(Stillness in the Storm Editor) Why would we be posting an article like this? Because our sense of beauty and self-acceptance matters, deeply. A person’s sense of self-worth is partially informed by whether or not they feel comfortable in their own skin. The powers that be recognize this, and have developed a host of cultural programs specifically designed to attack your sense of self-worth, some of which, attack your sense of beauty and the physical form our bodies take.
Social engineers, like the Tavistock Institute, use propaganda to manipulate culture with the aim of controlling the individual.
Culture and Self-Image
Culture is the womb of the individual. We orient our behavior, attitudes, and choices based on the social environment. You avoid doing things that cause you to lose touch with society and people, and you do things that you feel will help you gain acceptance in a social group you value.
No matter how independent you think you are, everyone has to contend with other people, and therefore, they’ll have to develop a persona or social frame that they can use to interact with the world.
Because everyone has to play the game of socialization, we all have to contend with the reality of self-image. The better our self-image, our sense of self-worth and value, the more confident we’ll be with respect to ourselves and others.
Matter of fact, our neurology is designed to constantly evaluate our status in society.
The serotonergic system interacts with many different aspects of our brain and body, particularly the basal ganglia, which is responsible for motivation, emotional responses, and motor function, interacting with the frontal cortex where decisions and analysis take place. The more serotonin that flows through these areas, the more confident and motivated we feel. That feeling of inspiration that propels you to embrace challenges and become creative is a direct reflection of a high sense of self-worth and value.
So what happens when our sense of self-worth and value are attacked? What happens if the interpretive system you use to evaluate your own being isn’t realistic? What if it’s largely a cultural program imposed onto you from a sick society? This is the situation we all find ourselves in today.
Culture and Standards of Beauty
How do we assess beauty? How do we evaluate our sense of beauty or physicality?
We do so largely by comparison, by looking at other people we think are beautiful and comparing ourselves to them. Prior to the proliferation of commercial media, specifically media laden with images of beautiful people, we only had our local social environments to compare ourselves to. In our modern world, the psychological effect of images of beautiful people constantly pouring into our minds via the media is that our sense of beauty is augmented, the standard or bar we set is raised to an unrealistic level.
What’s worse, the types of beauty featured in media is very narrow. The human body has a large number of variations, but we only see a few sets of those variations upheld as the acme of beauty, via the fashion industry and Hollywood. What effect does this have?
Everyone who naturally fits the Hollywood variant of beauty feels implicitly beautiful whereas everyone else feels implicitly unbeautiful.
And that’s the point.
The powers that be want a small population so enamored by their own beauty that they become cultural reinforcement mechanisms (celebrities), that is, those who fit the beauty standard have more power to achieve their goals by virtue of the fact the vast majority of the population considers them beautiful. And this pans out when we look at what type of individuals climb the social hierarchy, they tend to be beautiful people. The remaining population is made to feel eternally unworthy, literally incapable of ever climbing up the beauty hierarchy.
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Given the fact our neurology is partially designed to constantly assess our value in the social hierarchy, it means huge portions of the population feel fundamentally undervalued and unbeautiful, making them much easier to manipulate because there’s an insatiable desire to fix the problem but no real way to do so. From a mind control perspective, if you can get someone to feel tragically disempowered, that there’s a problem they can’t fix themselves, they’ll be much more emotionally reactive and easily influenceable, they’ll be forced to look for solutions from an external source, thereby becoming dependent on it. They’ll buy your products and participate in social activities that make them feel as though their climbing up a social ladder.
Insane Beauty Standards
What does any of this have to do with bras making women’s breasts sag? Body image social engineering programs is the connection.
According to the study below, the muscles that normally keep breasts perky atrophy when a bra is worn for long spans of time. There are other deleterious effects of wearing bras too, apparently. But the one we’re focusing on is the body image factor.
Is the perkiness of a woman’s breasts important to her sense of beauty? Not being a woman myself, I can’t answer that anecdotally, but I can infer that a woman would want her body to align with the socially accepted form of beauty, which is, that a women’s breasts should be perky. Whether or not you agree with that isn’t important, the cultural standard exists and that means it influences individual psychology.
Do you see the insidiousness?
Get whole generations of women to wear bras—that they never had to wear before—telling them it’s important for support and it will enhance their beauty. This is true to a certain extent, but the hidden cost is that if you wear one long enough, the very beauty you’re trying to maintain is slowly destroyed. It’s a problem, reaction, solution situation—dialectic manipulation.
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Makeup or cosmetics also fall into this insidious category.
Women wear make up for various reasons, none of which I am casting judgement on here. I would suggest that the majority of those reasons are socially induced, that is, in a typical scenario, a girl wants to feel accepted in a social circle where all the girls wear makeup, as a result, she’d need to take on that cultural queue in order to gain acceptance in that social group. Or, perhaps she sees a celebrity wearing makeup and she wants to emulate that in herself because she also wants to be popular and seen as beautiful. She starts wearing makeup, which is extremely toxic and destroys skin. Then after 15 years of wearing it, her skin begins to lose it’s vitality and how she wears the make up to hide her less than flawless complexion.
Of course, most people will recognize that the standards women have to endure in order to feel beautiful are insane. That standard comes from where? Culture. Who determines what cultural icons are presented to the masses as ideals and models for their behavior? The powers that be.
Solutions
What’s the solution to all this extremely destructive social programming? Reclaiming our culture back.
Culture can be manipulated by social engineers but it is decidedly an individual contribution. People make the culture what it is. Our choices, particularly the things we do to establish or reinforce a cultural norm, have the greatest influence. The powers that be can only present an influence, a trend, we as a people have to accept it and give life to it.
This is where the idea of a counter culture comes in. Within the frame of this topic, there are a lot of women, from all walks of life, who have refused to wear bras and find other solutions for their support needs.
I suggest that we, as an awakening people, would benefit greatly from learning how to have discussions of merit and value. That is, we can discuss whether or not some cultural trend is valid and reasonable if it aligns with our personal values. We can also create our own cultural trends that do this, which is what counter culture does. It identifies something that isn’t working or isn’t valuable and it creates an opposing force.
If we as a people consciously shaped our culture, instead of unconsciously letting nefarious forces do this for us, imagine what our world would be like?
Generally speaking, gaining mastery of life requires taking control of your life, particularly, your own mind. Do you really know why you value the things you do? Are you sure your methods of evaluation aren’t just culturally imposed programs from social engineers? Can you recognize your own beauty without having to compare yourself to some unrealistic cultural norm?
The work ahead of us is difficult, since we have to risk social ostracization in order to form this better culture. But the benefits for ourselves and our children are well worth the effort.
Let’s be that change!
– Justin
(Sarah Glynn) Wearing a bra does more harm than good – it does nothing to reduce back pain and weakens the muscles that hold up the breasts, resulting in greater breast sagging, Jean-Denis Rouillon, a sports science expert from the University of Besançon, France, reported after a 15-year study.
by Sarah Glynn, April 13th, 2013
Rouillon says that the main conclusion from the preliminary results of his “marathon experiment” is that the bra is a false necessity.
In an interview with France Info (radio), Professor Rouillon said:
“Medically, physiologically, anatomically – breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity. On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra.”
Prof. Rouillon used a slide rule and a caliper (a device used to measure the distance between two opposite sides of an object) to carefully measure changes in breast features of hundreds of women over a 15-year period at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon.
All his volunteers were between 18 and 35 years old. Rouillon emphasized that although his study spanned many years and included hundreds of women, he in no way claims his sample population is representative of the global population of women.
Rouillon found that women who never wore bras had nipples on average seven millimeters higher in relation to their shoulders each year than regular bra users.
In an interview with France Info, a 28-year old female called Capucine says she swears by Rouillon’s findings.
Capucine, who was one of the volunteers in Rouillon’s study, said:
“There are multiple benefits (to being without a bra): I breathe more easily, I carry myself better, and I have less back pain.”
Rouillon warns that some women should not throw their bras away immediately. For example, older women (45 years or more) would derive no benefit from throwing away their bra. In an interview with Reuters, he said “But a middle-aged woman, overweight, with 2.4 children? I’m not at all sure she’d benefit from abandoning bras.”
In an interview with The Local, an English-written newspaper in France, Rouillon stressed “These are preliminary results. The small sample of 320 young women is not representative of the entire population – that would require something like 300,000 subjects.”
The study did confirm that, according to preliminary data, when young women stop wearing a bra:
- There is no deterioration in the orientation of their breasts
- There is widespread improvement in the orientation of their breasts
A previous study by the University of Portsmouth, England, revealed that some women are damaging their breasts because they are wearing the wrong bra size.
Rouillon acknowledged that women wear a bra for a number of reasons, apart from hoping to conserve the shape of their breasts and to prevent sagging. Some find them more comfortable, especially those who live far from the equator during wintertime.
In order for these “preliminary results” to become “definitive”, Rouillon says he needs to recruit a much larger sample of women, and to conduct further research on the subject.
John Dixey, former CEO of bra-maker Playtex, explained in a Channel 4 (British TV channel) interview “We have no evidence that wearing a bra could prevent sagging, because the breast itself is not muscle, so keeping it toned up is an impossibility…. There’s no permanent effect on the breast from wearing a particular bra. The bra will give you the shape the bra’s been designed to give while you’re wearing it.”
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https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259073.php
Justin,
This is absolutely the clearest, easiest to read article you have ever written. Thank you!
I am a tantra teacher in Phoenix. I was just today having a conversation with a woman about how most people have fears and even trauma around being naked in front of others.
Although the factors can be many, ranging from receiving verbal shame about their bodies as a child to, of course more serious forms of abuse….This is a very important issue.
For me, using the tantric breath practices has helped myself and others to re create themselves so to speak as far as their relationship to their body.
Osho says ‘Freedom is above love.’ And freedom in the body…ahhhh…that is truly a wonderful feeling.
Thank you so much!
Shastra
Shastra, So glad you found the article informative. This topic is one of those extremely sensitive issues I know is important but can be difficult to transmit to the people. Yes, tantra is an amazing technique for resolving all sorts of issues related to the self’s relation to the body, particularly sexual inhibitions inherited from culture. If people truly understood the importance of sexual expression and intimacy, and we made the correct changes to culture to fix these problems, we’d have a golden age society in a generation.