Beauty
This Page Dedicated to all things Beautiful with a focus on Natural Beauty.
It’s my belief that True Beauty starts on the inside – what you feed your spirit and what you feed your body. If you focus on these two areas, your true beauty will be so obvious -Everything else is Extra. When you love yourself, it shows, and what you feed your temple shows too.
FEEDING YOUR SPIRIT – It’s so important that you spend some quiet time every week getting in touch with your Source/God or a Higher Power. Asking for guidance from your source will help you to love yourself and be at peace with the world.
Meditation and prayer are key ways to get centered with your Source. The peace and harmony that ensues will allow your true essence and beauty to shine. Music is also a great way to get in touch with your spirit…whether playing or listening to your favorites.
FEEDING YOUR BODY – In Accounting they use the acronym GIGO which means Garbage In, Garbage Out when it comes to crunching numbers. The same holds true for your body. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
When you stop to consider that the food you’re eating now will effect you 10 years now, there’s greater impetus to monitor the things you eat. Do a quick study of friends, loved ones, random strangers. The aches and pains that many “older” people have are a direct result of poor nutrition 5- 10 years earlier.
The same with those common ailments like high cholestorol, high blood pressure, diabetes. These are especially common in African American’s. While these conditions are genetic, they are exacerbated by diet and nutrition which can be attributed to culture.
Personally, I try to hang out and eat with folks that eat healthy because the temptation is too great otherwise. As the saying goes: “You are what you eat”, and “you are who you hang around”.
A few of my best friends are vegetarian or “almost vegetarian” meaning they eat meat once, maybe twice a week. It’s amazing how beautiful they are, with the clearest skin, and ageless looks. One very dear friend, is perhaps 10 years older than me (I really don’t know since we never discuss age), and yet she looks like a 25 year old. (Yes you – D. Kiley!!!) When we hang out she gets ALL the attention from men-young and old. While I am somewhat jealous, I am even more inspired to know that I can improve my own looks now and in the future. When I’m with this friend, I am constantly introduced to healthy tasty food – she helps me keep my diet in line.
Human bodies are designed to consume raw/fresh foods. Isn’t it FUNNY how it just so happens that the BEST foods for us are also the CHEAPEST. Fruits and vegetables and beans (legumes) are so very in-expensive. However when you try to find fresh meat, the cost can be exorbitant, but that’s a subject for another discussion.
MUST HAVES to jump start your True Beauty.
JUICER – I can speak with some knowledge on the power of juicing. I’ve been a juicer of and on for over 10 years. When it’s on, my skin is absolutely fabulous. The negative side to juicing- at least for me – is that I can’t consume anything oily, like salad dressing or anything oil based, or any kind of junk food or fast food. When I juice, nothing but healthy or fresh foods will stay in my stomach.
When starting out with juicing, I recommend using ginger root with the juice combination. It helps me to digest the juice, and not be nauseated by the junk that is immediately purged from my digestive system.
My favorite juice combinations:
Apple/Broccoli/Ginger Root ( I love McIntosh and Empire apples especially)
Apple/Kale/Carrot/Ginger Root
Absolutely fabulous!!!!!
TIP – I juice early in the morning before work or before my day gets started. Clean up can sometimes
be a trial. I use little grocery store bags to collect the pulp and peels, and I’ll put them in the bottom drawer of the fridge. Later in the evening when I have more time, I’ll take these bags out to the trash. You can’t let them sit in your regular trash because the smell will be horrible very quickly. I also disassemble the juicer immediately and let all the washable pieces soak in the sink until I get home. The mesh grate/blade is the one thing I clean and let dry right away.
BLENDER – This is an easy way to juice, with less time depending on how powerful your juicer is.
Orange/Banana/Strawberry
FEEDBACK PLEASE!!! Do you have some favorite things to help you work on your True Beauty? Please hit us back with great juice recipes, or spiritual beauty techniques that help you get centered.