Inner Image Consultant, Beauty Advisor, Professional Make-up Artist and Esoteric Healing Practitioner Kathryn Fortuna on True Beauty and Rediscovering our Essence…
As a professional make-up artist for close to 30 years, I have pondered a lot on what true beauty is and what it means to re-discover our essence and share our beauty with all others unreservedly.
Clients often come to see me seeking improvements to how they look. What I now see is that we are all beautiful and the depth of beauty we all have within us is very powerful. This power comes from the fact that it is the same within us all, and the quality of this beauty is a stillness found deep within the heart and is expressed through our eyes – our true beauty and our essence simply shines out.
Once this quality has been felt, something extraordinary occurs that engenders a natural and exquisite impulse to share this feeling with everyone.
I have seen men and women begin to re-connect with the beauty they feel deep within; they are feeling it, exploring it and beginning to share it with the world, often igniting a spark of recognition in others.
Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.
One simple look, smile, conversation or moment between two people can effectively start a R-Evolution.
Bringing true beauty back never felt so easy. We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel. When we share our natural beauty we meet another person in this equalness, sometimes even unlocking something deep within them that has been dormant for lifetimes. Like dominos with a purpose, this chain reaction sets a rhythm that could ripple all around the world, if we so choose.
We are so very beautiful and the innermost beauty we have deep within us all is exactly the same, so why aren’t we ALL letting that innermost beauty shine out?
We all look different and there is purpose to looking different: it is the outer expression of this inner beauty that is unique and that gives us an opportunity to offer various facets of the one thing, which is our Divinity.
This is when we all get a chance to explore, adore and share our own external expressions. But we hold back. We hide. We go into comparison. We judge ourselves and apologize for the very thing that we offer the world that is different. There is something that stops us from understanding that the unique way we express our same true inner beauty may be the very thing that sets us free from our self-imposed prison. So what is this something?
Let’s break it down. We know that true beauty is a feeling, not a look. However, here’s the interesting part that I have observed:
The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.
Get it? Our physical expression is not only purposeful, it is needed. Like a part of this human puzzle, our own ‘flavour’ or expression is an offering to humanity that cannot be ignored.
For example: have you ever noticed the exquisite way someone can emanate the true beauty they feel and extend it out to their very fingertips and beyond? The way they hold themselves, their eyes, walk and talk, make-up, hair, grin, curve of their hip, dip of their nose and even the perfume they choose to wear all emanates from their inner beauty. Does it matter whether their ‘features’ are considered classically beautiful or not? No, they are glorious as a package and this is what we bring when we claim ourselves – the WHOLE package.
The more we claim our inner beauty and then in turn our unique external expression the more we unlock the bind we have been held in.
How Does a True Beauty R-Evolution Begin?
Somewhere along the way we have chosen to be manipulated into thinking that we all need to look the same. This is simply not true.
When we call out this madness and stop apologizing for our physical differences we can start reclaiming ourselves and begin to contribute to the r-evolution of celebrating our true beauty displayed in physically unique differences. And may the fun begin!
6 Simple ways we can claim our expression of true beauty…
- Digging out any self-worth issues and tossing them away
- Stop comparing ourselves to others. We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression
- Reclaiming our wild, wonderful and often unusual looks. Inner confidence is very sexy!
- Stop hiding … shine our light and walk with true purpose
- Smiling and with our eyes, re-connecting deeply with others
- Feeling our hearts expand and appreciating who we truly are.
Then…
- Saying ‘no’ to anything that does not confirm our innermost beauty
- Saying ‘yes’ to buying, purchasing, making products and taking images that reflect the true natural beauties that we are
- Breaking the cycle of disconnection from our true beauty, keeping it real and sharing ALL of us with family, friends and the world.
The True Beauty R-Evolution has begun. And yes, my beautiful friend, it is … US.
By Kathryn Fortuna
Further Reading:
Plastic Surgery, Designer Vaginas & True Beauty
True Beauty… Defying Age and Aging
Truly Beautiful
I know this to be true
‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.’
Because it has changed my life I know so many people now that reflect their inner beauty to the world and it has inspired me to come out from my hiding place and also show the world what truly beautiful human-beings we are.
Allowing ourselves to shine the beauty we already are, is what reveals it in our form and movements
“The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me” Yes forget the trashy gossip celeb magazines that tell us to look physically beautiful – this is the true way and the only way one can ever find true contentment and joy within themselves
An amazing article about our way to remain with our essence and as you have shared Kathryn, walking holds a deepening place in us all, so being in True movement sets up the foundation for us to return to by being present as we walk.
True beauty is felt rather than seen.
“Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are” An invitation to look into the eyes of everyone we meet and feel our and their inner beauty reflected between us.
We all have beauty within, ‘The more we claim our inner beauty and then in turn our unique external expression the more we unlock the bind we have been held in.’
I agree Lorraine I know some quite stunning people that I just want to be around not because of their looks or physicality but because there is just something about them as though they are glowing with warmth that is something you just want to be a part of. And when you see them your heart skips a beat and sings in some sort of recognition of the possibility that I also have that same warmth within me.
Being present with ourselves is also key to allowing our beauty to shine unreservedly. I know I can be one step ahead of myself or behind myself and that is when I am out of kilter and there are snags to my being in my true beauty.
We are beautiful and have an innermost beauty deep within us, time to let this shine out, ‘ The more we claim our inner beauty and then in turn our unique external expression the more we unlock the bind we have been held in.’
‘We judge ourselves and apologize for the very thing that we offer the world that is different.’ – it is total madness that we do this once, let alone a lot of the time! We’re all trying to be the same as one another, to fit in and be accepted, when in general, we love the different qualities that each person arounds us reflects back to us. Time to appreciate what each of us brings to the world and value our unique and different expressions, instead of trying to crush or diminish them.
I agree it is time to appreciate and value all that we uniquely bring to the world, ‘Time to appreciate what each of us brings to the world and value our unique and different expressions, instead of trying to crush or diminish them.’
The fact that our true beauty shines from the inside out makes so much sense to me. I can look in the mirror one day and love who I see looking back and the next day I mightn’t love the reflection as much. So why the difference on the two days? I have come to know that on the ‘I love my reflection day’ I am living in harmony with myself, deeply connected to who I am and that shines out, but on the other contrasting day there is definitely something off about the way I am feeling, probably disconnected to myself and that is what is reflected back. I am still the same beautiful woman, but how I am feeling on the inside is totally determining the reflection in the mirror.
I love re-reading this every time I come across it as it communicates the actuality that by virtue of the fact we are all equally divine in essence, our expression of this divinity is one that is ‘out of this world’ and ‘off the charts’ beautiful in the truest sense. Living in connection to this quality is how our beauty and power naturally emanates through our uniquely designed bodies, offering a reflection for all to know that this is the joy of who we are.
It is extremely disregarding of not only ourselves but all of us as what we do affects everyone, to not honour the beauty we truly are. Not only do we then experience all that beauty is truly not, we ALL also miss out on the reflection of love that is naturally their within you and so needed by ALL of us.
Beauty certainly is in a reflection and knowing who we truly are. It is exquisite that we can inspire another so deeply simply by being all of who we are and living from this point.
R-Evolution is long overdue and and we can support each other through the process.
In order to truly evolve we have choices to make and choosing to accept our own beauty is a great starting point.
One way of claiming our true beauty is to simply feel and appreciate, ‘Feeling our hearts expand and appreciating who we truly are.’
I like the fact that a person’s true beauty can be seen in their eyes, nothing else needs to be said or done, there is beauty there already and fully being expressed.
I love the concept expressed here that feel so true when Kathryn mentioned how we tend to apologise for looking different instead of appreciating how valuable and important that unique expression is to show the many varied ways that our inner beauty and divinity can reflect to others the same in them. This statement alone can defeat the typical comparison people have with some ideal of what it is to be beautiful.
We could say Michael we are all a facet of the one Diamond.
“One simple look, smile, conversation or moment between two people can effectively start a R-Evolution.” when the beauty of who we are shines through our eyes , the joy in this connection is amazing and very powerful.
“The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.” What a beautiful and supportive way to look at ‘true beauty’. How lovely would it be if we nurtured our children to understand this so that the way they looked was not focussed on an image or identity, but on the way they felt about themselves on the inside.
‘Digging out any self-worth issues and tossing them away’ This is vital to being clear and able to express joyfully in our lives.
If we see what cosmetic surgery is doing we see the opposite occurring in women who starts to lookalike with tight faces and less expression in their looks trying to look perfect, perfect and void of love for themselves. I am not against cosmetic surgery but well considered from within and not to change something because we are not enough as we are. And you are offering us a very empowering answer to why we look as we do; ‘We all look different and there is purpose to looking different: it is the outer expression of this inner beauty that is unique and that gives us an opportunity to offer various facets of the one thing, which is our Divinity.’
We have mis-defined beauty – I find that when i look most beautiful is when I am loving being myself and loving every part of my life – and I find the same with other people too. The real beauty is not in our make up, or facial features it is in the undefinable grandness inside us.
Absolutely our true beauty is a reflection of our unique essence that we can choose to share with the world.
Thank you Kathryn, for making alive what is there to be seen again.. That which we have hidden, yet that which we need to live again — our whole beauty. Everything else we have created is simply a deviation away from God’s beauty – US.
You remind me that expressing our beauty for the full package it is-is our responsibility.
Your way with people is very inspiring – through your eyes people get to see and appreciate their own beauty. Often when you meet a make up artist they look at what they can fix, in your care you see all the beauty the person holds and encourage this to be shown.
I had to go back to this sentence several times ‘This is when we all get a chance to explore, adore and share our own external expressions’ and it was mainly because of the word ‘adore’ to let myself deeply feel that I am allowed to adore me. Not something I grew up with but definitely something I want to re-learn or remember.
Confirming our inner beauty is the anecdote to our self worth issues rather than comparing ourselves as less than with the pictures and ideals of current beauty.
Working on the exterior of life only scrubs and scratches the surface – and who wants that? The only true way to shine is to develop our connection within – it’s this that emmanates.
Beautifully said Joseph. We think the outer is easier to work on as evidenced by the billion dollar beauty industry. Expressing our true beauty is simple, free and has no image or picture attached to it.
R-Evolution is a simple word that takes us back to the love we all come from.
We are beautiful inside in a way that never ends. When we realise we are love and equal sons of God how can we look again in the mirror and see just the shell when it’s the essence and the care in us that makes us who we are – beautiful like the stars.
I love how you describe the “inner package”. What makes us beautiful is simple – it’s our inner sparkle and all the things that contribute to our inner package, that people then outwardly get to see.
We are habitually addicted to thinking of ‘good times’ being perpetually out of reach. We critique and find fault with ourselves but seem to believe we might be ‘fixed’ one far off day. But this is all a lie as you beautifully say Kathryn. Our beauty lives inside of us right here, right now. All we have to do is realise the truth. Within this lives our power.
“We judge ourselves and apologize for the very thing that we offer the world that is different.” This line is great.. There has been many upon many situations where I have thought I was different or weird because no other was this. I appreciate this line of Gold catching all those who honour their inner uniqueness – also known as their beauty.
Deep in the eyes of every person can be seen a spark that flickers with the truth of who we are, no matter if this truth has been buried beneath a certain way of living that masks such beauty from the world.
I agree Liane, it would be a challenge to NOT find beauty or a spark in someone’s eyes.
‘We know that true beauty is a feeling, not a look.’ I love this and know it to be true, the moment I am drawn to looking outside of myself to confirm my beauty I know I am lost and have to come back to feeling my beauty from the inside and confirm it myself by appreciating everything I feel and share this in life.
We all know true beauty when we see it and it has nothing to do with how a person looks but how they feel and are in life.
We have allowed the outer world to dictate to us that beauty = looks and this suits the industry and the part in us that chooses to stay small and diminutive.
I love the image of the dominos as beauty does set off a chain reaction from one person to the next.
We will never be able to expand our inner beauty and wonder of ourselves if we don’t already appreciate the foundations of what is already there to build on.
I love this – true beauty is not a look, it is a feeling. A reminder of this should be on every woman’s dressing table/mirror.
“Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them.” It offers an opportunity and a responsibility to equally be all that you are.
When we confirm and appreciate our own beauty we are in affect confirming all others and this is a beautiful movement unto itself. A beautiful blog to read today thank you Kathryn.
We have the body we have and we can look beautiful in bed with terminal cancer, even then. A lot, perhaps everything, depends on which part of us we express.
Can’t believe I’ve only just found this gold-mine. Full of nuggets but my favourite today is, ‘Stop comparing ourselves to others. We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression’. Beautiful and much needed blog Kathryn. Thank You.
Once we start to drop our protection, we can let go of the mask and who we truly are, our natural beauty, shines out.
I love everything about this blog, as much as I love being met by a woman that walks claimed in the power of knowing her deeply sacred inner-beauty. Inspiration is felt, right in the heart, and my whole body nods in appreciation, not only of the beauty I am witnessing but the knowing that this is who I also am in essence, a confirmation of who we all are.
Yes, it is very inspiring and very enjoyable.
Thank you Kathryn for celebrating and confirming the power of reflection when we re-claim our true beauty – a much needed r-evolution.
What? Am I allowed? To let what I have kept deep within out? What do you mean I have full permission to shine like a radiant sun beam? I can stand up and stand out and say with all of my heart ‘yes I am great, beautiful, strong and true’? Yes Kathryn – absolutely.
Love to read this blog today … I can feel your own unique beauty shinning out through every word Kathryn. Recently, there are times when I look in the mirror and then carry on only to stop and take my time to look again, as the sparkle and light shinning from my eyes is such a confirmation of how my I am letting my love shine out for all to see. No more holding back the love I have to share with others.
Kathryn, this article is absolutely beautiful to read, I can feel how in our society there is a lot of comparing ourselves to others, we have a picture of what beauty is and this is very set and limited. It is not a true reflection of the unique beauty of each person; your article feels revolutionary and yet is so simple and obvious when read, thank you.
How cool for you to be a makeup artist that does not change how someone looks but rather celebrates them for their natural beauty. This is a totally different relationship! It must be so supportive for the women who come and see you!
I can really feel your love of people through this article Kathryn. It’s refreshing to read your interpretation of beauty, inside and out from someone who works as an Image Consultant. A few more of you scattered around the beauty departments would be a heaven sent investment for humanity.
A deep appreciation of ourselves allows a settlement within that cant but be expressed forth in our every movement and breath.
Thank you Kathryn for a really beautiful and confirming article, I love that we are all from the same essence within, and that our own outer expression is simply our unique way of expressing that essence.
I love this picture that goes with the article, it feels so lovely and everyone is themselves and celebrating the beauty that is them shine out. Inner beauty is where it is definitely at!
Thank you Kathryn. Yes like a foreign movie, life has its own sub titles. It’s a feeling quality that flows through your body. When we look at the surface pictures without the text we get lost in a crazy interpretation of what we think presents. The same is true of feelings and life, without tuning into them and how they vibrate, we miss the true beauty and plot of our role – we represent the magnificence of the whole universe!
‘We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel. When we share our natural beauty we meet another person in this equalness, sometimes even unlocking something deep within them that has been dormant for lifetimes. Like dominos with a purpose, this chain reaction sets a rhythm that could ripple all around the world, if we so choose.’ By simply living the beauty that we are in full we can bring healing to everyone we meet. This is an awesome truth.
The beauty expressed in the photograph completely epitomises everything you have said, Kathryn, and it is so true. Inner beauty every time.
There is so much focus on trying to have the external appearance match the images we randomly decide equate to beauty ( I say randomly because looking at portaits of ‘beautiful’ ladies over the decades it is obvious that the desired images keep changing at times radically).
Yet the most delightful experience is always the joy and expansion of meeting the vitality and full presence in another person’s eyes when they are fully connected to the essence of who they are and they exude that love and magnificence through every pore of their body.
Most beautiful Kathryn and thank you for kick starting a revolution that has us live our true beauty again.
Not sure if there is such thing as ‘true activism’ – but I am definitely rallying for change within. It’s amazing yet unsurprising how life unfolds after making changes to oneself first. We’ve sort of got it backwards, trying to change the outside world without considering the inner first.
The true beauty R-evolution reminds another of their inner beauty and essence and also with no judgement or comparison they feel brotherhood and equality.
“The True Beauty R-Evolution has begun.” and it is time to look deeply into our eyes and feel the level of tenderness and delicateness within all of us and when we connect to that and choose to take into our movements we know what true beauty is all about, thank you!
Thank you Kathryn for this beautiful sharing. If we were all told this , that we are all beautiful on the inside, from birth onward how much pain and suffering it would save
I love reading the children’s book ” I am beautyful just for being me” with my grandchildren, Tanya Curtis and Desiree Delaloye have produced an amazing book, reminding us all, whatever age we are, that we are all full of beauty.
“The more we claim our inner beauty and then in turn our unique external expression the more we unlock the bind we have been held in.” Just by being our natural selves and letting our light shine can make such a difference, and not only to ourselves but to everyone we meet in our day.
‘We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel. ‘ This is true, living from our essence is our true (R)evolution.
Our true beauty shines through from within, so it is how we feel and live that emanates and communicates to the world who we are. We are all equally beautiful on the inside and when we allow this natural beauty to shine through it is a blessing for everyone.
I especially love the part of sharing ALL of us with ALL of the world.
Kathryn being an image consultant with the clear and distinct purpose and livingness to break down images is an awesome service and game changer for women. Well done.
Our essence is where our true beauty lives, it is our choice if we share this with the world, but why hold it back, we have so much to share. ‘The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.’
“Stop hiding … shine our light and walk with true purpose” When we reconnect to the natural beauty of our essence the Light is reflected from our eyes for all to feel and see.
There are many tools to deepen our true beauty, but there is nothing we can do to become more beautiful as we are already this beauty from the day we were born, and yet these tools are important for us to return simply to expressing what is true.
Gorgeous Kathryn, it is so necessary for us to begin breaking down the myriad of ideals we have taken on around what beauty is, and is not. To know ourselves from our essence, is the answer, you are spot on…. and the more of us that live from this place, the faster this will begin to change.
‘We all look different and there is purpose to looking different: it is the outer expression of this inner beauty that is unique and that gives us an opportunity to offer various facets of the one thing, which is our Divinity.’ beautifully said Kathryn.
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I also think we have our definition of beauty completely wrong, when I know I am beautiful it comes from a feeling inside me, a total joy in just being me, and I notice when I feel that way I naturally look gorgeous, it’s never about what I look like, or what I see first.
We’re all beautiful, it’s just a choice whether we embrace it and let it out or not. And you are so right, part of embracing our own beauty is saying no to those things that do not support us or do not confirm that before anything else in the world happens: we are already beautiful.
I have been building and deepening this connection to the stillness within me, and it has been lovely to feel the quality and inner confidence in my outer expression and many times I pass a mirror I can see this stillness within shinning out through my eyes.
Such a joy to revisit this blog Kathryn, because the blog just emanates the joy and the beauty you are and live, gorgeous to feel. Keep writing!
I love this Kathryn ‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. ‘ We have a responsibility to not only shine our beautiful selves but to know we offer by ripple affect so much to everyone around us when we claim this truth.
Kathryn you have so much depth to offer in the make up industry
“We are so very beautiful and the innermost beauty we have deep within us all is exactly the same, so why aren’t we ALL letting that innermost beauty shine out?”
Great question Kathryn, indeed why do we contract? It is certainly time for us to be responsible and let our inner light shine. A very time reminder for me Kathryn, thank you.
Thank you Kathryn. It is wonderful to make the connection between the expression and emanation of beauty in this way. I am getting ready to go to an event tonight and you have reminded me to pay as much attention to the openness of my heart and the quality I move in and express with as I do to what I choose to wear.
Gorgeous Leonne. And what a magical combination… quality and then choices. ?
I was at a mental health first aid course yesterday and volunteered to be part of a demonstration and in that, I was to experience what it was like to have schizophrenia and to feel what it is like to have 2 voices in my head and try to continue a normal conversation with someone else. (Seriously not easy at all) One of the people who was being a voice in my head, said to me, she is looking at you, she is checking you out, to which I replied to the voice in my head by accident, of course she is, and so she should, I am beautiful. (The person I was talking to, who could not hear the voices was surprised by my random sentence and some people of the audience laughed at my response and another said, whoa you are not lacking in self confidence and this really made realise how to love ourself and think highly of ourselves is and has not always been accepted. It is as if we are then thought to be up ourselves.
This exercise gave me so much more understanding for how difficult it could be to have schizophrenia but also reflect that those of us who are not diagnosed with a mental health issue, still allow so many voices of our own in our head to tell us that we are fat, not pretty enough, too tall etc etc.
Love it – ‘dominos with a purpose’, unfolding pure love as they collectively land one big ripple effect around the world. True beauty.
Who would have thought that the words”… It has never been easier to return to our true beauty “ Could be offered now with the world in such perilous healthcare crisis state… And yet… It actually is true and it starts with such simple choices.
‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them’ – This is something simple we can all choose which builds the love we all share. It feels so natural to lovingly connect to another’s essence and not get caught up in outer presentation, comparisons or judgment. There is such natural beauty in a smile – it is open and inviting dispelling barriers and bridging differences. Thank you Kathryn for this R-evolutionary article.
So true Christine. The naturalness of a smile from the soul completely cuts through all comparison and invites us to deeply connect both to ourselves and others.
Thank you Kathryn, I really loved reading your blog, to know that we are all equally love in our innermost and unique in our expression through our physical bodies, this is something to claim for ourselves and celebrate.
I love the fact that we are all a glorious unique package. And that our true inner beauty is enhanced by our individual features. It is the first time I have thought of it that way.
I have been inspired by this in another “Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.” And I am learning to shine my light and not hold back and it is healing to be meet by some one who feels some of their worth, their love and their essence and does not hold this back, we can make this our equality, all equally divine and beautiful.
Yes Samantha. We can be each others mirror. 🙂
‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.’ – What we have to reflect to others is enormous. We may not even realise how easily we pick up things from others, but we do. And to start to be ourselves and share this back feels like the healing the world is in need of. To truly show the world how we live, to claim who we are and say to another ‘it’s in you too’ without any investment for them to ‘get it’ is absolute love.
‘It’s in you too’. I LOVE this Hannah.
This is Beautiful Kathryn – it exposes the many excuses we make for not truly claiming and celebrating our Beauty – yes, our outer expression is different but as you say ‘Inner Confidence’ is very sexy. Time to start practicing that 🙂
Yes Christine, the excuses are many yet the inner confidence that we have is felt in our bodies, the way we walk, talk and hold ourselves…. this is what makes us look and feel beautiful…. not the colour of our hair or the length of our legs…
When I observe someone with this confidence the connection to their soul is what makes them sexy 🙂
Absolutely Kathryn, if I look at myself and I’m not fully connected to myself, unloving thoughts can try to creep in, and if that happens, It’s so beautiful to claim myself back by feeling my body and how lovely and delicate it truly is. Works every time. Our true beauty is our essence, no question.
Can you imagine how many businesses would disappear once we start living this true beauty (r)eveolution, I mean, a lot of businesses live from our self-doubt and lack of self-worth. If we all start feeling and living how enormously beautiful we are, then there is many things we don’t need any longer from outside.
I agree Mariette. The ‘Beauty Industry’ would be NO MORE.
We would no longer look outside ourselves for potions and lotions to fix us and therefore we would navigate the industry in a whole new direction.
May the navigating begin and the sails lift up and expand as we do. 🙂
“Once this quality has been felt, something extraordinary occurs that engenders a natural and exquisite impulse to share this feeling with everyone.” This is so true Kathryn. The beauty that I feel that comes from deep inside me is something that I cannot but share, it just comes out. Through my eyes, my smile, my moves, how I dress and my voice. It is always there to touch that same beauty in the other person, to invite them also in this beauty as it is in us all.
Yes Lieke I love what you have shared here. It really is an energetic quality that is felt from within and is the same in all.
When I am with someone who feels beautiful within, every single part of them emanates this beauty. I can feel this deeply in you. Thank you. 🙂
“The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.” Yes please lets stop this madness. I love your 6 pointers of how we can reclaim our expression of true beauty, these are paramount to our wellbeing and should be taught at kindergarten!
Yes I would definitely agree Mary. Looking into the eyes of Serge Benhayon is extraordinary.
You feel truly seen and at the same time you can see. Its like a reflection of all that is to be known.
The essence of love that we ARE is connected to through the emanation that comes from within us and out through our eyes.
“Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.” I remember the first time I looked into the eyes of Serge Benhayon and allowed him to look deep into my eyes it changed the course of my life. I had judged everything and everyone from outside appearances but that day I started the R-evolution to feel myself and others from the inside and feel the essence of love that is equally within us all.
“Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them.” Working in retail I see and meet many people day to day. But what I have come to realise is that sometimes I would not truly meet every person as I was either in a rush to get through a sale or not connected to myself. I have now made it my choice to stop and truly meet people through their eyes. We may not even speak, but through looking into someone’s eyes it really can say everything. The eyes definitely are the beholder of love and you can see the joy radiate from others when you meet them with such love. Its like a huge homecoming.
Hi Kelly
This is so beautiful and very true. The eyes are where we can meet the essence of another and remember that we are all connected. A huge homecoming…. welcoming one and all.
I can feel the beauty in your blog Kathryn, well written
Lots of beautiful gems and sparkly pieces of wisdom in this blog and a real pleasure to revisit. It is wonderful to feel your own unique sparkle in this blog Kathryn and how loving and caring and wise your expression is. And a gorgeous role model you are for us all.
Kathryn I so very much enjoy reading your blogs. Your words so lightheartedly simply through any beauty image that this world produces over board and lets us all shine in our uniqueness and fullness each and every one of us.
Yes thank you Rachel because the simple way is to SURRENDER to our own unique expression. To enjoy it and share it with the world… not fight it.
I can feel the truth of these words; “the simple way is to Surrender to our own unique expression, not fight it.” And then the question popped up, how does a woman surrender when all her life she has been fighting and holding back her own unique beauty and expression which has become a deeply ingrained patter of behaviour?
A woman surrenders and allows herself permission to express her own beauty when she has been reflected from another ( man or woman) that it is safe to express all that she is, which has been my own experience. It is our reflections that perhaps are the true meaning of support.
Yes when a woman feels safe to express herself she lets down the guard and there stands the true beauty that she is… she surrenders….she reveals…. it’s gorgeous.
This is a cracker of a blog. The feeling of it is just stunning; infectiously joyful and super serious without being desperate and overwhelmed.
The statement that had me cheering was this:
“When we call out this madness and stop apologizing for our physical differences we can start reclaiming ourselves and begin to contribute to the r-evolution of celebrating our true beauty displayed in physically unique differences. And may the fun begin!”
Is the way we perceive beauty mad? You bet it is. The constant need to apologise for the natural uniqueness we are is totally crazy. So it is high time to read blogs like this that set the record straight, and call for us all to participate in a r-evolution with no foot-stamping, no protests, and no aggression…just a whole lotta fun.
Celebrating our true beauty is definitely a much needed revolution. The marker of beauty has been sold to us as ideals of outer perfection leaving most feeling inadequate in comparison. In connection, true beauty can be seen in the eyes of another not on the covers of magazines.
Yes Samantha… and when we can ALL feel the truth in what you say then we realise that we are ALL super models.
This is so powerful Kathryn. As change is always possible. And it is super empowering to realise that the change we look for comes from within, through the choices we make. That each choice we make towards love, to claiming the divinity and absolute beauty-fullness that we are within, is a inspirational step not only for ourselves but for all, as we reflect the truth of who we are and how we all can live the joy of who we are.
Yes Carola wise words indeed.
The change that we look for comes from within.
This means it is within ‘reach’ for everyone.
One of the things I love about this blog is how it reveals our natural beauty as something that is coming from our essence. That when we connect to that within ourselves, we are all naturally very beautiful. I have recently been feeling something in myself that I haven’t before really allowed myself to feel – an exquisite sweetness. Part of my natural beauty as a woman is this incredible sweetness in me that I have been hiding (or trying to) from even myself. Now I realise it’s everything, the world needs to see it and I need to allow it.
Anna I can feel your exquisite sweetness in the words that you write here. Yes the world needs this so much as it is the part of us that breaks down and deconstructs the hardness all around and lets the love in. Unlocking the sweetness within and sharing it with the world is our next step towards true freedom.
What words of wisdom coming from both your comment Kathryn and Anna. For quite a while I did not wish to connect to my sweetness as it felt weak and false – like a very sugary sweet. As I now begin to connect to my essence I am slowly beginning to feel that sweetness within and to honour it, and one day feel fully the ‘exquisite sweetness’ that is naturally in all of us.
Your words resonate deep within me and made me wonder, I can feel this exquisite sweetness in myself but how much do I allow myself to feel this and accept it as natural beauty and second do appreciate it and let it out for all to see. Work in progress to no longer choose protection and hide it but to let it out in full as I agree it is so needed.
This is a beautiful blog Kathryn. I have often looked at many women with that appreciation of their beauty and often forgot to look at myself with the same appreciation. This is changing because the more I read articles like this one the more I break down the negative self talk I have been hooked into in the past. Those days of self loathing have gone and in their place is a woman who is learning just how beautiful and empowering inner beauty is and how easy it is to appreciate the outer beauty that reflects that.
Thank you Amanda this is so beautiful as you are.
I feel blessed to be a part of these changes in the world where women begin to connect with their inner beauty and then celebrate their outer beauty.
I agree Amanda it is good to be reminded that we all have this inner beauty independently of how we look on the outside. Once we stop comparing ourselves to other ‘beautiful’ people and bring forth our inner love it cannot but shine through our eyes and smile.
“unlocking something deep within them that has been dormant for lifetimes” – This is the key for me Kathryn. It is all there within just dormant, sometimes waiting for someone else to make it pop out and say HELLO WORLD… it is truly beautiful when it does.
I love this blog. Such an important one to share with as many as possible.
We are ll unique in our expression, but the beauty within is the same. I get that now. We are duped into seeing what beauty is via magazines and movies, and its portrayed as an outer look and not an emanation from within. True beauty is what is reflected from inside out. Through the eyes, through a smile or just being you. Thank you Kathryn, such an amazing blog.
So true Natalie – when we emanate from within the whole world can connect to that emanation and we feel a grand and glorious connection.
Good point Natalie, we get polluted from the media to what beauty should look like when as you said it is an emanation from within, just being ourselves.
Yes Natalie and while we have been loitering around the new-stands feeding off the external looks on the cover of magazines ( Photo-shopped ) the people passing by have all had the most amazing beauty deep within waiting to be connected to through the eyes and a warm touch. 🙂 🙂
I can see now that my true worth comes from how I feel and my relationship with myself, but at some point in life it I felt an expectation to fulfil a certain role within society that has to do with how I look as a woman. And for some reason this was interpreted by myself as a marker for my value and my worth as a person. I am glad to be freeing myself from the shackles of this belief.
Thank you Shami for shedding the belief that our looks are in any way connected to our value as a person. Breaking free from this is the beginning of the True Beauty R-Evolution.
Viva la R-Evolution! It is a stiff battle but one many women are talking about, winning and sharing. In this way one day all people will know this as truth – that our inner beauty is equal in all and emanates from within.
This blog blows me away, it really pulled me back from drifting away from myself and forgetting the inner beauty I have felt before. Life, through my choices of course, has been trying to lead me away but your blog Kathryn has brought me back on track. It’s not the first time I’ve read it but I seem to have got it this time on a deeper level. Many people these days cannot even look you in the eye, but with that inner beauty shinning out how long can they resist?
Kevin this is so true. It’s often hard for people to look each other in the eyes or when they do it’s so fleeting that you can barely connect.
However if even one person is connected to their inner beauty there may be a precious moment when you both do see and feel each other and this is powerful. If that’s held than the other is sometimes pulled up and WOW. The joy shared is immeasurable.
Indeed the eyes are a great marker for how connected we are with our inner beauty ánd how open we are to show this to others. Just looking each other in the eyes is for many people difficult. It can be confrontational, exposing and/or an invitation to deepen the connection and reflect your beauty. A great practice in each encounter!
When a person starts to truly know themselves, and start to let go of the mask or shield of protection, then a wonderful transformation does take place, and their true beauty starts to shine out of their eyes, and this is wonderful to see.
We can change the the world simply by smiling and reflecting our joy to those around us. Like a ripple effect this can go far. Beautiful words Kathryn. Thank you for the inspiration.
This is a truly relevant blog for not just women, but men also. Learning to stop the self comparison, avoidance, dismissal etc and allowing ourselves to see our looks in an appreciative light is usually something quite the opposite of how we have lived to date. Yet, as you say, looking another in the eye and meeting them with openness is a simply divine experience for both. The beauty radiates and there is nothing to ‘improve’.
Yes I agree Helen.
Equally so for ALL men and the women. Our true beauty is genderless ?
This is simply one of my favourite things – looking another in the eye and meeting them with openness. Letting others truly see all of me, and allowing myself to see all of them, even the parts that we hide. Very beautiful.
It makes me wonder why on earth we would hide our connection to our essence, to see someone in theirs is surely the most natural loving thing to want to look at, yet we become furious at the reflection for it reminds us of all the ill choices that have kept us from the same connection. We need to turn this on its head and be inspired by the beauty naturally found and know that it is there for all of us, in an instant if we chose it, just have to let go of some serious pride that how we live has not allowed the same connection to our beauty.
That’s it Willem. Taking the focus off the outer and connecting to the inner will naturally bring more care and acceptance to the outer anyway.
The beauty industry would offer a whole new way if it was about the true essence of a man or woman. Rather than masking and fixing, the Industry would be honouring and celebrating.
“We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression” This is such a great truism.
Thank you for highlighting this quote, Jonathan – it is beautiful when we can fully appreciate all the ‘different outer expressions’ in the world, and to know that underneath this outer expression there are the same tender and loving hearts beating away.
Thank you Kathryn, feeling the quality and beauty within and shinning all of our light out to the world, with the sparkling eyes and open heart. Once we allow the innermost beauty to shine out, you can really feel there is no effort with the outer, it just flows.
Well said Deborah and so true.
‘Once we allow the innermost beauty to shine out, you can really feel there is no effort with the outer, it just flows.’ 🙂
Yes our eyes reveal much about us – words exchanged can be manipulated but, to look into someone’s eyes this can reveal much more. A beautiful sharing Kathryn thank you.
Kathryn, when you talk about smiling from the joy we feel, I get a real mix of responses coming up in me. On the one hand I totally get this joy and a desire to share it unconditionally with huge big smiles, but I also get how this is not what everyone is experiencing at the same time. So I ask myself, is that an excuse to stop smiling, or a reason to smile even more?
Great question Shami
In my experience many people are not always feeling the same way and this can make us feel that perhaps we need to adjust our ‘joy volume’.
Also some people do not smile from their innermost but more as a courtesy, to be nice or just to protect themselves. We can feel the difference can’t we?
It is important to have understanding for what is going but why hold back?
I know that a smile that comes from the TRUE connection to that persons essence is like a ‘Soul Selfie’ 🙂
And when they don’t hold back I can also choose to feel the joy or alternately feel where I am at and clock that. We have an awesome choice either way.
A true smile emanates through the WHOLE body and when another person feels it they too get the blessing.
Thank you Kathryn, this is beautiful to read and very supportive. This makes me want to bring out all of me in to every smile and give it all freely with out exception and without holding back.
This is gorgeous, thank you Kathryn and Shami.
When we begin to question that ” We are so very beautiful and the innermost beauty we have deep within us all is exactly the same, so why aren’t we ALL letting that innermost beauty shine out?” it feels as though we already have that knowing within that we are everything we need to be, and do not need to look outside of ourselves. Once we have this awareness we can start to build a deeper foundation of love within and a commitment to appreciate that we have all the answers as we begin to open up to our innate wisdom and tenderness.
Whoohoo thank you Amina. You nailed it 🙂
Yes Susan I feel that certain age groups start to look the same because we get stuck in an era or style that we feel comfortable with rather than develop a loving relationship with self and than express from there.
Our outer image often reflects our choice to keep evolving or stay attached to a time that felt safe and seemed okay.
Young women with a look that is ‘in fashion’ and the older women that have stayed with a look.
Our clothes, make up and outer image reflect so much more than we realise. They reflect our inner confidence and willingness to share our glory.
True expression in fashion is a fresh opportunity in every moment to feel who we are and what honours us and shine our light out for all to feel. 🙂
Yes, Kathryn, I can recognise what you say in the way that I feel to dress sometimes. When I am not willing to truly feel what I want to wear I will wear something that conforms to a pattern rather than exploring my sense of how I am feeling on that particular day and what will support me. We are offered so many options nowadays of how we can present ourselves to the world that if we do not trust our own feelings and innate sense of who we are we can become drawn into an array of complication and dissatisfaction.
Wow this is awesome Kathryn – “Clients often come to see me seeking improvements to how they look. What I now see is that we are all beautiful and the depth of beauty we all have within us is very powerful”. As a make up artist, you have definitely broken the mould by focussing on the inner qualities – it seems to me that many in your profession would only focus on the ‘product’ – the client’s physical appearance.
Kathryn, I have discovered my inner beauty just recently, and have embraced it wholeheartedly. I never in my life thought I could be beautiful and sexy! But I am, I know it now. Thank you for your blog
Hi Natalie
And this is what it is ALL about. Embracing our inner beauty wholeheartedly.
Then the rest unfolds naturally doesn’t it?
We are all reflections for one another, which is perhaps the true meaning of support….
I am beginning to feel more and more what true beauty is. For a lot of my life I have been hoodwinked into thinking that beauty came from our looks or what we wore. My focus had been on developing my outer without much focus on the inner until recent years. Now I feel the deep beauty in a person when I look in their eyes. I feel the beauty in the way a person walks, when they offer a loving gesture. And this beauty is there in every person. When a person is connected with their inner essence, their beauty emanates and their physical looks no longer matters.
In deep appreciation Kathryn, thank you. And may the fun begin!!! Thank you for the absolute joy I felt in your writing, and the sharing of your true beauty….it ignited and inflamed my own sense of deep beauty, and the joy that goes with living that and sharing it with others. Once again thank you.
In deep appreciation Kathryn, thank you. And may the fun begin!!! Thank you for the absolute joy I felt in your writing, and the sharing of your true beauty….it ignited and inflamed my own sense of deep beauty, and the joy that goes with living that and sharing it with others.
So beauty is about how you feel about yourself, and everything else comes from those feelings. That is certainly a r-evolution. Thank you Kathryn.
Very cool comment Arianna… I love what you have shared, and if we want to feel our beauty, it is our responsibility to live it!
Wow, well said Kathryn… this is awesome… and you have made this sound so simple and fun. It is us who continue believing that we are not beautiful if we don’t fit society’s picture of beautiful or it’s US who live, walk and know that we are beautiful inside and out by the way we live and honour ourselves. Holy moly that is beautiful!!
Absolutely, this has been the case in my life, people living from their inner light and beauty have been an inspiration. It is wonderful to appreciate and observe the choice of others to be more themselves “Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.” I am learning to do this for myself, in part through this inspiration. It is lovely to be connecting with the light in some ones eyes rather than looking for the issues, much more open hearted and it felt great.
Would someone pass me the bin please??? I have a few of these that need to be thrown away….” Digging out any self-worth issues and tossing them away>
Awesome Sarah, I love your playfulness. It is beautiful to keep it light when we are looking at the layers of stuff that keep us from feeling how beautiful we are.
Nice one Sarah, and then pass that bin onto me, I’m so done with these old issues…..
Thank you Kathryn a beautifully expressed blog from a truly beautiful woman.
Kathryn I have not understood until reading your wonderfully clear sharing , just what beauty (the beauty R-Evolution) really is. I absolutely love the clarity of your expression and I feel that my understanding of True Beauty has been clarified. Thank you Kathryn.
Kathryn what you have written has made me aware of the fact that I do not always allow people to feel me totally- I am holding back. This is about my self worth I feel and it feels like a gift you have given me.
Kathryn, I like how you described us as each being part of a puzzle.. That our physical expression has a purpose to sharing our true beauty to the world. We each have a unique outer expression that highlights and celebrates a different aspect of our equally amazing and divine nature.
Yes Annie and each part of the puzzle is unique in its own way and yet an exact fit in the whole.
Just like us.
Kathryn you have broken down skin deep beauty by seeing past it and really understanding and connecting with your own inner beauty and that of others. Any kind of beauty treatment from someone like yourself must be incredibly healing for the recipient, confirming of their true inner beauty as well as the beauty of each person’s unique physical expression. Our limited perspective of beauty and what we see in the media is yet another way in our global society we rob ourselves of knowing the beauty and wealth that as you say is equally within everyone. So here’s to point 2…….’Reclaiming our wild, wonderful and often unusual looks. Inner confidence is very sexy!’
Recently I saw the gorgeous face of someone appear like sunshine. I was observing this person as they worked in a cafe and a customer came in. The young woman who was in fact very pretty in her features looked up and smiled at the customer as he came in and up to the counter. I observed the way she communicated with the older gentleman and felt the freshness of her essence. There was a sparkle to her and she reminded me of the warm, delicate light of *sunshine* and a gentle breath of fresh air for this customer who purchased his coffee and returned to his office. A moment in his day with the opportunity for his breath to restore and once again feel his own beauty from within.
The young woman is my daughter, Annabella. Such a joy to behold and witness her grace each day from the exquisite inner beauty of her being. Deep and absolute appreciation of the gorgeous reflection for myself and my own beauty. Thank you Belle x
Thank you Elizabeth.
Your observation of your daughter Annabella is as beautiful as the moment the customer had with her. In fact see how it works?
We, the readers of your comment, also get a blessing from your loving expression Elizabeth and so it continues…..
This expression of true beauty is rippled like the suns rays out into the lives of all to share.
This r-Evolution is well on its way.
Gorgeous sharing Elizabeth, and a powerful reminder that we all can be that ‘warm delicate light of sunshine and a gentle breath of fresh air’, for everyone we meet or come into contact with.
Love it Kathryn, a truly beautiful sharing confirming the truth of our own inner beauty.
Kathryn, reading your article this time i can really feel how powerful our true beauty is, ‘When we share our natural beauty we meet another person in this equalness, sometimes even unlocking something deep within them that has been dormant for lifetimes’, wow this is amazing and inspires me to allow my true beauty to shine with no holding back
Thank you Kathryn for your beautiful blog. It made me ponder on something I have been aware of for a long time – that I naturally love looking into people’s eyes when speaking to them but I did not connect the dots that what I was looking at was their true inner beauty and strength.
Yes Tamara I agree. Looking into the eyes of a person who is connected to themselves is so extraordinary. The stillness and pools of love and wisdom are there to feel.
We are looking into their TRUE Inner Beauty.
And if we stop and take this moment that allows us to ignite our own essence…..
The flame is lit and the sparks do fly. 🙂 🙂
I have had the experience of meeting someone from that true beauty and nothing really outwardly changed in the way they interacted, which was fine. Then over doing this a few times, just as a natural way to be with everyone, that person commented to someone else how lovely they felt me to be -so beautiful and meeting of them (words pretty much exactly to that effect). So each time we meet someone from that place inside us of true beauty, it is clocked and it does open something up in another. We may never hear of it or get feedback of it, but it stays with them eternally.
Yes Simon you are beautiful and this is so true ‘each time we meet someone from that place inside us of true beauty, it is clocked and it does open something up in another.’
No we may never hear of it but if we are honest and allow ourselves a moment of true appreciation we will realise that that moment stays with them eternally.
That feels like true service, Simon. When we need to know the outcome it impinges on the sequence of events rather than allowing the natural true flow of evolution.
Loved this blog Kathryn! Your 6 points are absolute truth. I especially loved… um… all of them! Yhank you for sharing – this is a great topic to discuss.
It is so true the power of our beauty comes from deep within us, the deep connection to our stillness. This depth of stillness allows us to connect with others through our eyes and smile.. Our eyes and smile are two simple ways to make connection with another. As others make that connection with us, they can feel the depth of the stillness and the love we share. It is an amazing and powerful feeling when we connect with others.
Beautiful sharing Amita… I agree, it is gorgeous when we connect with others
Yes, Amita, and this is felt in the beautiful way that you express and allow us to feel that moment too and hence the connection is ever evolving.
‘Bringing true beauty back never felt so easy.’ Is it possible that true beauty has never left us, we have just been looking in the wrong places for it?
I have found that when I am connecting with my inner beauty, my essence, I connect very differently with others compared to when I am in my head all concerned about what I look like. It feels like the real me is inside my body looking out at the world and other people and through my eyes my Soul shines and meets the Soul in others. The physical body then becomes the vehicle for my essence and no longer defines me in totality and as such is simply stunning. This is a gorgeous, sublimely precious and beautiful feeling. Thank you Kathryn for writing about this so eloquently offering your 6 practical tips to re-connecting to our equal inner beauty – R-Evolutionary for many!
Fiona this is very true and I know this and have experienced this also. I have also felt myself hide when looking in the eyes of another, making myself less and now I see just what is being offered when you meet another with all your inner beauty. I look forward to my tomorrows knowing that I can meet anothers inner beauty with my own.
What a great blog Kathryn, and reminder that the beauty that we search for is already within each one of us and as we begin to choose to let this out in the world it inspires others to also remember their true inner beauty.
Inner beauty is the whole package indeed, all stemming from that knowing-ness that we come from the divine
Wow Kathryn, thank you so much! This is an awesome article and so very needed. There are so many absolute gems you have presented but one that particularly struck me was ‘Stop comparing ourselves to others. We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression’ – what a difference it makes when you take the focus from the outside, from striving to be the same as – or better than – everyone else and instead focus on the one thing we all have in common – a stunning inner beauty.
Such a great reminder stunning Hannah Flanagan 🙂
Beautifully expressed Hannah. Reading this sentence alone eases the pressure we place on ourselves, and when you go on further to explain, it all seems so very simple and so absurd that we live this way. Thank you.
When I am connected to my inner beauty then when I gaze upon another all I see is their inner beauty too.
Kathryn I keep coming back to your compelling blog. Today I was taken by this sentence, ‘We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.’ A gentle revolution of expressing joy, now that is true beauty.
Kathryn this blog is such an insertion to re-read (several times!). I am more aware of a deeper appreciation for myself than ever before and finding that this is bringing a much deeper appreciation for every woman I speak with or just pass on the street and simply enjoying the knowing that we are all so truly beautiful from the inside out, no matter what, shape, size, nationality or creed.
It is amazing to feel a very unexpected further confirmation from this openness with others – this deep inner beauty in all, just keeps right on ‘feeding me back’ and deepening my own connection more.
“Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.” Understanding and appreciating energy at this level is pure gold.
Feeling the quality of our true essence is amazing and our true beauty being known from within is definitely contagious and cannot but be shared for all to feel as it is too big to contain with in. Thanks to Serge Benhayon his family and Universal Medicine more and more of us as human beings are beginning to feel and know our connection to our essence to love and are starting to live from here consistently. This is an amazing and truly joyous and evolutionary way for humanity and the inspiration we all need and have today if we accept and embrace ourselves fully. Thank you Kathryn for your sharing our inner beauty so clearly.
Kathyryn, the joy we can offer others by simply being ourselves is endless. But it is also a choice; people either see another as truly inspiring, and an opportunity, or they see another in comparison to where they are at.
What I have seen in other women and in myself is our own insecurities are the result of us choosing to not be a point of reflection but rather hide behind judgement and jealousy.
But as i discover that comparison only stunts me, and as I accept myself for all that I am, I can see how this offers others an opportunity to do the same, or not, but at least the opportunity is there for them to feel and consider.
Thank you Kathryn for your powerful blog. “We know that true beauty is a feeling, not a look” that sentences I love because for me it says it all. Our eyes can receive what it showed from the outside but our body can feel what is really going on. So you can not cheat the body and that is why I love my body most.
There is enormous power in walking in the full appreciation and acceptance of who we are.
An absolute beauty felt in every word Kathryn, you are leading the way in the R- Evolution and as we can as we allow ourselves. “One simple look, smile, conversation or moment between two people can effectively start a R-Evolution.”
Inner = outer beauty and it is a joy to feel. Thank you for this beauty filled blog in honour of the truth of our divinity in expression.
“We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.” This is simply profound isn’t it! To change the world we are led to believe that it is through fighting or battling things out. The truth is that this changes nothing and the cycles of disharmony continue. Connecting to the joy within and expressing from that place can literally move metaphoric mountains. Everything and everyone recalibrate and begin to make different personal choices. This in the end will change the world as we learn to live together in a more loving and considerate way.
Recently, I visited an opticians and was served by a truly beautiful woman, not in the traditional outer sense, but in her way. She clearly loved her job and people, connected with me and was joyful. We shared stories as I tried, rejected and selected a new pair of glasses. She was honest, playful and went out of her way to be supportive. And together we had a fun. Her way was beautiful, loving, a true gift.
As with all things, it seems that it comes back to responsibility. If I accept that beauty is just a look, I can easily say, ‘ I don’t have that look’, and so justify not taking care of my appearance. When I know that beauty comes from the quality that is within, then how can I ignore the outer appearance, because that would impact on the quality of what is within?
WOW Catherine you have nailed it. It is all about responsibility.
The way we so often decide that if we don’t have something the world considers valuable so therefore we don’t need to take care.
I say EVERY SINGLE FAce and Body is extraordinary and extremely valuable. We are all a living breathing miracles and check out our eyes!
We are also kooky, strange beings to look at and this is apart of the fun and wonderment of being human. What we also have is our glorious essence waiting to bust out and shine for all to feel.
Being responsible for our Inner Beauty is a gift we bring to ourselves and the whole world.
Well said Catherine, if the outer does not match the inner, it is felt by all as true harmony of the both is missing.
Kathryn, re-reading your blog today these sentences stood out for me ‘Does it matter whether their ‘features’ are considered classically beautiful or not? No, they are glorious as a package and this is what we bring when we claim ourselves – the WHOLE package.’ I can feel when I don’t feel so connected how I still can compartmentalise my body into parts I feel look great, parts I feel look ok and parts I feel look not so great. I then try to emphasise the great bits and hide the others. This is all based on my ideas of what beauty is from outer influences rather than feeling the gorgeousness of all of me expressed from my inner connection. Amazing to feel the contrast here. Thank you.
Yes Jane this is very common I feel. We decide which physical parts are great, okay or not so great. How do we do this?
But when we are connected to the whole essence of who we are from WITHIN then ALL of our body, top to toe is emanating this connection.
Every little part is felt as a whole by ourselves and others and we are without a doubt very very lovable, sexy, inspirational and beautiful.
Another beauty filled blog from you Kathryn. Thank you for the many reminders of true beauty – and particularly also the celebrating of the whole package the outer expression of the inner beauty also being expressed. I loved this – I love when I feel me and dress, make up and perfume already appreciating this – and then to celebrate the whole package – in every reflection in every shop window, movement, and catching the warm scent of the days selected perfume – we all have to be saying – what a package, and as you say shining this without apology for others to connect with, maybe realise they are this too and allow the opportunity for those dominoes to go toppling. Thank you Kathryn for shining in stereo and leading the way.
Kathryn, I just love the way you have presented the word “R-evolution” – that seems to express what it is that is occurring within our deeper awareness in regards to inner beauty in just one word. I loved reading your blog, thank you.
‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.’
I Love this.
The difference we can share with each other and bring the world together is so simple and so powerful.
Yes Simon, so simple and so incredibly powerful – hanging onto self-criticism and comparison seems absolutely crazy when you realise what an awesome gift it is to accept and claim your inner beauty – a gift for you and for everyone around you.
This is completely true –
‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life’
I can feel this in and from others who have claimed themselves in full and I can also feel this when others look into my eyes during conversation, that they are registering that they are more – there is an inner beauty to be lived.
This sentence stood out for me. It brought a deeper level of awareness to the responsibility I have in claiming myself in full and the impact this has. It is without a shadow of a doubt ginormous and this responsibility I am yet to feel in full.
I love the 6 simple ways and isn’t it amazing what happens if you smile with your eyes. And the further comment about walking down the street and meeting people with your eyes and how the whole place lifts. I told my bank manager that I loved her yesterday – it was just spontaneous – she laughed – she’s not that well and I could feel how she felt lifted.
A R-Evolution that is so desperately needed. Evolving back to what is actually so natural an normal. Thank you Kathryn.
Kathryn I love your 6 simple tips to claim our expression of true beauty, and I particularly like where you wrote ‘We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.’ A very powerful statement and in my experience so true.
I vote for this being part of the school curriculum
Me too Heidi! How amazing that would be.
Agreed Heidi – now that would have got my attention at school and gone along way to support me in life.
YES YES YES that would be so supportive for young kids to grow up knowing this… for after all if we were to give it a try, what have we got to lose?
Wow Kathryn, that is quite an article you have written. R-Evolutionary!
‘The unique way we express our same true inner beauty may be the very thing that sets us free from our self-imposed prison.
I took a photo of two beautiful women at a wedding recently and on looking at it on my compeer screen a while later when I transferred the pictures I was so struck by the very natural smiles but their eyes just blew me away. The beauty that beamed out was astonishing, their connection to their inner beauty was very obvious. ~Roll on the R-Evolution.
That’s gorgeous Kevin, how lovely to hear that from a man. When our beauty is allowed by us to shine out it’s so gorgeous and confirming that we don’t need to ‘try’ to be beautiful… we already are… naturally.
Thank you Kathryn, I can feel your inner beauty shining bright !
Let the R -Evolution begin … we are all Divine and expressing from there is truly beautiful. Coming from this inner knowing alters our self perception and invites others to have the same freedom.
It is true when you say true beauty is a feeling Kathryn…I know when I feel how gorgeous I am inside, the joy of this connection to myself shines forth for all to see and feel, and how the outer looks is not even considered.
It is so simple, and yet we can spend years in angst constantly seeking ‘out there’ for the right look, the best make-up or clothes to make us look and feel ‘better’……no more: inside is where its at!
Great reminder of everything we know and how to be
Igniting the spark of recognition in another, the recognition of their own inner beauty – that is a great observation of what is possible when we don’t hold back.
That’s so true. It’s the same for me, when I feel absolutely amazing, people are drawn to me, but when I go into judging myself, the tension I’m in seems to complicate things and push people away.
I have noticed the more I can live my own self worth and keep the focus on how I hold myself in deep appreciation and honour for who I am the more I can see my reflection in the mirror. The relationship between me and the universe is what I can feel as my true beauty.
This is so beautiful Monika and so true. We are a reflection of the universe.
Wow when I read this line “We are so very beautiful and the innermost beauty we have deep within us all is exactly the same, so why aren’t we ALL letting that innermost beauty shine out?” I feel how much power there would be if every one claimed and lived in this way. Thank you Kathryn for an article on where true beauty really comes from.
I’ve found the R-evolution of beauty starts with choosing or moving in connection. First thing in the morning, when getting out of bed, choosing to feel the connection of my feet on the ground and really feeling my body move as one and not wobbling around in a half sleep daze. If I take the first step like this, it sets my day up to maintain connection, feel the beauty of connection and thus express this with every movement.
When I saw and realized true beauty the first time it was breathtaking, an absolute wow moment – the person from one moment to the next allowing her inner beauty to fully radiate, be seen and felt was r-evolutionary to me. Since then I recognise true beauty and most of the outer images and ideals have faded away and have no hold over me anymore to a point that seeing outer idealized beauty without the radiation of inner beauty is pale and empty. Inner beauty is a spark, a fire that ignites the beholder and inspires to bring forth one´s own divinity.
Alex that’s such a heart felt comment. It feels a very transformative and life changing experience to be able to discern the difference between true beauty and the empty idealised version. What a line….! ‘Inner beauty is a spark, a fire that ignites the beholder and inspires to bring forth one´s own divinity.’ wow.
How beautifully and tenderly you express when you say ‘a fire that ignites the beholder and inspires to bring forth one’s own divinity’ – it so encapsulates the radiance that we feel when our soul is connected in deep appreciation.
Beautiful expression Susan, thank you for putting it so clearly, I can feel the truth of what you stated here,
What a gift it is Kathryn to have you as a make up artist! You obviously know the truth and depth of what real beauty is, this in our world in this industry is actually quite rare so thank you for blowing away all illusions of what it means to be beautiful.
I love the title of this blog Kathryn and your call for a True Beauty R-Evolution and the fun we can have while we are being part of it. Re-connecting to my true beauty and exploring my unique expression of this is a choice I can make in each moment and share with the world. Thanks for the call to action.
Sometimes no words are needed between two people – what counts is the deep connection by the way they look into their eyes. I have felt the chances in myself and in others when this beautiful connection occurs. A magic moment and that can be with everyone.
Absolutely Monika.
The magical connection between two people with their eyes can be so powerful… words are unnecessary.
This is such a beautiful sharing….even the way you expressed it was written from your inner beauty which i actually felt deeply inspired by, to deepen more and live that beauty for all to see …..as you state ‘Like dominos with a purpose, this chain reaction sets a rhythm that could ripple all around the world, if we so choose’ and change the world…as we begin to live more from our inner beauty rather than our ways of going into comparison, less than and so forth.
Amazingly beautiful blog Kathryn. Indeed ground breaking and R-evolutionary. How different the world and our relaionships are when we live from this inner confidence and true beauty. Allowing our essence to shine and be connected to.
I love the depth you have taken our understanding of what beauty truly is Kathryn, and why it is so important that we connect to and express our inner-beauty, which is the same for all, from our outer, physical appearance. Beauty is so often seen to be a frivolous, superficial pursuit with vanity at its root. Not so. True beauty and the reflection thereof is an essential part of our way back to who we truly are. This line is awesome – ‘Our physical expression is not only purposeful, it is needed.’ as you are not only showing us that we way we look is absolutely needed, as one fully claimed person expressing their inner beauty from a body that by our generally accepted societal beauty standards might be deemed unattractive, might be the only way another person is able to connect to their own divine beauty within. By throwing those awful, divisive and imposing ‘standards’ back into the dung heap they came from, we are free to see and appreciate everyone for the beauty-full beings we all naturally are. Including ourselves 😉
I like what you have said here Lucy ‘as one fully claimed person expressing their inner beauty from a body that by our generally accepted societal beauty standards might be deemed unattractive, might be the only way another person is able to connect to their own divine beauty within.’
By being responsible for our own unique form and never judging but instead appreciating, we can offer others a true reflection.
It’s true Kathryn. When we hold back our beauty, we turn in on ourselves, stagnate and then complain why we do not sparkle as we know we could.
Expressing our beauty allows us to continually allow more and more to stream out of the infinite well it comes from.
Absolutely beautiful Kylie and so true.
So true Kylie, it’s a simple choice to either hold back and begin a downward spiral or express and continue to expand.
Gorgeous Kylie
Streaming out of the infinite well is most certainly where our beauty flows from ✨
“True beauty is a feeling not a look” – this has been a huge game changer for me.
Before, I always tried to dress up to a picture I wanted to portray of myself and more often then not felt awkward with that costume I had forced myself to get into.
By more and more allowing myself to feel the beauty and uniqueness I bring, I realize that the more I allow myself to feel this, the easier picking what to wear becomes and the more stunning I will look and feel – and the more fun and joy it is to be and let others see just me :o)
Reading your blog I could at first feel a bit of a yeah really? Am I beautiful whatever I do? Further into your blog I could feel that yes I am deeply beautiful and it all has to do with how I feel about myself. Then your words reminded me of something I like to do: “Get it? Our physical expression is not only purposeful, it is needed. Like a part of this human puzzle, our own ‘flavour’ or expression is an offering to humanity that cannot be ignored.” I even use this when I am feeling a little less of my beauty I like to go and spend just that little bit of extra time before the mirror to play with my hair and make-up or just look into my eyes until I allow myself to see that sparkle of joy in them. Thank you for this and claiming that yes we are all beautiful.
Lieke I love how you have shared that you look into your eyes until you allow yourself to see the sparkle of joy in them. This is powerful. Giving oursleves space and really confirming what we can feel and see. Then the rest begins. ✨
‘Stop hiding … shine our light and walk with true purpose’ this line stood out for me today – it is easy to hide away, but serves no-one. By shining our light in full, all of humanity has the opportunity to evolve.
I love this line too Carmel, and what you say is very true, “it is easy to hide away, but serves no-one.”
So beautiful Kathryn. I love what you have shared and I want to take this into my day. Saying no to comparison and anything that doesn’t confirm my innermost beauty and yes to smiling with my eyes, appreciating me, not hiding and shining my light.
I’ve noticed that when I’m not feeling good about myself and my beauty and instead being critical with myself that people I meet at work and in the street are more shut down with me. I now know that it’s in fact me who is shut down and judgemental, instead of open and intimate with not criticism or judgement, which can only be done by doing this with myself first.
Who would have thought that beauty is a light or quality we hold within, which we can tap into and support ourselves with very practical ways to bring this out and let it shine.
Reading this bog a second time, I felt to take a couple of steps back and examine the long held cliche – “beauty comes from within”. Yet this used to be still based on what we do, (such as do Yoga or do exercise or get healing sessions), not the fact the true beauty was connecting to an inner essential beauty within us, before we do anything. To first accept that this quality is naturally there within us and anyone can reconnect to it, is a huge shift in understanding and how simply we can allow that natural beauty to flow through us and into our lives. The important point is to first let go of trying to seek it from life – be it through looks or what we do and the way we function. So great appreciation to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, for being introduced to this vital difference in understanding.
Yes Simon it is the trying and seeking and yearning for something outside of ourselves that exhausts us. Simply surrendering to the marker deep within that is our true essence changes the way we know beauty.
Hear Hear, Kathryn Fortuna, the energy in your article was everything my body says yes too. The beauty within is too great to not confirm in every little way we are with ourselves on the outside. We are indeed truly magnificent and should be celebrated as such.
Just being who we are is not always seen as an option for us as women, there is so much pressure to be the ideal. And even for men too. I love the fact that true beauty comes from within, no matter what.
I love how you explain beauty as equal within us all, and that ‘the quality of this beauty is a stillness found deep within the heart’. What’s different about your description is that our own ‘flavour’ or external expression of that beauty is an offering to humanity, that we therefore have a role to play as ‘dominos with a purpose’. Our own unique external expression, shining out confidently, with full acceptance, is the absolute antidote in a world that is continuing to fall for the homogenisation and standardisation that is plastic/cosmetic surgery. We all have the potential to be ‘glorious as a package’ when we can fully accept our innermost beauty. It just needs a few to shine it and the contagion begins!
So true Cathy – and as we each honour that unique expression in ourselves and others we, at the same time become more unified. In our uniqueness the paradox is that we offer the world the same message – that we are all one and the same.
There are many people who share the concept that we are all beautiful on the inside, however we do not honour what that natural beauty within can also refelct on the outside. Accepting this is just as important because otherwise we would be taking our inner beauty for granted,
Indeed Luke our natural beauty on the outside can reflect that inner beauty and essence if we are connected and live from our hearts.
How beautifully you express the truth, Luke. We always need to encompass the whole and to embrace the whole picture for without that we do not have the truth. It is in the combination of the senses and using our sixth sense that we feel the whole human being and not only the parts that make up the whole and full beauty of all that we innately are.
‘When we share our natural beauty we meet another person in this equalness, sometimes even unlocking something deep within them that has been dormant for lifetimes. Like dominos with a purpose, this chain reaction sets a rhythm that could ripple all around the world, if we so choose’. Wow, Kathryn, it is amazing when we begin to see that we are no longer powerless and that by claiming ourselves unreservedly we can also offer this as a healing to others. The changes that we make may seem small but they all add up and allow us to unfold back to the innately beautiful and still women that we are.
It was beautiful to read what you shared with us Kathryn – so many gems to reflect upon here and inspire us all with. We are all exquisite and unique and when we honour and claim all of who we are there is no room for comparison – true power and beauty expressed.
Hear hear – I fully agree.
Hi Kathryn, the points you presented on expressing your inner beauty are much appreciated
Awesome blog Kathryn. I totally feel and see what you mean when you speak of our beauty coming up from inside of us and shining out of our eyes. This is what I have noticed in those around me and in myself. The true beauty of a woman is not in the size and shape of her body, but her natural essence, expressed in full through her eyes.
Awesome blog Kathryn. I totally feel and see what you mean when you speak of our beauty coming up from inside of us and shining out of our eyes. This is what I have noticed in those around me and in myself. The true beauty of a woman is not in the size and shape of her body, but her natural expression, expressed in full through her eyes.
This blog blows the evils of comparison and jealousy out of the water. Kathryn, you have explained with heart-felt wisdom the purpose and need for us all to embrace uniqueness for ourselves. When we accept our own inner-beauty as a feeling we cannot help but exude that on the outside and invite others to feel the same within themselves. Good bye comparison!
Yes good bye comparison – it never served anyone. And what awesome service to exude the inner beauty on the outside – what an inspiration for all to connect to their beauty within too – and then it can snowball.
This feels so true Rachel – there is something truly beautiful happening when we accept our own uniqueness in a way that does not set us apart but allows others to respond to their own inner beauty. This feels as though we are now more accepting of ourselves which frees us up from the need to judge others in order to make ourselves feel better. Feeling better is but a mere illusion anyway, when we know deep down that we are truly amazing and innately connected to everyone else. When we allow ourselves the freedom to be everything that we innately are we no longer need to justify ourselves and in so doing, diminish everyone else.
Kathryn, I love the possibility you offer of bringing back ‘true beauty’. The more we live and express our true beauty, the more we touch the world and inspire others to be the same.
Well said Kathryn, bring on the re-evolution!
‘The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.’ This statement really struck me, the way I look is needed wow that makes a difference. Definitely a R-Evolution Kathryn!
On returning to this blog this sentence stood out this morning. “We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.” What a cost effective way to bring about true change and healing for all.
What an awesome blog Kathryn – it deeply resonates and what really stood out for me was this: “This beauty is a stillness found deep within the heart and is expressed through our eyes – our true beauty and our essence simply shines out.” What a wonderful thing to remember and look out for in ourselves and all others we meet, thank you.
And there is no need to do anything – just to be the amazingness we are and this shines out to everyone.
All aboard! Love all you have shared here Kathryn thank you, I’m in. By the very fact we are all divine in essence equally, comparison is dissolved.
Last week I went to see the dermatologist consultant after six months and she kept on exclaiming how well I looked, and at least ten years younger. I know it wasn’t my make-up or my clothes, or any outside effect, but the fact that that day I was shining from the inside, and I felt well INSIDE MYSELF, and beautiful, and open to the world, whatever was happening to my skin. I am sure this is what she was seeing and feeling, the energy that was pouring through me and out towards her. Of course, feeling like that did make my skin glow and my eyes bright, how could it not? I feel this is an example of what is expressed about natural beauty in this beautiful blog.
How wonderful Joan, there is no doubt that your dermatologist was receiving the confidence and poise that was oozing from within you. Equally I know there is much grace in hearing and embodying compliments too, choosing to deepen self appreciation is key.
Love the 6 steps – A, inner beauty routine that inspires the outer to reflect the inner, and costs nothing! Maybe the loss of the self criticism and loathing, well definitely the loss of those – Hoorah.
Yes, where else do you get beauty tips that cost nothing and release the demons of self loathing and criticism! This is gold!
Best 6 step program I have ever come across. 6 steps to live the true us and not the normal top tips on how to make ourselves more desirable for another, feeding the competition and comparison rather than the inspiration that we are all beautiful in our unique ways. Deeply beautiful. Thank you.
Reading you blog Kathryn I have realised that the word DIVINE no longer sits outside of me, reserved for the untouchable figures of religious iconography. Today I understand that if we connect to this divine essence within each and everyone of us, then the outer emanation holds a surety, a sexiness, a power that simply reflects a quality we all innately share. Roll on the R-evolution.
How beautifully and sensitively you expressed the meaning of DIVINE – like you I have alway felt it was something set aside for certain special people – and now I realise that we are all ‘special people’, each and everyone of us and that as you say we all have a divine essence. When we see only others as divine we are separating ourselves from one another when in truth we are all one.
So true! Our glory comes from our sacredness within. So the key to true beauty lies in each one of us, connecting to the ALL. If we are working with the Univers our eyes become stars. ..and our shining will lighten up everything.
This is beautiful Lucinda and so very true. If the Divine that is held within us all is connected with and claimed then the emanation is for all. Wow that exposes religion doesn’t it? True religion is connecting with the Divine within and never holding back from sharing this glorious reunion with others. There’s God right there hey? ✨✨ in our stillness and in our smiles.
I forgo to say: with the look in their eyes! 🙂
True beauty inspires others to let out theirs. Though they might not feel it form the very beginning – but it is just so natural that one only can join. And for someone who really does let shine her or his inner beauty, there is no greater joy than seeing others allowing themselves to do the same.
I love how you write with such clarity that we are all equally beautiful within and that we only just have to connect to it.
Its also great to know that we can inspire with a smile so lets start that domino effect happening.
I love this Kevin lets start a smiling revolution – even in the worst of times a smile can change everything.
I am in! I love this smiling revolution.
“The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.” – or it can deny it.
For me it looks like that every time I do not celebrate my inner beauty/divinity in my outer expression I do deny my divinity, try to avoid my wisdom, make myself smaller then I am and with that: be irresponsible. And by not doing so, I feel the gab, the missing out, compare with others (Celebrities or who ever) and then feel less and hide even more by trying to be like…
Taking responsibility is being the Role Model, Inspiring Others, Enjoying the Expression of Others and Reflecting the Beauty of God on Earth so we can Evolve together. I am on: ‘Beauty R-Evolution‘!
Yes Sandra I am glad you have mentioned being a role model. This is so true and comes along within the understanding of the ‘beauty R-Evolution’. We have a responsility to share and inspire others once we have connected to our own essence. There is a commitment and consistency required that will not only support us but allow others to feel and see the truth.
I love this Kathryn, true beauty in all of us and the honouring of this is a real gift to both ourselves and the whole world I love how you shared’ Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life. A real R-Evolution.
When I read the sentence: “When we call out this madness and stop apologizing for our physical differences we can start reclaiming ourselves and begin to contribute to the r-evolution of celebrating our true beauty displayed in physically unique differences. And may the fun begin!” I had the enjoyable picture, that every one than would be on the title of a magazine and that the joy of celebrating and loving the differences in the expression of the inner beauty would be felt and seen by everyone. I realize, how today, passing a magazine shop, brings immediately a body contraction of going into comparison or going into contraction to avoid feeling the comparison or going into contraction to not feel the untrue expression of what is shown… what if passing a magazine shop would let us expand in the joy of seeing inner beauty in different expressions – and get confirmed of the own unique expression… what a beauty-full r-evolution!
Stefanie what you have shared here is very interesting. Imagine instead of comparison and contraction at the magazine shop we felt expansive and a sense of celebration as we gazed at magazines that were full of confident, claimed different expressions of true beauty. Wow my heart feels open and full just thinking about that. ??
So key and so simple. The unity of the Divinity we all are, that when understood means we can never stand against another in any form of conflict or separation. And the uniqueness of our outer expressions (in this case our physical make up) which when accepted and lived means that Divinity is COMPLETELY expressed by all the facets and jigsaw pieces. Comparison is a devastating saboteur in this evolutionary plan.
Reading your gorgeous article again Kathryn has been a beautiful chance to reflect on, and be reminded of, each and every ones inner beauty which can also be felt in all the comments.
I love how when we appreciate our own inner beauty and enjoy living with that, each time we connect with another through the eyes it is like wildfire jumping from person to person, the spark igniting the same glow in them, and on, and on. I love experiencing and appreciating that, a delicious circle.
I LOVE how you wrote in this blog! WOW- so claimed, playful, powerful ! Your simple ways are going into action 🙂 Even more after reading your blog 🙂
I love your conviction that this is as global revolution in the making, Kathryn: it feels absolute!
“The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.” Truly beautiful – our inner beauty renders any form beautiful by virtue of its emanating quality. Totally agree!
Thank you so much fir this re-evolutionary blog. So simple and so true. The Re-evolution has started and it spreads via the eyes. Wonderful. I am part of it and will share my eyes with all I meet today.
Gorgeous Caroline. Sharing your eyes is a blessing for us all. Thank you. ?
Kathryn – I love your tips here about how to reclaim ourselves as a women – this should be in every women’s magazine! Its true that we are all the same inside with a different outer expression – it has taken me a long time to accept that and stop trying to be something or someone I am not.
Writing like this truly supports women to drop the self bashing and doubt and start to see the beauty we can offer to people around us.
Yes Hannah, this should definitely be in every womens magazine – it would turn most beauty tips on their tail.
Absolutely Hannah, this would upgrade every women’s magazine and is so needed to support women to re claim their beauty. As you say Kathryn; ‘Reclaiming our wild, wonderful and often unusual looks. Inner confidence is very sexy!’ And this is the kind of sexiness the world needs and is waiting for!
Well said Hannah – I feel you have expressed what many of us are feeling, not only women but men also.
It is so true Kathryn Fortuna that our beauty emanates form within. As you explained, we are all equal beautiful in our innermost and each of us will express this inner beauty in his or her unique way. When we will understand that expressing our beauty in this way is the basis for having a beautiful world, we will stop with comparison and wanting to have looks to an given image. We will choose to nurture our inner beauty that in turn will naturally support our outer unique expression and when we do it all together this will emerge into one big melting pot of beauty.
Gorgeous, Kathryn! Even the word ‘revolution’ means ‘once again unfolding from our innermost’. Which is exactly what you are sharing…. Let the fun and evolution r-evolution begin for sure!
Yes, gorgeous Dianne! I can enjoy how much fun Kathryn has with this r-evolution, this is so inviting.
Thank you for sharing this Dianne ‘once again unfolding from our innermost’. ✨ this is exactly what we are doing.
If we all have a natural divine essence that we can confidently express through our physical bodies, it makes me wonder how many of us are actually suppressing, hiding or distorting this natural expression by forcing the way we look into some ideal of what beauty is. Thinking about it, I know when I meet someone if the image or look they portray to me seems a little forced or fake or not quite right. And I also can feel when I meet someone who has completely embraced their natural expression of who they are and even if it appears to my eyes to be a little unusual or quirky, the confidence and ease and power that comes through their whole body is compelling and very inspiring.
That’s a great point Andrew, we all out a ginormous amount of effort into suppressing and hiding our natural essence and beauty,so as to fit into the world around us. Crazy when to connect to it feels so great!
I know exactly what you mean Andrew! We feel energy always first before we actually “see” the other person. If everyone would live their inner beauty and letting it out, we would be pulled towards each other probably in a total different way. So often I see people who have an amazing physical make up but they are not filling it out, so to speak. And on the other hand, there are people not perfect looking at all, but you are pulled towards them, because of their emanation.
Yes, Andrew, I know I was one of the many who was ‘suppressing, hiding or distorting this natural expression by forcing the way we look into some ideal of what beauty is’. It is amazing how we can even imagine that we are fooling the world when we know from our own experience that we can feel when someone is not being true to their divine essence. How absurd that we then continue in our wayward way to feel that we are different and can fool the world by tampering with the divine?
This is so beautiful Andrew – theres a lot in this one comment.
Oh Andrew that is exactly what I can feel too and my feeling is everyone does know it as well but does not allow themselves to feel it.
Being honest with ourselves and how we are living and how we are truly feeling is the way to break the cycle of disconnection with our inner beauty…. and having the willingess to express what is there to be expressed; that is the truth of every moment, is how we share ourselves and how we connect with others.
How I see beauty these days has changed so much. Observing someone being truthful for example is one of the most beautiful sights on earth.
Yes Elizabeth observing someone being truthful? Now that is a beautiful moment. Clarity, openness and inner confidence are all key to expressing our true beauty.
There is so much in your blog Kathryn but what I loved in what you express is that this inner beauty is the SAME in every single one of us – not more in one than another. This alone is profoundly liberating and just goes to show how misled we have been by our identification with the outer appearance and indeed our society is set up like this. Since the beauty industry is built on women feeling less than and then the inevitable comparison with other women surely this R-evolutionary understanding would initiate something very different: beauty products to celebrate and express the inner beauty since comparison and lack of self-worth in the beauty stakes would no longer exist.
‘Our physical expression is not only purposeful, it is needed. Like a part of this human puzzle, our own ‘flavour’ or expression is an offering to humanity that cannot be ignored.’ Kathryn, thank you, I love this quote as it offers an understanding of how important it is to appreciate diversity. We see it everywhere in nature – the colours, textures, flowers, leaves only mentioning plants, let alone the differences needed in the animal kingdom. If it wasn’t for the diversity in nature there would not be life! And so with humans if we don’t appreciate our diversity of expression then there can’t be life as it is meant to be – lovingly so. Every one of us has something unique to offer, let us allow, accept and appreciate our different ‘flavours’ or expressions and it is indeed true beauty.
How beautiful and inspiring to read your lovely comment Susan in appreciation of Kathryn’s warm and tender blog. You mention the word texture and it is all these little details of expression that we are offered by God that reflect back to us that part of ourselves that we innately and uniquely are. What joy we find when we truly know ourselves and in the process can embrace others as we all connect and expand our beautiful and wondrous expression.
Beautifully expressed! This is an awesome blog. I loved reading every part of it. Thank you for reminding us of our inner beauty, to not hide it, go into jealousy or comparison but simply express our true beauty to the world and appreciate our uniqueness too.
Absolutely Ariana – this kind of thing would revolutionise the beauty industry, which is very needed!
The points of claiming back our true beauty are very supportive, especially the one who said to say no to everything which does not confirm the true inner beauty. Thank you Kathryn.
Wow what an opportunity to be a makeup artist and image consultant who can show clients the beauty of who they really are rather than aesthetic ways to fix them.
I’ve never heard of this before.
To me my beauty is my connection. From that point, the movement created by my body is in line with me and not being influenced by another energy. It is just so lovely to walk feeling the beauty of connection. This frees us up from seeking the need or desire for recognition.
And this is something that is so within our reach every moment, establishing the connection with ourselves before we do anything. From here the need to identify ourselves by something out there is diminished completely. I still find it amazing how much ‘out there’ can interfere but know that it is in my power to have a default position that is a steady connection to me. Thank you, Matthew, there is something super powerful about a man talking so naturally about his own beauty.
As you so rightly say Matthew, ‘my beauty is my connection’ and when I move at one with myself I can feel this natural beauty flowing out of me and towards those that I meet when I am out walking. It is amazing to feel the power of us feeling our own beauty and emanating this to others. This one simple connection that I make can have an endless effect.
Thanks, Kathryn. I love what you say about the ‘whole package’, how we can’t help but be gorgeous when we connect to what’s inside, so that it oozes out through every cell and can be felt right down to our fingertips.
I love the way that beauty seems to be a natural expression for women. We just want to go there, even from very young there is this desire to play with colour and our hair, our clothes. But when we are very young this is sweet and playful, it is an expression of how we feel and of who we are. Beauty does not define us in this way, it is just an extension of our inner beauty being displayed for all to see. I am discovering how I can bring this same kind of playfulness and lightness to my beauty practises now, so that they remain a part of who I am and do not make me who I believe I must be.
“Bringing true beauty back never felt so easy. We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.” Now this to me is a true r-evolution. Thank you Kathyrn.
I love this article! I know that she I connect to my inner beauty, I feel absolutely gorgeous and feel like I could hug everybody I see. It definitely comes from within and isn’t because I’ve put on the right outfit and makeup to look good.
Infectious connection! I know too that when I am connected to my still, unwavering beauty within, my arms effortlessly stretch out to the rest of the world.
Natalie Benhayon is definitely someone who embraces and enjoys herself as a woman, a great role model in expressing our true beauty.
Yes Ladies I agree.
Natalie Benhayon is an amazing example of claiming her true beauty and it emanates from every cell in her body.
https://vimeo.com/107117160
So many pearls of wisdom and beauty in this article – I’m printing it out and sharing it with others. Written from a place of absolute beauty. I will read this again and again
The depth of beauty we connect to through the eyes is exquisite far beyond the physical and deeper than words can describe.
So true Helen; ‘ The depth of beauty we connect to through the eyes is exquisite far beyond the physical and deeper than words can describe’. I will take this into my day.
Absolute Helen, you nailed it and you found the words that say it very well and from my heart, too. Thanks for sharing and honouring this blog of Kathryn. I want to return to this treasure of article again and again; this is what all women should see and a opportunity to read about true beauty. This article should be in a women magazine.
Love your blog Kathryn, I felt so much joy when I read it especially your statement that “true beauty is a feeling not a look” and the 6 simple ways to claim our expression of true beauty. -awesome.
I can feel your joy as you wrote this amazing piece for us all Kathryn. To simply feel that joy and love reflected from another is very contagious – Once experienced, never forgotten a truly coming home to the ‘what is’ so natural, it certainly changes the course of one’s life and all those around us – if we so choose.
I agree about our inner beauty extending to our finger tips and beyond. It is in every movement, everything we touch, if only we give ourselves the space to be all who we are – not holding back and no lack of self worth.
‘To our fingertips and beyond’ – I love it, such a great description of how our beauty cannot be contained within us.
Yes and it requires nothing more but true presence in all we do and are, simple really …
This is such a great topic and I am sure every woman can relate to wanting to change something about herself. Like Elizabeth it has always disturbed me when the world has dictated what is considered beautiful and what is not – I judged myself on that ideal and knew I would never be good enough. But that has all changed and I now feel for the first time since being a very small child that I am beautiful inside and out, and I do not have to be anything else other than me.
Julie this is so awesome. Yes you are beautiful inside and out and when you claim THAT we ALL get to feel your glory and that’s a blessing for us all. 🙂
Julie it is a joy to read your word, to feel the reclaiming of the beautiful being you knew yourself to be as a child is magical and yet at the same time very simple and natural. Imagine if we were all just our glorious selves – we would never settle for anything less than love.
This is great Kathryn. I particularly feel the depth of “Saying ‘no’ to anything that does not confirm our innermost beauty”…this has no end. As each day unfolds and a deeper level of appreciation occurs, things that may have supported me previously, do not now. There is never a time to stand back and be complacent about what has been done, there is always a new level to go to which reveals more and indeed which confirms our innermost beauty.
You have redefined beauty here and I love it! I absolutely agree beauty is a quality of feeling, rather than simply a look, or how we portray ourselves. There is a much much deeper internal beauty that is not exclusive to any one person.
Well said Meg: “beauty is a quality of feeling, rather than simply a look, or how we portray ourselves.” With this it means we all are beautiful and that beauty is not limited to a certain look or ideal.
I worked with someone recently who is over 80, experiencing her body’s decline in old age, and unable to carrying out tasks like she used to. She has a visible and physical disability that contorts her body. She said to me ‘I am useless and rubbish’. I told her how beautiful she was, she disagreed and said I was saying this to please her. I said no what I say is true. Then I looked into her frightened, sad eyes and said ‘Beauty is not how you look, it’s how you are inside and how you are inside is beautiful,’ She looked back at me and said ‘Yes I can feel the truth in that’.
Thank you for sharing Kehinde2012, I loved the fact that she could feel the truth and was then able to accept it.
That is beautiful how your connection with that truth allowed the elderly lady to feel the truth of your words, kehinde.
Kathryn the fact that we don’t claim our inner beauty does not, as you’ve shared, mean we not are all beautiful. When I look around its easy to judge by appearance first but then I’ve come to understand I miss out on the true quality, feeling and beauty that is ever present. What is interesting however is that I can see reading your blog that all that is needed is for us to claim and live our true inner beauty and regardless of physical differences their will be an undoubtable beauty rise to the surface in every single person. In effect there are over 7 billion truly beautiful people in this world at this time yet very few claiming and living that beauty.
Yes David, there are 7 billion people living in the world with very few claiming and living that beauty…. it only takes one person to claim their beauty and innocence for us all to get a blessing and permission to claim that for ourselves…. we are each responsible to claim this for ourselves and at the same time being a role model for our children and future generations.
That’s an awful lot of unclaimed beauty, David: we need to get going!
Being completely different is so we can give a different expression to the world around us that doesn’t suffer from sameness… until we create it
Kathryn, I love what you have written. A beautiful reminder that we are all equally divine and beauty- full.
In allowing ourselves to fully connect to this, feel it and embody it , we definitely can start a true beauty R-Evolution.
I’m all for it!
Thank you Kathryn for this beautiful sharing on R-Evolution. So true and so real and so inspiring I love it . Feeling and Claiming our true beauty is a gift to both ourselves and to the whole world every moment. Inspirational !
Very true Tricia – I really enjoyed reading Kathryn’s take on true r-evolution. Inspiring change without the angst. Angst only feeds angst – feeding back to the world further conflict. Whereas leading by example, inspiring others back by sharing the joy and a smile reminding us all we are the same. True evolution and what a r-evolution.
Thank you Kathryn for sharing this beautiful blog , in essence we are all love and we all have a unique way of expressing that’ same love , yes let it out to be expressed through our beautiful bodies. that are also made of particles that have love as their centre of being.
Glorious Kathryn!
We are all a part of the one big mirror that is continually reflecting to each other who we are…. The more we reflect our own true beauty, the more we reflect the beauty in all others. And what a gorgeous reflection we are when we embrace our Godliness.
That is so true Kylie. It’s easy to say someone else ‘looks’ beautiful but we can actually ‘feel’ the depth of someone’s beauty the more we know our own! I love what you have mentioned about embracing our godliness.. it’s already there inside us and it’s our job to embrace it. It’s not something that we will need to buy from a cosmetic shop or beauty stores, it’s already within.
Thank you for an inspiring read! I love the R-evolution, as reconnecting to our inner beauty really does evolve the way we live and interact with the world
I agree Johanne, claiming our inner beauty really does change our life.
I like that you’ve kept your article very real Kathryn. It was refreshing to read, that yes, true beauty does come from the inside out, but that we express how we feel through how we present ourselves on the outside. And whilst it doesn’t matter what we wear, how we choose to do our hair, make up etc, it’s all in the quality of the energy we do it in. If it comes from a true apreciation for ourselves, then that is directly translated to how we put ourselves together so to speak.
Claiming and expressing our unique inner-beauty “Stop hiding – shine our light and walk with true purpose.”
“Our physical expression is not only purposeful, it is needed. Like a part of this human puzzle, our own ‘flavour’ or expression is an offering to humanity that cannot be ignored.” This is a stand out line for me in time where everything seems to be homogenizing and the seemingly desperate need for people to be normal when there is no such thing, Learning to celebrate the exquisiteness of our own flavour would be a r-evolution.
Hi Kathryn, I love your reflection here that we don’t all have to look the same and that we can actually embrace our physical beauty as a natural extension of our inner beauty. This isn’t a quest for perfection but a celebration of the inner emanating to express on the outer.
Thank you Kathryn for the revelation of where our true beauty emanates from.
What I have observed is that a women can look stunning in a particular dress. And it is not actually the dress that your clocking it is the way the woman is with herself. If she is feeling her own inner beauty and expressing this in the way she moves and connects with people then the dress comes alive and you a have the whole package. I know this experience myself as I can wear the same dress on 2 different occasions and depending on how I feel about myself the dress looks/feels gorgeous on me or not.
Great example here Mary-Louise. It is the way the woman claims herself and moves and expresses in the dress, not the other way around.
So beauty-FULL 🙂 thank You
A R-evolution? I’m in! I love the way you bring the truth to beauty. Our inner beauty first and a deep connection to this, then the expression of this inner beauty on the outer.
Life is a celebration … now seeing the beauty in all and reflecting my joy at the freedom I feel to be naturally me and boy is it felt. Some accept it and respond whilst others turn away but the opportunity is there equally as I shine from my inner loving self.
Kathryn thank you for a truly evolving blog. There are so many gems to examine. Today I’m feeling the wisdom of ‘The more we claim our inner beauty and then in turn our unique external expression the more we unlock the bind we have been held in.’ I sometimes find myself feeling gorgeous then if I glimpse an image of myself in a mirror or shop window am disappointed – need to claim the unique expression of the whole package, not some ideal that I have absorbed, a judgement turned inwards and held onto long after it’s use by date. We are equal in essence, unique in expression. Thank you so much Kathryn.
This is such a gift to all women Kathryn. There are so many powerful statements here which cut right through the maze of lies we have been fed and subscribed to – thank you. I love how you have totally claimed and shared the true meaning of beauty and that it resides in us all equally, confirming the utter craziness of comparison and jealousy.
Thanks Kathryn this is a beautiful article 🙂 profound and very affirming.
I’m in. Eye contact is key. Let’s make a point to look into one another’s eyes and enjoy connecting!
Its true, inner confidence, joy and expression are completely sexy qualities, more so than how someone looks physically.
I loved what you said about the false belief that we should all look the same, what non-sense this idea is, that we have bought into. Thank you Kathryn for bringing some sanity into the insane world of beauty.
Sharing my beauty and letting myself out is something I am new to and have been scared to do in the past. I can see it in so many people who hold back their beauty. It is easier to see in women but I am noticing that men do it too. As my self appreciation grows, my expression and letting out of my own beauty grows along side it.
Hi Nikki
Thank you for sharing your beauty.
Holding back our beauty is exhausting us all and yet it is so common to see and feel. Imagine if we all just dropped the masks and expressed from our true essence? Both men and women alike would be emanating a depth of beauty that could potentially change the world.
Michelle, well said, I feel the beauty in everybody now, thanks to freeing myself from the sold ‘ideal’ of what women and men should look like. If somebody is truly present and living their truth, the beauty is there, oozing out from every pore. Indeed, the beauty industry as it stands today needs to change. If we have one wrinkle more or less is not the defining issue of if we are beautiful or not. The clear definer is if we love ourselves and allow ourselves to shine from the inside out.
I love what you share about true beauty Kathryn, that we all have a true inner beauty, every single one of us equally without exception. I found this out only recently and now am able to express it more in my way of being.
Thank you Kathryn for an inspiring blog, I really enjoyed reading it, especially the part where you say “We know that true beauty is a feeling, not a look”, this is so true, but until we truly feel that feeling we will continue to enhance our appearance by whatever means possible. There appears to be more extreme ways of making our outside appearance look “beautiful”, sometimes leading to tragic circumstances, this says to me that not only is humanity in jealousy and comparison with each other, but they are lacking in any form of self worth and self love and have long ago become disconnected from their true selves.
I agree Sandra – the best recipe would be to feel, feel, feel.
I love this R-Evolution Kathryn ‘by simply smiling with the joy we feel’ we are beautiful and wow the power we have when we are connected to our beauty.
Divinely written Kathryn, thank-you. Your writing makes the reconnection to the true beauty each and every one of us holds, so simple and accessible. And yet, you pull no punches in regards to exposing that which does not serve us – not one iota of the comparison, trying to be someone/something we are not…
Deeply appreciating that to write from such a place, the inner-work on this must already have been ‘done’ (without perfection, but to a significant extent), that you can speak this so plainly – and call us to meet this part of ourselves, that is so amazingly natural when known and lived, and yet seems completely intangible when we get caught in the miasma of all that would say we are never ‘enough’. What a truly beautiful and claimed woman you are Kathryn – a role model for many, many women and men alike.
Thank-you deeply. More please, and as noted in an earlier comment – in agreement with Rachel Mascord – your writing should be in magazines, globally..
Thank you Victoria. It is my absolute pleasure to write and express what I feel we ALL know deep within.
We ALL have what it takes to claim our own TRUE beauty and share it with the world. Let’s go for it.
Thank you Kathryn for this post. I remember as a child I used to feel that I was very beautiful and it did not come from comparing myself with another and deciding that I was the most beautiful, it came from connecting with and knowing my essence.
It was such a shock to me when I realized that the world dictated who was beautiful and who wasn’t and I found it deeply disturbing. Eventually I too succumbed to the beauty myth until such a time as I reconnected back to my essence and I am once again feeling my own beauty.
I even love saying that I am beautiful because it used to be such a taboo subject.
Yes, Elizabeth, I agree. Saying that you are beautiful is unheard of and not recommended generally, and words that I had never uttered until the societal shackles started to be dismantled thanks to the support from Universal Medicine to re-connect to the preciousness that has always resided within me. ps I am beautiful…
I completely relate Elizabeth, as a child I knew the beauty that I was within but just as if it was normal, this was how I felt about myself in every moment of life. However as I grew older I felt much pain from being told how I looked and then in extension how I was, this is something I am now having to work through to re-imprint, being confident in myself without the need for recognition or even acceptance by others.
What a r-evolutionary blog Kathryn. I really enjoyed reading it – not only for what you presented but I could feel so much joy is how you wrote it. It is very refreshing to read someone speak so truthfully about what inner beauty is all about and how once we have accepted and live in our inner beauty it no longer stays inner – it becomes the outer. Thank you Kathryn.
Absolutely stunning!
I enjoyed reading how deeply you have connected to others and how this depth of connection re-ignites something profound in another. For you too have felt this allows you to know we all have this as a possibility …
A very needed blog in a world where plastic surgery is no longer even considered to be extreme, but par for course for many. Our focus with the outer stops us from appreciating and getting to know the fact that true beauty emanates from within.
Very beauty-FULL Kathryn, I absolutely agree with you. I love this R- evolution, and it truly is evolving when we can appreciate and live the inner beauty in us, as everyone is touched by each of our expressions.
“We judge ourselves and apologize for the very thing that we offer the world that is different” is a statement that really stands out for me in your contribution. And how crazy is that? All in the name of striving for and squeezing ourselves into some prefabricated ideal – are we really that retarded?
Well said, Gabriele. Why do we waste our lives measuring against others and hurting ourselves by being our own worst critics, when we could be developing our unique expression in the world and making it sexy and gorgeous?!
Hello Beautiful Kathryn, when I read “6 Simple ways we can claim our expression of true beauty” the first and most simple thing that came to me was to stop denying it. Then I noticed that is a bit of a theme that runs through what you have written with reclaiming what is naturally there in all of us. Since I have started appreciating my own beauty I have equally become aware of how beautiful everyone else.
Hello beautiful Nicola, yes you have indeed nailed it. Let’s stop denying our own inner beauty and we will feel the same beauty in all others equally. ✨
Kathryn,
I simply love every thing that you have shared here. To let go of everything that doesn’t support our true beauty is definitely the key. The world is waiting for each and everyone of us to claim and shine our true inner beauty, so why keep it waiting?
This wonderful blog is such a celebration of natural beauty. If we can understand what the message is here it blows away jealousy, comparison and self-doubt. We can all shine from within and appreciate ourselves and others within this light.
Simple yet profound ‘true beauty is a feeling, not a look’.
…and one that cannot be emulated or bought, but simply lived.
Kathryn Fortuna, what a glorious blog. One point stood out for me in this read, but there are so many great points, I will be returning to this blog regularly. This one is — “We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.” How powerful is that, when we share the joy we feel by simply smiling it always has a great impact on all those around us. When more and more people reclaim their true beauty then the impact will be absolutely amazing throughout the world.
So very simple and yet true this is. So much so that we search for complex solutions to problems that quite simply need to have love and joy applied to them …
Absolutely, and this includes ourselves… Apply love and joy into our lives and our divine beauty is guaranteed to be present.
Thank you Kathryn for this awesomely supportive blog. As someone who is only just starting to explore how I express my inner beauty your 6 tips are a great place to start – no more hiding!
Great and beautiful blog, Kathryn! Thank you for the 6 beauty-tips of expressing true beauty.
It couldn’t be more natural: “We know that true beauty is a feeling, not a look”. And the way I feel is my own responsibility through my own choices.
Our own unique true Inner beauty, divinity and expression shines out from this lovely blog and cannot be ignored thank you for sharing this. I love your expression and it is an inspiration for everyone to feel nurture and treasure
themselves.
It makes sense to me that in a world where every person is different naturally so that it would be natural to express differently because of this unique way in which the body is. So then when we try to express and be the same there are so many ‘unique’ groups where do you go!? How do you decide which group or style to go into, the one you feel is true or the one that is comfortable or accepts us as we are without asking us to change beyond our own set limits? I could have joined the sports clubs at school but at the time was very antisocial, art club allowed me to be part of a group without having to be with the people, but isn’t that what all hobbies do – it’s the hobby and we can gather under that hobby without focusing on those under the umbrella. Expressing who we are by how we feel in that core that is equal to others I am finding less awkwardness and less trying to fit in in my conversations and if things do get uncomfortable it’s because I am interacting from a place of judgement and/or of how I ‘think’ I need to be, sound, appear, come across etc, not from that unity within us all.
I like your comment Leigh, never before had I stopped and considered the many ‘groups’ we as humans place ourselves in. It really makes me laugh actually when I consider how hard I tried to fit into many different groups and so held a different way of presenting myself for each one. So false, so exhausting. Being me and present me in full is definitely a much more honest and truthful way to connect with all aspects of society.
An inspired and inspiring article Kathryn. I treasure your 6 simple ways we can claim our expression of true beauty. The equality and sharing of true love from within.
It is the confirmation of our equal-ness first that has touched me this morning. Developing this as a core understanding means that comparison and jealousy stick out like the sore thumbs they are.
Beautifully written Matilda, ‘It is the confirmation of our equal-ness first’, it is gorgeous to feel how we are equal and if we accept this then from here we can enjoy and celebrate our own and others unique qualities and what we all bring to the world.
I love the idea of a chain reaction happening all over the world with everyone waking up to the fact that we are all truly gorgeous. If only we could all look past skin deep, get over ourselves and totally discard jealousy and comparison. Loving the six simple ways to reclaim our beauty!
This is such a sweet blog. I love the way it celebrates all women, no matter what size, shape or colour we may appear to be on the outside, there is still the incredible depths of knowing that each woman brings to life, just through her own experiences and unique perspective.
Thank you Kathryn for opening up this topic. I had an experience yesterday when I went for an evening walk. I was feeling the loveliness of me and from that loveliness I connected with many people who walked past me with a simple look in the eye. I realised that often when I walk, I don’t let myself shine, as I don’t want to be looked at. But connecting with my inner beauty rather than focus on my outer appearance, I couldn’t help but want to share it, knowing that it is the same in another and that through my own connection, that they have the opportunity to feel theirs.
Thank you Kathryn for sharing this out to all. It is very much appreciated. It should be in many beauty salons all over the world as well as schools rehab centres etc…. more and more people need to know this true beauty is within us all.
Kathryn what an awesome blog….The true beauty R-Evollution is here. I know when I talk to someone who is connected to their true beauty from within it shines out of them….the eyes are amazing…. so delicate, but so powerful at the same time. It emanates from their whole being. Imagine all of humanity connected to their true beauty….Wow…..
Yes Jody imagine if we were ALL connected to our true beauty. The way we would hold ourselves in love and each other in deep appreciation would change everything.
What a celebration life would be. There would be no comparison, wars, hardship, violence, no sadness, no illness. Life would be uncomplicated and pure joy.
Heaven on Earth. 🙂 🙂
Gill and Jennifer, I’m with you both for the month. What a beautiful idea and commitment to self.
Kathryn, what you have shared is the start of a R-Evolution and one that I have signed up for to be part of!
So Beautiful Kathryn. Thank you, this I will be sharing with my children.
‘We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.’
Absolutely true and beautifully said Kathryn.. Now that beats harsh protesting and activism! It feels much more purposeful and possible – we are the change we want to see in the world and it is possible just by being who we are.
Kathryn, I love this ‘smiling with our eyes, re-connecting deeply with others’
I am feeling inspired to simply be myself. What you have written Kathryn is profoundly beautiful and invites us all to be part of equality in its many colours and looks. Thank you for the encouragement to be me, in all my Beauty inside and out.
It would be great if you had a section in a woman’s magazine I feel it would support woman to truly appreciate who they are and the true beauty within and break down all the false stereotypes that are in the media. Thank you for sharing.
What a great idea Vicky, it would be a wonderful way to break down all the false stereotypes that the media portray.
Yes, breaking down these false stereotypes is so necessary. They can cripple us. What if we invested as much time to our inner beauty as we do to our exterior, wouldn’t we all think and express differently? As Joseph Barker says above, ‘The crazy thing is as you highlight here is when we embrace our true beauty as a whole, the outer surface becomes more beautiful too.’
I agree Vicky, Kathryn has a way of writting that opens everyone up to feel their own unique beautiful selves. Women the world over are calling for such truth and love, a regular article in a woman’s mag would be a powerful way to connect with them.
I love it Kathryn how you out the lie we have been sold of what beauty is. I agree whole heartedly that true beauty flows and emanates from inside us all, in a way that transcends and underlies age, shape and size. The crazy thing is as you highlight here is when we embrace our true beauty as a whole, the outer surface becomes more beautiful too. Thank you Kathryn for sharing the beauty of you.
“The physical way I look as a human being can actually highlight and celebrate the true beauty I have within me.” – I can relate to what you say here as when I feel the true beauty within me it emanates and I cannot but appreciate how beauty-full I am physically.
This is a R-Evolution that I am willing to sign up for. For so long we have been told what beautiful is and isn’t. It has been a tough gig to live up to, and it has seemed that there was no end in sight to the one size/one style of beauty until I read this blog.
I have read other writers talk about inner beauty, but not in the way you have Kathryn. This blog comes from the authority of a woman who lives what she says, feels, knows and honours her own beauty and leads the way in supporting other women and men to claim the same.
I agree with you Rachel. Too often in my life I have heard ‘beauty comes from within’ and whilst true, it has always been delivered in sympathy or with apology. Never have I heard it come from the heart…until now. Kathryn, your words are gorgeous and inspiring and come with a warmth and a wisdom that makes every word of this phrase sing true for me, finally!
So true Liane, a great uncovering of the right words being empty and lacking of truth.
‘Beauty comes from within’ has been a throw away line, I can now understand more deeply the joy this actually brings.
I agree Rachel – a great R-Evolution to sign up for and commit to. Starting with the joy of celebrating everyone’s inner beauty equally. Who really cares what colour hair, lipstick and shirt? It matters not. What matters is the connection with the sparkle in our eyes as we meet.
It has indeed been nigh on impossible to measure up to the ever changing benchmark of what supposedly is beauty ultimately because it falls far short of a lived truth that ‘beauty comes from within’, from the heart – as Liane writes – and is emanated in our every way. I wholeheartedly agree the warmth and wisdom in this blog keeps calling me back to re-read it.
Thank you Helen for calling me back – I will read it again!
Awesome blog Kathryn, I love the 6 simple ways to claim our expression of true beauty. The one that stands out for me is no5. Smiling and with eyes, re-connecting deeply with others, this is my favourite one to do.
Yes, Julie, re-connecting deeply with people is key to big change for all of us. We have largely lost the ability to truly connect with people in this rush, rush world.
Thank you Kathryn for this Beauty R-Evolution, I like it and it is always a joy to read your blogs.
Top blog Kathryn. I love no. 2, “Stop comparing ourselves to others. We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression”. We are all the same. We just have different ways of showing that ‘sameness’ to the world.
Kathryn, thank you for this beautiful article. I read out your 6 ways to reclaim the expression of our beauty to a colleague at work today, we both just stopped, looked at each other and then appreciated the beauty of that which we had just read. This needs to be in every beauty magazine.
Gill, what I wonderful and beautiful thing to do for you. I will too.
Some days (not all yet) I look in the mirror and see the most beautiful women looking back at me. It is simply divine to meet myself in the mirror and to see and know my own beauty. This is indeed a r-evolution as a few years ago I would not have been able to talk about myself as being beautiful.
I still give my critic a voice and therefore keep the door for comparison and jealousy open – I know the madness of this. This article and comments that follow deliver the inspiration to commit to ‘digging out’ any issues and getting rid of them.
Hi Elizabeth, I know what you mean. I have also felt a beauty within myself and feel it within others – which is something I would never have said or even admitted to until recently.
I can attest to your great beauty Elizabeth, it is amazing to look into your beauty-full eyes, sparkling with such joy. Yes, it is divine, and great that you are now yourself recognising it.
I cannot express in words how beautiful this article is. Every person on the planet needs to read this. It is a fundamental message that should be known and understood by all.
Absolutely Rebecca, Kathryn has captured true beauty in its essence.
‘One simple look, smile, conversation or moment between two people can effectively start a R-Evolution.’
Yes, Rebecca, it is crazy that we have allowed ourselves to become so disconnected that we mostly only value certain physical attributes as beautiful rather than the inner beauty we all hold within.
Glorious Kathryn: thank you for another timely reminder about the beautiful beings we ALL are, and that each one of us has: “the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression”; this should be one of the first lessons in a child’s life. It would go a long way towards ending the destructive cycle of comparison and jealousy, and the beginning of lives lived with acceptance of our outer differences. I’m signing up for the “True Beauty R-Evolution” – with a smile!
Thank you Ingrid, you’ve identified how these images and ideals of beauty are embedded in as a children, setting us up for jealousy and a host of self-eroding patterns. I can fully feel how I grew up hating my body because it didn’t fit the norm, and I just simply didn’t know what to do about it. Certainly not good for self-esteem or self-worth. And that was most certainly ingrained by the age of five.
As you say, Kathryn, expressing and sharing joy is such a powerful tool for change. There is no conflict, arguing or attempting to persuade, it is just an offering. an offering that everyone wants and so has such appeal.
Kathryn, what you have shared here is re-evolutionary! To be able to feel that our beauty is a feeling from within is so powerful and affirming for us all. It is time for the glamour magazines to get this too and then we may not be bombarded by so many physical images of so called “perfection”.
I loved reading this article Kathryn and I am starting to feel the beauty that is inside of all of us and see that it is not only the people who from societies perspective would be considered beautiful on the outside. It makes sense that if you have that connection with yourself first and then it allows others the space to choose that also – what a gift.
Kathryn occasionally a stranger will smile at me or me at them out of nowhere, simply because it feels good to smile and the whole day is brighten with this simple act. That is true beauty for me, when it comes from the heart, asks for nothing and is independent of the person’s look. Beautiful blog to read on a Sunday morning.
‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.’ I love this statement Kathryn, how important is it then for us to claim and live knowing our inner beauty in full.
Thank you Kathryn for this up-lifting piece of writing! Sometimes I just forget about this. I will make a marker and read your article when ever I struggle to see my beauty.
It’s time for a R-evolution ,” One simple look, smile, conversation or moment between two people can effectively start a R-Evolution.” Simple no rah rah or waiving banners or burning bras. That is my kind of R-evolution Kathryn.
More and more I consider beauty as a presence and a harmoniousness. I now look at society’s defined image of beauty and rarely see beauty there at all as it is not a presence that is filled with integrity or love. Instead I am finding beauty emanating from people, something that is far greater than skin deep.
I agree Stephen, when I look at photographs of models in magazines or on billboards, I see glossy make up and beautiful clothes but I do not see the stillness and inner presence you discuss. It is this stillness and livingness of the person that allows the sparkle, their essence to shine.
Kathryn, I’ve read many times this blog today, there are so many seemingly simple sentences, but they can go very deep, very deep. I read it a couple of times in the car park of a very busy shopping center in the city I live in. When I decided to go inside I was amazed by the amount of people wondering around, shopping, checked up, pretending, I would have normally became judgmental of all, I would have reacted to the -heat- that can emanate from a place like this…, however after reading your blog, I was more able to hold myself in acceptance and therefore connect to a different reality and dimension in others, I started looking at peoples’ eyes, and beyond their behaviours and defenses I saw beauty and felt the equalness in all of us, I had a sense of humanity and beyond reacting to how lost we are, I felt connection to people and appreciate their physicalities and features. Beautiful!, I just love what you wrote:
‘We all look different and there is purpose to looking different: it is the outer expression of this inner beauty that is unique and that gives us an opportunity to offer various facets of the one thing, which is our Divinity.
This is when we all get a chance to explore, adore and share our own external expressions. But we hold back. We hide. We go into comparison. We judge ourselves and apologize for the very thing that we offer the world that is different. There is something that stops us from understanding that the unique way we express our same true inner beauty may be the very thing that sets us free from our self-imposed prison.’
Thank you Kathryn for sharing what you have learned on True Beauty. It is liberating.
Thanks for sharing Luz. It really is amazing to be in touch and connected with humanity and all our behaviours and defences without reacting, sympathising or trying to find a solution. When we truly connect… every single one of us is deeply beautiful.
Kathryn this was so beautiful and super healing for me ! I know at times I forget how much of an impact we have on others just by loving who we are! I’m guna go get that haircut I’ve wanted for a while now and have fun having it the way I want it haha
Thank you Kathryn, while reading this I am re-connecting to my gorgeous gracefullness again. This was the part that my whole body went ‘yeh’ – “…have you ever noticed the exquisite way someone can emanate the true beauty they feel and extend it out to their very fingertips and beyond?”
I’ve spent many many years believing I needed to ‘perfect’ myself to look a certain way to be beautiful and compared with many women. Now I see how important our inner and outer expression is to the world and how needed it is to not be held back. This helps me when I loose myself with comparing my ‘looks’ to another.
Well said, Aimee. Not holding back what is inside and allowing it to be expressed in full allows our beauty to blossom, to be seen and felt by everyone. What a blessing this is to share with others.
My heart opened when I felt the joy in your words. I agree when we allow the appreciation of our inner beauty and exquisiteness comparison has no chance anymore.
Yes agree Susan, and reminds me of those celebrities/actors who end up looking the same/with the same look , shaped nose, smile, or cheeks, because of plastic surgery. The expression of their true selves being stunted for an outer ‘good or youthful look’ means a carbon-copy result that is only a indictment on the natural radiance of a person’s essence and beauty from being accessed, and enjoyed.
This natural beauty is what shines out from children – they know they are beautiful no matter what they look like on the outside. When given the opportunity to do so, they celebrate this by wearing what they feel to. I love that you call it a R-Evolution – we don’t have to do anything, we just need to reconnect to that inner beauty.
I love your 6 simple ways .. and then some : )
How glorious this article is, in encouraging us to firstly see we all contain the same exquisite beauty and to secondly be encouraged to celebrate our unique looks and physicality that upholds a different facet of the one divine diamond to the world. Thank you Kathryn, a joy to read and I love your 6 tips on how to claim our beauty. You should be writing for a woman’s magazine, as this supportive and confirming advice is sorely needed in the world at large. We are all beautiful, connecting to our beauty is crucial and then celebrating it becomes easy.
This is a great blog de-bunking the generally accepted perception of beauty and simply defining true beauty by, “the quality of this beauty is a stillness found deep within the heart and is expressed through our eyes – our true beauty and our essence simply shines out”.
finally a r-evolution worth joining and one that will change the world. No rah rah just allowing us to be the amazing amazing people we are and letting that out. I have recently really started to enjoy my looks and expessing with clothes in a way that I have never felt confident enough to do before, I wear quite crazy stuff sometimes and I forget its crazy and then suddenly get looks and I remember I chose to wear what I wanted with no care or need for others to say it looked good, so I feel natural and not checking to see if I am ok. Instead I feel ok on the inside so its super simple!
Beauty-full blog Kathryn. You have offered me a different angle to beauty..wow. I actually love it. The fun I feel when just knowing that I am having a different expression then someone else and that I can celebrate this – and that it is fully ok to be celebrating this – feels so freeing. Ah wow, I deeply take this with me everyday I go now. Thank you, this should be read by the whole world. We are the whole package. and have our own expression.
To me this sentence says it all, ” We are so very beautiful and the innermost beauty we have deep within us all is exactly the same, so why aren’t we ALL letting that innermost beauty shine out? I can say that the eyes are where the beauty and clarity can truly be seen.
I agree Mick…the eyes say so much about what we are choosing. To deeply connect with another in the eyes and surrender to the warmth is simply exquisite.
I love that there are so many ways to express our beauty, every little detail in our day, even in the perfume we choose to wear.
Very beautiful the beauty Re-Evolution!!!
It’s a new definition of beauty, one that includes everyone, that’s not narrow or exclusive, and that broadens the way in which we currently relate to beauty. For me this has expanded and deepened my relationship to beauty in general, thank you.
I used to compare myself with other women – it was a hard life to catch up and to compete. Today I love looking into the mirror and seeing myself looking back at me from a place of a deep beauty that feels so delicate and powerful the same time. This feeling needs no make up or jewelry, because this beauty is there within and in the eyes looking back at me and it makes me feel fiery inside like a burning heat, and it needs nothing else but celebration.
Totally gorgeous Monika!! Being able to look in the mirror and see all of you, in your total beauty is amazing – something not many women can do! It’s something I’m working on at the moment, and not always looking to be a certain weight or stereotype based on what the media represents women to be.
A beautiful blog Kathryn that challenges us all to claim or true beauty, “The more we claim our inner beauty and then in turn our unique external expression the more we unlock the bind we have been held in.”
Kathryn what an amazing blog – this statement is something that we cannot hear too often – ‘Stop comparing ourselves to others. We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression’ – That is so true and so beautifully expressed – thank you.
Kathyn thank you so much for your blog. Time for me to really live all that I know you have written is so true.
I love your blog on R-Evolution of true beauty, Katherine! I am feeling mine and growing with it all the time. There is nothing more exquisite than feeling my essence and now I am learning to not hold back in shining out.
Absolutely Rachel, and not only is it exquisite to feel our own essence and shining, but also feeling other people grow and not hold back is gorgeous.
This is great and I love the R-Evolution. You are absolutly a role model for inner beauty, your smile and sparkling eyes coming from a divine place, your sacredness within, this place everyone equally can smile from.
Kathryn that’s a fantastic piece that you have written for so many different reasons. It is full of wise insight and is also very motivating. We have been so imprisoned by our own ideas and beliefs about looks. We are responsible for stifling our own expression. Bloody oath we’re the sons of God you’d think we could cut ourselves some slack when it comes to how we feel about the way we look !
Thanks Kathryn, I like this handy hint #5 “Smiling and with our eyes, re-connecting deeply with others”. I love this R- Evolution
“We know that true beauty is a feeling, not a look.” This stood out for me in your blog, as it’s taken me a Long time to really understand this and actually feel it for myself. That it has so little to do with how you look, but the inate beauty and connection with oneself. That quality and how that is lived.
This is so true Raegan. Feeling our beauty and then taking moments to connect with this beauty and feel it throughout our day is an absolute gift we can give ourselves. It is also lovely to remember what is inside no matter what is going on outside.
I am sooooo part of this R-evolution, count me in! And yes, inner confidence is very sexy.
The gem for me is when you say “true beauty is a feeling, not a look”. So true and simple and yet, how habitual is often the comparison and wanting what we thing we don’t have.
Such a great point Gabriele. I find when I focus on what I don’t have, I am unable to connect to the endlessness of the beauty that I do have.
Very powerful Kathryn. ‘Bringing true beauty back never felt so easy.’ I love this! We can invest so much time, money and effort into trying to ‘look’ beautiful and chasing what we think will make us ‘look’ beautiful, but are we then truly feeling beautiful? When in fact we already naturally are. And when we begin to appreciate this and claim this, we can begin to bring and reflect what is needed to be shared and celebrated in this world. The truth that we are all equally beautiful and divine in essence.
This is awesome Carola – I can feel your beauty with it.
That feels so true Carola – that ‘The truth that we are all equally beautiful and divine in essence’ means that we are coming from unity, and together appreciating and enjoying our own uniqueness
Well said Carola….spot on.
As I was reading your comment Carola I was reminded of a friend who has been getting injections to reduce the wrinkles in her face. I was shocked by this as she is such a gorgeous woman, in fact I have never even noticed her wrinkles. But this shows me what women put themselves through so they ‘feel’ beautiful. The truth is that, as you have said, our beauty is already there within and all we need to do is be open that this is a possibility.
Its such an interesting cycle we get caught in isn’t it Carola? We want to LOOK beautiful yet the choices we make are often not coming from an acceptance that we already ARE beautiful.
We choose to hide and harden up, to eat heavy food and exhaust ourselves with rushing and trying, controlling and perfecting, playing roles and living life like it’s something we have to PUSH through. NO wonder we don’t FEEL beautiful. And yet there our beauty is… impossible to taint and equal in all.
So confirming to read that we are beautiful in our own way. When we are feeling our beauty it radiates from us and it shows externally. This is lovely to acknowledge this in us.
And boy oh boy Concetta how gorgeous it is to receive and feel when someone is radiating their beauty from within!
Thank you Kathryn – I am loving discovering and appreciating my inner beauty – so much so that I can’t get enough of me! It feels like i am in constant relationship with myself that builds and deepens just as any other except this particular relationship is providing me with the foundations to support all others.
Marcia I love what you have said here, it is so true – it is only when you truly appreciate your true and beautiful self that you can also truly appreciate it in another.
Ahhh, that feels so great! I am enjoying reading this blog and the comments here.
Definitely Eva, when we appreciate our true and beautiful self, we naturally start appreciating other people.
Thank you Marcia, what I have noticed is that because you do appreciate your beauty, it emmanates out of you and therefore you are an inspiration to all women and (men too probably), who you cross paths with.
So gorgeous to hear Marcia. I have recently committed more to this relationship with myself – I have also only recently become aware that I am actually in a relationship. I feel like I’m in the honeymoon stage with myself! And the foundation of this relationship is incredible in what it offers my relationships with others.
So cool Marcia….It all starts with us…..having a beautiful relationship with myself, with my inner beauty, that is forever deepening, which has a solid foundation to support all others.
Wow, this is lovely Kathryn, your true beauty radiates through out this whole piece. An inspiration for all, women and men.
A beautiful analogy there Jeanette. The words are like the clothes, the meaning is where the beauty lies.. Truly inspiring to men and women.
I have always disliked how people are judged on whether they are supposed to be beautiful or not. It has always felt wrong to me. It makes absolute sense that we are all beautiful if we express from our true essence.
Yes Elizabeth when people judge themselves or others about whether they are beautiful or not it actually hurts.
It hurts them and it hurts us. This is because we are ALL connected and so here we can FEEL the responsibility we have to connect to our own inner beauty and to appreciate ourselves and others without going into comparison which is all too common.
A claimed true beauty inspires others to take a breath and feel their own magnificence.
Thank you Kathryn, your blog has helped me to feel something that is so stunningly amazing at 71 years, I feel so much more beauty within and without than I did when I was 21 years !
Let’s feel with our hearts as well as our eyes.
This is so gorgeous Wendy. You are living proof that our beauty is ageless and no matter where we are at in this life when we connect to our true beauty we deepen the quality of life we have with ourselves and others.
Kathryn this is so beautiful to read and feel the joy of true beauty within. You reflect and emanate this from every word you have written. Yes, it is true -“The True Beauty R-Evolution has begun. And yes, my beautiful friend, it is … US”.
A beautiful blog about true beauty Kathryn. So much truth written here. Thank you for delving to the heart of what true beauty is about.
This is awesome Kathryn. I love what you shared about true beauty being a way of being, rather than a certain look. That said, we can certainly express this beauty in our body and with the way it looks. Clothes and makeup can also be an amazing way of sharing how we feel with everyone and making that glorious feeling tangible.
Indeed Kathryn, the beauty we radiate is that which we feel within.
For me it has been stunning to discover that the same clothes can make me look like a different person when worn on different days. For me it is now to open the wardrobe each moment, feel how I feel and then I will usually very clearly feel which clothes will support me best through my day – and will make me look sexy and be comfy as a simple side effect.
I feel that this article is very powerful and empowering. It feels great to celebrate everyones beauty and that these individual expressions makes up part of a whole expression of divinity. Comparison with others is unnecessary and this is shared with grace and clarity in this article.
Completely Samantha. How yucky does comparison feel compared to celebration? Actually, how yucky does comparison feel compared to feeling our true beauty! I know what I would choose!
Inner confidence is very sexy indeed! That is what shines and emanates and makes you want to look at that person, not because of the lipstick or the hair, but the way it is in sync with their body movements.
Inner confidence makes a person move differently and gives a radiation that I simply have to look at. Like there is a magnet.
Yes Simone & Monika
Inner Confidence has a steadiness and a quality of velvety stillness about it. It emanates out from every cell in a person and the gaze in their eyes is magnetic.
It is truly a joy to observe and to feel. Hot STUFF 🙂
We miss out on so much of the person when we look at just the outer beauty of someone, the real depth and richness of a person comes from their inner wellbeing and not from how they look. I am learning this daily about myself, it is about the whole and complete package not just about how I look in the mirror as I begin my day.
This is beautiful advice from an image consultant, to be confirmed that we all hold an inner beauty which we can appreciate, bring out and shine with a look, a walk, a smile. Life without comparison would be a transformational R-Evolution for sure. Thank you Kathryn we can do with a lot more advice on true beauty!
A truly beautiful blog and a joy to read. As you say ‘simply smiling with the joy we feel’ is a unique and wonderful way to allow people into our lives and to share with them our innermost from our heart. When we connect with another through meeting them this way we allow an expansion and a chemistry to happen – we become one and the same in this moment – and we magnify our beauty as they do theirs. We feel this expansion in our hearts as we feel a warmth and a glow as our love expands our whole body.
Lovely Susan, and as Kathryn shared, ‘Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them’, and as you say we then feel expansion in our hearts as we feel a warmth and a glow as our love expands our whole body.
This is beautiful advice from an image consultant, to be confirmed that we all hold an inner beauty which we can appreciate, bring out and shine with a look, a walk, a smile. Life without comparison would be a transformational R-Evolution for sure. Thank you Kathryn, we can do with a lot more advice on true beauty!
This is a gorgeous article Kathryn. I can feel the absolute truth is this, ‘Somewhere along the way we have chosen to be manipulated into thinking that we all need to look the same. This is simply not true.’ I love how you write our unique expressions ‘gives us an opportunity to offer various facets of the one thing, which is our Divinity.’ So very beautiful, it feels like a relief reading this, it feels like society is so riddled with comparison and trying to look a certain way rather than us all appreciating our unique beauty, thank you for speaking the truth on this subject.
What makes us all amazing is our difference as you said Kathryn. I love your simple steps.
The beautiful thing is ……, when it comes to essence and soul really we are not different at all ❤️
Kathryn, I love how you’ve turned the whole beauty model around by suggesting we celebrate our uniqueness and our divine inner beauty rather than ‘trying’ to conform to the latest look. We have constant reflections in nature with every leaf, pebble or snowflake being physically unique and not one of them will ever be the same as another of its kind.
Sandra this is so true. Where in nature do we see the exact same expression? No Where. Our unique beautiful expression is to be known and celebrated for ALL to feel. How wonderful is that?
Thank you Kathryn, I especially enjoyed reading the part about our physical bodies reflecting the beauty we feel inside. Feeling gorgeous from the inside out.
The new me has lost something: My identification with all that has ever been expressed towards me, that didn’t hold me in the absolute beauty that I am. I feel more sexy than ever before. I don’t live the new me every second of every day, but when I do not, I clearly feel that I don’t live the true me and move on.
Haha, love this Felix. The new me is emerging from behind an identification with my body looking and being used in a particular way. I love Kathryn’s Point 3 of reclaiming our Inner Beauty – “Reclaiming our wild, wonderful and often unusual looks. Inner confidence is very sexy!” Wild and sexy here we come!
Just love this, it deeply resonates too Jane – especially this: “Wild and sexy here we come!”
I would go for Point 3 too, wild wonderful and often unusual looks and that very confident sexy.
Felix this is great and so powerful.
What if we all let go of the ways that we have been identified and just feel the true beauty from within?
WOW what freedom and yes super sexy. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Wow, Kathryn, sign me up to the True Beauty R-Evolution! What a powerful piece of writing that shatters any remaining belief that we are not beautiful unless we fit in with society’s current ideal. And thank you for highlighting how powerful we are when we shine from our essence – “every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are “.
Hi Kathryn, this is a great article, I like tip 1: ‘Digging out any self-worth issues and tossing them away’. As women it is so easy for us to burden ourselves with issues of low self worth, which are completely false but feel so real. Accepting and appreciating ourselves can feel like a challenge but that is exactly what we need to do in order to feel our own innate beauty. I love looking at women who are emanating that beauty – they are an inspiration to us all.
Kathryn, if there is a R-Evolution upon us, then I am on board! with every cell of my beauty in toe. Thank you for expressing so clearly that we are here to express our beauty and divinity through our unique expression, reminding us that we NEED to be seen so that we as equals receive the reminder as consistently as possible, of who we truly are.
Hi Kathyn, This is such a huge topic – true beauty shines out from within and we can allow ourselves to shine. I very recently had a make up lesson and expressed the purpose was not to cover up but was to enhance the beauty I feel in myself so reading your blog today is a confirmation of what I have been feeling. Thank you.
Kathryn my heart feels gloriously rich as I read your blog. “We judge ourselves and apologize for the very thing that we offer the world that is different.” I used to apologise a lot for who I was and what I brought to the world. I now stand here and lovingly appreciate and celebrate the glory of my innermost beauty and let it shine forth. Thank you so very much.
Kelly thank you so much for appreciating your glorious innermost beauty. We ALL benefit from this.
Beautiful blog Kathryn. I love the feeling of that our true beauty is inside us and yes it is very true! It leaves me with just having to be all of me and let all of me be seen in the world instead of having to attain a certain perfect look.
Truly gloriously beautiful Kathryn, from a woman who has claimed her inner most beauty and is a role model for others to feel and see. R-evolutionis expressed in full through every word here. Thank you
Your blog presents a big topic in such a simple way. All we truly need to do is express all that is living deep within us. The beauty is already there we just need to choose to let it out.
So beautifully said, Josh.
We are so bombarded by how to be “beautiful” on the outside -the clothes we wear, our hairstyle and cosmetics, that it is easy to not truly feel our own inner gorgeousness and appreciate that this is enough.
Kathryn what a beautiful revolution, I feel it is so needed for us all to claim the beauty we all equally hold within and bring our sparkle out into the world.
Wow. What a power-full offering this is. Thank you, Kathryn. I could feel how I keep finding myself being confronted with my own lack of self-worth and how I have not been putting much energy in expressing beauty, and realised in fact I haven’t fully accepted my own beauty – that was painful to feel, yet very healing. I now have an understanding that self-worth issue is not just a personal issue, this is not about me feeling miserable – it is about All of Us, the entire Universe missing out on a very small, yet absolutely vital component – a beauty-full light being dimmed.
Thank you Fumiyo for your expression.
We are all beautiful and the whole misses out when even one of us dims our light.
Thank you Kathryn I appreciated the mix of playfulness and constructive pointers around reclaiming true beauty. I will especially take away with me exploring how seeing my own inner beauty first influences how I see others physically. I had explored this based more on the feeling of another person, but in making it about the physical as well, I can see an opportunity to de-configure the illusions we hold around looks.
When I read this sharing Kathryn, I could feel YOU in every word. Your invitation to me/us all to connect with the truth that we all share the ‘same beauty’ is a true gift to humanity; a light that has brightened the shadows of our self doubt we hold about this truth.
This is great Kathryn, it’s not about dulling down or being ashamed of our looks, even if we happen to be classically beautiful as you say. But rather accentuating the quality of the beauty that is there within through getting rid of anything that doesn’t confirm this in our life. A huge one amongst so many women here in your tips/words: “Stop comparing ourselves to others. We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression”.
Yes – the outer expression is a reflection of what is being lived on the inside.
Kathryn, what a truly revolutionary blog! You have explained something so clearly that I have felt but haven’t completely grasped until now. I really get the purpose of our differences and why they are essential, as the divinity our true beauty arises from is limitless in its expression. Our job is to fully claim not only the body we have chosen but also the gorgeous essence within.
Beautifully written Kate, ‘I really get the purpose of our differences and why they are essential, as the divinity of our true beauty arises from is limitless in its expression’, this is so lovely to read Kate and Kathryn, I can feel my own unique expression and it is great to not be in comparison with this, to accept my true beauty and everyone else’s too.
This is revelation at its highest point, ‘the unique way we express our same true inner beauty may be the very thing that sets us free from our self-imposed prison.’ Imagine if we all actively allowed this to be – the world be so delicious to be in.
Yes Johanna can you imagine the beauty and absolute joy we would all feel?
Heaven on Earth.
What an absolutely gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous photo of 3 joyful, radiant and tender women. A perfect choice for this blog!
I love this ‘this beauty is a stillness found deep within the heart and is expressed through our eyes – our true beauty and our essence simply shines out.’ It absolutely radiates, from our whole being but especially our eyes.
This is a powerful blog, I can feel the power of what you know in what you are saying and sharing you have seen and felt all of this. I agree with you every single person is beautiful. I have just done a dance in True Movement (dances and true body moves that Universal Medicine present) most of these dances you partner up with someone and one dance is so beautiful and tender you cannot help but fall in love with the person you are dancing with and see their beauty and love within their eyes.
A fantastic article and observations Kathyrn. I love the line: “We have the power to make huge changes on the planet in very simple ways: not by marching and creating drama, but by simply smiling with the joy we feel.”
Your step by step guide to beauty is a must for bathroom mirrors. And it works! How do I know? Because I feel much more beautiful after reading your article than before.
Viva la R-Evolution!
No marching on this revolution. Massive change is possible with the simple step of the way in which we smile.
Thank you Nikki smile from within and may the MAGIC begin. 🙂
What a wonderful command Rod and I agree her step by step guide to beauty has to be at all mirrors. Your are the living proof that it works and me too.
Kathryn, what a gorgeous reflection you are for us all, in your sharing and in real life. And it is so true what you share here about looking into another’s eyes from your own gorgeousness and sparking something inside of them. I have been experiencing this more and more with those that I meet and the power of that connection is absolutely heavenly. We really do hold great power within our own beautiful, inner, equally loving but unique presence.
Thank you Kathryn for this gorgeous blog. I could imagine you attending to someone’s beauty treatment and appreciating all the little things that reflect their inner beauty. We do tend to apologise for our physical differences and it is madness! It is our unique qualities that reflect the diversity of the beauty of divinity. We don’t judge and compare one sunset to another, we just enjoy the beauty that each one brings. Your 6 tips to a beauty revolution are awesome. Simple and full of the enjoyment of life and the full expression of ourselves.
This is gorgeous Fiona ‘ We don’t judge and compare one sunset to another, we just enjoy the beauty that each one brings.’
This is gorgeous Kathryn, as we all are, this is a great invitation to explore this deeper and truly feel how beautiful I am.
True beauty is a feeling not a look. That sums it up really. How much effort and money and time is wasted on this planet endlessly chasing or copying or searching for a certain look which we think will make us happy, when all along this beauty is within us all of the time just waiting to be connected to and when we feel that connection we feel amazing in our bodies and when we let that out for the world to see – we feel beautiful!
Yep, and how many times do we covet a certain look, or ‘thing’ to give us a certain to feel dissatisfied and wanting of something else or more afterwards. Looking for beauty to be confirmed and heightened from the outside will never satiate. We’re longing to fill up a substitute and we never can, when that beauty is always from within.
Awesome Kathryn and it is so true our true beauty lies within. We all know we do not look the same from one day to another, there are days where we like the mirror and days we don’t. If we stop and look at why this is we will find that this is defined by how we feel inside, about ourselves and our energy level. If we know this then it is all about feeling from within who we are and letting that come out. I have come to love to play with my expression of my beauty, cheekiness and femininity whereas once upon a time I sincerely hated the way I looked. Let’s no longer look with our eyes but only with our hearts.
Wise words Carolien – our hearts knows who we are.
Beautiful line Carolien, “let’s no longer look with our eyes but only with our hearts”. Our hearts always see the true beauty but our eyes can be deceiving.
Beautiful Carolien. Lets look with are hearts and feel the essence of ourselves and others.
A much wiser way to live and understand life.
True beauty is how we feel about ourselves and when we stay connected with ourselves and our body, this is what is reflected to all we meet.
Recently on a beautiful sunny day I walked with myself on a journey to collect my laptop to be serviced. As I walked, I noticed something different. As people approached me they looked into my eyes and smiled warmly. It happened a number of times before I realised what was happening. Because I walked connected with myself and enjoying being me, my presence, felt by others, shone back at me.
This is so gorgeous Kekinde2012. Your presence shone back at you. TRUE Reflection and this is a Beauty R-Evolutionist in ACTION.
Jacqueline. Couldn’t agree more in all you say.
I love so much about what you have written here but today this line really stood out for me – “We need to remember… we have the same inner beauty… with a different outer expression”. What I loved about this is that you bring us back to the fact that we are all the same – we all hold the same inner beauty that waits patiently for us to connect to – and by knowing this, it offers the opportunity to drop the belief that we separate and connect to the commonality that exists within us all. But how we express that – is individual and that is what makes it so beautiful. I love looking at a wide range of woman who have claimed their inner beauty and to see the same qualities of grace, beauty, stillness, fragility and power but the expression of these qualities varies so much. It is deeply inspiring.
I so agree with you Sarah. It is really gorgeous to appreciate the different qualities each woman can bring, and feel how when a woman truly lets her beauty out, she is equally as beautiful as another woman who is shining her true light also…. It cuts down any notion of comparison, and instead it’s truly a celebration to see women in their true beauty. That’s the truth that’s there before all of us to feel and claim back — it is not what the billboards, media and marketing ploys will have us believe, that there are some women elect and unique that have what most do not. That is a curse on women to take them away from their innate knowing of the beauty that does reside within, and the amazing power that women have when they truly support each other to shine the magnificence that they are.
I agree, Katerina: the industry version of ‘beauty’ is a curse on women and a constant lessening distraction to take our attention away from what resides permanently inside.
That is so true Sarah – feeling the true depth of our own beauty connects us to a well of love that can only expand our experiences and as we allow others to feel this regard and love that we have for ourselves the need for barriers such as comparison are no longer present. When we are united and equal in our beauty we are then able to express our own unique beauty without hesitation – we become like a beautiful mixed bouquet of flowers each beautiful bloom reflecting it’s loveliness and expanding the whole.
Kathryn, what a joy it was to read this piece…so much truth in what you share.
I love it when you call out how we need to stop apologizing for our physical differences and instead celebrate them…its a game changer and knocks the all too well known ‘comparison game’ on its head. If we are celebrating our differences then we are in effect appreciating each other and what each other reflects. So I’m with you…bring on the R-Evolution!
Marika I couldn’t agree more – bring on the R-Evolution!
If we are celebrating our differences then we are in effect appreciating each other and what each other reflects. Thanks for adding this to this blog Marika… and with that we have the antidote to comparison!
Spot on Rosie, the antidote to comparison indeed. Celebrating our uniqueness of appearance and not trying to look like everyone else goes back to appreciating and accepting ourselves as we are.
Absolutely Marika, ‘ If we are celebrating our differences then we are in effect appreciating each other and what each other reflects’. So true, and lovely to experience.
Yes Marika, I agree, bring on the beauty R-Evolution! Celebrating each other, loving our physical differences and appreciating them.
Such a great point Marika, we all have differences and these indeed need to be celebrated, as there is so much comparison and jealousy amongst women. It would be so much more supportive to acknowledge we all have strengths and weaknesses, to see those strengths in others and know if there are weaknesses, they are just areas of life you haven’t put energy into as yet. So much more supportive!!
When two people meet expressing love, the result is joy. Physical beauty has little to do with this, possibly nothing, but both parties look and feel beautiful. The complications start when we don’t express love and have to fall back on appearances.
Celebrating our physical differences is so delightful isn’t it Marika?
Like shiny pieces of the puzzle each one of us brings something unique. Who’s got time for comparison when there’s so much to appreciate and share.
I absolutely agree. The celebration and appreciation that Kathryn has for the amazing and beautiful woman that she knows herself to be is palpable and so inspiring. I am inspired to claim and accept more of my own unique expression and to appreciate and celebrate the true beauty I have within… consistently.
Thank you Caroline for reminding me to appreciate and celebrate the ‘true beauty I have within… consistently’. When we appreciate ourselves for all we are it deepens our appreciation of others.
Kathryn WOW … you have provided THE handbook of loving wisdom on the 101 of fully accepting and embracing who we truly are. Thank you
It’s very refreshing Kathryn that as a beauty consultant and make-up advisor that you do not subscribe to the old adage that beauty is only skin deep. How refreshing for your clients to meet someone who considers the whole person and not just their outer look. I particularly love this line: ‘Saying ‘no’ to anything that does not confirm our innermost beauty’ which is still something I am learning about but it definitely links in with self-worth – that we are worth feeling beautiful inside and out and anything that does not leave us feeling this way definitely deserves the boot!
Couldn’t agree more Shevon, that old saying has had it’s day. This too was the sentence that stopped me and made me stay with its meaning for a while longer “Saying ‘no’ to anything that does not confirm our innermost beauty”. A question well worth asking at any one point in our day!—Does this choice confirm my beauty?’
Love that Rosanna, “does this choice confirm my beauty?” And Shevon, anything (or anyone) that doesn’t confirm my beauty gets the so-called boot (!) , this means saying no to abuse whether that’s from ourselves (self-abuse) or from another.
Lovely point to pick out Rosanna, and a great reminder to add to our beauty-full (of ourselves) days.
Amazing. A beauty consultant who starts from the point that their client is already beautiful. I love it. Kathryn really ought to be writing for magazines, giving everyone the low down on the truth about beauty.
I second that Rachel Mascord. Kathryn’s words, experience and lived true beauty need to shine out from the depths of women’s magazines… Ask the questions, point to the ridiculous nature of comparing ourselves to others and the travesties that occur in the pursuit of something we are not – when the true beauty is always within.
Thank you Rachel & Victoria I appreciate what you have shared here.
The beauty industry, including women’s magazines, has a wicked way of comparing and competing – even suggesting our beauty lives in creams and bottles…..
lets OUT this craziness once and for all. 🙂 🙂
Absolutely, Kathryn – so much of what is presented by the beauty industry is about comparison and competition. It prompts me to wonder whoever started this false rumour that beauty can be bought – it feels as though women have allowed themselves to be led astray by a need and an emptiness that needed filling. The beauty industry is filling a need – and has capitalised on that. We all find out at some point that neediness puts a block to stop us feeling our innate and natural beauty. Nothing is more beautiful than a woman who lives joy-fully and with vitality, and from the inner heart.
Beautififully expressed Rachel. Imagine how it must feel to have a consultation with Kathryn. it would be even more amazing if every woman could feel their own beauty.
I love this Jane.
‘offering beauty from the inside out – and not the outside in.’
Agree Shevon, I had the same thought myself that Kathryn’s clients must receive a real healing when they are met by her, seeing and acknowledging their inner beauty, no matter their outward appearance or concerns about it.
Yes – I love that Kathryn is working in the Beauty industry and espousing inner beauty – it feels joyful actually – it makes me giggle. That is revolutionary for that industry.
Absolutely Shevon – to have a beauty consultant that doesn’t sell out and subscribe to the belief that makeup is what’s making women beautiful (not themselves) is incredible. Sometimes I am quite put off when walking into the makeup section of department stores as the women staff are all coated head to chin in thick, heavy foundation, blusher and other makeup.. This is becoming very common.
Yes Susie the Women ‘coated head to chin in thick, heavy foundation, blusher and other makeup’ are ALL deeply beautiful within but have often bought into the belief that make-up is the answer to beauty. So much so that each day they apply a little more to test the theory.
These women are not often appreciated (especially by themselves) for their wisdom, fragility and stillness but more for their external features and the money they can bring the company buy selling other women something they are made to believe they need in order to be acceptable. What an illusion.
Saying NO to anything that does not confirm our innermost beauty is a process isn’t it Shevon?
And yes it is most definitely connected to our self worth. I feel that we are all still building on this
also. The more we truly connect to who we are the easier it gets.
Well said Shevon, Kathryn’s blog completely destroys the ‘old adage that beauty is only skin deep’ and that it is indeed a quality that is lived and emanated from within and not painted, maked-up or airbrushed on.
Whenever we meet someone beautiful who has a ‘je ne sais quoi’ that comes from the inside, it is impossible not to clock it. It stands out. There is something to it that is unparalleled. It inspires. It invites. It transpires wellbeing. It feels easy.
So true Eduardo, and it is infectious!
Yes. It can inspire the other to look deeper into themselves and access their own unique flavour and beautiful ‘je ne sais quoi’ as well. We all have it, equally so.
You are so right Eduardo, when someone beautiful is not holding back their light it is an invite from heaven to join in.
Said so well Monika, “it’s an invite from heaven to join in”, beautiful.
Yes, it stands out. It also shows that this person is ready to deal with the resulting jealousy.
A person who expresses true beauty expresses a lot of courage as well. Everyone has that true beauty and can express it at any time.
Christoph thank you for speaking about the jealousy.
Yes this is what happens and the resulting jealousy can come from every angle.
It seems to occur when the person feeling jealous is not shining their light and choosing to claim their innermost beauty.
Clocking another’s jealousy but not reacting to it is key.
Yes Eduardo we gravitate towards the light they radiate which in turn allows us to honour that within ourselves. It really is a beauty full way to be and express in the world.
Absolutely, Eduardo. True beauty which, as you say, comes from within is something that transcends the conventional descriptions of “pretty” or “handsome”. It reflects a choice to allow something of one’s self to be seen by all, and that something is a true love for one’s self.
Love the comments from the men. Beauty is not a female perogative, these men are beautiful too.
Me too Catherine, I am finding it very healing to read men speak of the true beauty in women, and yes, these men certainly demonstrate that true beauty is not a female prerogative.
Yes I love it too to hear men expressing like this and I fully agree that men are beautiful too.
I find this also…I am a man, but it is so amazing to hear men claiming their own beauty and truly appreciating the beauty, both inner and outer, in women and other men. Very inspiring and also challenging to see, feel and express this for myself.
Yes Catherine and when a man is connected to his beauty it is simply gorgeous.
I love this Naren. True beauty comes with a natural confidence of being ourselves fully and unreservedly. Shining bright for all to see.
Ah Eduardo you have nailed it. Everyone has experienced that with someone at sometime in their life, a quality that we can’t quite put our finger on yet are drawn to and inspired by.
Yes, Eduardo, it feels completely natural.
Yes Eduardo exactly it’s like you are transfixed on them and you can’t look away. They have this magic around them, I love it . It’s also great to be around that so it makes you also feel amazing.
The fact that our true beauty is never lost is also truly beautiful.
I love this Eduardo. It is just as you say, impossible not to notice when someone is eminating their true beauty. Others just want to be around them even though they may not be aware of why they feel what they feel. And yes, it is so very easy to be in the company of someone who is deeply connected to their innermost beauty.
and all it takes is presence and an absolute claiming of how truly beautiful we all are.
Love it Kathryn! I so hear you sister, I always feel the most beautiful when I simply honor me, in all the ways I live, dress and express.
Yes Pernilla its so true isn’t it? We feel beautiful when we honour ourselves. And the more we build on this the deeper the connection feels and grows. Everyone around us benefits too. 🙂 🙂
I love how I feel when I am honouring myself, there is no other feeling in the world.
Kathryn, this blog is amazing. Every person on the planet should read this as what you have shared here is deeply powerful. Thank you!
So true Amelia…..Very powerful indeed.
“Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.”
This happened to me at a picnic once. Life changed that day and I began to make more self loving choices in my daily living and committed to ME. Four years down the track and I am feeling and claiming more and more of my inner beauty, shining for all to see and feel.
I wouldn’t miss this R – Evolution for the world – the world is waiting – there is work to be done – and I AM here to serve – it is US – all divinely different and yet the same.
Inspiring writing Kathryn. I feel can feel my love expanding from reading and responding to your words.
Mary-Lou this is very powerful. Yes there is work to be done and how JOYfilled is this work!
By simply connecting deeply to our own beauty we are in service.
Thank you for your expression.
Hello Mary-Lou Reed and I agree to this, “Every single time a person who has claimed their inner beauty looks into the eyes of another person they offer an opportunity – an opportunity to remember who they are – by seeing this same beauty is also within them. This can truly change the course of one’s life.” This I see is a relationship between people, if only for a moment. The connection and opportunity for us all in a moment to ‘see’ each truly.
There is so much on offer in your article Kathryn, thank you.
I like it Kathryn, not holding back who you are and expressing it in full. A very liberating experience.
I like the way you said that True Beauty is a feeling not a look. When I am feeling warm and beautiful on the inside, I know my smile is true because it feels amazing. I know my glance is true, because my eyes are connected to the beauty that is me.
I too loved the statement that true beauty is a feeling not a look Harrison. In my connection to that loveliness that I am I notice that my connections with others is warm and more open and there is also a natural playfulness there!
I agree Jenny, ‘in that connection to the loveliness that I am I notice that my connection with others is warm and more open and there is also a natural playfulness there.’ When I’m feeling my loveliness I can feel others loveliness too, I have no self doubt, there’s no comparison, it’s very beautiful and natural.
I agree Harrison, Jenny and Rebecca. When I smile in connection with my loveliness I just see the beauty in others and feel it in myself. Thinking doesn’t come into it, just a beautifully warm connection that I walk away from still smiling.
I agree, Harrison, Jenny, Rebecca and Karin. There is nothing more beautiful than feeling my own beauty and equally so the beauty of others.
Yes I also, when i feel the inner beauty, i see it in my eyes holding a warmth and openness to others and i simply feel very loving and open with everyone i meet…Inner Beauty cannot be contained!!!!
I completely agree. When I am near a woman it is very important for me how it feels to be near and if the look is not in harmony with the feeling, that is very off-putting and when the look and the feel are in harmony that is truly wonderful, even if neither is anywhere near perfect in any way the word ‘perfect’ is used.
Well said Christoph, especially highlighting the difference and effect it has when the feeling and look are in-congruent. We can all feel this and it is important to feel how the outer appearance and inner state of being can be telling very different stories.
This is gorgeous Michelle, and I feel the same. Recently I was able to connect to more of my natural delicateness within and I was feeling so exquisitely delicate. I walked past the mirror and caught a glimpse of my face and thought wow I look so beautiful and I stopped and went back to the mirror to take a closer look. Sure enough I did look more beautiful as the delicateness I was feeling I could see if my face, my skin, my eyes…
This is so true Jenny, I have noticed this too when I have been connected to my essence, the genuine openness and playfulness comes through and others feel it and I ask myself “who IS this woman, where has she BEEN”, and then I realise that this woman is ME, and she has been hidden behind layers of protection. Well, it’s time to bust the shell open and reveal all and renew that commitment to me in every moment so that I can reflect my true beauty out into the world.
I know exactly what you are saying Harrison. That inner beauty and warmth is as gorgeous as the sun’s warmth.
Very much so Johanna.
And have you noticed the way your eyes change when you feel that connection? There is a sparkle to them that comes from very deep inside. They become crystal clear and the gaze is very deep.
Yes, I sure have, its amazing! When I see my eyes like that I feel the strength and steadiness in me, and I want to look out at people, to smile at them with my eyes. When I see other people’s eyes like this they offer me whatever is needed at that time, be that endless support, or a glint of humour. Again, amazing!
What I love about it Catherine is that this shining eyed beauty cannot be held back, is not superior, but pours forth for all to enjoy and celebrate.
Yes, I have noticed that. I have found when I meet someone who is fully claiming their inner beauty and expressing it in every way, I tend to naturally focus on their eyes. I naturally want to connect to them.
Yes, same here. The eyes say it all and are where I am drawn especially when I feel someone is ‘home’ and more so when it is a sparkling home. I am magnetically pulled towards the eyes.
Yes Chan Ly you cannot deny the magic of a person’s eyes when they are embracing their inner beauty. You cannot look away its simply breathtaking.
Yes Rachel, I love to see that look in another’s eyes (and my own), it is truly so beautiful and makes me expand inside.
So true Rachel – it’s as though a spark from within has ignited a fire in the eyes and they are now reflecting that warmth and glow out into the world.
Yes the eyes in connection have a clarity and are so inviting…enough to take a long dip in the deep pools of the iris, so very beautiful, it’s rare you want to leave.
So gorgeous Zofia…I am bathing in the deep pool of your words.
Absolutely Rachel. It is a glorious feeling when my eyes are clear and shining. I feel present in my body and very steady. I also love to look and connect to other people’s eyes and have begun to do this more consistently in my day.
Looking into peoples eyes has been a difficult one for me. I can handle it for so long but then I have to look away. This I feel has something to do with self-loathing for me. The more I love myself and connect with myself-look into my own eyes in the mirror and see my true essence, will enable me to look unwaveringly into the eyes of love of another, to see their real essence and their true love.
Yes Rachel our eyes certainly do change once we feel a connection. I have noticed that they become clear and deep and the stillness within is felt and connected to by others. We ignite each others flame from within. There is a sense of recognition and a ‘holding’ moment. It is beautiful.
Yes Rachel, I have noticed this very very deeply, it is very real and very beautiful to share with another person. It confirms that all there really is, is love.
Yes, absolutely Rachel! The sparkle is so bright and clear, I sometimes find it hard to look away as looking at myself from this depth is too gorgeous!
That feels so beautiful Amina – to see our eyes as the ‘the windows of truth’ – and this is felt when we meet one another’s gaze. When someone avoids looking into our eyes it feels as though there is something going on that is causing them great discomfort.
Yes Rachel it is a beautiful spark of connection with others that radiates from within and the power is so huge that it just flows outwardly. I love it.
Beautifully expressed Harrison White. Proof that the true you/me comes from inside, not as a response to what is going on or not going on outside of us. What a confirmation that the quality of our relationship with ourselves is our reference point for how we will respond to what is outside of us. It is only recently that I have really ‘got’ the power of my own relationship with me. Thank you for today’s reminder.
Yep, that is what it is for me too: the relationship I have and am deepening with myself. That gives the power, e.g. such a fundament that it just emanates. I don’t have to do anything anymore, no need to look outside of me, nor to compare or any outward movement. The only movement is the love I feel in me, is expressed from me and reflected back at me.
What you have expressed so beautifully can be sensed in our bodies when we are connected to the power of inner truth of everything we are – just connect and feel, and we know who we are undeniably – it is as simple as that. When we begin this journey we are re-aligning to everything that is exquisite and sacred and to be found within ourselves. The preciousness of this unfolding is what we have been longing for – and it has been there all along deep within.
Gorgeous Harrison and how absolutely true that is. There is nothing more beautiful than a person in their joy, not holding it back, letting it all be seen with the innocence and openness of a young child. Our eyes sparkle and our smiles shine with the warmth and love we feel through our entire bodies. Very beautiful to behold.
Beautiful Katerina and so true. A person in joy is simply heaven. The warmth felt through their entire body emanates out for all to feel and celebrate.
That is truly being in heaven, Kathryn what an amazing offering to the world to connect to such a blessing.
And we don’t have to go anywhere to find this blessing as it resides within ALL of us.
It’s interesting what you say about your smile and eyes Harrison, I notice the same. When I am just being myself and I feel comfortable in my own skin there is a different feeling behind the smile and behind my eyes. There is no forcing and there is just a natural emanation of joy. No make-up in the world could buy that feeling.
Shevon I can relate to that, I have too experienced the same. Like you say there is natural emanation of the true beauty.
I agree wholeheartedly Harrison and Shevon, when I am fully myself my smile has so much more expression and warmth than when I smile because it is the right thing to do.
I agree with you Harrison….The sentence “True Beauty is a feeling not a look” is so true. When I am connected to my true beauty, I feel amazing from every core of my being. which naturally shines out through my eyes.
Yes, I agree too. When true beauty is fully shining through a person, how they look externally falls away and we tend not to even notice what they are wearing, their hair or makeup etc. The warmth and infectious joyful energy is received and shared therefore I would feel the whole room light up.
So true. A truly graceful gesture, the way a person walks, the quality of their voice and their willingness to be open – all of those things are beauty and to be celebrated.
True beauty of a man shining forth here for all to see and feel.
Absolutely Jane imagine trying to market and sell that ‘feeling’ in a jar. Something so pure and immediate that comes only from inside with no outer imposition whatsoever, definitely no money to be made from that one.
Beautifully said Harrison. True beauty is indeed a feeling not a look and without that, no amount of attention to our external image will have us feeling or looking the same way.
Hear hear Penny and Harrison, this is truth spoken and felt, it is exactly so.
Yes Penny this is true. Our external image can NEVER give us what our inner beauty brings. True connection is key.
Without our true beauty shining from within, our outer beauty really is just empty and may be visually pleasing but there is no true depth to it.
Yes and there is a beautiful expansion outwards from this gorgeous feeling that embraces all those you encounter.
True beauty can be the purest connection we hold with another and can catch you unawares. There are times when I look into a person’s eyes and feel the deepest love and warmth, no words are needed. It is Just felt.
I agree kehinde2012 NO WORDS are needed and aLL is felt. 🙂 🙂
I know this feeling too and it is sublimely gorgeous. I also find what accompanies these moments of pure connection with another, and actually sometimes with myself in the mirror, is that I feel a grace and gentleness in my movements, that can only be described as beauty in motion.
Exactly, I fully relate to what you say Harrison, I experience exactly the same, and how yummy does it feel.
Awesome Harrison – so spot on
This is gorgeous Harrison and so true – how we are feeling on the inside is directly reflected on the outside to all we interact with. It feels really amazing when as you say, you are feeling warm and beautiful on the inside and you offer that loveliness to another, be it through a smile, a glance, an embrace or a conversation. Each and all of us have the ability to lift another with the beauty we connect to within ourselves.
This is so true Harrison. There is a warmth and a glow when we are in touch with that love and warmth inside of ourselves that just emanates. It is then felt by everyone around us. What a wonderful quality we then bring to the space around us.
Yes exactly, true beauty is a feeling deep inside, and show this to the world without excuses or turning it down a bit.. Thank you for this beautiful blog Kathryn, very confirming of how beautiful everyone is.
I love what you have shared here, it totally flips how beauty is normally perceived on its head. And it is really lovely to hear a man talk about his true beauty.
The power and simplicity of what you share Harrison is deeply felt coming from your lived experience, thank you for capturing the true essence of this blog.
So gorgeous Harrison, I could feel your beauty in your words! It is true, when we are connected to our innate inner beauty, we do reflect this through our smile, our eyes and our gestures.
Beautiful Harrison White… so very true.
Hello Harrison White and I agree. I ‘use’ the eyes as a way to connect to people as well. If I am speaking to anyone I dedicate to ‘be’ with their eyes and it seems to pull me into more of what they are saying and equally allows there to be more for me to say. It is like you are just in the moment with them and nothing else. I can see when there is this dedication how touched people are. It is almost like they feel in that moment they are the most important thing in the world and in fact that is true. Every moment is equally as important and that dedication brings everything. Thanks Harrison.
Don’t you feel Raymond that it is also in your body? That there is a way of standing with people that invites then to let go of their defences. There is enormous beauty in that level of care and sensitivity towards people that allows them to know that they can trust again.
This blog is such a wonderful exploration of what beauty is, taking it to far deeper levels than we usually explore.
Gorgeous Harrison, I share in your experience. Beauty is something we first feel, before we see it.
So true Harrison… True beauty is a feeling, not a look. We have generally in society made beauty more and more about the latter, but it is only when we make it about the former that the outer will provide a true reflection of what is naturally within.
This is beautifully expressed Harrison, and simply highlights that this feeling of True Beauty applies to all of us, men as equally as women…
Harrison I know what you mean.
The warmth from within reflects in our smiles and eyes. 🙂
I really enjoyed reading this blog Kathryn. I get a sense of what true beauty is and it clearly emanates from you.
I agree Leonne, Kathryn is the leading light for this true beauty R-Evolution.
So true – our beauty is in our emanation of what is within us equally so but uniquely expressed – let the whole world know this and it breaks down the miasma of false beauty and all its trappings – let this R-Evolution go viral!
Yes, as i was reading I felt the beauty emanating from Kathryn’s words because she is living what she is sharing and it feels very real and true….and she sees this beauty in us all, it is in us all!
Me too Leonne; this blog is very important for us all to consider what true beauty is, and Kathryn is clearly embodying this beauty
In deep appreciation Kathryn, thank you. And may the fun begin!!! Thank you for the absolute joy I felt in your writing, and the sharing of your true beauty….it ignited and inflamed my own sense of deep beauty, and the joy that goes with living that and sharing it with others.
Never have I heard so many beautiful comments, from a group of amazing women, based on joy and wonderment at the realisation that we, as women are beginning to claim our true beauty. Yes we DO deserve it, we have kept it hidden for too long and it is time to appreciate and celebrate ourselves for who we are and what we can bring to the world. Fun indeed!! Reading Kathryn’s blog is inspiring, and is confirming to me that I am beautiful too, so thank you all.
Well said Sandra. It definitely is time to appreciate and celebrate the beautiful women we are and what we bring to the world.
I agree Sandra – it is rare to see women celebrating their own beauty in a true way and it is deeply healing to feel the emanation of true beauty from this blog and comments.
Yes I agree Leone, I received much joy from reading this truly beautiful blog from a truly beautiful woman.
Kathryn thank you for leading the way in this beauty R-Evolution.
Hear hear Sally. Love is the foundation from which our true beauty is laid bare. We are more than ready.
Ready and raring to go with all of the gorgeous woman I know.
Yes, and supporting us all to reclaim our inner beauty!
I felt such joy reading your comment Sally, it stopped me in my tracks. I am feeling the joy that we finally have someone – Kathryn, the Esoteric Women’s Health Team and all women who align to the new consciousness – leading the way in freeing women from the grips of glamour to know they are innately beautiful for just being who they are. Viva la Re-Evolution