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Ladies, what are we doing to ourselves? Join me in taking a look at the following list of things that our personalities have tried to make us believe over the years to be  "us": a body, with all kinds of needs and rules:

  • body size and weight are very important and seem to be able to be controlled through immense discipline only

  • same applies for the color of it, and especially during summer season it will ask a lot of your valuable time, cream, and health risks

  • let alone the things that you use to dress your body with: underwear, clothing, it has to match, look good on you etc.

  • it is almost an impossible task to meet all its demands necessary in order to stay in good health, and you somehow do not have an urge to do so that keeps up with this need

  • your own color and looks are not good enough, this has to be corrected with all kinds of makeup, rouge, hair color, eye shadow, nail polish etc.

  • there are places on your body where here grows that seem inappropriate, except the ones on your head, but these do not get into shape without a lot of interference

  • and furthermore there is a huge list of all kinds of unwanted aspects, like fat stored in the wrong places, cellulites, fine lines, wrinkles, muscles that are no longer as strong as they were, etc.  

Now is there anything about you that survives these judgments in a positive way? And why do we do this to ourselves? This is the regime of our collective personalities. We call this "fun" and "normal", but meanwhile it costs huge amounts of money and energy and you still are not completely satisfied with the results. And once you are, there will be others who judge one or more aspects to be not good enough.

Your personality will never make you satisfied with your looks. So do not even attempt to make it a goal in your life. When you start to let go of one or more of the things mentioned above, your personality may well try to convince you that your are crazy, and will not hesitate to use the reactions from the people around you and intense feelings of doubt to make you reconsider. 

Pause a little while and think about what you are doing here, and what it really offers you. Would it be really true that your looks are the ultimate key to this otherwise vague idea of love and attention? And if it would be, then what is it worth while anyway? Become aware of all the thought patterns and control issues with regard to your body, and learn to let go. Stop investing energy of your personality to strengthen these patterns. That does not mean that you will no longer take care of yourself or look like a tramp, but it does mean that the intention with which you do it, comes from a different place in you: your inner Self. And it is your inner Self that offers you the most beautiful cosmetic feature: inner peace.



copyright Judith Hamerlinck