Beautiful

Looking at my hand I see all of the imperfections.  The scars, the cuts, the dryness, the crooked finger.  It's easy to see the faults.  Why is it so easy to see and accept my faults, yet so difficult to see and accept my beauty?

One complement leads to another.  I see the beauty in you, and you see the beauty in me, but do you see the beauty in yourself? 

A peaceful practice.  Write 20 things you love about yourself.  That shouldn't be so difficult, yet it is for so many. 

It is one thing to understand certain positive qualities about yourself, it's another thing to accept them as truth and embrace them as who you are.  You will not truly know yourself until you know and accept your positive qualities.  Many believe this to be true for your negative qualities, but to see yourself as beautiful, a beautiful mind, soul, and spirit is to see your true self.

You are not situational.  You are not the issues surrounding you.  You are not the physical body.  You do however create yourself everyday.  You are the person that has been transformed by a situation.  How you handle a situation.  How you think of a situation.  You are how you feel about past situations.  How you create situations and evolve from them.  How you let go of situations that no longer serve you.

I once told my sister that we should embrace and give the same amount of loving energy towards negative circumstances because these moments are a part of life, and life is an amazing gift.  It is from those dark and ugly places that we are able to show our true strength, and isn't that true strength a beautiful thing?

Transform the "ugly" into something beautiful.