Cosmetic surgery works amazingly well. Except when it doesn’t. Or when there can never be enough.

Today’s post is meant to help with the “enough” problem, not the surgical one.

GLADYS brought up cosmetic surgery yesterday, when we were doing the kind of aura reading research I call “Thrill Your Soul Research.”

She’s getting ready to “Have my arms done,”a minor surgical procedure. Over the years, GLADYS had had several nip and tucks, of one sort or another. So she is well aware of The Sofa Problem.

The Sofa Problem with cosmetic surgery

Say that you just bought a gorgeous new sofa. So much more attractive than the worn old couch!

Delivered from the store, that sofa is fine. At first you’re simply pleased with your purchase. Soon, though, you start wondering, “Maybe I had better buy a new coffee table to go with it.” Every other piece of furniture, the carpet, paint on the walls, paintings on the walls. All of it becomes suspect.

Because all the rest of the room went with that old sofa. Will you ever stop redecorating now?

Similarly, one cosmetic surgery can easily lead to another. So it’s easy for cosmetic surgery to turn into vanity surgery. Or even a pattern of dysmorphic personality disorder.

Body Dysmorphic Disorder does afflict more people than you might think, an estimated 1-2% of people, 4-5 million Americans.

Did you know that 2 out of 3 cosmetic surgery patients become repeat patients?

Back at the Soul Thrill Research for GLADYS

With Soul Thrill Research, first I read a baseline of multiple chakra databanks. This brings perspective on many aspects of life, chakra databanks selected based on the client’s intention. GLADYS wanted more confidence as her intention, so we researched chakra databanks accordingly.

In the second part of a Thrill Your Soul Research Session, we take one Research Item at a time and explore the consequences for each chakra databank in turn. This provides a nuanced, balanced perspective on any choice a person might research.

Choices aren’t just good or bad, pretty or ugly. Your auras right now, Blog-Buddies, contain hundreds of chakra databanks. It’s good to honor a variety of them, taking them into consideration when making a choice. (More often, folks make choices in the direction of existing imbalances, like “Living in the head” or “Everything is about my emotions.”

Research Items are used in the second half of a Thrill Your Soul Aura Reading. GLADYS asked about the routine cosmetic surgery toward the end of that list. She felt very strongly about getting her arms done, and wouldn’t have changed her plans no matter what I told her. Still, she was curious.

Both of us were surprised when this Thrill Your Soul Research wound up including a useful technique. A “Positioning Your Cosmetic Surgery” Technique that made a huge difference for aura-level consequences. Only researched so far on GLADYS, I’ll admit. However, keep reading and listen for what your common sense tells you.

If you like this brand new “Positioning Your Cosmetic Surgery” Technique, consider experimenting with it yourself. Pass the technique forward to anyone you know who is planning to “get work done.”

Your intention shapes a surgical shaping

When GLADYS and I started reading the consequences for her cosmetic surgery, results weren’t great. That’s because Energetic Literacy Skills, as I use them, are about emotional and spiritual growth, not physical appearance. (Or much about physical health at all.)

Obviously, the point of cosmetic surgery is to look better physically. Yet every choice we make will impact every single chakra databank, for good or ill or somewhere in-between. Thrill Your Soul Research explores those nuances, being part of Energy Spirituality. (And Energy Spirituality being about healing emotionally and spiritually. Generally I leave the physical part to healers who specialize in that.)

Inner consequences for the surgery weren’t great, according to GLADYS’ chakra databanks. In terms of the “Confidence” Chakra Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra, for instance, the surgery only caused GLADYS to doubt herself more as a person.

That’s when I asked her about The Sofa Problem. GLADYS admitted, she had been suffering a bit from that problem. But she had found a solution:

“When I start worrying about all the other procedures I should have done, I distract myself.”

Ah, the popular old Denial Technique! Not my first choice for someone evolving on her path to Enlightenment (as GLADYS is, beautifully, doing).

Fortunately the “Positioning Your Cosmetic Surgery” Technique opened up to me as the research proceeded. Ta da!

The “Positioning Your Cosmetic Surgery” Technique

I asked GLADYS, “What is your typical attitude when preparing for the cosmetic surgery?”

Gladys talked about, “Improving an aspect of my body that I don’t like.”

Interesting!

Many of you Blog-Buddies know how important intention can be. (Intention is always included in my sessions, for instance. And you, the client, are the main one responsible for choosing an appropriate intention. Sometimes discussing intention, going back-and-forth with my client, turns out to be one of the most important parts of the session.)

The “Positioning Your Cosmetic Surgery” Technique is a combination of intention plus some serious reframing.

When preparing for the surgery, going in for the procedure, etc., it’s important to position consciousness toward respecting your body.

Instead of “I’m gonna fix,” it would be helpful to consider things I like about my body already. With arm surgery, forever, consider how my arms will fit in better with the so-respected and valued physique.

Serious reframing post-op

Three different types of reframing are recommended for the “Positioning Your Cosmetic Surgery” Technique. They are intended to counter The Sofa Problem mentioned here previously.

1. How you see celebrities

Before you turn on TV, read magazines, go onto websites with photos of stars, please do yourself this favor.

Remind yourself, “These are not normal human faces and bodies. I will not look at them as if they were, nor compare myself with them. My body is a healthy woman’s body.” (Substitute “Man’s body” if you happen to have the other model.)

It’s the truth, after all. Research has correlated watching TV with self-loathing, discontent with one’s body and face, negative body image, etc.

2. How you see wealthy people

GLADYS is relatively wealthy. If you, too, hang out with upscale ladies in your ‘hood, don’t just go to the tennis club or the volunteer bash as though you were hanging out with normal people.

They’re not.

They’re privileged. Therefore, pressure is on for them, too, to get cosmetic surgery. All the way up the wazoo.

And if nobody knows exactly what a “wazoo” is, then the surgeon could be hired to install one.

So before attending those cool social events, remind yourself, “”These are my friends. But I need to remember, many of these women do not have normal human faces and bodies. I will not look at them as if they were, nor compare myself with them. My body is a healthy woman’s body.” (Or still a man’s fine specimen, if appropriate.)

3. Hang out with some “little people,” and enjoy the privilege

Folks on the street, at the mall — sure, go out and walk among them sometimes. Especially people who don’t live in your immediate neighborhood, if you live in a gorgeous, upscale neighborhood as GLADYS does.

Then, as you approach folks during your walkaround, remind yourself occasionally. “These people have normal, natural human bodies. This is my reference point for comparison and deciding what is “normal.”

Weight is a concern, admittedly, as so many Americans and others struggle with obesity.

If, like GLADYS, you don’t have a significant weight problem, the folks to compare yourself with are people of similar size and comparable heft. The salient point: They have their natural faces and bodies.

Thrill Your Soul Research Showed a Difference

The sample size was small, admittedly. GLADYS is the first person with whom I explored consequences of cosmetic surgery plus doing the “Positioning Your Cosmetic Surgery” Technique. Let me know how it works for you.

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