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So my earring collection is small but has aqua and blue in it.
I have a "statement" bangle and am getting ready to get 2 important rings
High heels provided I'm not walking far take me to just on 6ft
staying focussed on the good is a major help in building uniqueness
Get foccussed on the favourite places that are your very own, and love those places to super fabulosity
of course, my hair is jet black. still, it's all true and i'm not being vain. they ice break'd me twice! LOL
After recently reading excerpts from The Secret Life of Water and The Hidden Messages in Water, which is about how our bodies are mostly water, and contained at a cellular level; I began to 'thank' my body and to tell it how much I love it - speaking directly to the water within. I'm hopeful that as I become more consistent with these words of 'love' directed to it, my body will, begin to change and thrive, just like in the experiments with the water in those books.
One glass of water was told it was loved and one was told it was hated. When the 'loved' water was captured at the crystallization stage and looked at through a microscope, the droplets had formed beautiful, complex, elaborate patterns (like snowflakes) and reflected light. The water that was told it was hated, barely formed any shape at all and remained brackish. Amazing but true. Think what the water in our bodies can do if we tell it every day how much it's loved and say 'thank you' to it. I love that...
At 46 though I am so much more comfortable with myself as a sexual being and so am so much more comfortable in this body. I love occupying this vessel we call a body. I would have to say it my very favorite thing about being human. I could write a book on this subject; how much our bodies respond to self love.
I am grateful for my eyes, which change colour with what I wear, my curvy bod and my face (thank you Origins). And the person that's wrapped inside.
You just reminded me to start yoga again. :)
On a deeper level, I appreciate my body's strength. Mainly I used to ignore my body unless I was criticizing it (and I was in a Miss America preliminary pageant when I was younger and my "committee" said lots of negative things that still play in my head occasionally), but now I see its wonder and thank God for it. We're so hard on our bodies, judging them and finding fault -- but they carry us, literally, through the day, through our lives, through everything.
A song on one of my son's CD's is "I Love My Body Parts," and I accidentally found myself singing along to it as I was in front of the mirror. REVOLUTIONARY! I stopped and looked at myself. Yes, I do love my body parts! We all need to incorporate songs and language and love into the treatment of our bodies instead of voicing disappointment and longing for something else (different hair, longer legs, smaller butt!, whatever). This is so counter-culture, but we can do it -- let's have a revolution!
I also love my legs, my hands and I have a smile that will knock your socks off! :)
My resilient skin that went through adolescent acne and all the methods under the sun to get rid of it. I am so careful with it.
My legs, dancer's legs - no twiggy here! I can walk for MILES! My legs are amazing.
My stomach for being soft and smooth.
My hair, bright and blond and my calling card (working on getting the picture of my comfortable bold haircut!).
My eyes, big and blue - can be filled with tears, flash with anger, sparkle with mischief :)
I love still getting carded when I buy alcohol (I'm almost 33).
I actually was thinking a few years ago of starting a bottled water company with the 'love' crystal pictured on the lable, and all profits to go to clean water projects globally. I e-mailed Dr. Emoto to talk about rights to use the image - but then I got pregnant - and that one slipped by. Actually - that just gave me another idea.... Thanks for sharing that Linda - it's such an important and powerful point!
freckles
lips
My skin...some say it glows....I don't always see it...but when I do...I'm happy!!
I'm a big fan Dr. Emoto. And if you dig his stuff, you should get in to Rupert Sheldrake - his most fun book is Dogs Who Know Their Owners Are Coming Home. And he's a great explainer of morphogenics and the Hundredth Monkey Theory. Oh, and Dr. Larry Dossey who ran some great studies on the power of prayer. Turns out that when you simply pray "for the highest good" of cancer cells in a pietry dish, you get amazing results - as opposed to praying for specific outcomes. Rock on cosmic scientists.
A friend recently told me that my hands have an energy unto themselves.
I work with my hands,
they hold on and let go.
They are my creative vehicle
They are large and strong,
I celebrated my hands by adorning them with swirly white tattoos .
Great question! Great answers!! :)
My curves, set off by a small waist, wrists, and ankles.
My wide shoulders, which help me to feel strong and confident. I'm always working on my posture...
My strength also helps me to feel beautiful. I am only 5'4, but am a lot stronger than I look. This is important to me, because there is almost nothing more beautiful to me than a confident, secure woman. Watch out!
I recommend "The New Rules of Posture" by Mary Bond, which is a much more interesting book than the title implies. It has lots of suggestions for exercises to help make adjustments, too.
Working in a hospice has taught me much about the beauty of prayer. To pray for healing is never wrong. Healing takes place at many levels. To reach out in compassion to another creature or fellow human in prayer always brings change.
Two writers which I see as similar are Eckhart Tolle (mentioned on this site a number of times) and a writer called Kathleen Dowling Singh; book called The Grace in Dying (Strap line How we are transformed spiritually as we die)
Both these book teach about fully occupying the present moment. With our holy sacred bodies. In that occupation of the now we are fully alive and in that space there is healing.
Thanks to my mum for my nose. And my legs are "athletic" curvy and great with panel skirt to show them off.
The design can be guided by your style statement
I love the way it connects me with the world in all it's sensual delights. I love the beautiful and complex wisdom of its functioning.
Highlights: my long long eyelashes, my lips, my hair that has always responded effortlessly to colours, curlers or cuts, my shape that distributes weight evenly as it comes and goes, and my nose. It's strong.
Haven't seen you here with us for osme days
Jen
The "rules" are crap as far as we are concerned (The ones that talk about how to dress in the workplace and what colors to wear). I am discovering that pink is a power color for me. I only wear colors that really suit my coloring. So Ginger, you may like to consider your own rules about colors that draw people to you ( always have a shade that suits your skin tone)
I now also love the color of my skin. I used to hate it because I'm a dark Filipina (dark skin is not prized in the Motherland to this day). But I now love being honey-beige/melon/copper brown.
Curves I love of my body: my collar-bone, that gentle curve under my small'ish breasts, and the curve of my waist and hips when I'm lying on my side.
I love my large hands with their long, expressive, "artist's" fingers. (All the better to hand-talk with, my dear! And of course, to draw, rub, hold, grasp, turn, make stuff and weave up a storm... with the strongest grip and the gentlest touch)
One of the best compliments I've ever received was from an older gentleman who told me I had "a nicely turned ankle" while I was wearing tightly-laced combat boots with flames on them. I had never even contemplated my ankles before that, but now I'm pretty pleased with them.
Fertility = hotness