And I think that's a beautiful cycle. And I'm really proud to be a part of this community and I'm really proud to invite somebody new who has an incredibly important role in framing something that I think can't be framed more powerfully than how she has done it. Welcome Jennifer Norman to swell
And so the human beauty movement is an opportunity to really find that inspiration that can help you tap into your own self, have a better self relationship, and have more self esteem, more joy in life, more confidence to be able to authentically show up in the world and manifest the kind of life that you want to live. I really think that that's the most beautiful thing that we can do
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 2:39
So I think sort of having a sort of a healthy notion of who we are and that we're good enough. And I think that's really important. I think in the opposite of that, I think it leads to conflict and it leads to sort of some of the bad things that we see happening around the world today. Because if you truly don't have an appreciation and see the beauty within yourself, then can you ever truly appreciate it within others?
souzan snores
@souzanalavi · 1:18
Hi. Thanks for starting this conversation. It's really important. But what I think is even more important that coincides with this conversation is the idea of community and needing community. Especially if you're an immigrant or someone of color or just anyone that doesn't find community in your own home. That community doesn't really have to be something you're born with or doesn't have to be something you're already involved in. It could be your own community
Loving ourselves first allows us to really love others in a way that is profound and joyous. So thank you for this conversation. I'm excited to know more people in this well app and keep having important discussions like this one
Greetings Shelly. I just wanted to respond to your reply to the original message. I have not yet heard the original message. I came across your reply and I loved everything that you shared. It is so true that we are to see one another with eyes that we view the beauty and uniqueness, the special qualities that each person has been given. We all come with special gifts and talents and there are things that you can do that I cannot
And so the power and the pause is if something happens. I think that a lot of times we can remember that situations, anything that happens, events that occur are neutral. But our reaction is everything. And so we can use it as an opportunity to just take a moment, gather ourselves and say, okay, well, what do I want to do about this situation? Am I going to make it a problem? Is it going to make me bitter? Am I going to be angry?
But when communities start to create this, then that is the crux of where when one individual comes into a collective and then there is groupthink, that groupthink becomes distorted against other human beings. That's when things escalate into greater societal problems, as we've seen with any kind of ism, whether it be racism, ageism, genderism, sexism, any of those isms have been brought about by some common feeling about people who are not within the community that they belong
Understandably, it was a holy weekend, but I am really grateful for everything that you're doing in terms of helping people to have a better relationship with their tech. It is vitally important in this day and age to remember that our tech is our tool and is not there to run our lives and, as you were mentioning, turn us into robots
And that is the need to feel needed. You mentioned having empathy and yeah, I think that a lot of sensitive people who don't yet have a full understanding of their own power, of their own divinity, of their own selves, have this need to feel needed, have a need to be validated, a need to serve in order to get served. And it leads to a very transactional life
Hi, Deborah. It's Jen. I just wanted to say hello and thank you so much for responding to Shelley. I, too, agreed that her oh, gosh. Her response was just magical. And it really touched my soul. And listening to your voice and hearing your energy, I feel the love and the light that is within you too. And I am really, really grateful that you are now part of my community as well
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 0:40
Hello. I just wanted to thank you for your response. And you said, is it going to make me better or is it going to make me bitter? And that is such a powerful notion and something that something I'm going to remember. I'm going to keep that in my brain because it really is about choice. Sometimes we can't control the things that occur, but we can't control how we respond to them. And is it going to make me better or bitter?
And so to me, I don't know, maybe if someone could just send me a message and explain this, like the whole see yourself as beautiful movement. Because I don't know, it's just kind of like I can understand in a sense, if someone works themselves up to look beautiful, I guess that's like, around where that ends. But I don't know, maybe if someone could just send me a message on here. It's just making me think more and more
And because of the way that we set ourselves up, especially nowadays with algorithms, it's kind of like the more that you look at something, the more that you'll be fed that something or other. So in your reality, you're probably seeing a whole lot of negative news, which is feeding onto unto itself a whole lot more negative news
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:24
Hey, Jennifer, I wanted to just thank you for this incredible reply. I just love when dialogue goes back and forth and we're just expanded in our own views of things and everyone has a place, everyone's ideas and thoughts and hearts have room. And I do agree with you that we have such a limit to being what we are. We're only human, right? And we can impact the world that we choose to impact
I do see that and I respect everybody's opinions and what they've gone through and how they see the world. And I know for a lot of cisgender males, the concept of beauty is a bit foreign and so it feels fluffy. It might feel a little bit like it's not serious enough or not important enough. And the thing that really galvanized me to believe that it is important was truly when George Floyd and that situation happened