Dr. Milgrom was being interviewed about the various aesthetic treatments AMA Regenerative Medicine & Skincare provides when he was asked an unexpected question… “What is beauty?” What came next was not what the interviewer expected…
The most beautiful description of beauty she had ever heard.
For sure, like everything else, beauty is an inside job. There is nothing in life that comes into a human’s consciousness, my own consciousness, or that manifests in my life, that didn’t come from the inside.
Beauty is one of those metaphysical concepts. It manifests in everything around, us including the health of our patients.
Fundamentally, I believe, I perceive, that beauty is inherent in the manifestation of purpose. So when a being’s purpose is being manifested, that’s beautiful.
You see it in nature.
You see a little tiny oak kernel come into this magnificent oak tree. It has manifested its purpose with exquisite grace and irresistible passion. To see that happen is beautiful.
You see that throughout nature. You see that in humans as well. When a person is lucky enough, fortunate enough, to have distilled out of their experience in life what their purpose is. When they pursue that, that is like the most beautiful thing. So beauty is the manifestation of purpose.
And of course you will see that also in art. Some art is just decoration. Some art is just so beautiful it just captivates and inspires. For sure when you have that experience around art you know that, that was the manifestation of purpose through the hand and the eye and the skill of that artist.
You hear that in music too. Sometimes a singer will be on stage and sometimes they are going through the notes and the notes are perfect but it’s flat. It doesn’t inspire.
Sometimes that same singer, singing the same song, will be in an inspired state. If you ask the singer, they’ll say it was almost like I disappeared in the music and it just flowed through me. As if my purpose was being fulfilled in that moment and you can feel it in the audience, ahhhh, this wave just goes through the people in the audience and everyone is transfixed. It’s beautiful.
In humans, I think it is a much more multidimensional thing that is going on. First of all there’s just plain health. Robust health and energy and vitality. When physiologically our bodies are manifesting their purpose by being healthy and that health is promoted and nurtured and the person is a good steward of their own health and vitality that’s very attractive. Extremely attractive.
But, what makes a person beautiful to another person is far more than the physical. It’s also the spiritual, the emotional and other elements that are independent of the physical.
You may be physically unhealthy but be a very attractive person because you are so alive. You’re so alive in your thoughts and in your purpose and in your activities and your behaviors and your creativity. So there are a lot of different things that make a person beautiful.
God knows we have a lot of examples of incredibly, physically, beautiful people who do the most stupid and life depreciating things and they are physically beautiful but that’s it. There’s not a whole lot of other beauty coming out of them.
Hopefully, a person is attracted and sensitive to many elements and dimensions of beauty, not just the physical.
It’s all about joy. So, again, that’s completely, like everything else, that’s an inside job. If your experience of life, fundamentally, is generated internally, is a joyous one, where you find purpose in everything you do.
What I mean is purpose isn’t just bestowed on you. You have to create that as well. You have to discover and create and explore and expand and develop. If you are doing those things, then joy just oozes out of a person like that. As they walk, they are leaving puddles of joy everywhere they go and that manifests in everything they do. So a person is usually really attractive to be around, to work around, to hang out with, to travel with, to partner with. I think it’s that simple. Not necessarily easy, but I think it’s that simple.
This is especially true for women, more so than men, but for men as well. We are physical beings and we are very much engaged in our physicality. We are born into this world to be physical. And to be beautiful as an expression of our being. Of our personality. Our ownership of our life is an important component. And when you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see it is really depreciating of your spirit. It’s like letting the air out of your tires. They’ll go flat.
If you haven’t taken care of yourself for sure and you are unhealthy in other ways, out of shape. You look in the mirror and you see yourself, not loving yourself, not taking care or appreciating yourself. That too is going to translate into everything you do and of course everyone who sees you knows that about you. You can’t hide that stuff. Doesn’t make you a bad person in any way. Doesn’t make you an ineffective worker in any way. But for sure it means you are not giving your best to life and extracting the best out of life either.
If you take care of yourself and you like what you see in the mirror you just have all that much more to bring to the moment. Because you are embracing fully who you are and you are proud and you like it and you are engaged in it is manifesting what your intention to manifest is. You know beauty is also a purpose in that.
Nature is beautiful. Flowers are beautiful. We’re beautiful. If you develop that, allow that, manifest that.
It’s very different from vanity. Very different. Because vanity can be faked. It’s a facade, it’s a veneer.
The kind of beauty that I’m talking about which does manifest in the mirror as well, in how you carry yourself and how you dress. How healthy you are. Has a huge effect on how much you are really engaged in life and how much you can invest in everything you do and how much you are able to extract from everything you do as well.
