Embody Real BeautyThe Art of spiritual styling

The pro’s and con’s of each.

I got up close and personal to a core element of my work and I want to share it.  There is some healing to be done – for others and me in the judgments wrapped up around the character qualities of concealing and revealing.

I reveal.  I hear all the time how admirable my “transparency” is.  I am open and honest.  It is easy to know where I stand.  Why?  Because I reveal it.  I literally wear my inner workings in my style and appearance.  Whatever is on the inside of me comes out in a kaleidoscopic display on the outside of me.  (Madonna is an example of one who reveals)  I am animated and expressive.  You don’t have to guess a thing about me because my image is a testimony to it AND if you can’t see what is going on inside of me, by what I am wearing – you will know by what I am saying and how I am saying it.

The upshots of revealing:

Revealing has all kinds of positive qualities associated with it.  As I have mentioned above: transparency, openness, honesty, audacious, colorful, daring, eccentric, exotic, forward, gutsy, original, outrageous, progressive, radical, rare bird etc.  That is good stuff.  And I love all of these things about myself.  My beauty is prominent and stands out.

The downside or limitations of revealing:

My tendency to reveal everything right off the bat gives people the impression that they know everything about me.  I am an open book – if they don’t like what they read… they move on immediately.  The biggest limitation is that by revealing everything all the time there is absolutely no mystery.  People do not have to move toward me to find out all about me AND sometimes they feel compelled to take a step back.  Revealing can be pushy and brazen, broadcasting like a megaphone through personal image and words and expression.  Revealing sometimes lacks respect for other.  It only cares about expressing itself.

The Art of Spiritual Styling (TAOSS) teaches that qualities are just that qualities.  It is what you do with them that counts.  Each character quality has positive and negative expression.  TAOSS illustrates how core qualities like concealing and revealing show up in your personal image and style.  The power is in knowing that you can literally transform or fashion your life by consciously understanding that connection.

My work is based on 4 continuums.  One of them is Concealing and Revealing.  As a woman, as a culture, you lie somewhere along the continuum.

To be honest, I know little about the positive or negative effects of concealing but I am learning and I will give it a shot.  Please share with me your own positive and negative experience of concealing.

The upshots of concealing:

The image is one of fitting in, nothing too eye-catching allows this beauty anonymity in a crowd.  Blending and rolling – moving with the crowd.  Concealing creates mystery.  Concealing creates an air of silence and peace.  Concealing is reserved, poised, it commands respect and has it together.  It is appropriate, available, gentile, graceful, respectable, and up standing.  It is proper, relaxed and neutral.  Concealing beauty is integral and unified.  It is inviting and warm.

A concealed position is a place of protection.  A cocoon to nurture that which is not ready to be seen by the world.

The downsides or limitations of concealing:

It can be secretive, lacking expression and hiding behind untruth.  The truth of the individual can be concealed behind a barrier or mask of normalcy.

There is so much more here to be discovered and explored.  I would like to hear your thoughts.