Consider Beauty. There are countless ways to bring the spirit and energy of beauty into your business. Practicing beauty is good for the soul and good for business. It is also an invitation to a powerful and transformative way of being and doing. Whether it is the way you make your bed or prepare a meal, doing whatever you do from the energy and spirit of beauty is a transformational practice.

Consider beauty as a practice for your business. Whether it is your business vision, the physical space of your business, the ways you connect with clients or how you market, calling upon the energy and spirit of beauty will transform both you as a business leader and your business itself.

Beauty inspires. Inspiration – whose origin is “in Spirit” – is an energy source and wisdom that flows from within. Inspired ideas and actions carry their own natural energy and always move you toward successful outcomes.

Beauty nourishes and gives pleasure to the mind, body and soul. Imagine what it would be like if your business and business activities nourished and brought you pleasure. Practice and surround yourself with beauty as a way of doing business, and this will become your reality.

Beauty attracts and charms. The practice of beauty naturally makes you more magnetic and your services or products attractive to clients.

Excellence, artistry, truth and originality are attributes of beauty. They are also elements of authentic, successful and sustainable businesses and business brands.

Other attributes of beauty are grace, harmony and order. These bring ease and flow into the business mix.

Here are a few basic business beauty suggestions:

Consider Beauty

Clear your desk every day before your business day is over. Keep fresh flowers or buy something beautiful for an area of your office that you see frequently during the day. Dress and groom yourself each day in a way that you feel beautiful – even if you never see a client. Do one task at a time. Have a place for everything and return everything to its place. Practice being present with you, in every interaction and with whatever you are doing. Slow down and breathe regularly through the day. Choose excellence and artistry in your work. (Perfectionism is neither about excellence nor beauty; give it up. ) Meditate or contemplate beauty in your business regularly. Play beautiful and inspiring music in the background while you work.

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What is Beauty ? By which i mean what is it to you personally and also what is it to society? How do we view and value it ?. Beauty for no sake except its own is the only form worth pursuing, when beauty has a dual purpose it detracts form itself, let me explain further as i realize i have launched into my thoughts without taking the time to go into detail. If a beautiful object such as a painting or sculpture or a fine building has a primary or secondary function other than to be beautiful it ceases to be so, and thus falls into the well worn trap of being merely practical.

What is Beauty

Many people suppose that all beauty can have a purpose, A flower is comely to attract bees, as is a female to attract males at first glance it would well seem that every natural beauty has a purpose or a side agenda which was in place firstly thus leading to the need for a form of beauty, and so mankind emulates his perceived surroundings and assigns all beauty a sub-task for which its beauty is just the mode of delivery for its purpose or job. If this is deemed to be true then beauty must have no value in itself and therefore cannot truly be beautiful. Man finds it almost impossible to create something of beauty without attaching to it a subtle meaning or silent message. The human race feels lost and shudders to think of a purposeless universe twirling and pulsating in all its perfect majesty for no other reason than IT IS. A good example is Mona Lisa’s smile by which i mean the painting not the much later but also very brilliant movie, Back to the painting of the Mona Lisa, most of us rather than look upon it and say to ourselves she is as she is, we look for a hidden meaning in that most beautiful smile, a hint of sadness? a glint of buried despair perhaps?

Mans natural love of creating beauty is governed and oppressed by this need for functionality, a grand cathedral cannot be built for its own sake, it must always be in homage to a god or gods or idol, we view the beauty of women as the same in homage to another whether man or woman but hardly ever for its own sake. Monuments of old are scrutinized until a reason, any reason is found for the creation of something of beauty for why would man create beauty unless it had a hidden meaning? was symbolic? a purpose? and so man has limited itself to what it can create it has to represent an existing symbol, theology, mode of thought, house of power or cultural identity.

when will man ever create beauty for only itself to be beautiful free from the mental block and conditioning, to put the depths and intricacies of our minds and souls into physical matter without the constraint of needing to represent or be symbolic or give a message. We have sadly lost many fantastic and sublime minds to this mode of thought for example Bernini the great sculptor himself who most agree is a maker of beauty and pure emotion translated into delicate marble was still for all his skill restricted by this when he began a work he always started with a theme or thought such as pain, anguish, ecstasy, or a person or event, but never did he simply start with one word to guide his hand, beauty, his works are alas only a shadow of his emotional strength they are the hollow shell of the beauty he could have produced if free within himself, it is the same for many young women today in a different sense but no less true.

Many misguided young women nowadays shape there beauty to societies current perceptions of it or to the opposite sexes proscribed ideas about modern beauty sadly almost never does she view it through her own self effectively becoming a mere social mirror again a brief fluttering reflection in the flickering lights of what her true beauty is. Many advocate isolation to obtain a true understanding and eye for beauty, there is great value in this as being isolated you have no need of mirroring or projecting the thoughts of others such as the media or the fashion houses into your concepts this is why many monks and saints favoured hermitage it was much easier they found to connect with the pure spiritual beauty of god free from  expectations or dogmatic notions.

All great people who create beauty have no sub task for example. Two women Cleopatra and Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra who is know to have been in spirit and body very beautiful is often viewed as ugly and immoral due to the fact that she used her beauty as a mere political tool, while Marilyn Monroe who once proclaimed she didn’t wish to be rich or famous just wonderful is for all her imperfections and so called dubious morals viewed as almost saint like as beauty personified. Showing that the only way to create something truly beautiful is to set out to do that and nothing but. Anything else is a pointless endeavour a waste of many a magnificent mind and always ends in failure by being a shadow of what it could be. Let us embrace beauty for what it is there would be no limit to what wonders we could achieve.  Source : from Internet Articles

Beauty is also known as pulcrum. It is a transcendental perfection, which results from esse or the act of being. There are different degrees of being, the vegetative life (plants), the sentient life (animals) and the rational life (human persons); beauty’s variety and richness depends on the different degrees of being.

Beauty has different levels depending on the subject from which it transcends; intelligible beauty directly is attached to the spiritual life and the sense perceptible beauty is applied to things, which attracts our sense, especially our hearing and seeing.

There are different types too, natural beauty which comes from the nature of beings, therefore we can say a woman is beautiful naturally in her femininity and rationality; and artificially when she starts further enhancing her beauty through make-up, dressing and exercise, and a painting is artificially beautiful in so far as it is painted artificially by human hands.

The Unity Of Beauty And Goodness

A special type of goodness is beauty because it gives rise to a special delight by simply being known. The sensible appetite comes into play when it feels the aesthetic appreciation and delight. It is the contemplation of the beauty of the object not on its possession. Beauty is pleasing to the will or sense appetites simply by being known by the senses or the intellect.

The Foundation Of Beauty Lies In Perfection

The foundation of beauty lies in the perfection of the desired object; things are pleasing because they are beautiful. Therefore whether or not there are men or women who are capable of appreciating a beauty, the perfection still resides in the object and thus beautiful. This perfection is from the act of being, the fullness, and absolute Beauty.

Perfecting Beauty In Its Fullest Sense

The foundation of beauty is the absolute. Beauty, the act of being, and we can say things are beautiful in so far as they already possess perfection. However this is not the only aspect of beauty. A created being can only reach the fullness of the beauty if it possesses the perfection of its very nature. An example of this is a woman can only be truly beautiful in her being a woman, in her finest feminine nature.

There are three basic features of beauty:

There should be harmony and proportion in the object and subject itself and to its surroundings. The combination of clothes must be in accordance with the occasion and personality type. To further enhance one’s perfection, she is properly made up not excessively but appropriately, she is pleasing to the sight and thus we can say the person is attractive. Integrity and completeness of the object is another element to consider in its substantial and accidental form. A beautiful thing is considered when it is complete up to the last detail. The beauty of the Mozart Cantata is an example of a work of beauty of integrity and completeness.

Another element is clarity, both in the material and the spiritual. In case of systematic knowledge, clarity is seen in its intelligibility, truth and being. In case of the sense of hearing, the arrangement of the melody that makes the music pleasant. In the case of sight, light, limpidity and brightness are taken into consideration; a painting is characterized by clarity if there is light, limpidity, and brightness.

Here are some beauty tips to get beautiful in the comfort of your home.

Adding to the glow on your skin
Take a little gram flour and mix it with some warm milk to make it in to a smooth paste. Use it as a body wash or a face scrub. Leave it on for a while say three minutes and wash it off with water. Sure enough your skin will glow with a soft texture written all over it. And guess what… the glow lasts for the entire day and your skin remains soft for a long time. Ensure you indulge in this beauty care often to keep your skin healthy and nice.

Reducing facial hair growth naturally

Tired of going to the parlor every now and then to get your chin threaded of that unwanted stray stubble? Take a spoonful of powdered turmeric and mix it with a spoonful of mustard oil. Apply it as often as you can on the area which harbors unwanted hair growth. You will see that your facial hair growth has reduced considerably over the days and your skin feels softer and relatively free of unwanted facial hair.

Reducing dark circles

Fed up of those dark circles that just refuse to leave your sight? Here’s solution to get rid of them. Firstly drink adequate water say at least ten glasses a day. Then slice up a fresh cucumber and place the slices on your eye and leave it on for 15 to 20 minutes. Then squeeze out the juice of the cucumber and apply it on your dark circles and leave it on for a good 20 minutes. After doing that, wash it off with cold water. Repeat this procedure as often as you can. You will see your dark circles vanish in no time. Plus this solution will soothe your eyes and help in reducing the strain they have been through in the course of the day.