Your Inner Beauty - Source: Max Pixel
I’m life coach and counselor Peter Winslow with a question for you: Have you ever met a person who had what you might call "inner beauty" and if so, what was it about him or her that you felt?
This is a very significant question if you are aware of this axiom: we are not able to recognize in others that which we do not ourselves possess. In other words, what you found so attractive about them is clear evidence of your own inner beauty.
There are few things more exciting or powerful than discovering this wonderful truth about yourself. Information like this will shatter your old self-image with its criticisms, aspersions and fears, and lay the groundwork for a new way to experience the world in which you live.
Gone will be the wretched life story—the image of a fearful, shameful, insecure or deeply flawed creature huddled under the damning glare of an unforgiving inner critic. What replaces that psychological prison is the most wonderful and useful asset in the world—the joy of knowing who you truly are.
With this awareness you can create circumstances as you would have them—from the most important virtue to the least significant event. Would you choose to be loving and giving, healthy and fit, happy and brimming with self-confidence? Would you create high self-esteem, truly loving relationships, and a harmonious environment in which to live?
This is much more than basic survival; it is communion with the source of love, joy and compassion within you, and the ability to honestly and earnestly share your gifts with others. People will see their own inner beauty reflected in you, and that is the very definition of true love: the recognition of oneself in another.
–Peter Winslow
