The Beauty Within You

A misty sundown drifts into your senses on salt air. You ride on this soft breeze into another, gentler life. The wet firm sand of the ocean’s edge caresses your toes as you walk along the shore. You see a small flower; a wonder of nature; so beautiful. It grows between some rocks and it makes you happy just to see it.

You walk further through the cleansing ocean air. You see a beautiful woman, or a beautiful man. You are in awe of everything. Your heart swells and you say to yourself, “this moment is beauty; life is beauty; I am beauty.”

And it is true. You are beauty. There is no other way you can recognize and feel this, unless you have this beauty within you also.

Nature is like that. You cannot identify and appreciate anything outside of yourself that does not also exist within you. How can you possibly know what beauty is, unless you have this inner beauty as a reference?

The truth is inescapable.

You are beautiful

What a wonderful discovery this is, to know that you are beautiful.

But you might be thinking, “What the heck is this guy talking about?” “What does this have to do with my life?”

Well, it has everything to do with your life. I am talking about the best that is within you. Sometimes though, our best is blocked by poor self concepts brought on by depression, or health issues that result in chronic pain such as fibromyalgia for instance. From my own experience with chronic pain, I can tell you that it can erode the quality of your life. Your health determines the beauty of your vision.

Fortunately we have resources that offer effective strategies for optimizing our health and mental well-being. Take action to improve your basic health and you will soon uncover the beauty within you — but only if you choose it. Do you choose a beautiful life?

You could of course ignore your body’s signals and choose by default — without even knowing it was a choice — to exclude beauty from your vision. That walk along the ocean would then only sting your nostrils with the foul smell of kelp and rotting fish, punctuated with the annoying screech of scavenging seagulls.

Your vision can just as easily throw you into an ugly life, as it can render your life a thing of beauty.

It is up to you to determine how your life will look, and how it will feel to you. And it helps to know from the beginning — that you are beautiful.

Why do you deny your inner beauty?

Do you renounce your beauty as a human being because you are ashamed of owning it? Do you feel guilt over your ability to see and feel depravity, ugliness, and aggression? Do you feel this lessens your beauty?

But you cannot diminish or obliterate beauty. Beauty is intrinsic to the order of existence. When you move in accord with that order, you see beauty in everything because that is the nature of life. When you are at odds with yourself and with life, you see and live a lack of beauty and order. You are outside of nature’s loop.

Despite its pull on your mind, ugliness and depravity is not within you. Power is within you, and you will empower whatever you set before your mind’s eye. If you focus on the truth of life — the beauty and the order — you can work wonders and become a genuinely successful human being.

If you do not own this inner beauty of yours and take action to uncover it, you will empower its lack, and you will move further away from your nature into poor mental and physical health until only mind and impulse remains, devoid of true spirit.

Choose wisely then.

Acknowledge the beauty within you

If you do nothing else of significance today, please make room in your mind, and in your heart, for some beauty. It is all around you today and every day. Look with an open heart and you will find it.

Know that every time you see and feel beauty in the world, you are seeing and feeling a representation of the immense beauty that resides in your soul — a reflection of the beauty within you.

You are truly beautiful.