Beautiful Heart: How Can You Make Your Heart Beautiful

Everyone is beautiful in their own way: This is true, however, not everyone is beautiful physically. While everyone may have aspects of themselves that are physically beautiful. there are people who have features which are perceived by most as ugly, resulting from various causes, genetics, birth defects, accidents and injuries malicious or otherwise.  People are called ugly and may also call themselves ugly. To dismiss a person's feelings about themselves, about them feeling they are ugly (whether they are in fact correct or not), to simply say "you are not"  is harmful in my opinion.

The issue to me is not that a person may or may not be beautiful, may in fact be physically ugly, it is that too often physical beauty becomes equated with a moral beauty.

Everyone is beautiful in their own way.  And while physical beauty may not be attainable by some, emotional, intellectual and spiritual beauty are all within our control. And what is more important after all?

There are people who are corrupt who will determine that an ugly face is a reason to mock another person, to act cruelly,  or to dismiss them as not deserving respect or love. Those are people who have ugliness in their hearts and souls, and they can and should root out those judgements.

Since I opened with beauty of the body, I would like to continue and move on to beauty of the heart.

Journal time!
 

• How is your heart beautiful? 
• What actions, words, acts of kindness do you do for others?
• How can you make your heart more beautiful?

• If you feel you haven't been beautiful of heart, remember; this is almost completely within your control and you can create a beautiful heart. Don't dwell on past actions in which you have acted in an ugly manner; almost every human has done so. Instead make it a goal for yourself to bring more beauty into your hearts and into the hearts of others. Format it like this:

  In the past I have done (XYZ) which is not beautiful. From now on I will not do (XYZ) but instead (ABC).
  
  As with all changes, it takes time. Don't beat yourself up for falling back on ugly ways. Instead examine your actions and write "I'm changing. This takes time. But I will achieve a beautiful heart."

Finally, however you have been in the past, draw a beautiful heart, however you picture it, and fill the heart with actions, words and ideas that will make your heart more beautiful. Keep this image before you, perhaps keep it in the front of your journal, transferring it from one journal to the next, so you can continue to beautify yourself emotionally.