Coming Home to Your Personal Beauty
You’re the Beholder … Here’s Your Eye!
~ lovingly presented by Bill Bauman ~
Martin Buxbaum once wrote that “Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. They merely move it from their faces into their hearts.” This humorous commentary introduces us to a remarkably central truth of life: you are amazingly, wondrously, incredibly, endlessly, magnificently beautiful!
Do you really notice the beauty of life and of the divine that is in your face, your body, your mind, your emotion, your personality? How much does beauty itself occupy a central space in your daily awareness? In a poem I recently wrote entitled “Beauty,” I wrote these words about us humans:
Beauty showed me the human like I’d never seen it before
The joy the bliss the charm the grace
Of this awesome creation
Awoke the excited life waiting in every pore of my face
I saw at once the divine charm of this form
Its wonder its splendor in such glory adorned
To be human and think to be human and know
Is a joy and treasure that holds its own glow
To be human and love to be human and feel
Holds a blessing and power that still makes me reel
Beauty is everywhere, in and around us. You and I are beauty—in our bones, our organs, our bodies, our everything! Despite our judgments about our inadequacies and shortcomings, when we see them through the eyes of beauty, they are perfect. What an amazing opportunity we have: to be able to claim and own our beauty, to celebrate and enjoy our beauty, and to have beauty fill us daily with its gifts!
I’d like to offer us a four-step approach to becoming one with our beauty, to living fully in and as the beauty of life that is us:
1. Every time we notice ourselves evaluating some aspect of ourselves negatively—like, we are not good enough or beautiful enough—simply say the word BEAUTY. This one word will bring all of life to us in the form of exquisite beauty.
2. Let this one word—BEAUTY!—fill your mind, your thoughts, your focus, your orientations, your perceptions, your experience, your emotions, your body. Simply be with the word—not necessarily repeating it over and over (unless that is naturally helpful to you), but just letting the word BEAUTY lead you, guide you and nurture you.
3. Become even more involved and proactive in fostering your personal experience and celebration of beauty. For example, decide to give as much time seeing beauty as you do to healing your pain-related issues. So, if you spend one hour a week in psychotherapy, spend another hour in the week consciously seeing and experiencing your beauty.
4. Call yourself to beauty! Call yourself to see its presence … to notice its qualities … to perceive its loveliness… to connect with its engagingness … to experience its magnificence, align with its seductiveness … to feel its glory … to touch its divinity and be touched by its wonder … to have a deep, intimate experience of its soothing warmth … to bond with beauty’s all-present invitations … to become beauty itself!
In conclusion, I’d like to share my perception of you. Please feel free to let this description move gently through your awareness and inspire you to embrace the truth of your unending beauty:
1. I see you as the most beautiful person you’ll ever meet … because the very life that you came here to experience and celebrate is fully present within the sacred person you are. You are the beauty of life.
2. I see you as God … absolutely divine, sacred, infinite and wonder-filled—just like the very God or divinity that we have come to revere. Everything that is divine lives in you, loves in you, thrives in you—and that’s beautiful.
3. I see you as the absolute embodiment of beauty itself. Whatever is beautiful outside of you is simply a reflection of the beauty of life that is you. What you marvel at on the outside is actually thriving and dynamically performing on the inner stage of the sacred person called you.
4. I see you as life itself—filled with countless blessings, gifts and beauty … so fully filled with it that you have no choice but to celebrate ornate beauty.
5. I see you as the most beautiful, radiant, alive, precious, wonder-filled and glorious creation! Beauty herself is so proud to call you her home … to bless you daily with her gifts … to live in your every cell, to radiate her bliss throughout your body … to express her vibrational joy through your emotions … to shine her electrical juices through every thought in your mind … to be the very you that is nothing short of beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Thank you for being such a beautiful manifestation of beauty. I love you!
Blessings to you!
