The Inner Beauty Bible: Mindful rituals to nourish your soul
We all have inner beauty. This is your one-stop handbook to nurturing beauty and wellbeing from the inside out.Combining ancient wisdom with modern-day mindfulness, this book shows you how to polish your heart and nourish your soul with a collection of simple rituals that can be easily woven into busy modern lives.In The Inner Beauty Bible, you will learn to:Introduce accessible rituals into your life that will strengthen your connection to Inner Beauty.Create beautiful sacred spaces using crystals, natural objects, beautiful smells and sounds.Truly nurture yourself: from turning your bedroom into a peaceful sanctuary to a delicious rose-infused bathtime ritual.Stay connected to your Inner Beauty in challenging times.Tap into the deeper wisdom and healing potential of Nature.Master simple practices to help you tune into the beauty in the everyday.Perform rituals for different moments and needs: to boost energy, to let go, to celebrate and to manifest abundance.
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What is Inner Beauty?
It’s the surprise act of kindness from that man driving the bus.
It’s the laughter of a friend who has suffered so much.
It’s a giggling baby on an overcrowded train.
It’s the fragrance of a rose, given freely again.
It’s looking in the mirror and loving my soul.
It’s embracing those changes, as we all grow old.
It’s a long, loving hug that says ‘we’re in this together’.
It’s the dawning truth when someone dies, That life is precious, And love is all that really matters in the end.
Inner Beauty is like a kaleidoscope: a beautiful way of seeing, with as many dimensions as there are eyes to see. The word kaleidoscope is actually derived from the Greek words kalos meaning ‘beautiful’ and eidos meaning ‘that which is seen’. What kind of visions does the idea of Inner Beauty conjure up in your mind?
I’ve been immersed in the world of beauty for most of my career. Originally as a make-up artist in fashion and music, my job was to make people look more beautiful. But then I fell in love with crystals and sacred rituals, and my relationship with beauty deepened. Although I loved helping my clients feel amazing before their big event, I got to a point where I realized there was something missing. At the end of the day we all go home and wash our faces off, back to staring at our stripped-back selves. I realized there was a deeper kind of beauty that I could help myself and my clients connect to. I started to lay out crystals and other sacred objects next to the lipsticks and blushers in my make-up station. This simple act had such a lovely and calming effect on me, and on my clients, during what were often super-long and busy working days. I discovered that beautiful objects and sensory rituals can help us connect to an Inner Beauty that is always there, just waiting for us to remember. Do you have moments in your life where you use objects of beauty to bring you a deep sense of inner peace, love or joy?
When Hollywood star and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn was asked towards the end of her life to reveal her beauty secrets, she said: ‘The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.’
Can you think of anyone in your life who radiates that unmistakable quality of Inner Beauty? Someone in whose presence you feel instantly at home? What is it about these people, these moments, these encounters, that touch our hearts just so?
