Your Beauty Benefits Us All

Let your splendor shine.

A couple of months ago, I bought a card deck from a perfect little mystical store in Taos, New Mexico. I pull them from time to time, admire the beautiful artwork, and try to set an intention for my day based on what I pull.

Recently, I came across one that stuck with me. As I read through the description of the card about “beauty” I was struck by this notion:

“Beauty, married to inner truth, transcends vanity.”

I love this sentiment because it gets past the idea of aesthetics. I think there are so many ways we attempt to acquire and achieve beauty. This pursuit has become a billion-dollar industry profiting from our insecurities.

But it all pulls us outside of ourselves. It pulls us away from our interior, where our truest beauty lives, and often outsources the authority of how we want to live, express, and embody our deepest selves.

There is so much beauty for us to see. Flowers are beautiful, nature is exquisite, and we love a warm smile with little chiseled dimples. But I invite you to consider next time you see something beautiful, to ask what it is you are experiencing. Especially when that beauty is within someone else. What are you experiencing…what inner truth might they be married to that you are encountering, even energetically?

What value of theirs might expressed in what they chose to wear?

What liberation of theirs might you be meeting in their choice to opt-out of, or into, how they express themselves?

What body love or body acceptance is present in that upright posture and increased eye contact?

What deeply creative version of themselves took the risk that you are admiring?

I notice this in my clients frequently. In our first session, I might notice them, their appearance, their aesthetic, and then as sessions move forward, I start to relate to them differently, through a different lens of beauty. The deeper they explore into their inner selves, the more “beautiful” in a deeply true sense, they become. I start to encounter them in a more married-to-self version of themselves.

What inner truths would you like to marry your beauty to?