How to look eternally young like Hema Malini, Madonna and Rekha

The whole world seems to be obsessed with looking young and attractive. Since we can’t stop the wheel of time from spinning, we go ahead and do the next best thing! We splurge on age defying concoctions and undergo unwarranted surgeries, all in the hope of buying a few more years of youth.

We marvel at the Hema Malinis, Madonnas and Rekhas of the world, but no one divulges their secrets to us.

Let me let you on to a ‘not so well kept’, yet ‘not so much practiced’ secret! Get ready to be enlightened! The truth is that the human body has been designed for self-renewal. Our cells are being continuously repaired and replaced automatically. Let us acknowledge and be grateful for the magnificence of this marvel, called human body. Let us start appreciating and blessing it, instead of abusing and misusing it.

Our body is the temple of our soul. It is worthy of our respect. But what do we do about it? We continually find faults with it. We are never satisfied with our bodies. Even the so-called beautiful people go in for a little nip here and a little tuck there in their eternal search for a perfect face and a perfect body. We forget that we all are perfect as we are. We are perfection personified. Look around you. Look at nature. Isn’t everything just perfect? Does a baboon think that it is ugly? Does the lotus flower look down upon other less magnificent flowers?

Speaking of flowers, I was so visibly shaken out of my complacence when my husband photographed some insignificant tiny wild flowers (that I always completely ignored, as they were non-existent in my list of pretty flowers), with his high-powered fancy camera. The enlarged pictures were amazingly beautiful. The designs were intricate and the colours eclectic. In a moment, I was transformed. How could I ever imagine that the hand of nature would ignore these tiny wild things the way I (and many others like me) do so often? Mother Nature had spent some quality time with these tiny tots. How is it possible then that the same Mother Nature has not done exactly the same (or something even better!) with her most advantaged offspring- the human being?

It is high time that we acknowledge our magnificence and be thankful for it. The best part of this entire learning is that the moment we make this paradigm shift, our cells start rejoicing in their work that they carry on in any case, under all circumstances. Now they do this work with more vigour and enthusiasm. Don’t you work enthusiastically when your efforts are acknowledged and praised? The same rule applies to our tireless, toiling cells.

Try this out. Start your day by admiring your body. Look into the mirror and admire your beauty. Say aloud, “I am beautiful.” Why is it so difficult to mouth this phrase? We have been noticing our broad noses, narrow foreheads, thin lips, sagging skin with such derision everyday that we stop well short of calling ourselves beautiful. It seems like a lie, but believe me nothing could be truer than this. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. The Lord created you in His/Her own image. So if S/He is beautiful, so are you! Try believing in this TRUTH. Try living it. And then, get ready for the magic, because the magic is bound to happen. It is infallible, a given. It works every time. There are no ifs and buts; just a lifetime guarantee. You don’t need to visit any beauty parlours. You don’t need to splurge on beauty potions. You don’t need to go under the surgeon’s scalpel. You don’t need to go anywhere, because being beautiful is your birthright. It is factored in your DNA. Believe that you are beautiful; as you well know that nature can create nothing but perfection.

The same truism applies to ageing. You are ever renewing. You are always new. Just believe in your immortal Self. We age because we think that we must be ageing. We are programmed from a very early age that we all grow ‘old’. We are told (and we accept it, as we ‘see’ the evidence all around us) that as we grow ‘old’ our hair turns grey, our teeth fall out, we become senile, illnesses haunt us, etc.

The only difference between ‘aged’ and ‘eternally young’ is that the latter always know that they are part of a larger reality, and look forward to living their lives to the fullest, while the former believe that they are under the ‘control’ of external forces and dwell upon their ‘lost youth’ while waiting for ‘age’ to take its toll. In both cases their ‘expectations’ are impressed upon the subconscious mind, and faithfully delivered without exception.

Which category do you belong to? Would you like to change your ‘look’? The remedy is very simple; just change your ‘outlook’.