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Tag: Beauty
Pāli Word a Day ~ August 13, 2014
pabhāsa — shining, splendour, beauty
Seeds for Meditation …
“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.”
~ Rumi
JUST FOR TODAY …
Adopt a more positive mindset. Accept that no one, including you, is perfect or completely secure. Stop holding yourself to higher standards than others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior — they can only do so if you let them.
Ayurveda ~ Cultivating the Power of True Beauty
The pathway to beauty, prosperity and vitality are interwoven paths.
Unfortunately, far too many people are depleting their vitality in an attempt to create a sense of beauty. True beauty, true magnetism and true prosperity require vitality.
However, this is not an ordinary type of vitality. It’s a vitality that draws out the strength of your character, it draws out your virtures, it draws out your radiance.
This attractive power is profound. The first person that will be attracted to you is YOU.
When you experience your own magnetic power, the entire creation starts to become attracted to you. Opportunities arise from every direction and a steady stream of prosperity flows into the ocean of your life.
Yesterday, we released a brand new free video training that unpacks the art and science of beauty, prosperity and radiance. Follow the link below to get access. Enjoy the teachings.
Sat Nam,
Jai Dev Singh
Aromatherapy: Use of Frankincense Resin and Essential Oil
In David Crow’s The Ten Virtues of Incense, he writes:
“Fragrant offerings to divinity have always been a major part of every devotional ceremony and ritual. A tear of frankincense melting in a censer; a stick of sandalwood on the altar; a sprinkling of white sage on rocks in a sweat lodge; a bowl of smoldering palo santo chips in an Andean curing ritual: these are the universal expressions of humanity’s desire to communicate with spiritual realms.
But how does fragrance allow us to communicate with the transcendent? Does it form a bridge between the material and immaterial worlds, symbolized so perfectly by smoke rising into the air? Does it attract beneficent devic beings who love the fragrance, taste, and appearance of the offerings, nature’s most beautiful creations? Does it affect our brain chemistry, creating higher states of mental clarity and sattvic emotions, thereby bringing us closer to the ineffable? Does it give substance to the prayers we utter, or external shape to our inner thoughts? These are all ways that people through the ages have explained the powers of using fragrance for communicating with the transcendent.”
The health benefits of Frankincense Essential Oil can be attributed to its properties as an antiseptic, disinfectant, astringent, carminative, cicatrisant, cytophylactic, digestive, diuretic, emenagogue, expectorant, sedative, tonic, uterine and vulnerary substance.
Frankincense Oil is extracted from the gum or resin from Frankincense or Olibanum trees, whose scientific name is Boswellia Carteri. The main components of this essential oil are Alpha Pinene, Actanol, Bornyl Acetate, Linalool, Octyl Acetate, Incensole and Incensyl Acetate. Frankincense has been a popular ingredient in cosmetics and incense burners for centuries. It has even been found in the remains of ancient Egyptian and Anglo-Saxon civilizations. Furthermore, It is closely associated with religious traditions and rites, particularly in the Christian tradition.
Read more about the myriad of health benefits, including treatment of cancer, by clicking on the above image.
Frankincense was one of the gifts the Three Magi brought to Yeshua, the King of Kings. Queens, Pharaohs, and wealthy people of long ago, enjoyed a youthful appearance along with better mood and enhanced brain function, thanks to their use of Frankincense. Queens love to be beautiful, that’s why many of them throughout history have used Frankincense as part of their skin beauty regime.
Aromatherapy Recipe: Skin Toner Spray
- Distilled water
- Vodka, Get a good one that states on the label, Distilled 5 (or more) times.That will help insure that there is no gluten in the alcohol.
- Frankincense essential oil
- Grapefruit Essential oil
Mix it all up. Then put it into a spray bottle.
Spray the elixir onto your skin and massage it in if you like. Enjoy the youthful aromatherapy scents.
Just For Today …
Try to see the things that happen to you in life, both the good and the bad things, as opportunities to practice responding with love.
When you look at your life … if you think about all the details of what happened to you, you will find that there was a time where you had the extra cup of coffee, where if you hadn’t, you wouldn’t have met Person A. Your life depends on how you react to those opportunities and challenges that the randomness presents to you. If you’re awake and paying attention, you will find that things happen. They might seem good, they might seem bad but the important thing is how you react to it. It’s all about our search for Beauty … through free will, consciousness, chaos, beauty, spirituality … and Star Trek.
“Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Affirmations
I radiate beauty, charm and grace.
The Beauty of Gratitude
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. — Carl Sagan
Passion … is the element that makes it possible for a real breakthrough in thought to take place. And beauty … goes a long way in establishing the bona fide results of scientific experiments.
Where do you see beauty when you take a closer look?
Take a moment to write down one small (perhaps even microscopic) thing for which you are grateful.
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