Beauty and Spirituality

Beauty and Spirituality… are they connected?

The other day my friend bought a new and quite expensive beauty product, lured by its promise of imparting to its user a blemish free, flawless skin. It was exactly what she was looking for!

Though she used it religiously, she did not seem satisfied, claiming the product probably did not suit her.

I asked her what she was up to, experimenting ruthlessly on her skin with unending amounts of beauty products and yet never being satisfied, not one product having the desired effect. It was then that I realised that she was under a lot of stress, having to handle the new project at office and the sudden guests at home single handed.

When I advised her not to get so stressed up, she pointedly asked me what stress had to do with the beauty products not working! I then filled her in on the concept of one's inner health reflecting on one's outer appearance, opposing her belief that you can look terrible only if you haven't been able to catch enough sleep!

Stress in today's world is definitely unavoidable. But what we can do is reduce it to the least possible by manoeuvring factors which are under our control like our temper and attitudes towards different issues. We can simply choose not to get worked up about something that does not really matter, to forgive and to let go of negative emotions, not to brood about the future and to just let the anxiety stray. Simple things like these can go a long way in making our lives way simpler. It is true that one's goodness reflects on one's face and that nothing can make you age faster than all the negativity stored up inside you! So the one step solution is to be at peace with oneself and the world. To seek refuge in God rather than waste away with pent up negativity. The tranquillity and peace found in prayers is truly in comparable! Although all is easier