You Have The Right To Be Beautiful

Some of us are born physically beautiful. Most of us are born with average looks. The unrecognized opportunity is what you were born with has almost no bearing on how you appear as an adult.

As our gloriously inquisitive world peers deeper and deeper into the nature of things, we are faced with consistent dualities. Nature vs Nurture, Quality vs Quantity, Happiness vs Wealth. Being humans, we tend to think of these as “either/or” propositions.

They’re not. Reality is not a continuum with Nature at one end and Nurture at the other, with the measure representing you somewhere in between, pegged along that line. Each quality is its own separate line.

The equation that calculates the arc of your existence corresponds to the convergence of all those lines. All lines of reality are malleable in accordance with your beliefs. Your beliefs can change only as much as you are aware of them.

The unrecognized opportunity of having the right (and corresponding responsibility) to be beautiful lies in understanding the power of belief viewed through the lens of self awareness.

Yes, it is possible to be a beautiful person no matter what your Nature or your Nurture environment looks like. Yes, you can have both Quality and Quantity. Perhaps touchiest of all, yes, you can be both wealthy and happy.

The path to being beautiful does not lay in the crystal clear environment of “Either”. It’s not a case solely of being born beautiful or sculpting your physical beauty.

The path is a recognition of your agency over both.

The winding, unsteady, often uncomfortable and fraught with peril single-track makes its way through the wilderness of self-awareness.

The path is unique to each of us. Much of the confusion we experience comes from thinking we can follow someone else’s path or a clearly lit publicly agreed upon track. The metaphor stumbles here. We are used to a physical world of paths, trails, streets and highways laid down in perpetuity.

When it comes to our life, the paths we walk respond to our every step. As soon as we set foot on them they begin to change, writhing beneath us to conform to our belief.

That last short phrase, “our belief”, is the key to guiding the path you’re on. What you believe about your world tends to come true with startling, almost alarming regularity.

Still, there are two confusing aspects to belief and self awareness. First, that they work in a vacuum, and second, that they unfailingly achieve a concrete goal.

The inexperienced and the gullible often translate the power of belief into being able to sit down and meditate into existence a fire-breathing dragon rampant in the streets complete with burned buildings and lasting fame.

Obviously, you can’t. If it were true we’d have thousands of dragons in the street, battling each other as expressions of the uncontrolled and immature thoughts and desires of ten thousand teenagers day-dreaming through class at school.

Still, the power of belief isn’t an either/or proposition. It’s not as if it never works or always works. The key to having it consistently work lies in understanding its power, consistently wielding that power, and constantly querying your own self-awareness.

Our beliefs are the cornerstone of how we understand reality. They affect every decision we make, from how we greet strangers on the street to how we schedule our workouts to how much money we deserve and earn.

The second confusing aspect of self-awareness and your beliefs is the idea of achieving a concrete goal. What I’ve found in attempting to understand the power of belief and self-awareness is that the only surety I have regarding an end state is how I’ll feel.

This isn’t an either/or proposition. Sometimes I clearly achieve a goal: Finishing the Leadville 100, making a certain amount of money a year, flying off a mountain on a paraglider. Far more often, I encountered the feeling, though not the result, I believed I would find.

Failing to make the time at Leadville in 2013, I felt ecstasy at the effort. Not reaching a dollar goal in 2016, I still felt a grand achievement. Wrestling with a paraglider and getting dragged into the brush before I ever got in the air I still experienced the feeling of adventure.

With all that explained, (non-duality, power of belief, importance of self awareness, reliability of achieving feelings but not goals), we only need one more concept before returning to why you have the right and corresponding responsibility for your own beauty.

Beauty lies not just in the eye of the beholder, but in the originator of that beauty. Both seer and seen co-create their shared reality. The creation you are responsible for is also the only one you have control over.

Once you decide to be beautiful no matter the seeming physical duality of it (beauty vs ugliness), that belief will being to warp your actions and your reality towards beauty. For as long as you maintain self-awareness of your state, you will experience more consistently the feeling of beauty.

As you weave that belief into the fabric of your existence, others begin to acknowledge your executed belief, treating you in accordance with your beliefs and actions.

This understanding of how reality works opens the door to you realizing both your right and your responsibility to create beauty. As you accept that responsibility, I welcome you into the deeper joy of creating with me and thousands of others the best possible version of our world.

To beauty, and to you!

Cheers,
Nik @ PT

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