Stop! Just for a moment stop and catch yourself thinking. Yes, catch your thoughts, as it were. Do you hear negative chatter about what you perceive others are thinking about you? Is it a one-way conversation, or are you in agreement? Are the not-so-good perceptions interspersed with feel-good kind of thoughts about yourself?
It's good and very therapeutic to take yourself to task like this every once in a while. How your own thoughts influence you has an awful lot to do with your physical, emotional and even spiritual well-being!
Maybe you're the tragic victim of a troubled childhood, constantly or often rehearsing all the hurt you went through. The constant replay in your mind may have led you to believe that bad things happened because you must have been bad as a child. Consequently, having heard those messages over and over again, by now you may be convinced that you do not deserve happiness.
But, God does not see you as you may perceive others are seeing you and how you see yourself! As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed your hurt from you. Like a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear [show reverential awe towards]Him! In fact, He will even extend His righteousness unto your children's children! (Psalm 103: 11-13; 17)
So you're asking, what does all this have to do with health and nutrition? So much more than you may think! Your total well-being and physical health are all bound up together: mind, spirit and body.
You may be doing all the fitness exercises and taking all the vitamins in the world. However, if you allow past hurts, unforgiveness and offenses to control your life, you will continue to be bent over with the emotional baggage. Even though you may be smiling and gorgeous on the outside, the emotional strain will eventually take a toll on your physical health!
Take courage, my friend! All is not lost; there is hope! Negative thoughts will try to enforce a negative opinion of yourself and/or giving you perceived 'permission' to be negative and downhearted. However, those thoughts, or negative attitudes, can be broken! Once you recognize the kind of internal conversation you are regularly having with yourself, you can tell that 'accuser' to lay off! You now have uncovered the culprit and can make a decision not to associate with it any longer.
Choose to hang out with positive people and learn to find the good in both yourself and others. It may take a bit of practice and getting used to, especially if you've been in a rut for a long time.
God is not wrong when He says He loves you unconditionally! Allow Him to tell you how well you are loved. His Love will flow through you to others, and you will start feeling good all over.
Choosing the right beauty products requires a bit of common sense, and a willingness to experiment. Read the literature, look at magazine product reviews, take the advice of friends and then accept that even with all that information, you're still going to have to experiment to find something that fits your budget and makes you look good.
It happens often that we are out at a party or even in public when someone walks by and captures our senses with their fragrance. We then ask "What is that cologne you are wearing?" If it is a particularly high end fragrance we are determined to find it in some form that we can afford. By searching online for beauty products, we can find the whole line of products available in a designer fragrance. If all our budget allows is a lotion or after bath spray then we are well on our way to building our fragrance wardrobe. Don't forget that man in your life. Nothing turns heads more than a good smelling man. The options for men today go far beyond Old Spice and Aqua Velva.
Often, we will find beauty products that really work for us. When we run out, we may find that our local department store does not continue to carry that shade or even that product. This is when we go online to find thousands of product lines still available and perhaps at a lesser price than what we have been paying. In the grand scheme this is a huge money saver. Many of us have settled when we couldn't find our product and have drawers full of unused product to show for it.
When nostalgia seemingly taps on our shoulder with a whiff of that perfume Grandma used to wear, we sometimes want to resurrect the ambience. Beauty products websites also often carry the old fragrances that you cannot find on the shelves of stores any longer. So the next time you feel like changing your image to the sweet and demure of "Chantilly" or "White Shoulders" consider checking out beauty products online. Who knows, serendipity may reunite you with a fragrance you have long ago forgotten.
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