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July 30, 2009

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A Note From Sarah Maria

Dear Friend,

How is your summer going (or winter if you live in New Zealand or Australia)? I hope that you are enjoying whatever season you find yourself in - I certainly am. Sun, warm weather, being outdoors - the summer is one of my favorite seasons. It often seems so much easier to enjoy the "summer" in our lives - those times when everything seems to be in our favor, when our dreams and desires seem easily fulfilled. However, the dark times of our lives are also beautiful, although they can seem so painful and meaningless. The dark times often contain the seeds for profound transformation. I will be writing more on this in the coming months, but for now, please know that whether life is going beautifully or horribly right now, all of it can be used to transform yourself and your life into peace, bliss, and beauty.

I blog on a social networking site for conscious people - Intent.com I highly recommend that you check it out - there are some wonderfully loving and supportive people there. They have weekly suggestions for content, and the one for this week was asking bloggers for advice on how to feel sexy. This is such an important topic, especially if you struggle with weight and/or body image. But it is also an important topic as we grow older, when we are in ill-health, all those times when we are not feeling so very sexy. Ultimately, feeling sexy is about feeling loveable and desirable, which most of us want to feel all of the time.

Here are some thoughts and suggestions on what you can do to feel sexy, even when you least feel like it. 

Peace, Love, and Beauty,

Sarah Maria

Feature Article

Sexiness is a State of Mind.

You might think feeling sexy has to do with your body, with looking a certain way, wearing a certain thing, or doing a particular something. When you base your sexiness and your desirability on some external, however, you are only a stone's throw away from suffering. If you accept what mainstream culture has to say about sexiness, you are bound to hurt. If you are sexy when you are thin and svelte, what happens as you age? If you are sexy because your body looks a certain way, what happens when it changes? If you are sexy because of the clothes you wear, or the make-up you apply, or the way you style your hair, what happens when you take the clothes off, when you wash your face clean, and you wake up in the morning with your hair sticking out every which way?

When you base your sex-appeal on externals, it means that sometimes you are sexy, and sometimes you are not. This isn't necessarily a problem, accept for the fact that sexiness often translates into desirability, lovability, and a feeling of being worthwhile. In my experience, nothing is more painful than feeling like sometimes you are just not quite good enough.

Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, you are just not sexy enough? Or that you are only desirable if you look a certain way? If you have ever felt like this, it means you are basing your sex-appeal and your desirability on externals, which are always bound to change.

There is a way to break free from this and discover the sexiness that is always inside of you. You can discover the beauty, the lovability, and the desirability that is always present, always now, and always available.

This comes from discovering that you are that which makes everything sexy and desirable. You are the very thing that you long for - you are sexiness itself. You are inherently beautiful, you are inherently loveable. No matter what the outside looks like, whether you are dressed up for an evening event or wearing your pajamas, you can feel sexy. You can feel sexy because you are that which creates, expresses, and experiences sexiness, beauty, and love.

Ultimately, the outside reflects the inside. The more immersed you are in this unchangeable part of yourself, the more you will be able to create a life that is a reflection of your inherent beauty.

So feeling sexy, feeling beautiful, feeling desirable is not so much about doing anything. Rather, consider it a great undoing. Discovering your sexiness is more a process of removing everything that you are not, removing the beliefs, the thoughts, the limitations. It is about seeing the thoughts that make you believe you are not sexy and learning to ignore them. Thoughts such as:

--I am too old to feel sexy
--I have too many wrinkles
--My butt is too big
--My skin is not clear enough
--If only I had, looked, or was anything other than what I am, then I would be sexy

Discover that these thoughts are just thoughts. You don't need to listen to them. Then turn your attention to the thinker of the thoughts, that eternal part of yourself that is beyond the thoughts you think. Learn to listen to this part of yourself and you will discover that you are now, have always been, and will always be the sexiness that you desire. You are the infinite beauty of the cosmos, manifesting as a human being.

Always remember, you are inherently loveable and desirable. As you discover this, the outside world will shift to reflect this internal reality. And you will experience yourself as the majestically beautiful, intrinsically sexy person that you are and always will be.

Specials For You!

Summer Special!

Are you struggling with food and with your body? Are you wishing you felt better about how you looked? Are you wanting to master your eating habits once and for all?

  • Are you ready to finally break free from your negative body talk?

  • Are you ready to create a peaceful relationship with food?

  • Are you ready to discover your inherent beauty and let it shine?

  • Are you ready to uncover and experience the love that you are?

If so, take advantage of this summer special. For the month of August, I am offering my complete Introductory Package at a 50% discount. Normally this package is $197, but as a special summer celebration, I am giving it away for $97, a full $100 discount.

This package includes a 3-CD set, a 5-CD set, a stand-alone CD, and three complete workbooks -- all aimed toward helping you to create a body and a life that you truly love.

And because I am so convinced that you can create a body and a life that you love, if you purchase this package at a 50% discount, I will offer you a FREE 60-minute coaching session, one-on-one with me, to launch you on your path of healing, love, and transformation.

Life is way too short to stay stuck living a life you dislike - trust me! Order this package today and begin to create the life of your dreams.

Break Free Beauty Introductory Package - On Sale!

About Sarah Maria
Sarah Maria

Sarah Maria is a body-image expert and teacher who can help you discover the beauty that you already are so that you can create a body and a life that you truly love. Her first book, Love Your Body, Love Your Life/em>, is being published by Adams Media and will be available for purchase in November '09. She combines ancient spiritual wisdom with modern science and shows you, step-by-step, how to pacify your mind, heal your heart, befriend your body, and transform your life.

She has studied with the leading experts in health, spirituality, personal development, and success, including Deepak Chopra, physician Dr. David Simon (co-founder of the Chopra Center for Well-being in Carlsbad, CA), Dr. Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, renowned Ayurvedic physician Vasant Lad, and many others. She is a lover of eastern philosophy and spiritual wisdom and passionately shares these teachings that have so transformed her own life.

Before founding Break Free Beauty, Sarah Maria received her law degree from Stanford University and her Master's in International Affairs from Columbia University in NYC. She has lived and traveled throughout Latin America, and has also visited many countries around the world. Her greatest passion is helping people discover the beauty and the greatness that resides inside so they can live from this place of grandeur, transforming themselves and the world.

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