Raising Conscious Women

"All your personality traits, preferences and habits are directly proportionate to how you feel about yourself."

Our Self-esteem determines how we dress, where we shop, what we eat, how we live and our circle of reference including our friends, family, co-workers and whom we choose to be in relationship with.

Our job and career choices are also linked to our Self-esteem and how proud we feel about what we do.

All of these aspects that make up our persona directly influence our lifestyle.

"Our Persona is our Creative Expression in the World."

In my late 20's and early 30's fashion and lifestyle magazines for one had assisted me in becoming much more aware of and interested in creating my unique style and upping the glamour and designer quotients in my wardrobe and dress sense.

An imperative part of my persona.

I loved the glamour, color, bling, the smart, confident even outrageous and bold vibes of the ‘must-haves’ as they call em’, the insidious quotes of the best buys, and travel destinations with their exotic locales, luscious looking food, quirky nooks and corners in rustic cities all depicted in these fashion mags.

Oh and features on celebrities as influencers with their lifestyle splashed across the glossy pages featuring their striking homes, exquisite home décor and ubér fancy collections of watches, bags, shoes, clothes and fleet of cars alike.

Perusing through these magazines on the weekend was my guilty pleasure.

It helped me envision a more exotic, bright, glamorous and luxurious lifestyle filled with adventure, fun and more color.

Heck I even used many a cut-out for my vision boards including the one that said, ‘Home by the Sea’ and here I am living in our home on the Palm a few years later.

"To imagine and allow our visual sensory perception to feast on images that are appealing to our heart and soul is a very powerful technique in manifesting our Reality."

Infact anything that we allow into our awareness has an indelible effect on the imprints we receive and perceive.

There’s a reason magazines use celebrities and now what we call influencers whose role it is to ‘influence’ our choices, preferences, decisions and perceptions of how we live.

And here’s where I’ll add a word of caution:

How we live and how we feel about ourselves is an inside job.

"We do not need to allow other’s flippant comments and opinions to influence and call the shots in our perceptions and our value system."

Sure we may not stomp out and purchase a Chanel clutch made of plastic selling at Aed 38,910/- just because it’s featured in this month’s publication of Grazia Middle East but become very aware of the hype that is being created all around us.

To say that ‘This bag is life’ and to consciously allow for a tag to be placed in a magazine knowing that there is an entire audience of highly impressionable individuals taking note is very shrewd or terribly unconscious on the part of those concerned.