Ingredients For Loveliness

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Ingredients For Loveliness

Health And Beauty

WE are frequently impressed with the beauty of some acquaintance, but most of us drop the matter there. We do not go further and analyse just why we think Mrs. So-and-So is beautiful. Perhaps if we did we would gain many points which could be used to our own advantage. Some women achieve the effect of beauty by perfect gowning, others by exquisite grooming, absolute daintiness, still others by their splendid physical development, and not a few by their charming manners or vivacious wit. So, we see that beauty its not a simple • Hair. It is a composite of many qualities, which can be reduced to three distinct elements. The physical, tbe men tul and the psychic, or soul beauty. Perfect beauty, which is tbe ideal we a.r« all striving for, is the harmonious development or all three of these factor «.

By - - - A Specialist

We nil know women who are physically beautiful, and yet who fail to tppeal to ut because they are dull, uninteresting, often cold. We also know women, whom Nature seems to have cheated of every outward attribute of zood looks, who nevertheless have such brilliant minds that we are drawn to them. But there Is no reason why one should be contented with a lop-*idec! development. The woman whose physique is faultiest would be far more attractive if she were also mentally brilliant anrl radiated a warmth of emotion. The woman whose life has been devoted to sharpening of her intellect, would gain by making her body a beautiful temple for her mind. True beauty is the expression of outpouring of all our qualities, physical, mental and psychical. To Achieve the liemt To achieve this Ideal, we must first of all understand ourselves. You, a* you are to-day, are tlx outcome of your thoughts, emotion* and desires. "Gut," you answer, "how can that be true, because I am plain, and I am sure that I want to be beautifuL" No doubt you do, but instead of using your thinking-box directly to build that desired beauty, you persist in thinking of yourself as "hopelessly plain."

I would now like to take up ev«-«-y phase of beauty culture, external, internal, psychological and physical, for they ar«i interdependent, and no perman ently beneficial result can be obtained by any system which disregards either. You could apply all the wrinkle creams on the market, but if you persisted jn worrying, wrinkles would still appear. On the other hand, you could use augfestion daily by repeating, "I am •althy, strong and happy," and if at

the same time you disregard the comnioiweiise practices of hygienic living, you would soon be a subject for the doctor's attention. Know ThystU To make any headway toward* realising our ideal of health and beauty, we first of all have to understml ourselves. The science which deala with this syatem of study, is psychology. Psyche, of course, means soul, and logus, means record or wisdom. Psychology, therefore, means tbe study of tba soul. As we are each of ua individual souls, the study of psychology, is self study. No study is beneficial which does not eventuate in application. Psychology has to be continuously applied to obtain results. No line of distinction need to be drawn between mind and eoul. Splitting cairs only side-tracks us from the desired end, namely, a sufficient understanding of applied psychology to enable us to be healthier and more perfect human beings.

The body is the outward expression of the mind. And an impaired body is the result of an impaired mind. You may not like to admit this. But it is true. Try to prove its validity. You can test the assertion by using the t>vo great tools of psychology, analysis and suggestion. Analysis uncovers the roots of the trouble; suggestion, overcomes it. In this connection remember, that a healthy mind or soul, cannot bear an impaired body. It wiH automatically, and in the long run, builcP a suitable medium for expression. The Reml You If you were to take an electric light bulb and cover it with a shade made of innumerable layers of material, the light thrown by it would be preatly dimmed. Human beings for the most part, gitatlv I resemble such a light. Each individual i soul is of itself all-powerful, perfect, beautiful. But it is wrapt in sheaths of , prejudice, wrong-thinking and destructive emotionalism. Its perfection is dimmed by these sheaths, the light its i radiates puny in comparison with its | unlimited ability. Our object, therefore, I L» to get at the back of these imperfections to the real, the divine image. In the depths of the subconscious lurks the I image of the perfect woman you oti;j'it to be, that you can be. The worm n*sv»sr dreams that it will one day be transformed into a beautiful butterfly. Woman has just as little idea of what it is possible for her to become, or achieve. She is slumbering in a cocoon 1 of ignorance. But it ia possible for Ler to break through this cocoon into the sunlight of health, love, service and success.

The first step is realisation. Know that within you is slumbering a perfect thing, beautiful, healthy and magnificently powerful. Get a clear, vivid picture of the you you long to be. Burn this picture into your mind. Keep it before you constantly, this ideal of yourself. And, like the etory of the boy who kept gazing at the -atone imajre urtil he grew to resemble it, you, too, will soon leave behind the surface you and begin to cast aside the sheaths that are fettering, your ideal self.