, each culture has distinct criteria on which they are based on beauty. There are cultures considered plump women are beautiful. Therefore, the fattening of virgins before marriage was a common practice. Others consider small feet are beautiful. This however has changed a lot in today. The evolution of technology and human interaction, have minimized the differences of cultural preferences and is now almost a standard view beauty. This significantly affected by the parameters of the top fashion houses. Pictures of their work to the public, printed dress, Walking style and physique are increasingly the trend noted in the world are expected to follow. But what we see on the Catwalk to the true representation of beauty? Thankfully, no. Human beauty is so rich in variety that we can have no defined parameters within which to define. An imperative can not say small is beautiful is beautiful, blonde, slim is beautiful, green eyes are beautiful, etc., and condemn other characteristics. There is no standard of beauty and each person is beautiful in its own way. There can be only bias as a result of society around the person. For this reason, you will find a man married to a blonde with a brunette or a lady Oriental or African origin. It is simply beautiful and man cannot resist!

So, if we are all beautiful, what then is the big deal? There is every reason to bother or care about how we can look at? Yes, there is! Must of course be interesting how geneticallymodified maize sees. We live in a world of complex and highly socialized. Put the picture of beauty has become extremely trade. Non-compliance risk rejection. Studies have shown that what is beautiful is the Halo. A beautiful and attractive person would get more attention, resulting in higher marks in class, get more help, better job, more and more reliable. Incidentally, people who are considered to be beautiful is better adjusted, smarter and displays confidence. The beauty plays a key role in our lives we are associated with how others and how we choose our guides. It is therefore something responsible for us to ensure that we are beautiful. How to do this? Since we have established that the beauty is about evoking feelings of pleasure and satisfaction to other people, so we must aim at ensuring that people are happy with what they see when they look at us. We all have strengths and weaknesses. We must seek to reinforce our strengths and our weaknesses mask. The objective is not to be the most beautiful person around. That it is useless, that there is no such person more beautiful. The objective is to ensure we are accepted and acceptable to the society we live in. This will enhance self-confidence and physical health. Beauty and health for happiness, will discuss tips on how to enhance the beauty and health. But first you must observe the following fundamental beauty tips.

o himself accepts the way you are and we know that you are beautiful with your own unique way. This is the first step in improving your health and beauty, shining all around you.

o Development of healthy habits. Beauty and health are inseparably linked. Among the many features that will contribute to the overall beauty is health and youthfulness. You must have a healthy body, healthy skin, eyes, good breath and healthy teeth etc. It, therefore, that you have a balanced diet, exercising and consult your doctor on a regular basis whenever necessary.

o Identify appropriate products that you can use to strengthen your strengths and your weaknesses mask points. These include moisturizers, creams, perfumes, and hair products, etc.

o Make a plan and start simple.

Beauty is a concept that plays a major role in the life and affects how to socialize and compete within the society that we live in. There is no correct version of beauty and we are beautiful in our own way. Our beauty perceptions are affected by the society in which we live and the modern commercialisation of beauty. However we do not follow what you see in commercials. Instead, you can make a point to improve how you present yourself to others, and in the process, to enhance your beauty and health.

The outer glow from an inner beauty

Beauty is a quality possessed by an object or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction for the senses. When we think of the beautiful, we equate with a positive feeling of pleasure or God. Beauty is a subjective experience that could lead to strong feelings of attraction and emotional well being. As society imposes a strong expectation that women can be beautiful, the beauty can provide a standard of comparison and can cause resentment and dissatisfaction when not achieved. Beauty may have inspired people throughout history, but the pursuit of beauty can sometimes lead to obsession and eating disorders.

As excessive emphasis on superficial beauty, the inner person tends to be spoiled. Outward beauty can remain to be superficial. Although the media focused on the reintroduction of natural beauty, we cannot deny that internal beauty endured ages. Intelligence, kindness and creativity are some of the virtues of the inner beauty. Glitz and glamour may cause an eloquent sentiments, but inner beauty can create beings depths of the soul. We tend to create our own criteria for judging the beauty of a woman. Prominent cheekbones, deep eyes, luscious lips, perfect skin and perfect hair coupled with a shapely figure.

Civil society has created a standard of beauty that has become a mould wants every woman to fit in. Can be a frustrating exercise to try to fit in within the limits of outward physical beauty. Inner beauty, on the other hand has no limits. Inner beauty surpasses and exceeds. Inner beauty does not need to fit into a template, as has the freedom to follow the suggestions of his own virtues. Outward beauty can only be the icing on the cake, but inner beauty is the full substance within which is a blend of many fine features such as etiquette and ethics, intelligence and character, charm and sense of humour, creativity and social and family values.

The inner beauty that makes the whole within a woman will do radiant abroad with a warm smile and ready for everyone and the eyes that see good in all things. Just as there is no appreciable difference between a Dear rug woven Persian represented a machine Cheap carpet and, therefore, there is a distinct disproportion between shallow outward beauty and true inner beauty. Outward beauty can go to the degree of excellence, but still akairoys if ill-bred and heartless. Inner beauty on the other hand is elegant, hand knotted, each poylw carefully crafted both colourful thread to create a stunning design of the character and personality that fashions the masterpiece a unique beautiful woman.

Inner beauty is a unique art in itself. Outward beauty can only be more appreciated when coming from an inner beauty that sees a more noble purpose beyond superficiality and vanity. For a woman is really beautiful, inner beauty must be cultivated, while inherently strengthens the natural beauty. It is also worth caring for yourself and your inner beauty. The next time you look in the mirror, ask yourself what true beauty is and if it is really beautiful. Just needs time to nurture your inner beauty, no doubt that the inner beauty will eventually emerge to the surface.

Only then will you see that you are really a beautiful woman.

Natural beauty products and improvement of beauty

Beauty may be defined by a variety of ways. Some simply means the State is pleasing to the eye, while in others it is something that brings a sense of sweetness in the heart. In others, could be sound or touch that soothes the soul. real beauty with the actual meaning includes all these and more, for the presence of a person may be agreeable appearance speech and action, but the opposite can happen certainly this person may not really be described as beautifulLet us say you were asked by police to describe a thug just pilfering your seems pretty certainly won't put in the description of thug regardless of how good you look this appears to be.

Now we know what beauty really is the next step is to determine how we get it, or when it comes from. The simple truth is created everything beautiful beauty is within us and around us as our nature alongside so much from it. As a fact that our nature as human beings are beautiful and some beauty appears effortlessly while others have to do a bit to let it show. Not withstanding, everything, everyone is intrinsically beautiful. Take a piece of diamond presence until it is cut and polished it just as well could be a piece of rock. Gold and silver must be to highlight the real beauty is all of us to be beautiful, but to achieve true, global and General beauty there must be some form of improvement. This reminds me of the story of Cinderella and the ugly stepsisters. The stepsisters were better than external adornment, but refused to enhance this bast was thus described as ugly, Cinderella had the beauty within you that was easy to nera?da to convert it into a real gem. So if we are all inherently beautiful, because then we need to enhance it? The simple truth is that adds value to us and when this value is people tend to appreciate us more, people want to like it more and I don't know of any person in this life you do not want to be loved and appreciated. Many manufacturers, advertisers and marketers understand this concept is the reason that the manufacturer wants to produce the best possible quality of product and advertisers and marketers, sure is well packaged and displayed in public. How then can we enhance our inherent beauty and achieve true that, as a whole and all Encompassing beauty?

1. the first key us attitude, we have to recognise we are inherently beautiful and let that be reflected in life to people around us, in the world and everything in this attitude. No one could have chosen a certain piece of rock and if he does not recognize that, if cut and polished that rock is a gem he can just pop it into a lake. In the same spirit if not aware of this beauty is our there is a tendency that our attitude to life and various topics will be wrong as a consequence we ourselves devalue our relations, workplace and all other efforts. To be really beautiful, you must have the right attitude, positive, and most importantly recognize the beauty that is in us.

2. the following is a healthy style of life, is really beautiful, we need to live a healthy life; it is pointless to have a pleasant appearance, while we kill ourselves with our way of life. The food we eat, the amount of rest, recreation, exercise and how we may acclimatise are all important factors here. Our way of life may be busy or we find very difficult to balance all these factors, for example in the case of a balanced diet, it is sometimes difficult to achieve, not because they can't afford itbut because it is not the time and the knowledge needed to put it together there especially in the modern world we live in where there is plenty of junk food. This can however be corrected with the use of supplements. However, one must endeavour to maintain a healthy lifestyle and the keyword here is moderation.

3. Finally, considering that foreign decorations, clothes, perfumes, cosmetics and accessories that are wearing to enhance beauty. In this case there is no one perfect solution, what suits you may not like what is important is to feel comfortable with what you wear. Avoid as over dressed or dyed to look like a doll. Make sure that what you wear on your self assessment adds.

Beauty can be viewed in different ways, but in fact to be described as "really beautiful involves a combination of various aspects of beauty. We are all inherently beautiful, but should strengthen this raw beauty in order to add value to us. This makes us appreciate and love. Beauty improvement can be achieved by recognition of our inherent beauty and to reflect in our attitude. living a healthy lifestyle and the use of appropriate clothing and accessories. I have heard people say beauty is relevant, what is beautiful for one person may not be so in another, this may be true for physical form, but in terms of beauty, truth and beauty I totally disagree. Real beauty is absolute is either you or not, and will be achieved by strengthening, intrinsic beauty.

The psychology of beauty

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On the different theories of beauty and the role of perception in the judgment of beauty.

The psychology of beauty is complex not just because the concept of beauty is as yet undefined but also because it is largely true that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder or how individuals perceive other people or things. Beauty can be attributed to everything that appeals to our senses and all objects that are compatible with our personal preferences. Beauty as we perceive it is largely a projection of our needs and beautiful objects or persons simply cater to our idealizations or fancies and reflect our natural need to relate to all that is appealing. Human beings are controlled by the senses and we tend to repeat processes or experiences that appeal to the senses, that are harmonious and have structure and form. Beauty appeals to our sense of sight so there is a preference for repeating the experience of beauty.

But how do we perceive beauty and why are some people or objects considered more beautiful than some others? Psychological tests have considered symmetry and proportion as extremely important in the perception of beauty. Beauty is also more holistic than specific as a beautiful object is judged as a whole package that is appealing rather than judged on the basis of its parts. Freudian or psychoanalytic explanations of beauty are scarce but psychoanalytic concepts could be used to consider our judgment of beauty as a projection or wish fulfillment so people attractive to us are typically ones who we admire or who in some way represent our own desires and fancies. Psychoanalysis can also be compatible with the idea that beauty is preferential perception when there are similarities with a parent. Most people are also considered beautiful when they have baby-faced features or a particular innocence in their faces. Beauty can also be culturally motivated so in certain eastern cultures women with beautiful feet are considered attractive whereas in the Victorian era in England, women with elegance and grace were the ones with smooth neck and tiny waist and modern western women are judged on the basis of their breasts, bottom and lips. The perception of beauty can change and studies have found that women may prefer softer features of men during particular times and more masculine features at other times depending on the stage of their reproductive cycle. So there are actually several theories of beauty which are discussed here one by one.

1. Beauty as Symmetry and Proportion - As you might have noticed in case of ancient architectural marvels, symmetry was extremely important. Whether it was the great pyramids in Egypt or the architectural wonders in Greece, symmetry and perfect dimensions played an important part in the history of aesthetics. This whole idea of symmetry also applies to every other object or person that we perceive so a person with perfectly symmetrical face would also be considered as an epitome of physical perfection. Perfectly shaped and sharp features are attractive to most people and the most beautiful faces are the ones which have very proportionate features. The same applies to the body and the low waist to hip ratio giving a curvy lower part of the body in women is considered more attractive than a straight shape which usually does not indicate fertility. As human beings are finally looking for evolutionary advantage women with a curvy shapes are considered more fertile and are thus more attractive to men. Similarly men with athletic and muscular bodies are attractive to women. However many men might not prefer extremely voluptuous or curvy women just like many women may not prefer extremely muscular men. This suggests that proportion is also about moderation or maybe human beings are more comfortable with certain moderation in what they perceive rather than excess and that way the perception of beauty may even depend on some sort of social programming.

2. Beauty as a whole rather than parts - When we consider something beautiful, we usually try to take a broad holistic view. Thus when we consider a rose as beautiful, we are less attentive towards each petal and consider the symmetry of the flower as a whole. In a similar manner, when we consider the face of a man or a woman, beauty is the composite quality that seems to represent the entire face of the individual rather than the parts or particular features. Our senses prefer a holistic view and perception of things and thus a person is considered attractive or beautiful only when all features add up to something really pleasant to the senses.

3. Beauty as projection and wish fulfillment - The perception of beauty is not only a mental process but also a deeply personal one. If say your lover has blonde hair, you might find other blonde haired people very attractive because you tend to project your inner fancies on to other people. The 'he' looks like my lover or 'she' looks like my lover is a common syndrome in our perception of beauty and people who are remotely similar to our mates are suddenly more beautiful to us than others. The same projection applies in case of selecting a mate who resembles a parent. If a man looks like your father or a member of the family he is obviously far more attractive to you than to others. The wish fulfillment theory is also equally true and when we want to be like someone in terms of talents or certain qualities, we naturally consider that person as absolutely perfect and beautiful. Some teenagers may idolize popular actors or actresses and the need to be like them also determines their own perception of beauty.

4. Beauty as innocence and charm - No one can deny that a charming personality with social confidence can be far more attractive than a dull personality. A person who has the inherent ability to attract individuals with the sheer force of personality and presence is considered highly attractive. In some way there may be an association between good looks and social confidence and sometimes individuals with good looks are also socially most accepted and thus more confident. Individuals with baby-face features with high or defined cheekbones and certain innocence on their faces are usually considered very attractive by both the sexes. Beauty is advantageous in social adaptation and good looking people are thus socially successful as well, as they get support and positive assessment from other people. However the opposite in also true and sometimes good looking women and even men can become extremely self-conscious and fail to develop adequate self confidence. Good looks can in certain cases become an impediment as good looking women who are also intelligent may be judged more on the basis of their looks rather than their intelligence and this is sometimes a sad fact in modern society.

5. Beauty as a product of culture and society - This is an accepted fact. The concept of beauty seems to change with time as society changes and the perception of beauty varies in different cultures. Dark skin is considered very attractive in Western societies and whiter skin is considered as attractive in Eastern societies, because of the element of novelty in both the cases. Feet and hair of women are important features in Eastern cultures whereas in the West, the woman's lips, and hips are considered important. The breasts of women are important indicators of beauty in all cultures and men's body and chin or jaw and certain masculine sharpness are also considered as attractive. Studies have indicated that women however tend to prefer dominant looking men during the first follicular stage in their reproductive cycle but prefer men with softer more feminine features when they are in their menstrual and ovulation stages. This may have some evolutionary advantage as men with feminine soft natures and faces are considered as more stable and more family oriented than men who have extreme masculinity or a sort of raw appeal. This is however too generalized and there are individual differences as well.

Finally, beauty is about how we perceive the outer world and how we integrate our needs and project our wishes on what we see in the external world. 'Beauty in the eyes of the beholder' in completely correct from a psychological viewpoint as our own preferences change with time and so do our desires, aesthetic sense and perception of beauty.

Truth, beauty, goodness

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Can one know what true beauty and goodness are? Is there an objectivity to these attributes, or are they merely what one perceives them to be? Let us focus on what God has created women to be and what society tells them to be. Does the truth lie in women being successful career women to the exclusion of their own feminine nature; in being dependent on the admiration of others for their self-worth; or in their being mere physical objects of pleasure? Or are they called to find the truth of their dignity in the model of Mary, Virgin Mother of God, who reflects and participates in the Divine Truth, Beauty, and Goodness of which all creation is called to reflect and share in?

The question of truth, beauty, and goodness is one that has intrigued men for centuries. The pagan philosophers seek to identify that which is True, Good, and Beautiful. For the Christian, however, there can be no other answer than that which affirms that the Triune God is the True, the Beautiful, and the Good. By His very essence God is all three. Everything else is so only by participation. We can know this because God has chosen to reveal Himself to us. The Catechism of the Catholic Church #2500 tells us that "even before revealing Himself to man in words of truth, God reveals Himself to (man) through the universal language of creation." All creation reflects its Creator; therefore, we can see something of Beauty itself in creation. Truth, beauty, and goodness, which are called "the transcendentals," cannot be separated from one another because they are a unity as the Trinity is One. Truth is beautiful in itself. And goodness describes all that God has made. "God saw all that He had made, and it was very good" (Gen.1:31).

Man is the summit of the Creator's work, as Scripture expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from that of other creatures. "God created man in His own image..." (Gen. 1:27). Thus, man was not only created good and beautiful, but he was also established in friendship with his Creator and in harmony with himself and with the creation around him, in a state that would be surpassed only by the glory of the new creation in Christ. The inner harmony of the first man, the harmony between the first man and woman (Adam and Eve), and the harmony between the first couple and all creation, is called "original justice." This entire harmony of original justice was lost by the sin of our first parents. Created in a state of holiness, man was destined to be fully "divinized" by God in glory. But he preferred himself to God and disobeyed God's command.

Thus, Adam and Eve immediately lost the grace of original holiness, and the harmony in which they had lived was destroyed. They were separated from Beauty Itself. God, however did not abandon mankind, all of whom share in the sin of Adam, since "by one man's disobedience all were made sinners" (Rom. 5:12). In the fullness of time God sent His Son to restore that which had been lost. The Son, who is "beautiful above the sons of men," came to restore us to beauty.

Thus, we turn now to beauty. Von Balthasar once remarked that when one is seeking to draw others to God, he should begin with beauty because beauty attracts. Beauty will then lead to truth and goodness. Hence, if one is going to begin with beauty then one must know what beauty is. I will make a distinction between two types of beauty, although only one of them is beauty in the truest sense of the definition. There is "seductive" beauty, which is often reflected in our current culture. This would entail whatever allures us to our self-destruction (morally or spiritually). It takes us away from what we were created for, union with Beauty Himself. This type of beauty I will return to, but first I want to establish a definition and proper understanding of what "true" beauty is. This is first and foremost whatever attracts us to our true fulfillment and happiness. In his book The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty, John Saward, drawing on the work of St.Thomas Aquinas, defines beauty as: "the gleaming of the substantial or actual form that is found in the proportioned parts of a material things." In other words, while one can find beauty in the outward appearance, one must go deeper to the nature or the essence of the thing.

"Thus, in a material substance (such as man) there is beauty when the essence of a thing shines clearly through its outward appearance." The beauty of one's soul can be said to shine through a person's countenance. For this to occur, three things are necessary -wholeness (integrity), due proportion (harmony), and radiance (clarity). It is important to note that understood in this definition is the fact that beauty is a reality in itself, it is not something that we produce by looking at a work of art or some other thing that attracts us. Rather, beauty radiates out of what we see. It radiates out because it is participating in Beauty itself. In regards to Jesus, "Christian Tradition - from Augustine and Hilary to Peter Lombard, Albert, Thomas, and Bonaventure - holds that beauty can be appropriated in a special way to the Second Person..."

St. Thomas says that all three marks of beauty are found in Jesus. Radiance is found in Him because He is the Word of the Father, and the Word eternally uttered by the Father completely and perfectly expresses Him. He is the brightness of the Father's mind. Due proportion is found in the Son of God because He is the perfect image of the Father. As the perfect image, He is divine beauty. Jesus has wholeness because He has in Himself the whole nature of the Father. In begetting the Son, the Father communicates the whole of His divine essence. Thus, we have a Divine Person, God the Son, who without ceasing to be true God, has been made true man for us in the Virgin's womb. When one sees the Virgin and the Child, one sees a witness to the Trinity. Pope John Paul II explains that this picture of Mother and Child "constitutes a silent but firm statement of Mary's virginal motherhood, and for that very reason, of the Son's divinity."

It is as such a witness to the Trinity that allows Mary a special place in relationship to the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. The Blessed Virgin, said the fifteenth century poet John Lydgate, is the "Fairest Mother that ever was alive." Many poets and artists have sought to express their praise and admiration for Her who is so closely united to Divinity. When Dante reaches Paradise, he finds the beauty of the Son of God most perfectly mirrored in Mary, of whom He was born. Thus, we will see how Mary is to be for all, but especially women, a model of true beauty, and thus, goodness and truth, as she reflects a sharing in the life of the Trinity. "All the beauty for soul and body that the Son of God brought into the world, all the loveliness He wanted to lavish on mankind, is summed up in, and mediated by the person of His ever virgin Mother, 'a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars' (Rev. 12:1). If there is beauty, it is here."

To understand Mary's beauty, one must know of the gifts bestowed on her, and her response to these gifts, which put her in intimate contact with Beauty, Itself. Scripture, God's revealed Word, tells us that "an angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph...and the virgin's name was Mary. And he (the angel) came to her and said, 'Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you! ... Do not be afraid Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call Him Jesus. He will be great and called the Son of the Most High...And Mary said, ' How can this be since I have no husband?' And the angel said to her, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.' ...And Mary said, 'Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.'" (Lk. 1:26-38).

To become the mother of the Savior, Mary was given the gifts necessary and befitting such a role. Mary was greeted as "full of grace," as if that were her real name. A name expresses a person's identity. "Full of grace" is Mary's essence, her identity, and the meaning of her life. Mary is full of grace because the Lord is with her. The grace with which she is filled is the presence of Him who is the source of all grace, and she is given over to Him who has come to dwell in her and whom she is about to give to the world. She is by a singular grace free from any stain of sin by reason of the merits of her Son. She possesses the harmony that Adam lost. Thus, she has the first two qualities of beauty: due proportion (harmony) and integrity (wholeness) because by the merits of her Son and the fullness of grace which she has been given, her nature is complete - unwounded and unstained by sin.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church proclaims that "Mary, the all-holy ever-virgin Mother of God, is the masterwork of the mission of the Son and the Spirit in the fullness of time...In her, the 'wonders of God' that the Spirit was to fulfill in Christ and in the Church began to be manifested." Through Mary, the Holy Spirit begins to bring men, "the objects of God's merciful love, into communion with Christ."

Grace has been described as "God's better beauty, the splendor of the soul." And Mary, who is full of grace, radiates that splendor, that spiritual beauty. Grace (sanctifying grace) gives us a share in the Divine Life; it conforms our souls into the likeness of Christ. Mary in her abundance of grace is a reflected beauty of her Son. She possesses the "radiance" which is the third of the qualities of beauty. The great St. Bernard of Clairvaux declares that "contemplating the countenance of the Mother is the best way of preparing to see the glorious face of the Son." Saward endorses this idea by pointing to the fact that Our Lord is conceived by the Holy Spirit without seed, thus there is only one human person whom He resembles in His humanity, and that is His Virgin Mother.

How does Mary's beauty enable women of today to be an image of true beauty, and hence of truth and goodness also? Mary, the Theotokos - the Mother of God, the Mother of Infinite Beauty, who is herself beautiful, will guide women to that which is true and good. She shows the falsehood of "seductive beauty," which we have noted above as being whatever allures us to our self-destruction (morally or spiritually), by holding up her own "true" beauty in contrast. Before showing the essence of Mary's beauty, which meets St. Thomas' requirements for beauty: wholeness, due proportion, and radiance, we will look at society's claim of womanly beauty. Women today are told by society that what is good and beautiful is that which is glamorous and seductive. Beauty is separated from God, Who is disregarded and Whose goodness is exchanged for a "base mind and improper conduct" (Rom. 1:28), leading to both spiritual and often physical dissolution. The "truth" that they are taught is one which "considers the human being (and hence, the woman) not as a person but as a thing, as an object of trade, at the service of selfish interest and mere pleasure... this falsehood produces such bitter fruits as contempt for men and for women, slavery, oppression of the weak, pornography, prostitution..."

Thus, beauty is often seen as a mere physical quality. It lacks "due proportion" because only one aspect of the whole person is considered. Society emphasizes the physical to the exclusion of the spiritual. Flowing from this same type of mentality, we see that women are honored more for their work outside the home than for their work within the family. What is "seen" as attractive is a woman who is able to achieve the "good" of a successful career, which promises happiness and "equality with men." In order to achieve this, women often times either renounce their femininity or become a mere imitation of the male role. They are in a sense trading in the quality of "integrity," which is necessary for true beauty, for society's limited claim of the beautiful. This "seductive beauty" which promises so much "good" gives rise to a hedonism that distorts and falsifies human sexuality and the true dignity of the human person. This leads not only to a lack of respect for what womanhood is to be, since the truth about their personal dignity as one who was created and redeemed by God is unknown, but it also hinders women from achieving the "fullness of grace" for which they were created. It leads to women's spiritual destruction because they are not living a life of grace. They are not living for God.

Mary, who lived a grace-filled life, is, however, the model of redeemed woman. God Himself "manifests the dignity of women in the highest form possible by assuming human flesh from the Virgin Mary, whom the Church honors as the Mother of God." The highest elevation of the human nature took place in the masculine gender, when Jesus, the Son of God, became man and male. The highest elevation of the human person took place in the feminine gender, in the Virgin Mary. Her divine maternity gives her an exalted dignity. She is "blessed among women." Therefore, all womanhood shares in her blessing and is made radiant by her. "When the Virgin Mary is humbly honored for the sake of her Son, women will be honored...for she has revealed the true beauty of womanhood."

Looking at what we have already said about Mary, we know "full of grace" reveals her essence, her identity. It is also the key to her reflection of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. It is the key to women discovering the truth of their own dignity, and hence, obtaining the divine life that is offered to them through a life of grace. This is a life that will bestow on them true goodness and beauty, which is a participation in the beauty of the Creator.

Because Mary is "full of grace," she possesses the wholeness that was lost by Adam. Because of grace, she is "radiant as the sun," showing in her very being the clarity of a life united with God. Such a union shines forth in a person's actions; actions which are a reflection of God's goodness. "The practice of goodness is accompanied by spontaneous spiritual joy and moral beauty" (CCC 2500). These actions, called virtues, "are acquired by education, by deliberate acts and by a perseverance ever-renewed in repeated efforts are purified and elevated by divine grace" (CCC1810). Grace affects every dimension of a person's life. It is a gift of God that leads us closer to God. The closer we are to God, the more we reflect Him who is Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.

Mary is held up for us as the model of the life of virtue. She is a guide in living a life of faithfulness to grace. Due to space limitation, I will only briefly look at three of the virtues that Mary possesses and calls us to imitate. They are faith, obedience, and charity. The Church hails Mary as an "excellent exemplar in faith and charity" (Lumen Gentium 53). We see her faith when she entrusts herself freely to God at the Annunciation, believing and trusting the angel's message to her that the son to be born to her would be the Son of the Most High, certain that "with God nothing is impossible" (Lk. 1:30). Her journey of faith continues in her responses to that which occurs in her life of union with Jesus. She flees to Egypt when Joseph is directed to go there (Mt. 2:13-15); she returns in the same manner (Mt. 2:19-23); and she faithfully perseveres in her union with her Son unto the cross (cf. LG#58, Jn.19:25-27), all the while believing and trusting in the wisdom of God's divine plan. She believed that her Son, though crucified and buried, would rise from the dead. She waited in prayer (Acts 1:14). We, too, are called to be women of faith, believing what God has revealed concerning His plan for us and our salvation.

Flowing from Mary's deep faith, she shows her loving obedience. Hers was not a servile obedience. Rather it was an obedience that flowed from humility. She knew the wisdom and greatness of God and therefore, sought to live in conformity with it. Being obedient to God meant responding in trust to His all-wise plan. Again, at the Annunciation, she replies in obedience to the angel, "Let it be done to me as you say" (Lk. 1:36). She obediently follows the directions that the angel gives to Joseph, trusting in God. Mary remained obedient to her role as mother even to the cross, where she obediently offers the full assent of her intellect and will to Him whose ways are inscrutable. As we seek to imitate Mary's obedience, we will find that it frees us from the slavery of sin. Obedience makes us beautiful because it opens us up to God's grace, to His life and love within us.

Mary's faith and obedience allows her great charity to shine through. Mary, the Mother of Fairest Love, possesses a self-humbling love, innocent of all narcissism. "It is for Christ and to the glory of the Father, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, that our Lady is 'all fair.'" She devotes herself "totally as a handmaid of the Lord to the person and work of her Son... she does this freely" (LG # 56). This acceptance of her role as "Mother of the Son of God (is) guided by spousal love, the love which totally consecrates a human being to God. By virtue of this love, Mary wished to always be and in all things given to God." This love that remains faithful to her Son throughout His life, even to His cruel death on Calvary, extends itself to the brethren of her Son, those souls still journeying on earth (cf. LG #62-63). There is nothing more beautiful than charity, which we are all called to practice, and which inspires and animates all the other virtues (cf. CCC 1827). Charity, the form of all virtues "binds everything together in perfect harmony" (Col. 3:14), one of the aspects of beauty.

These virtues and the life of grace are possible for all women, who seek to know the truth and avail themselves of the grace that comes from the merits of Jesus Christ, who came to restore mankind to the beauty of adopted children and "partakers in the divine nature" (1 Pt. 1:3). St. Francis de Sales notes that because of grace we are so like Christ that we resemble God perfectly, because in His becoming man, Jesus has taken our likeness and given us His. Thus, we must do what we can to preserve this beauty and divine resemblance that He has restored to us.

Mary helps women to do this. Her beauty attracts, and because it attracts she leads us to Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (Jn.14:6). Mary is loved and honored because she reflects the truth, beauty, and goodness of her Son by her actions, by her life of virtue. Her role is to lead others to Him and to the truth he teaches and is. This is seen by looking once again at how creation reflects the beauty of God. All that God creates is good; it is beautiful. Jesus, who is the fullness of revelation, has raised creation to an even higher dignity by restoring all things "according to the plan God was pleased to restore in Christ. A plan to be carried out in Christ, in the fullness of time, to bring all things into one in Him, in the heavens and on earth" (Eph. 1:9-10). Thus, harmony is restored, all is made whole, and His glory is made known. Because the "Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son of the Father" (Jn. 1:14)

Man was created in the image and likeness of God; Jesus renewed humanity in His immortal image. He restored us to the likeness of God. Mary reflects the beauty of her Son in her very essence. Mary is the one who will, in cooperation with her Divine Son, help women to discover the truth of their feminine nature, to reflect the beauty of a child of God, and by God's grace to live that goodness that comes from God alone. Women, to attain this ideal, must turn to Mary as a model, who has been chosen by God from all eternity to be the Mother of His Son, and to be a guide for us on our journey to the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, our true fulfillment and happiness. Women should entrust themselves to Mary's guidance because she already is that which they are called to be: full of grace. As the Church prays in the Divine Liturgy: Lord, as we honor the glorious memory of the Virgin Mary, we ask that by the help of Her prayers, we too may come to share the fullness of Your grace," so that by that grace we too may reflect that which is True, Beautiful, and Good.

Rawsome beauty: Luck of the draw or within reach of all?

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Excerpted from the book "Your Right to Be Beautiful: How to Halt the Train of Aging and Meet the Most Beautiful You" by Tonya Zavasta.

All of my life, I wanted to be beautiful. In today's society, it is more acceptable to insist that you are "beautiful on the inside", unfortunately, those of us on the outside are not seeing your insides. Wanting to be beautiful is now criticized as being shallow. I'm sorry but I would rather be perceived as shallow than hypocritical because I find it impossible to believe than any women is content to be less than she can be.

Personal initiative is a powerful force in achieving goals and attaining wealth. What about beauty? Are we desperately helpless here, or is there a way to bring it under personal control? I believe we have as much leverage in becoming beautiful as we have in accomplishing anything else we set our minds to. But we have not been looking in the right places for beauty.

The most inspiring books about becoming wealthy are written by people who have made it from rags to riches. However, advice on becoming beautiful often comes from those blessed with exceptional beauty to begin with. For a woman born beautiful to teach others how to become beautiful is like a sweepstakes winner teaching people how to earn a fortune through hard work. Is there a means for achieving beauty for those of us who are not big winners in the gene lottery?

Good news! It is biologically possible to look beautiful at any age. If you do not see yourself as beautiful, it is because your beauty is unclaimed. Your body has never been given a chance to reveal how it can look when provided with the best possible nourishment and care.

Some of our physical characteristics we cannot change--they are determined by our lineage, food choices our mothers made during pregnancy, and our environment. Oriental diagnosis has noted that small eyes are caused by consumption of cooked vegetables and animal products during pregnancy and early childhood. Large eyes, on the other hand, are caused by intake of raw vegetables, fruits, and fruit juices. Long eyelashes in a child indicate the intake of substantial amounts of liquids, raw vegetables, and fruits by the pregnant mother.

These things we cannot change. We can change much, however, by the consumption of a raw plant diet as an adult. This diet will make a difference in weight, complexion, and the texture of skin, hair, and nails. All of these traits and more are determined by our daily choices, with food being one of the most important--and one we have full control of.

Our bodies' natural ability to renew cells means that your body is capable of improving your looks. After all, we were designed to bloom continuously as old cells are replaced by new ones. The raw food diet makes the most of that rejuvenating ability. Rawsome beauty is not manufactured from the outside; it is cultivated from the inside by nutritionally charged food. The body responds with alacrity to an improved diet. As the body strengthens and heals your insides, you will see your beauty starting to surface on your face and re-structuring your body.

The artistic ability of your body will surprise you. It will seem as though a sculptor is chiseling your face and body. Fat deposits will disappear from the right spots. Everything bumpy or lumpy will be smoothed or straightened. Everything dull will be illuminated. The features will be refined until a lovely face surfaces, and the skin will be polished until it glows. By revealing and intensifying what is good, the raw food lifestyle will make the best of whatever goodness you have and will open every avenue for more. This lifestyle bestows upon you an identity of your own and makes you beautiful.

Only the body sustained on raw food demonstrates natural beauty or, shall we say, "rawsome beauty." The landscape of the body will change. Fat that has accumulated in pockets under the eyes and at the jaw will melt away. The lumpy potato look of one's face will give way to sleek, smooth contours. Pockets of fat and retained water will disappear. The surface of the skin will become soft and smooth yet firm and supple. Visible pores will diminish. Sallow, yellowish skin will turn into a porcelain-like complexion. The whites of the eyes, once red, will become bright with a bluish tinge.

The body becomes transformed and will unfold from the inside out. While your non-raw-eating peers discover new blemishes, blotches, and moles on a nearly daily basis, you will see your own skin irregularities gradually fade or disappear. Feeding your body raw food will make your eyes, once sunken in bulbous flesh, look larger and rounder by eliminating the surrounding puffiness and by firming the eyelids. Eyebrows that were beginning to form an awning over the eyes will regain their youthful arch. As natural collagen production improves, it will fill in the places where it is needed, as in hollow cheeks. It will not just patch your face, but it will improve every one of your 3,000 square inches of skin.

Raw food eating will clarify and refine your features and bring delicacy to your face. This diet will give the impression of high cheekbones. In fact, it will give the effect of a cheek implant, by providing a subtle contour to the cheek area. The blurred chin-to-neck curve will become sharper and more pronounced. Broad jaws and square jowls will slowly give way to a more desirable oval shape. Sagging cheeks will gradually become tauter and tighter. Incidentally, an oval-shaped face, high cheekbones, thin jaws, and large eyes are universally considered to be the major characteristics of a beautiful face.

As the cleansing is completed, you will see how you were meant to look. You will become satisfied, even fascinated, with your appearance. When you look your very best, you look perfect, in a sense that you are as close to the divine image for yourself as you could ever be. You accept yourself completely. Natural beauty is above conformity; it doesn't demand to be accepted by the dictates of the beauty norm.

People who have been on the raw food lifestyle for several years begin to have an emerging radiance. The glow is hard to fake because it is basically internal. It comes from an abundance of clear pink, almost transparent, cells that light up the face. Only superior blood circulation can bring this transfiguring glow. Several years on the raw diet will give you a translucent radiance.

There are beautiful people who are not on the diet, but even they have never been as beautiful as they could be because they have not been cleansed of all toxins. Our frustration with our looks is a subconscious reaction to our innate knowledge that we have not achieved our best look. The Rawsome Diet gives us confidence that we look the way we were meant to look when we are at our most beautiful.

The best proof that raw plant eating is optimal for the body is that it makes you beautiful. Slim face, slender waist, and clear skin with smooth coloration--these subtle changes will convince you that the raw plant diet is the best for good health and graceful beauty. No woman knows her true beauty until she cleanses her body completely of all waste.

I like to study each woman's face. I see not just how she does look, but how much better she could look. What I now see is just how far her looks fall short of her potential. I see her beauty as it would be if her body had been cleansed from all toxins and excesses. On the Rawsome Diet, you will be stunned by how the Master Artist makes the most of your individual features and brings balance to the face. Texture, hues, and shape will be re-arranged into a harmonious whole. Perfection and imperfection will be joined into a unique personal beauty.

But our imagination is limited. The perfect face is an invention of our culture. It shows human preference in particular time and place, and it is severely limited in its variety. While eye bags, puffiness, and sallow skin make faces look similarly unattractive, the variety of beauty versions, supplied by God Himself, is endless.

When your peer group is going through a stage where they think: "I am losing my looks," you will be finding yours. At 47, I enjoy looking in the mirror, while in my youth and young adult life I detested my reflection. People who have not seen me for years often tell me that they hardly recognize me. Even my mother recently said I looked like a different person.

Adopting the raw food diet actually brings the beauty equation full circle. Finally, beauty is for everyone! We can drop the pretence. Ugly Ducklings of the world, this is your chance! It is forgivable to be born ugly, but there is no more excuse for staying ugly. Healthy foods create healthy organs. Strive to become beautiful on the inside--you will be beautiful on the outside.

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Personal power of beauty

Beauty is infinity, beauty is health, beauty is truth, beauty is power

What is the personal power of beauty?

Beauty is the strength of radiance, and your personal beauty has the power to illuminate your world in a more radiant and bountiful experience. There is abundance, joy, passion, sensuality and pleasure in your life was beautiful, and working with your personal power of beauty is a strategy for the claim further. Your personal power of beauty is a treasure to behold, one way to be bold and a powerful journey to unfold. Beneath the surface of your skin is the story of beauty, and this is the story, which aims to tell me.

Personal power of beauty is a magic tool that strengthens all aspects of your existence in a most enchanting and amazing experience. Beauty is the source of your personal magic. This is who you are, it connects you to others and to cornucopia of our planet.

What is beauty? Where come from? Who is this?
When you think of something you have beauty is within you? Or beauty looks like something elusive and besides you?

Everyone is beautiful, and it is our essential nature to radiate this truth is beautiful.

The beauty is inside

Years ago, I saw an ad for the products I loved Burt bee 's. The photograph was a group of bikers, Harley-style, heavy set men know, grimacing, vetches and looking kind of scary. The caption for the ad said "beauty is on the inside". Couldn't be clearer, underneath the packaging is where you will find true beauty is inside. My ad looks just that cracked, still makes me smile. the message was very clear, strong and beautiful said. Beauty comes from within, comes from the skin and sonar around us.

Each of us has our own personal beauty, this is the only substance that we, like our signature or thumb print, are exclusively ours. Our personal beauty or internal beauty stems from the heart, our Center of love. Our Center of love is the vital force of our spirit and our vital force of spirits in the spring from the source of all life: although God, Goddess, great spirit, energy, vibration, Creator, or the divine nature, the force is all the same source. What do you think is the divine spark within your life. what you are equal to the magic of your existence. but you can imagine life without the complexity and perfections and which any way your account for the air is breathable and fire your spirit all stems from the source of life and the beauty within you is a part of the package. Our beauty is a divine light fire through every cell of our existence. You truly never be anything but beautiful for you life and life is beauty.

When you understand the source of the beauty within you, then you can access your potential for greater abundance, strength and ability to change the manifest. The strength of your beauty is already embedded in your heart, ready to shine. However, this is used by your beliefs about yourself and what you can in the name of truth, beauty and love. You are born with the tools to become a channel for this very compelling and powerful vibrations. You are the vehicle for this sacred source to shimmer and glow.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know. "-John Keats.
We live in a world where our notions of beauty is decided by the collective consciousness, the standards of our society. Many of us, especially women, are victims of what is known as the "beauty myth". A world where it is most desirable fashion rules, perfect types and our ways of looking and that everything is meant to sell or consume products: beauty products, perfumes, diet pills, hair color, fashion magazines, douches, etc. But this is what true beauty. The truth is we are already increasingly full beings, we are all perfect, because we are all absolutely. What the truth is that beauty is everywhere and in everything. What on Earth and the universe is divine origin. Unfortunately, many of us are taught to honor our beauty in this manner. Was warned against excessive or when I said we were not quite beautiful and, unfortunately, so many beautiful people have never had their own precious nature is reflected back to them. Hiding in shadows, our beauty even super models complain for locations within themselves that they find abhorrent. With subtle and not so subtle ways have been disempowered and misdirected by the media to see ourselves as less than ideal of beauty. Each commercial television is an attack, telling us what we must do more, better and more beautiful. This is the beauty myth and can destroy our sense of self-worth and even destroy the joy in our lives, which already has for so many people.

As adults, should be re-teach ourselves when true beauty comes from. You must log on again with radiant source of life within us and what we teach our children. Real beauty comes from the heart and soul and the spirit really is who you are, be coordinated with your self-love and beauty to allow you to take the stage. Your authenticity means beauty. Life is love, love is truth and truth is beauty. All life is sacred and all life is beautiful. Beauty and truth is hand-in-hand, does not exist without the other.

Am I beautiful?

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It is a question that most of us women, if not all of us, linger on every morning when we are brushing our hair, putting on our makeup, or trying to decide if today is going to be a t-shirt day or a "cute" day. Am I beautiful? We might not wonder if the sun envies us like the fair Juliet, but something in us is screaming at the top of its lungs just to hear someone tell us that we are breathtaking, though pretty would do. We want a movie scene where a man knows every shade of our eyes, where everyone happens to look to the top of the staircase where we stand gleaming in our dress, or maybe a few compliments would do. It is healthy and natural for us as women to worry whether we are beautiful or not, because in wondering, we search for what real beauty is. Sadly, we find ourselves searching in all the wrong places: We end up watching movies where the beauty has long legs and a short skirt, comparing ourselves to women in our classrooms or offices, or watching those plastic surgery shows where beauty is only a breast augmentation or liposuction away. Our idea of beauty is often distorted by worldly views and too often it leads one to a devastating sense of self, and possibly, even worth. God created us in His image, and that image is not flawed. We are beautiful, but we have to learn to recognize what genuine beauty is and stop settling for the counterfeited. God tells us what true beauty is, and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with your weight, height, or cup size, but instead, "matters of the heart." If we could only see ourselves from God's eyes, the eyes of the beholder, we wouldn't even need to question the reflection in the mirror.

The Woman God Created You to Be

As silly as it sounds, women remind me of shoes: We can be feminine, sporty, tall, short, curvy, flat, simple, eccentric, a range of colors, and let's not forget that we come in all sizes. However wonderful and diverse that sounds, some of us can't wait until we have that bump on our nose removed or lose just fifteen more pounds. We "know" that everyone is different, yet we live as if we should all be the same. The point is that we are buying into the lies of counterfeited beauty and what it "should" look like. Ironically, taller women wish they were a little shorter because short is cute, but short women would love to be taller, because no one realizes that when your short, fat has nowhere to go but out. Women with freckles do everything to get rid of them, while those without would lay in the sun all day to get just one. Curvy women might think they look a little bigger, but we sticks wish we had something to fill out our new jeans. We all know laying out can cause skin cancer, sun spots, and wrinkles, yet we are determined to have a tan because that's what everyone says is beautiful. If you notice the cycle, you will see that we are all trying to be each other. We all desire each other's gifts, talents, and especially physical features, but if all of these wishes were granted, we would all be walking clones of each other. We are all unique for a reason, and that uniqueness is awesome. I love walking to class and admiring long hair, short hair, curly hair, small noses, big noses, and even the way other women walk. Each one of us is an original painting that has been personally signed by God, and it is such a shame if we never look at ourselves as a masterpiece, but instead, blot out this or redo that or even crop out a whole section just because we can't see through God's eyes and appreciate just how beautiful we truly are. Psalms 139: 14-18 says:

For you formed my inward parts;

You knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

my soul knows it well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

When I was being made in secret,

Intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance

God didn't just throw on those freckles and "weird" nose. No, we are "intricately woven". We are each designed and created, and we are each "wonderfully made." It does not matter what the world says is beautiful, because we are not the world's creation, we are God's. Once we realize we all have a specific blue-print, it should be so easy to embrace everything about our body and face, even our flaws and quirks, because those had just as much time in creation as everything else. Being satisfied with yourself will bring about an acceptance and a confidence in yourself that you might have never felt before, and it will certainly be a way for you to praise the Lord.

Beauty is as Beauty Does

My mom has been telling me this endlessly for years, but it came to my attention that God said it way before she was ever born. Let me ask you a question. How many of you have met a woman who was absolutely beautiful, but after five minutes of talking to her, you could swear that the grim reaper was just behind her flowing, thick, and perfectly groomed hair? I can't even begin to count the number of times I've watched a perceived angel turn into a snarling monster, but it is in those moments that I realize that beauty really is as beauty does. In first peter 3:4 it says "But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious." He also says in 1 Samuel 16:7 "...For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on his appearance or on the height of his stature, but the Lord looks on the heart." As you can see, beauty has absolutely nothing to do with outer appearances, though what is on the outside was created carefully by God, it is the heart that matters most. I'm reminded of a song by Bethany Dillon called "Beautiful," and my favorite part is "look inside my heart and be amazed": I know we care about what we look like, but I know for a fact that we care more about who we are. We want people to know our deepest thoughts, and feelings, and desires. We want them to see the good in us, and that is wonderful since that is what God desires most for us. I'm so thankful that the Lord tells us that the heart is more important than face, but I love that he tells us how to achieve beauty of the heart. He tells us to look to Him to be our mirror. In Galatians 5:22 are listed the fruit of the spirit, the things that God tells us to pursue, and there is nothing in there about makeup or how to wear your hair, but instead, he lists "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness." If you are able to see these things in your life, you are on your way to being a beauty that will not fade, and a beauty that brings a smile to God. By striving to mirror God's character, you will become a woman of integrity and a woman who knows confidence because she does not live by the world's standards, but by her Heavenly Father's. It is inevitable that our hair will turn gray, our faces will sag, and our bodies just won't be what they were at twenty: We will no longer be "beautiful" in the eyes of men, but when our outer beauty is gone, will our true beauty be gone as well? I hope not. I hope people see our generosity, kind hearts, willingness to help those in need, and our hearts for the Lord

Beauty in the Lord

Of course it is easy to read the above and accept it, and even feel motivated to stop obsessing over things like appearance and clothes, but unless we are walking hand in hand with the Lord, that can be impossible; this is made apparent in Proverbs 30:31 which says, "charm is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." In other words, the woman who walks closely with the Lord is constantly learning from him and growing in faith, and so, she is constantly trying to obtain a heart after the Lord's. Just like a rose plucked from its life source, we wilt within days of being removed from Christ. We can't expect to rid of worldly views of beauty if we separate ourselves from our Creator who is the one teaching us what real beauty is. The moment we stop searching His truth, we will slowly become immersed, once again, in the world's views of beauty.

Beauty is not in a magazine, it's not in Webster's Dictionary, or in a perfect face. It is in knowing God. Beauty is being satisfied with who God created you to be, and then actively pursuing looking not like the world, but like Christ. Pursue having His heart, and I can guarantee that you will obtain a beauty that is described in Songs of Solomon as " a lily among the brambles."

The Mystique of beauty-the intuitive ability of man to know the truth and good

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Beauty is one of the most difficult term to define yet one of the easiest terms to understand. We all know what is beautiful and what is not. It does not take a second for a person to say if a girl, a child, a man , a place, a song or a poem is beautiful or not. Yet we hardly know why it is beautiful. All we know is that we like beautiful things and feel good when we see or hear something beautiful.

Random House dictionary, defines "beauty" as a characteristic present in a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction to the mind or to the eyes, arising from sensory manifestations such as a shape, color, personality, sound, design or rhythm.

Yet no one knows, what are these characteristics that make a thing beautiful? Since beauty is based on the perception of the person, it is often said that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Beauty is also considered to be only skin deep which means that beauty is superficial and it lacks any substance.

The opposite of beauty is ugly i.e. what gives us a bad feeling. When we see an ugly thing, we just don't like it and want to close our sensual perception and mind from that thing. Everyone wants to see beauty and become beautiful and dread to become ugly. While we see a beautiful thing or meet a beautiful person, we just want to keep on looking. Einstein used the concept of beauty to explain the Theory of Relativity i.e. how time can expand or contract

"You spend 30 minutes with a beautiful girl, it seems like a moment. You spend a moment sitting on a hot stove, it seems like 30 minutes".

Beauty is so important to human beings that they can do anything to look beautiful or achieve beautiful things in life. The pursuit of human life seems to become beautiful or acquire beautiful things in life. Beauty has such a powerful attraction that it bewilders all logic and rationality of the person and sometime the attraction become fatal. Why is beauty such a powerful force?

Beauty means Truth and Good

In the ancient philosophies, the material body is believed to be the material reflection of the soul, the spark of the universal soul or God. Hence, if the person is good, it is because the person has a beautiful soul. It is because of the beauty of the soul that people do good actions in this world. People find their parents and friends beautiful, because they are good to them. We can hardly find any beauty in our enemies as they are not good to us. When a friend turns enemy, the same person cease to be beautiful.

In Indian philosophy God is said to have three manifestations in this world i.e. Truth, Good and Beautiful (Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram). Hence when we find something beautiful, it is only because it has the truth and goodness in it.

Scientists discover secrets (truths) of nature, because they find universe beautiful (Difficult to imagine?). Einstein said "I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple."

Jules Henri Poincare, a famous French mathematician and scientist said

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

The discovery of truth is, therefore, to with the beauty it holds. For a scientist, the universe is not a dead object but he sees beautiful pattern and aesthetics in the nature, which helps him find the secrets of nature. While most of the people find the world as an ugly place due to its imperfectness like inequality, injustice, disorder, a poet sees the same world as beautiful and creates poetry. A poet can only make beautiful poetry, if he finds beauty in nature and human beings. A logical person or a critique of the world can never find these truth of the world as he can never see beauty in this world.

The Evidence of Beauty

Since beauty needs no logic, people often accuse beauty of being superficial. The rational people or scientists accept no facts to be true unless proven objectively by experiments and investigations. They often blame the perceptions of beauty as biased and prejudiced which has developed in the people in the process of evolution.

We all know that a human body looks beautiful, if it is within a particular range of body weight depending upon the height of the person. We don't find the body beautiful, if it is either too thin or too fat. Yet we can't say why only a particular weight should make the body beautiful? However, the scientists have discovered that what we perceive as beautiful is actually the best body weight for health and longevity. A study conducted by more than a million participants by the US Cancer Prevention [1] concluded that

.. optimum body mass indexes to be between 23.5 and 24.9 for men and 22.0 and 23.4 for women. As body mass index increased, risk of death increased. Men and women, with body mass indexes of 40.0 or higher, increased the risk of death by 250% and 200% respectively. In contrast, underweight men and women, with body mass indexes of 18.5 or lower, increased the risk by 26% and 36% respectively.

Thus, the perception of beauty is not superficial as it is supported by robust scientific research. If, we can imagine how we, can perceive beauty of the body, we can easily notice that our perception of beauty perhaps vary in the same proportion as the effect of body weight on health as if our mind already knows what is good for the body even without going through the long process of research.

Once a scientist described to Einstein, how long years of experimentation and research lead to the discovery of the scientific theory. The wife of Einstein promptly remarked that her husband (Einstein) would have developed the same theory on a piece of paper. Einstein never conducted any experiments, but developed the soundest of the scientific theories from the imagination of his mind as man himself a replica of the universe.

We all have the inherent capability to distinguish the good from the evil and the truth from the untruth by our ability to see beauty. When we eat an apple, we don't have to send it to laboratory to know if it is rotten or fresh. We can simply by looking at it can know that it is fresh. A beautiful apple is also a good apple for health.

What is Good?

The first thing to understand is what is good? We can define goodness from the perspective of self and the world. One can be good to the world, if his actions are for the good of the world. Similarly, one can also be good if his actions are good for him. An ugly man, therefore, must be one who is not only bad for the world but also bad for himself.

However, we can argue, why one would like to do anything that is harmful to self. Yet there is no dearth of such actions. For example, if one eats too much and become obese, it is surely not good for his own health. Similarly smoking, additions etc are also not good for one's own self. All selfish actions are initially good for the person but gradually become bad for him, if these actions are not good for the society. The challenge thus lies in finding a way that is not only good for self but also good for the society. All successful persons and businessman finds a way to find their good in the goods of others. For example, Bill Gates is the richest person in the world, not by doing any harm to the society but by bringing tremendous benefit to the society. As a consequence, he also became a rich man.

However, when a person focuses only on selfish benefit without any concern for the world, he creates an imbalance in the world that makes the person bad. This leads to the path of untruth and evil. Such a person gradually becomes unattractive and ugly as the evil starts getting reflected on his body and the face.

What is good also depends on the person and the situations. A sunny day many look beautiful in the cold winters and cold countries but extremely unattractive for the people of the tropical and warm countries. The woman may look extremely beautiful to a lover but only ordinary to other men and women. Hills may be beautiful for the people living in the plain or in hotter places but may look unattractive to the native who may find the modern world of malls and urban life more attractive. A western music may be attractive to some but repulsive to others.

Thus our perception to beauty has also a purpose. The attraction depends not only the object of beauty but also our mental makeup. We find beauty in things that complements ourselves. It force of attraction due to beauty can be compared with the force of attraction of the electric changes. The opposite attracts and once they meet they neutralize each other. So often we are attracted towards something which we lack. Often, we are not even aware what is missing unless we find something attractive. The beauty is thus a guide to achieve the missing something in us so that we can have more fulfilling and contented life.

Yoga: The Secret of Beauty

The secret of the natural beauty lies in the mantra truth, good and beauty (Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram). To look beautiful outside, one has to be good inside. The good feeling can come only by being good and truthful. If one becomes bad for others, he has to pay the price with his beauty.

Yoga, one of the ancient methods for good heath, means union. It defies all scientific theories as people use yoga to reduce weight and become healthy not by burning calories in gym or by medication but simply by effortless postures of the body designed many thousands of years ago that requires discipline of the body and mind. Yoga means union i.e. the union of body and mind with the soul on personal level and the union of individual soul to the universal soul or the soul of the world on he other level. Yoga, is used all over the world, to make oneself beautiful as it beings the goodness and truth in the person. However, once the person become beautiful, he automatically gets he proper body weight and also fitness and good health.

The Challenges of being Beautiful

Some people are born beautiful but other acquires beauty by conscious effort. Often the most become people become unattractive due to their lifestyle and evil actions. Who would find beauty in a obese man or woman or in a criminal. However, often very ordinary looking person become very attractive because of their achievements. It is particularly true about man who seems to become more attractive with their achievements and good deeds.

As believed in the Indian philosophies, beauty is the manifestation of God in this world. Hence, if a person start doing evil acts, he start drifting from God to Devil. Soon the person would start looking ugly too. His face and body would transform in a way that he would lose all beauty. He would lose health and fitness. He would fall sick frequently. He would become overweight or underweight so as to lose his vitality and health. His face would become cruel or pale devoid of serenity and beauty.

It is not a mere coincidence that no dictator or evil person has ever been beautiful. Conversely, a beautiful person can not be cruel or evil. One proof of this statement is that women, who epitomize beauty, can hardly kill innocent people or commit murder. Woman represents beauty hence they also mean what is good for the society. They risk their own life to create a new life.

We also find that all children are beautiful. It is not a mere a coincidence that all children are also good. They love every creation of the world including innate objects like dolls, toys and animals. Most of the cartoon films and the children's film show kindness to animals. Yet as a man grows, he losses his beauty, if he starts losing goodness.

Secret of Beauty

Beauty is one of the biggest desire of human beings hence a great biggest business opportunity for the businessmen. The cosmetic industry is a multi-billion dollar business today all over the world. Yet can any cosmetics make you beautiful. The beauty due to cosmetics is truly superficial and often causes long term harm to the person. The true secret of beauty lies in discovering truth and goodness in the world and within oneself. Once a person has acquired inner beauty, his body and face start emitting the beauty of the soul to the world. One must also use his or her perception of beauty as a guide to achieve a more fulfilling life in this world. Beauty is, therefore, the most beautiful thing in the world as it comes to every person naturally without any training or study, yet it represents the truth and goodness of this world.

References:

[1] Body Weight and Mortality: What is the optimum weight for a longer life? URL; jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/hliving/BMIwords.html