Well, for a while I wanted to share these Ayurvedic approaches (the great traditional medicine of India). They say that beauty is under the eyes of the beholder, it is also said that people who are in love look beautiful. Ayurvedic medicine suggests that when people have a high degree of self-esteem or can see the divinity within them, they radiate pure beauty.
External beauty is really nothing more than a reflection of internal beauty (and we obviously already knew this, but it is interesting to see that since ancient times beauty has always been a topic of conversation and interest that has been capitalized and industrialized).
Beauty has many different meanings in ancient cultures where both in men and women, beauty is something that always grows (never stops). In other words, wisdom is what is really considered beauty because depth is valued. Obviously what we see today on social networks and in the immediate contemporary world is something a little more superficial (without judgments).
If people take care of their health and cultivate their coherence, health and inner beauty radiate even through their skin. Ayurveda adds a spiritual dimension to the definition of beauty saying:
«Inner peace brings outer beauty»
It is divinity that really is pure beauty, that is, the eternal and divine love. Peace of mind is the source of divine beauty and it develops as soon as one realizes the divinity within oneself! As soon as each person is aware and observes that inner being as something Divine, they grow in beauty internally and externally. There are three aspects of beauty:
Inner beauty, outer beauty and genetic or karmic beauty
Outer beauty is related to bone structure, skin color, muscle development, intelligence, hair quality, youth, and weight. In Vedic sciences such as Vedic astrology, it is suggested that outer beauty is a by-product of inner beauty and virtue.
Karmic beauty is generated by genetic elements. There is also talk that each person has a level of grace and that makes each person have different beauties. It is also known that this karmic beauty is related to how that person was raised, if she received compassion, understanding, love, patience, sharing and nurturing environments in harmony with nature. This is already a fundamental aspect of beauty.
Inner beauty is more directly related to «virtue.» In some of the classical texts of Ayurveda, Charak Saμhitá is noted for the longevity that can be achieved by living in a harmonious and virtuous way. This is considered an important aspect that is part of the process of developing beauty, which in fact is much more important than external beauty.
Aside from ethics and virtue, healthy eating and lifestyle habits are necessary to cultivate inner beauty. Cleanliness, hygiene is considered to be something close to a deity because keeping the body clean is a two-way process: externally one should cleanse and add healthy and nutritious cosmetics and internally cleanliness is developed by eating foods that favor our constitutions ( metabolisms) Ayurvedic. This mixed with meditations/prayers. This helps create a positive image and healthy self-esteem.
Avoid staying late, overwork and overexposure to the sun, cold, dryness, electronic radiation is essential. It is like a management of our inner and outer life.
There are four super important areas: health, harmonious careers or trades, spiritual relationships and direct spiritual evolution. A truly beautiful person is defined as someone who is healthy, loves her career, and has relationships that help her grow spiritually. These people end up having adequate time to cultivate the inner BEING.
It should be noted that outer beauty does not necessarily bring real and inner beauty that lasts forever. Even those people who are physically beautiful must have or feel an inner connection, some purpose for feeling that way beautiful. Looking and feeling beautiful are separate things. There is an ancient Vedic story about inner and spiritual beauty:
Parvati was the most beautiful goddess in the world and she wanted to marry £hiva, the divine god. She even with all her beauty could not disturb £hiva’s musings. When she realized that mere physical attraction was not enough Parvati delved into her depths to develop her virtues, her health and she spent a lot of time cultivating her spirituality through meditation. One day £hiva woke up to observe who had been so devoted to him and then he saw the radiant goddess, with her divine beauty and agreed to let her marry him.
I think this experience is a lesson i think only a few dare to live. Everything sounds super obvious when reading these fragments of Ayurvedic texts but we are so dissociated from this approach due to so many conditioning and culture in the name of beauty.
Beauty has been quite an experience for me. From a very young age I loved to see the beauty of people and it inspired me a lot, I think it was one of my greatest passions. Enjoying it and when I was very young I did not have any stereotype, I was inspired by the beauty emanated, just as the Ayurvedic texts say.
Then everything was disrupted when the fact of being a «man» child did not allow us to enjoy these things added by a lack of self-esteem and self-love. It got to a point where I couldn’t see myself in the mirror because I was crying and feeling genuine rejection.
But everything changed one day when I wanted to take responsibility and arm myself with courage to love myself and despite not feeling beautiful, I wanted to feel good, healthy. That’s where nature arrived because from there I began to feel a very deep connection and little by little all the elements and tools were arriving: yoga, meditation, angels, food, direct connection with nature and everything that involves nature. process of evolution of consciousness.
And it was from a very young age that I was cultivating all that inner being, through religion, spirituality and nature. After growing up, the process of breaking the shell began and that’s when dance and the arts arrived. The fun, the eros. After all this process and the plant arrives and I went from not liking myself to accepting myself and feeling comfortable in my skin, I rediscover one of my childhood passions: beauty and the ultimate miracle occurs: now I am fascinated by seeing myself and I love seeing myself in what all this transformation process has become and seeing how cells change as soon as we change our way of approaching ourselves spiritually and mentally.
Not only do I feel comfortable in my skin, but I enjoy myself and it gives me pleasure to be me.
But let’s go back to nature, where everything started. Beauty is a vast vibration about how everything flows, works, how everything expresses. Nature resemble beauty as a chemic reaction, catalyser and also strategy. For me beauty resides in nature itself, like synonyms.
To all these I would add that we should just embrace the journey to get to know ourselves and find that that is our beauty, because it is beauty in the end an eternal thing that accompany our lives, our journey, our experiences, it is indeed a capacity and an intelligence to perceive and manifest whatever we want. We shall embrace our beauty and enjoy it and share it to the world because this mere action is part of the healing that our system needs.
Once, a teacher of mine told me that » an eagle never question about the magnificence in the way she flies, she is just magnificent»
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