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Feed Your Soul written by Katie Shea Walters

6/9/2015

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Just for a moment, I would like you to look down at your hands. See the veins running through them.
Look closely at the little lines that make up your skin.
Check out the freckles and spots on your pigment that make you unique.

Be still, and breathe.
Because I am about to hit you with the truth.

Just for a moment while you read this (or maybe more when you are done), put yourself in perspective.
Realize that even though you can’t see them, there are atoms inside of you. Billions.

Scientifically proven electric energy magnetizes your atoms together, to form you.
To create this body that you merely sit inside.
For you are so much more than the exterior.

You are more than your arms,
You are more than your legs,
You are definitely more than your hips and your chest,
You are way more than your hair,
You are a soul.
You are a never ending and gravity defying energy that contains all the beauty and truth of the universe.

I don’t care if it sounds silly, you’ve got it all inside of you.
So why do you get so tied up in your appearance?
Well, it is because we are all distracted.
We are diverted away from our souls by the society we live in. Humans are literally just taking the easy way out.

The road that says, “You will find happiness once you get the perfect body.”
This world is spewing false advice on itself everywhere you look.
It seems easier that way, but in the long run it’s not.

Instead of evolving and nourishing the soul, Humans are changing and refining the outside. And while the outside is a beautiful thing,
I promise you that the inside of yourself is so much more.
You can change anything you want on the physical parts, but a new “skinny” bod will not give you a better outlook on the world.

Do you want to be 90 years old on your deathbed, just realizing all the things you could have done if you would have ignored appearance obsession?
You would be lying there grasping that your skin got wrinkly despite all you did to prevent it.

You would understand that all those days wasting away at the gym could have been spent walking outside and writing something. You would see that all the time spent staring into the mirror, could have been spent painting the person on the inside instead of analyzing the person on the outside.
Your time here would be over, and you never fed your soul.
What a tragedy that would be.
Because, until you have hugged and supported the depths of your being, you will never be whole.
So for god’s sake, kiss your bones and feed your mind.
Tell your one of a kind body that it is beautiful (no matter what size or color it is.)
Thank your heart for beating on its own.
Thank the universe for dropping your soul into your body and giving you a chance to be here.
BE AWAKE HERE, NOW.
To be awake is to be alive.
You can do anything you want in this world.
You are simply a vibrating energy cased inside of physicality.
You get to be here one time as this person, so stop distracting yourself with fad diets and surgeries.
Evolve your soul.
FEED IT.
CREATE WHATEVER YOU WANT.
BE ALIVE.

I get that you might be lost.
I know that you want all of the answers.
But once you find the perfect body, you still won’t have the keys. For the answer is not to be found.

Once you have the answer, the journey is over.
I say, you must always ask the better questions.
The questions that evolve your mind and soul and constantly better the world we live in.
So we can all thrive together.
Feed the WORLD, feed YOUR BODY.
I promise that the universe will feed you.



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Love at First Sight?

6/8/2015

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By: Devon Preston

We live in a world where we are hyper obsessed with our looks. From dieting, to makeup, to fashion, to tattoos and piercings, there are hundreds of industries out there telling us how we should appear. At the same time, the media is also telling us how we should love. Movies and television ooze beautiful actors selling romance and sex, and as biological creatures with needs of intimacy, we crave the same kind of platonic and carnal pleasure. But what if there’s more of a correlation than we think between how we come off to the world and who we choose to love.

It’s no shock that every human on this planet has his or her ideal physical type. Even blind people have a way of know what their body yearns for without even needing to see the person standing in front of them. Some like it short, others like big girls, a fair few many even have a thing for tattoos. And we’re told it’s completely natural to like what we like. Having a type can be seen as a product of a simple biology, where one mate looks for traits in a mate that indicate good health, only now it is our brains way of saying that person is someone I want to get to know better. And while these feelings are all and good, the way someone looks shouldn’t be the end factor in whether or not we fall in love with them. Interests, personality, goals, and their past outweighs looks hands down on paper, yet when it comes down to facts it is someone’s appearance that often makes the first impression. Yet could this aspect of our seemingly ‘unconscious’ biology be holding us back? 

 You’ll never see the Victoria’s Secret model with the Dungeons and Dragons player that is unless the Dungeons and Drags guy looks like Ryan Gosling. No matter how much someone will tell you that your looks don’t matter, they are the first things that someone notices about you and they can immediately write you off in their minds. Why else does it make sense that so many popular ‘pretty’ girls are so mean? It’s because no one in their lives has ever told them no and their looks have put them in good graces? This by no means implies that ever pretty girl is mean and there certainly are some less attractive girls with ugly attitudes, but let’s play it by ‘stereotypes’ for a second. As animals our most reactionary sense is sight and it can be said as evolved human beings that our most powerfully uncontrollable emotion is love, thus it is easy to evaluate that the immediate visual attraction we feel for another human is much more deep rooted than the skip of a heartbeat. 

So if we are visual creatures with inherent ambitions of reproduction on the brain, how does finding a love partner come in to play? Is it possible for a person who swears that they only date larger woman to fall for a hundred pound girl even if on the inside they are entirely compatible? Of course cases like this occur every day with personality ruling over looks (not including those who marry for money), but it’s hard to see an immediate reversal of what our brain finds attractive at first glance. Can we truly get past looks in order to find love?

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Dad-Bod: Male-Body Positivity or Yet Another Double Standard?

6/8/2015

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The latest body-obsession circulating social media is known as Dad-Bod, a figure worn by the likes of Leonardo Dicaprico. And while body positivity and loving yourself at any size is all and good, it is hard not to see the ridiculous double standard right in front of our eyes. 

It’s no secret that the media has it’s definition of the way that women should look, we see it every day from the models that grace the pages of magazines to the actresses that star on the silver screen. And because we see these beautiful, thin, and put together women 24/7, it becomes engrained in our heads that we too should uphold our looks to the same standard. From dieting to fashion to beauty, we are told every day that this is the way a woman should look. Sure the body positivity movement is making incredible strides with models like Tess Munster changing the standards of beauty in the modeling industry and actresses like Lena Dunham proving that you can be funny at any size, but acceptance isn’t coming as quickly as we would like. 

Of course men of every body type deserve to be recognized in the media, yet the most upsetting aspect of the Dad-Bod trend is the double standard is represents. When a man like Leo posts a photo of his less than toned physique, he is praised and labeled as sexy. But when a female celebrity wears a bit more weight, she is called out on it immediately, even if the celebrity is a mother! How is it fair that dads like Leo get praised for having a flabby physique but celebrity mothers are expected to bounce right back after pregnancy? While Dad-Bod may be a step for frat-guys with beer belly’s to get away with having a bulge, it is safe to say that the women who are shamed into not wearing a bikini for having any type of belly and the woman who put in extra work at the gym to feel like they are "allowed" to wear a bikini aren’t having any of it. 

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