Beauty: 3 Secrets Revealed by the Moon and Her Craters
And why we should be paying close attention
It ‘s a clear night in the tropics. The darkness embraces me with warmth, moist and the sound of crickets. The moon shines. Or does she? Is she not reflecting the light from the sun?
I see her craters as dark shadows and I wonder why the moon is perceived beautiful with all these dark shadows and craters and human beings do everything possible to appear unblemished.
And then the answer comes to me. Her 3 secrets all begin with R. We need Raw. We need Real. We need Relaxation. And if we let go of the stories we tell ourselves about beauty, these 3 R’s might be exactly what we find.
Currently, there is a lot of fake in our lives. It seeps in through our parents who say: “Come back when you are reasonable.” And through our education that says: “Be polite, adapt to what is accepted and you will be successful.” It comes in through our friends who judge us to see whether we fit into our peer group without embarrassing them.
And adapt is what we do. We watch TV and photoshopped pictures, we compare ourselves to others and we create a desirable image of ourselves using lots of make-up and sometimes plastic surgery. And we call it beauty.
Ho, stop there!
This is not beauty! This is not life! This cannot be the real thing!
Our beauty has been hijacked by our brains. Our rational mind tries to master our lives by telling us all kinds of stories. And there are a whole lot of them around beauty.
- Some part of me is not beautiful…
- I’m not good enough…
- People do not love me if…
Well, what would happen if we could skip all those questions? Live our lives in the certainty that we are loved and beautiful and desirable?
My Croatian friend Ina once told me something that I didn’t understand at first. However, the more I experience Mother Nature’s vast intelligence, the more I realize she’s right. This is what she said:
“Our rational, analytical mind is not master. It is the servant of Nature’s vast intelligence” — Ina Matijevic (quoting Sai Baba)
Well, here is an interesting analogy with the moon. After all, the moon doesn’t emit her own light, she reflects light from the sun to radiate her beautiful self. What if we are meant to do the same?
What if Mother Nature is speaking to us? What if we would listen closely? And only then speak, act and connect? What if we became raw, real and relaxed in the process?
There is research that shows that we have a heart-brain composed of about 40,000 neurons that can sense, feel, learn and remember. And I’m convinced that if we align our heads and hearts and become fully present in the moment, we will create a beautiful new world.
In the past year, I have been training my heart and presence a lot. My head is smart enough already, no need for training there. It has been shaped by years of studying, doing the rational thing and creating patterns that I’m trying to get rid of now… The irony…
Well, focusing on heart and presence is really paying off for me. I have the most amazing life right now, with lots of abundance, fun, and love in it.
So, what else do we need for beauty?
Loving support
If we want to relax in our bodies, we need other people to look at us with love. Ah, how would that feel? Not to be judged but to be looked at with love? Well, it only takes one step: look at others with love.
If everybody would be giving love, we would all be receiving love because there would be nothing else going around.
Whoah, that sounds deep. Say it again?
If everybody would be looking at others with loving eyes, we would receive love all the time.
Think about it for a minute.
We can start today. Train ourselves not to be judgmental if you don’t want to be judged… How do we train such a thing? Well, there are ways. You might try some of the things I mention in this article about becoming a leader.
At this moment, I myself am training with Tree Sisters and Mary Reynolds Thompson to become a wild soul woman. Wow, this is powerful! And for the first time ever in my life, I get a tiny glimpse of what it would be like to think of myself as beautiful. And I’m still only in the desert…
Well, the bottom line is I feel raw, real and relaxed now and it might result in me feeling beautiful in the future. Might be a recipe for you?
Turn around and look at your fellow human beings with loving eyes. Be sure that they are doing their best, just like you. That they might make mistakes. That they will stumble, fall, get up again and do it better next time. We’re all on this beautiful journey together…
If you want to connect, I’m sharing on Facebook and Instagram. And I post my more rational articles about aligning economy and ecology on LinkedIn. Or you can find me somewhere in the world connecting to local people and nature…
Thank you, Mike, for adding your loving energy to my words about beauty.