Embody Real BeautySHANNON IRIS

The greatest analogy came to me this morning on my walk.  The air was cold and my breath was steady – in and out.  Crisp, my face burned and my breath warmed it on the exhale, into my scarf.  I thought of meditation.

Have you ever tried to meditate?

Twice a week I listen to a guided meditation.  I love it because it sets a structure around something that I find quite difficult –sitting to calm my mind.  The meditation begins with instructions on finding a comfortable upright position and guides me into a practice of watching and returning to my breath.  Thoughts arise, naturally, because that’s what the mind does – it thinks.  Just like the ears hear, or the eyes see.  No harm, no fowl, just return to the breath to find the center, to find the calm.

HERE COMES THE RELEVANCE TO BEAUTY.  STAY WITH ME.

I realized this morning that the Art of Spiritual Styling is a practice that serves the exact same function… it teaches you how to return over and over to your own beauty.  As women, we are IMMERSED in a cultural milieu that tells us over and over and over again what beauty is.   Just like our singular minds create thoughts, the cultural mind produces ideals, because that is what culture does – produce ideals, values and norms.

So, I realized, just like meditation teaches you that you are not your thoughts, The Art of Spiritual Styling teaches that you are not a pawn to play out the cultural ideals of beauty.

How?  The same way that meditation teaches you to gently return to your breath. The Art of Spiritual Styling teaches you how to find, focus and gently return to your own beauty, using a custom Daily Image Practice. Over and over again you return to your own beauty through styling techniques that take you to your own center.  From there you create your own beauty everyday in a styling practice.

In Beauty,
Shannon