When it comes to perceiving a woman’s beauty, the range of possibility is enormous. I have known several men who love all kinds of women—all types, body shapes, sizes, colors, races. It’s all good. Sadly, I have known far more who have such a narrow window for what is lovely that most women can’t even get an“acceptable” rating. They may be liked well enough as people, but they would need to change, sometimes drastically, to be perceived of as a beautiful woman. If & only if you got past thestandard issue version of physical beauty you had been trained to see, you willsee new levels of beauty you have never imagined.
When it comes to true beauty, the single greatest challenge I can think ofis to actually see it, even when it hits you upside the head. We are so culturally indoctrinated into accepting common standards of what is beautiful,and what is not, that finding our own true perception of, and response to, a person or object of beauty is a fantastic feat.
We have been trained to think of beauty in terms of the visual. Yet what about the beauty that wafts through our sense of smell, trails the beloved through the fingertip touch. Are these not aspects of beauty? Must we see beauty as a movie with no sound—not to mention no color, no popcorn, no friend laughing with us in the theater ?
We have been so bombarded with stimuli to the visual senses; we seem to have atrophied in all the others experiences that beauty brings us. But when we stunt the visual, other senses come alive. It is not unlike the blind who develop a heightened sense of hearing.
We can never fully appreciate the beauty of another with only our eyes. They have been trained to look astray, to judge in the nanosecond the gaze is focused. Only through the full body experience can the beauty of the body be the wonder it is meant to be. Only then will our perception be acute, and our memories vivid enough to savor, again and again. Learn to live with your eyes closed and your capacity for perception wide open. It is a beautiful way to live.
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