Wednesday, November 20, 2013

BEAUTY – A Feeling or a Knowing

We live in a world where the things we ‘see’ play a major role in determining how we ‘perceive’ ourselves. People use the things they see around or other people to judge themselves. Comparing themselves to others in terms of what they own and how they look.

The situation is reaching (actually has reached) an alarming stage. People today are taking to all sorts of surgical operations to enhance their beauty – from breast to butt enlargement or the reverse; skin toning or ‘bleaching’; operation to make their nose pointed and so on. Some people have even been known to go as far as having a complete ‘face-off’.

These and other such issues were the matters discussed on the programme, Woman’s World on TV Continental when I and two other people were the guests.
On set at TV Continental
It was recorded on the 14th of Oct. 2013. The programme has since been aired several times.
But let us look at a few things from the discussion.

Why do women take to skin bleaching? (or toning as some would like to mildly put it) Why do some women who are naturally big want to become slim overnight? And so on.

While there is nothing inherently wrong with someone working to enhance how beautiful they look, it is important to note that most people generally have self-esteem issues and that is why they would want to do anything to look like someone else. And the TV is not helping in this regard. You see someone on TV and that person becomes your ‘model’ for beauty and its definition

One of the points I made on the programme was that no matter how smart we are, we cannot be smarter than God and definitely cannot be more creative than God. We should learn to accept ourselves as the image of God that we are and not unnecessarily go out of our ways to change our looks. This particularly affects women more than men.

Another point of view I posited was that beauty is first a thing of the mind. It is first a knowing and that knowing can then be expressed through feeling and not the other way round. That is where it all begins the mind. And also it (i.e. beauty) is first a personal definition. In other words, you are the one that will look at yourself and conclude whether you are beautiful or not and this conclusion then determines how you carry and present yourself, which basically is what ‘self-esteem’ is all about – remember that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Mr. Motivator, unleashing...

In the final analysis therefore, there is no one (or woman to be more specific) that is not beautiful. YOU ARE FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE.
See pictures taken during the interview.

ABIODUN MABADEJE is a multi-talented public/motivational speaker with expertise in the areas of personal development, leadership, relationship/family life and author of 7 published books.

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