Category Archives: Mind

Beauty and myself

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I contributed the article to my friend’s women’s site.

If you are interested, please check it out.

The article is written in Japanese and English.

http://www.sutekina.jp/

Here is the English version of the article.

It has been 7 years since I graduated from Hult international Business School in 2005 to obtain MBA. I love cosmetics, so that after I graduated I worked for a cosmetics company in NYC as an assistant marketing manager for global products and worked with globally well-known makeup artists and photographers. After I came back to Japan in 2008, I worked at marketing departments at a magazine and cosmetics companies, and all related to women. Now, I am a freelancer to mainly conducting medical marketing research in Japan, marketing consulting, and writing a beauty blog to encourage women to find their own beauty from my experience.
So, what is beauty?
I think that the beauty is when people accept what they have, love, and keep peace in their minds always, naturally comes up from within. I believe that cosmetics are one of the ways to help it. I had an opportunity to visit a facility for Alzheimer patients in CA, most of female elder patients who could not remember what they did and they were, but worn beautiful dresses, and makeup on their faces. In addition, there are volunteer works to go to care homes to provide doing makeup. So, I believe that cosmetics are magical tools to assist women to feel alive and expressing femininity.
However, even though we have such a wonderful tool, if we do not have any beauty from within, we might feel unsatisfaction. I have heard that the face shows how to live their life age by age. In 10S’ and 20S’, people are beautiful without doing anything because they are young, but after that the face would change what kind life they have. Actually, when I am busy or in rush, I have lines between eyebrows. I have mirror on my desk because I worked on cosmetics, so sometimes I see myself in the mirror, then find my face is awful. This might be one of the obvious examples of showing up my inside world. Many of them also have this kind of experience, I think.
I have three things that I always in mind in order to act up beauty from within. The first, live my life actively, second, I am as I am, and lastly be thankful.
Live my life actively. This is not I always have to do something, but it means that I always do not have any limitation on me, and doing what I like and I am interested. Enjoy my life, and live actively. So, I try to find funny, enjoyable, or interesting things in my daily life. This is not necessary to be a big thing, but I try to find any small things or just surprising things in my whole things.

I am as I am. It seems to be easy, but actually little bit difficult to be as I am truly. Live life honestly to me, not disguises myself, and accepts and live I am as I am. Every person is different, and this is the truth of our world, and believe and should know everyone has own strengths, should not compare with other people, but accept myself just as I am.

Be thankful. Always appreciate what I have now, and where I am now. It also seems simple and easy but I think it is also difficult thing, yet first be thankful myself in any situation. At least once a day, say thank you to myself as I always work hard for me.
These three things are always in my mind. It is really easy to say, but doing these would be sometimes difficult, but I would like to live my life with lots of thankfulness to myself who always live with and for me and my partner who always support my life to be as I am.
So, what is your beauty?

Manage your headache…

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Headache….

How many people have headache?

Yes…I have!

When I have many deadlines, and have to sit in front of my PC for a long time, yes, my headache starts with neck pain……:(

According to Wikipedia, there are 200 types of headaches…oh my!

Tension and migraine are common types.

What are causes of our headache?

Many causes…medication overuse, a lot of caffeine, weather, food, stress, neck stiffness, brain disease, sleepless, tiredness, distortion of your body etc….

Transient ischemic attack, many of TIA patients just thought they had headache and some other wired symptoms, but not thought really serious.

Then, some people get more serious damages when they really realize what happen in their brains.

I am not a physician or any medical practitioners, but I found good reason to manage headache is to keep our life more enjoyable.

And found a good management application of our headache.

Dr. Mauskop’s headache center released headache management application at iTunes.

One of testimonial said that she had headaches, and kept diary about her headache.

After analysis of her headache, she found causes of her headache are caffeine and lack of sleep.

Then, after she reduced caffeine take, and improved sleep, she has no headache.

It is good, isn’t it??

You do not have to suffer from your headaches, and if you find more serious reasons, just go to see your medical doctors as soon as you can.

Please have a time to talk with your body.

You might find many things you have not realized…

Our body is amazing….

Love Yourself! From Charlie Chaplin

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As I Began to Love Myself

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering

are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.

Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY.”

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody

As I try to force my desires on this person,

even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it,

and even though this person was me.

Today I call it “RESPECT.”

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life,

and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.

Today I call it “Maturity,”

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance,

I am in the right place at the right time,

and everything happens at the exactly right moment.

So I could be calm.

Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE.”

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time,

and I stopped designing huge projects for the future.

Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do

and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.

Today I call it “SIMPLICITY.”

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health—

food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself.

At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.

Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF,”

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right,

and ever since I was wrong less of the time.

Today I discovered that is “MODESTY.”

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future.

Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening.

Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT,”

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me

and it can make me sick.

But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.

Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART.”

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems

with ourselves or others.

Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.

Today I know THAT IS “LIFE”!

Magic Mirror on the Wall

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Who is the fairest one of all? ”

You might know this phrase from Snow White. 🙂

Step Mother of Snow White asks all the time to her magic mirror to make sure she is the most beautiful in the world.

Words we use have really strong power to make people happy and unhappy.

Long time ago, when friend of mine was anointed as a preacher at her church, her pastor said that ‘ from now on, your words will save people but also destroy people, too.’

Yes, words have power.

So, what I recommend to you is say ” I am beautiful. ”  with smile by yourself. 🙂

Yes, you are beautiful. 🙂

Beauty from Within

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Beauty.

Many people seek ways to keep their beauty, and make them more beautiful.

Now think of many cosmetics companies what they offer us these days.

Skincare products for oily and sensitive skins, anti-aging, brightening, eye care , lip care, body care, eye shadows, lip colors, etc….

A lot! lol

I cannot count them all, actually.

And now, many cosmetics companies also offer supplements  to boost your beauty from inside.

For example, vitamin C is to help growth and repairing your tissues in your body. 🙂

So, what those companies offer is protect your skin from external factors such as  UV , dust etc, and internally, some vitamins and minerals to help our body’s functions work properly.

So, here what I would like to tell you that also internal factors to keep and create your own beauty; foods and mind.

But, do not worry that I really like foods called junk foods. 🙂 and also sweets, so, I will not tell like we should only eat organic foods. 😛

As for mind, I believe we should keep our mind also beautiful to reflect it to outside of your body.

So, I will introduce stress release things, way of thinking or so here…

One thing, always I do is thank myself and my partner with lots of love. 🙂