Increasing Aesthetic Intelligence
How do you increase your aesthetic intelligence? First and foremost you must accept the unpredictability and spontaneous nature of Beauty, stop clinging and get curious.
Beauty is bold. You must be bold, and commit to Beauty. Separate Beauty from all other aesthetic experiences such as pleasant, harmonious, easy to look at. When getting down to the bare bones of Beauty, you must ask the question: “What is inseparable from my experience of Beauty?”
For me, what exalts my mind and spirit? After seeking experiences of Beauty and witnessing my reactions, I know that contrast is an essential element in my definition of Beauty. For me Beauty is paradoxical, it must say two things at once. By so doing Beauty unequivocally proves that anything is possible.
Defining this bare-bones characteristic tells me a lot about myself…. What are your bare bones Beauty characteristics? What about it do you love? Beauty melts the heart.
Is there an association between Beauty and Love?
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Stacy
WOW! Good stuff. I’ve never looked at it that way & yet I find myself in a similar position – I like the contrast, the hidden, & unexpected that is where I find the joy & excitement, the beauty.
BUT… all my life I’ve tried to make it “all” known because I thought that was the way “it” should be. This way is so fractional and incomplete. In other words, I should strive to be & look like “I am supposed to” for any given situation instead of how I want to or with a look that reflects me.
I think (I’m still formulating this idea) someone (family, friends, society, culture? who knows) told me that I needed to be “flat” and “static” in my beauty because it was easier for them.
If I was what they expected then they wouldn’t have to do any work in understanding or looking at themselves. If I reflected what they expected I was “ok” and “acceptable” because it is what their mind held as beautiful and the pressure to examine held beliefs (their own) was gone.
Maybe this is why so many buy into the media presentation of beauty. If someone else tells me what is – then I no longer have to look at me to decide.
Mar 14th, 2010
shannon
Stacy,
I LOVE your thoughtful reply and the deep meaning that you discovered beyond my words. Thank you for taking the time to share it with me and all other women.
xo
shannon
Mar 15th, 2010