Embody Real BeautySHANNON IRIS

To embody Real Beauty, you must know, accept, love and appreciate who you are.  Period.  Knowing the self can happen through comparison and contrast in relation to others. However, the act of accepting, loving and appreciating is an inside job.  Those crucial acts are impossible in comparison  and contrast to others.  What makes Real Beauty possible is the comittment to move beyond comparison and contrast in your relation to others and bring conscious loving awareness to your self.  The Art of Spiritual Styling provides the tools to accomplish it.

Through comparison and contrast it is possible to get a sense of who you are – to better understand and know your self.  However, to get stuck in that act or activity is to deny the purpose for doing it:  to bring all of that research/data about what we like and don’t like about others into our own being.  Real Beauty embodies the contrasting qualities it doesn’t compare, exalt, and judge from a fixed position on the sideline.   For instance I look outside of myself and see a quality in you and recognize its absence in me.  Through that recognition I am informed about what I desire for myself.  If I continue to look cross ways at you, admiring your beauty, I have neglected to bring it home and embody it.

Our culture is damaging to us as women in this regard.  It presents an extreme example of physical beauty as the unachievable standard.  Because of that we have no course of action to empower, achieve and believe in our own Beauty.   There is more to Beauty than drop dead, perfectly symmetrical expressions of  presented by our culture.  That Beauty is totally manufactured, perfect, static and inhuman. It is time to get Real.  Get Real with me, now, let’s make a pact… no more comparing and contrasting ourselves against the 18 year old emaciated, immaculate ideal of beauty!  Are you with me?  Let’s cultivate the compassionate, radiant beauty from within.