SPIRITUAL PRACTICE FOR BEAUTY ENHANCEMENT

Softness isn't about being mellow or being "kind". Softness is the quality of flexibility. That which is soft is able to transform and overcome that which is hard. Hardness generates asymmetry, harsh and crude elements that manifest in the physical form. To manifest beauty (not a generalized concept based in European standards, but your unique beauty, which is magnetizing and objective) a woman must cultivate softness within herself. It can be truly hard to do that, since we are raised by either the extreme masculine mentality of harshness or the extreme feminine of total openness without discernment. Neither are beneficial for an individual, we need to come into balance. A woman cultivates softness through practices and mindset adjustments that help her ease and relax her restrictive energy. All reality is happening as the 'mating dance', everything can be co-related to the sexual act. So in this case, let's contemplate this: a woman needs to be relaxed in order for penetration to happen without pain. She also needs openness and lubrication, but we will discuss those attributes in future posts. So relating that to the manifestation of beauty, for example, a woman needs to loosen up her restrictions, to manifest symmetry, grace and allure. Although through softness she will manifest so much more, such as pleasure, joy and love. The 'harsh' (masculine, yang) aspects that might come at a woman are any type of dominating energy, an energy that manifests itself as fiery and overbearing. Feminine forces are things that makes us feel restricted yet it hypnotize us, we want to possess it, such as money and other material things (just so you can tell the difference between the forces that are always affecting you). So anxiety for example, even though it's a mental imbalance, it can be seen as a masculine force, because it's overbearing and it dominates most people. Anyone who has ever experienced a panic attack knows that resisting it, it's the worst thing you can do. When you breathe into it and allow it to pass through you, it seems to soften and go away quicker. We often get very rigid and try to resist and stop it from happening, as an attempt to exert more self control. But it doesn't quite work with this type of energies, because they operate from the masculine, which means that they do not succumb towards control, they become stronger and burn brighter. The masculine can only be overcome by softness, by the relaxation and the allowance of that energy to penetrate you. This way, it doesn't hurt (just like physical penetration and the sexual co-relation). You do not allow anxiety to 'fuck you' per say, you simply allow it to pass through you, since you've already created it, it's useless to resist it now. The most productive thing you can actually do is to treat it before it blows up. Understanding masculine and feminine will help you understand which type of role you need to play to conquer whatever energy that comes at you. And that might actually differ from person to person, as someone might actually experience anxiety as a feminine force that they unconsciously run after, you need to pay attention to your own vibration and reactions in order to discern what dynamic you are playing with the energies around you ('am I yin or yang to this thing/person/situation?'). Softness can be cultivated through the Shreem mantra, although if you already are committed to another mantra, you can try other practices that are also incredible to cultivate potent and impressive softness, such as hola dance, or belly dance; lunar adoration on Mondays; simple deep breathing or pranayama to soften the breath. As well as paying attention to how you can relax your energy whenever you feel dominated by a feeling or situation. How can you simply let it be and pass through without it harming you? Kill 'em with softness, I'd say. 'Slay' by grace and ease, like the goddess that still carries a blissful and piercing gaze while decapitating a demon. Energetically, this happens in a very interesting way (as anyone can witness through astral projection or deployment of consciousness), the dominating energy penetrates a woman's aura, her astral body becomes rigid, which might affect her physical body making it rigid and tense as well. That dominating force pushes up against her aura and her resistance generates wholes in it, as every time the force pushes, she closes up and it 'hits the wall' of her aura, damaging it. When she cultivates softness she's able to open up even before the force penetrates, when it is only floating around her field, she picks up on it and automatically softens her energy, you can see her anahata chakra beaming as her aura shifts and loosens its tight grip. Her breathing is calm and steady. The force penetrates through her astral body smoothly, passing through it with ease, and as it enters her, it dissolves itself into her, all that harsh force gradually transmutes into a bright, beautiful light that accumulates in her manipura center, making her gradually more confident, powerful, secure and radiant. This softness, as well as openness and energetic lubrication, is what makes her capable of transmuting crude energies into refined energies. On a practical level you can handle harsh energies by maintaining a physical position of confidence (also known as power poses in the field of hypnosis), which will send signals to your nervous system to gradually calm itself down, loosen up any tense body parts, as we tend to contract whenever we are resisting something. Take control of your breath, as it is the key to emotional control, start taking really deep and slow breaths (breathing in 4's is a great technique -breath in a count of four seconds, hold for four and let out in four). Whatever external reaction that might arise, contemplate it. The point is to not let that energy hurt you by resisting it and tensing yourself up. A practical example is when someone irritates you. Maybe they say something to you that you don't like. If you cultivate softness you will respond according to your truth, not your ego, which is reactionary and operates out of defense, not response. Yelling at someone who's yelling at you does nothing more than simply adding more fuel to the fire until it blows up on your face, as well as it messes up your nervous system completly and you get stressed out. With softness you're able to break through someone's harshness, energetically, not by letting them walk all over you, but by responding with such ease and grace that they unconsciously and automatically dissolve (which may or may not be literal, as most people hate admitting defeat). Whenever someone is attacking you, dominating you, they are giving you their solar light. You can actually utilize that by letting it penetrate you then turning it into beauty, instead of throwing it away. Woman who want to become beautiful should for sure know how to master this, as they attract a lot of jealousy, so they must learn how to utilize that harsh energy and turn it into something that is actually very beneficial for them. Like fuel to your growth, or rocks that they threw at you, that ended up being the stones that built your castle. The more you master this, the less people will even attempt to dominate you out of weakness, as they will energetically flee and run away just by your presence (as the more solar light you accumulate, the more dominant you are over weaker forces). Softness is more powerful and fierce than any sharp weapon you might have. It cuts through impurities and transforms it into virtue.