You Have to Let Yourself Look Ugly to Reach Your Full Potential

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[@westsumatra]

This is deep and food for thought

[@TwylasCouch]

YEEEEEEESSSSSS oh my lord. I just started my channel and decided to be “gross” and show acne (psychical) and be vulnerable and “ugly” but the thing is… I don’t feel ugly at all 😂 despite knowing that most people probably think I am. Is this freedom? 🧐 lmao

[@YoelRekts]

To be ugly is to be free ❤ i agree with this

[@grunzoink]

I feel and look ugly in the mirror when I dance (shamed when I was little) But inside of me it's the best feeling to dance. I know I would have to go through feelings of shame and fear if I wanted to dance with or in front of others.

[@nyxcole9879]

I feel the same way about singing ❤

[@rickturnr]

Everybody looks good from a distance

[@luaqi]

nah I feel more insecure looking at myself from a distance than close up

[@grunntalll]

Good stuff !

[@aseopyasuow4090]

YOU HAVE BLOWN MY MIND!!!! I get exactly what you mean. Spoke to a friend today about a boundary, and when I got it started thinking I could've been more forceful or wondered how others would've handled it in a sexier way. And THAT is my ugliness in this moment - thinking like that! Holy shit. I mean just putting ugliness into the vocabulary - we try to refine EVERYTHING. And all the mindfulness is kind of that - trying to make our thinking more 'appealing'. I LOVE THIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[@annap1171]

I have gotten so much less done since I started to upkeep my appearance at all times. There's a time and place for everything. I don't need to look my best if I go to the mall, and have a bunch of work to do. In fact I feel prettier when I'm at a balance. And not let obsession with beauty get the best of me. It's also more fun that way. Thanks for the reminder!

[@dmtdreamz7706]

Ugly is not just extreme pleasure. Ugly is the realization of immortality and the realization that everything is heaven. When you realize that, it's so good, it's infinitely good. It's not just good. It's good to the infinite degree. It's so much goodness that you can't contain it. your body can't hold it. Your entire body shakes and shudders in a cosmic orgasm of bliss. It's perfection. It's total peace. It's absolute love, that's truly ugly.

[@ornjcat]

i love you ❤ to embrace ugliness is to realize that existence is the ultimate beauty. the universe loves us and therefore loves itself. all of existence *exists* because the universe embraces itself as a whole. all that can be done is to love. to live. thank you for existing.

[@ellejuniper]

Thanks. I've been meaning to talk about this for a while and also I needed to see and hear someone talk about it and share their perspective on this. I hate when I know people can see the bags under my eyes because of tiredness, when they can see I might look... Ugly. I don't, really, I just don't apply make up to force a mask on my face. It's been hard to let myself be like that, around others, and to let them see and feel too my rage, my frustration, my pain, my anxiety and all the beautiful shades of me. But I'm leaning into it, slowly, as you said. And I'm letting myself be more open to being and feeling crabby/ugly in front of others, because then I'll see who stays. Who's worth my time in this roller-coaster ride of a life. Thank you for this speech. ❤️

[@SoulCareOver50]

This is so true. A lot of the time we want to look or appear perfect, but in the long-term this is so hard to sustain. We need to learn to allow our authentic selves to develop, myself included!

[@LaytonObserves]

Put another way, "No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell." - Carl Jung (Thank you for the video)

[@madelinefichtner]

this is the greatest piece of advice i have ever come across

[@Steve-jw6my]

Shine your light on the shadow aspects of yourself that you deny so you can feel whole again. This is probably the most empowering thing you can ever do in my opinion.

[@JDMtnHayze]

If you were trying to look ugly you failed miserably. 😜 Good message tho!

[@gavin1118]

IM UGLY AND IM PROUD 🧽

[@hardcrowley1549]

Thank you for your thoughts on this topic! Ugliness is set as the antithesis of worth, when in fact it only serves to show the growth and efforts of an individual. It is ugliness which comforts us, it is ugliness that teaches us. When accepted, it is what completes the perception of self worth in our minds and hearts.

[@aroojkiran7619]

Exactly I created my own affirmations for embracing human ugliness and rawness being in my healing journey, the perfection is an illusion, we have to allow our energy to be rooted in here in our body in our humanness, being in higher chakra centers in our divinity wants us to perfect ourselves, in a dreamy state of illusive perfection but that has to change and embraced if we truly want to integrate and balance our humanness and divinity🙌🏻

[@jimjamjerry]

Good to hear after getting a bad haircut!

[@nyxcole9879]

This is so important ❤ thanks for sharing and encouraging!

[@densedecisions4568]

I am a wickedly messy cook for myself. People trampled me in the past for taking too long or being too messy. Now I am what I call "Neat but nasty"

[@QueenMarenziah]

This was really wonderfully said. Thank you.

[@charmedprince]

I need this to be discussed more in 6 episodes perhaps

[@kat.eleftheriou]

I don't know if I have that much to say on the topic 😅

[@hariberrowyoga]

You might want to look into shadow work if you feel like this is something you are teaching for

[@charmedprince]

@@hariberrowyoga are you talking to me or to Kat? Cos basically I've already gone into shadow work and now i just follow the sun 🫤

[@hariberrowyoga]

@@charmedprince you! But if you’ve tried it and it doesn’t work for you then that’s cool, it was just the closest thing to what Kat was discussing that I could think to deep dive on :)

[@TwylasCouch]

Fr I’m going to watch this once a day- this is so refreshing

[@LegallyBeatrice]

your voice is literally mesmerizing

[@Paul-v8v4j]

Pretty women are objectified by men and put on a pedestal. Men are so pathetic that most are crushed if a woman laughs at them. Men desperately need the intelligence and empathy women bring to the table but hide this vulnerability with bursts of egoism. Men and women are equal but not the same. Women are smarter but men have more courage and that is one major reason why men and women make wonderful teams, especially when each acknowledges the mutual contribution.

[@kimsherlock8969]

Ugly is your judgement of ugly It can be a fugly Myopic created , to compensate for Surfing 😮a new World 🌎 outside of our influence to challenge. Its not the image always to be scrutinised. The way people treat you shows what they're inside the beautiful When you see their true nature their mask becomes ugliness 😊 Be you You care more probably about image , a mask of fashion Another decade of your life changing with fashion 😊😊😊😊

[@zart8478]

I don't like the fake purity that society perpetuates. People pointing fingers that other’s behaviors are ugly acting like they don't have them. In the perspective of Jungian psychology, integrating the shadow is important.

[@mach_030]

I love hearing what you think, what a delight. You challenge me at every turn.

[@stargirlhq]

appreciate this girl!❤

[@k54ltyd28]

"The most beautiful thoughts are always besides the darkest" - Kanye West

[@ChelloRobyn]

Beauty and ugliness are mere perceptions.

[@YoelRekts]

titled killed me lol i feel attacked

[@Space_Princess]

You are not ugly, I promise 🙌💕

[@ИринаМамедова-й7ю]

❤

[@johndoe-rq1pu]

Yes, famously, ugly people connect more with people than not-ugly people.. wait

[@macaroon147]

Well you're not doing a very good job at it :)

[@pauldecoster]

You remind me of Greta Thurnberg

[@claireschweizer4765]

Being a beautiful woman in this video isn't really selling your point very well...

[@Veronicaaaahh]

Shut up man

[@malakkkkkk11]

Ugly doesn't necessarily mean looking physically disgusting you can be ugly and look presentable or beautiful, ugliness lies within or could also be objective what she means here is that sometimes we don't have the time to make yourself look presentable or to you look perfect and please others but in reality we all have ugliness and its okay to show it because it's what makes us literally appeal human