The Seven Values
The Condition
of One's Bodily Appearance –
The Fifth of the Seven Values of the Everything
The fifth Value is perhaps the most complex Value. It is the understanding Value within the 0-9 law and, ironically, often the most misunderstood. A bit of a paradox. Notice that the Value does not say “body appearance.” It refers to “bodily appearance.” This is a critical distinction and key to understanding this Value. Let’s look at some dictionary definitions.
- Body – the material, physical frame of people or animals; the whole material organism
- Bodily – of, belonging to, or affecting the human body or physical nature
- Condition – a state or mode of being of a person or thing
- Appearance – semblance, state or form as perceived; look aspect; to become present, being present, participating; the look of things in general
This Value at the most basic level can be applied to the physical body – height, weight, body structure, color of skin, eyes, hair, and so forth. Condition would mean: Am I physically fit? Am I strong? Do I have endurance and stamina? Do I have good physical health? Do I look hot in a bikini?
The next level would include mannerisms and gestures, style of hair, makeup, clothing, grooming, your physical appearance or look in general.
As we venture more deeply into the condition of one’s bodily appearance we find that it encompasses and encapsulates these three teaching arrows. The qualities in these three triangles together add up to self-respect and respect for life and others, qualities of character that are of paramount importance in this Value.
Beyond the physical body, this Value refers to your “appearance”, as in making an exhibitionistic appearance on stage, and whether or not you hold presence with magnetism. What are you presenting that is perceived by others? Others’ perception of us is influenced by a whole lot of things beyond the physical. It is the interplay between sight (the what) and perception (the how) and how we show up in the scape in all five aspects. The key piece here is attention. Women always pay attention to the magnetism (feelings about the how) and men pay attention to the attraction (thoughts about the what).
Respect determines how you make an “appearance” in a space, how you engage an opportunity, participate in an event, engage with others. It is how you seed your intent into the world. This fifth Value comes down to one major factor: Are you holding presence within your character as a good mirror of self-reflection? That requires respect. Teddy Roosevelt said that the key to a mature leader is to stand in full presence of character without becoming a character.
If you are holding forth with presence and you have strong character, then your bodily appearance will immediately become magnetic and you will act with spontaneous decisiveness. Ask yourself, “What is the most impactful, decisive action I can take in order to make my presence and appearance here the most magnetically attractive?” When you do that you get the attention you deserve or desire, and you get the respect that life is demanding. That is your measure.
The Universe offers moments of power, zero spaces of minimal chance. All MAT (magnetic attracting thought) spaces are predestined, created by the Everything in order to know itself with respect. It is your free will choice to engage with these spaces or not. They demand a certain measure of power to be occupied, however, so the power of the magnetic attraction of your appearance must match the power in the space. Respect creates predestined events and attracts the people, energies, and all the experiences that will occur in that space. Your magnetic attraction, catalyzed with respect, attracts spaces of power to you.
People find meaning and purpose only to the extent they have respect for self, life, and others. If you have a high measure of respect, then that attitude completely shifts your approach when you step into a zero space of power. Because of pretense projection and the pretender voices, our need to be recognized, and our distraction with personalities and events, our attention is often misdirected to the things that do not matter, and a joyful experience becomes a bummer. The space was not a bummer. Your lack of respect and character did not allow you to enter the space with full presence. Only when you have full respect for yourself, the space, and anything and everything in the space will you pay attention to what matters and, therefore, match the measure and power that the space holds.
To put this another way: If you engage the space without self-respect or respect for the space, you will be there just “holding up a sign” like a place holder. Holding a sign says I am an insignificant presence or even invisible, my measure cannot reach the measure of the space, the condition of my bodily appearance is weak and not a magnetic attraction. On the other hand, if I am able to be IN the space, my magnetism increases proportionately. HOLDING the space requires an even greater self-respect and respect for the space. When I AM the space, then the attraction I hold demands attention, and the magnetism of the space and my magnetism are one and the same. I am in the cosmic zone of awareness.
This is a feedback loop, in a sense, or better yet an infinity movement. The extent to which I engage in a space or event with respect and magnetism determines my ability to hold the space, become the space, and be the space. Conversely, my ability to be the space increases my magnetic attraction and respect for life and others.
Respect is the catalyst attitude and approach, the baking soda in the cake of our life experiences and most specifically, in the condition of our bodily appearance. The cake of life is the arena of life experience, the zero space for opportunities to engage with and gain power. If you are not presenting yourself at your fullest measure to hold and become the space, you are not putting the baking soda respect catalyst into the cake of life. Therefore, you will not “rise” to the occasion. On other days when you put the self-respect catalyst of baking soda into the cake, you “rise” to the occasion and walk tall. By the way, political, social, and all other forms of “correctness” disrespect the space and everything and everyone in it.
You are how you think and perceive yourself to be, and the condition of your bodily appearance will determine the outcome of your experience. Condition of the bodily appearance is how you deal with reality. It is your pitch with power. The condition of your actions speak louder than your words.
When you are interacting with another person in a space and you “appear” with full presence and character, putting out 100% of your individuality and genius, the other person in the space is immediately being fed. When you and I are engaged in a 100% of presence interaction (which is intimacy, by the way), we step into a different condition of bodily appearance. We generate the “I/us” connection: g-e-n (generating) i/us. At the highest level, if I am in full 100% presence of who I am, so shall you be also. That is the Law of Contagion. We meet each other’s mirrors with full, clear reflections. That is what image making at its most powerful is all about. That is how you change the perception of others. All mask dances (the roles you play and the personas you put on as masks) are about the condition of the bodily appearance.