What is Beauty?

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My roommate and I have a tapestry hung in our living room that declares, “Be your own kind of beautiful.” This implies that the meaning of beauty varies, and even that each person creates his or her own definition of beautiful. Furthermore, we ascribe beauty to a number of images that draw contrary emotions. We behold an idyllic landscape and call it beautiful, then a novel wrought with sorrow, and even a suicide.

Are we applying the term too broadly, or does it simply have a broad meaning?

Culture, it might be argued, affects what a community accepts as beautiful. Standards of beauty change with history, as in China where bound feet once represented feminine beauty. From this perspective, beauty has meaning over subjectively; we adopt a “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” stance. What, then, becomes of beauty’s position as a transcendental element?

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What does wellness mean?

happiness , health , health promotion , mindfulness , wellness

The Knowledge Spot

You’re a very complex and unique individual. What does your health look like? Everyone’s perfect picture of health will look just a little different. Wellness isn’t about being the skinniest or most buff person in the room, it’s all about being happy and feeling healthy, and finding workouts that work for you. It’s also not about eating a salad for every meal of every day. A good rule to follow is, “everything in moderation”; practice living a life that you love that is healthy and sustainable in the long-term.

Wellness is a very holistic thing with many important aspects. Your wellness isn’t only physical but also very much about how you’re feeling mentally. Many times, when one vital part of your life is off balance, it puts off the rest of your life.

Some (but not all) vital aspects of your wellness include your…

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What the FUCK is Self-Care …

anxiety , believe , happiness , hope , life , living , mental health , selfcare

Living Through Grace

In current social media standards, I would describe self-care as “sexy”, bubble baths, wine, face masks, #selflove, #treatyourself but what is the point in all those things. Personally, these forms of self-care have never been realistic to me. Also, who can afford these kinds of self-care on a regular basis because as a struggling student I certainly cannot.

Webster’s dictionary describes self-care as “care for oneself” so if this is how we describe self-care couldn’t we say eating vegetables is self-care or going to the dentist is self-care. These things absolutely are self-care, but no one posts this stuff on social media because it’s not sexy enough.

The term self-care is extremely important in the realm of mental health as someone who had struggled with their mental health for me self-care has been making sure I brush my teeth twice a day or having three meals a day. Self-care shouldn’t…

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WHAT IS SELF CARE?

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Care-fully

Self
care-

a word
you often come across in self help books or perhaps read an article or two
about in cosmopolitan. A simple concept which is often poorly explained.

So what
actually is self care?

It’s
anything you do to feel good about yourself and to be in a better , more
positive space of mind. It’s self compassion and self love.

However, it’s important to know that not everything that feels good is self care. Drugs, alcohol, over eating and other risky businesses only provide temporary relief. The difference between these unhealthy coping mechanisms and self care is that the latter is uncontroversially good for you.

Quite often we treat self care as a luxury and save it as remedies for ‘that one bad day’. It’s important know that if you practice self care more often your mind and body would cope up with those ‘bad days’ a…

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What Does Self-Care Actually Mean?

happiness, health, lifestyle, mental health, relaxing, self care, what is self care

Sammy Loves

Admittedly, I have never really been interested in self care until this year. This could be due to society’s approach to mental health becoming much more open. Or the fact that the internet is now full of relatable quotes about cancelled plans and taking days off to yourself.

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Flower-ishing

bloom, happiness, positive vibrations

The Chronicles of Roni

In brief, flourishing is what one makes of it. Scrolling through the internet one can find definitions upon definitions but in reality, flourishing never stops growing and I mean that both metaphorically and figuratively. Surprisingly, psychologists such as founding father Dr. Martin Seligman have tried to officially define this process of growth in one’s life but the simple conclusion is ‘take whatever makes you happy and run with it.” It is hard to follow a psychological process like this one because it will probably change in ten years. Unlike previous definitions, flourishing is a measure of happiness and that only because once one starts to measure the labeled negative emotions that are when one introduces unnecessary attention to the complications in one’s life. If there is one point in this piece to take home, it should be to build a foundation that has always made you feel invincible and rely…

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What does it mean to practice self-love?

The Uplifting Blog

From the very first day that each of us came into this world, we’ve been repeatedly fed the message, through bedtime stories, books, movies, music and the wisdom of our loved ones, that love is a powerful thing.

So cliché, right? Because it’s obvious. It goes without saying. We’ve all felt the impact that love can have, the difference it can make in our lives, and we’ve seen what it’s done throughout history.

Look at the Chinese couple, Liu Guojiang and the Xu Chaoquing that chose to live in a cave because the world didn’t want them to be together. Or the Prince, Shah Jahan, that spent 22 years building one of the most stunning pieces of architecture, the Taj Mahal, in memory and out of love for his dead wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

These are beautiful stories, though have you ever contemplated why individual stories of self-love…

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“The Origin of WORRY”

happiness, love, money, stress, success, worry

Leaving A Meaningless Life To Find Life’s Meaning

connection , environment , expectations , group , human-being , life , meaning , purpose in life

Entering The Force-Field

Question: How do you live with the fact that life is meaningless? What should I live for?

Answer: I can’t live with the fact that is meaningless. The moment one had the question about “meaning of life” popping into one’s head, this question becomes irrepressible, intolerable and one has to search for a meaning.

And this is not something we invent. Natural evolution awakens this question in us, as our evolutionary Human purpose is to research Nature’s system, to unveil evolution’s intelligent, predetermined plan and our unique Human role in it so we can fulfill it, justifying our life.

Without a meaning, without fulfilling our Human purpose we can’t justify being called “Human”!

Thus please do not suppress the question about “meaning”, do not accept anybody offering you as “fact”that life has no meaning, instead continue searching until you find a suitable, purposeful, mutually supportive and mutually complementing…

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