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The images prevalent in a society or culture seem to reflect an idea of what the people in said society identify with as being valuable. If I show you an image demed  long enough, get you to hear it enough, you are likely to but into it. The images this beautiful girl is exposed to is this video reflect the ideas of what the media wants us to buy into. This is beneficial to them to get society to want to reflect or be this image, hence to purchase there products.

Grocery store check outs, commercials, music videos and reality TV shows are full of people and products glamorizing the body, sex and anything related to pleasure. It appears to not be much different then a national geographic show on the mating rituals of most species of animals. Those with the best perceived genes and body get the most ladies, more sex, more food and dominance. That world works great for people who believe that is what they are.

If you have any spiritual value within you it is likely these images do not settle well within you. By asking some simple questions we can expose areas we have energized and identified with. Not as a means to judge, but to simple observe a paradigm.

Are the images in the video real?
Is your body the key to getting what you want?
Look in the mirror at the face and body, do you love what you see?
Is attraction to others/things and the desire to 'get' the main motivator's of our lives?

Let's bring some clarity to these questions by defining the difference between beauty and glamour.
Beauty - That which you are.
Glamour - That which you are trying to be something else in order to get a desired thing or outcome.

<strong>Glamour uses seduction as a mean of attracting to itself a desired object that's value is projected onto it as a source of happiness</strong>.

The true source of happiness stems from within, the desire cannot be satisfied because it constantly projects value onto external things.  One's desires get fulfilled, the focus then moves on to another object of desire with endless procession.

<a href="http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Relate-101.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3643" src="http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Relate-101-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>This body image value system doesn't or will not change because we get upset and boycott these images. It changes by one's ability to ask the tough questions, to search for answers that are not found 'out there.'

<strong>I cannot be seduced by an image if I know what I am.</strong>

Look in the mirror, do you love what you see?
Do you smile at that image knowing it is what you have not what you are?

A few years ago my wife and I were going through a trying time. I was completely honest and open with her about my life and they things that were running it. I told her that I did not need her to be my mom, or seductress anymore. I was detaching from her a pushing her away. I was projecting my fear of being controlled onto her so I could have an excuse for being afraid. Every morning I ascended a beautiful mountain at sunrise as a way of contemplating what really mattered to me. One morning on the way up I was holding my wife in mind asking for help with our situation. I cannot explain very well what happened next, but I will do my best.

I suddenly found myself in an overwhelming presence of Love and Beauty. I then within saw my wife as she Is. Without a past or future, without my feelings about her, she simply was Beauty manifested, Lovely, Perfect and One. I saw that she had put on a mask to relate to me, she had chosen to serve my false image giving it the Grace and safety it needed to dissolve.

I ran down the mountain into our home and straight to my wife. I grabbed her hands and I began to tell her about what I had realized. I asked her to forgive me for making her the enemy. I thanked her for staying true and walking me through my shit.  As I was saying these things I began to notice a very strong fragrance in the room. I asked her if she had lit a candle. She told me no, we both began to breathe in this beautiful fragrance. It then dawned on me, this is her, this smell is Beauty being seen as it is. We both wept and laughed realizing the drama I had created was nothing more than my attempts to control what can never be controlled.

<strong>Fear is the only thing that seeks acceptance, Love knows by being what it is. So what are you?</strong>

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