Reflection Of Physical Appearance

According to the first part of the assignment, I was to observe myself in the mirror for fifteen minutes in a present aware and precise state. ‘Okay, not so bad’, I told myself. I entered the bathroom shut the door and stared at my reflection in my mirror.Staring back at me was a young lady, with bags under her eyes, looking a bit more than just tired. Truthfully, I did not want to see that. I wanted to see a confident, sexy looking woman staring back at me with curves and such however, obviously that is not what I saw looking back at me. I saw a girl with oily skin, pimples, untrimmed facial hair, dirty glasses that did not fit her face or gender, dirty teeth, an adam’s apple and a stick thin figure. I saw myself in my normal state of course, but what bothered me was how my thoughts tended to immediately gravitate towards my imperfections. ‘Remember radical-acceptance Rachel. Accept what you see and how you feel. It is perfectly normal to judge yourself for negative thoughts and it is perfectly normal to be physically imperfect ’, I told myself and continued to gaze at myself. I looked at the timer and saw that I had ten more minutes so I stared at myself some more. These ten minutes was when I began seeing the positive aspects of my physical appearance, although they did not necessarily meet the mythical norm of a beautiful woman. I noticed …show more content…
However, as a woman it has been instilled within me that the “perfect” body type for my gender would be of a tall woman with tanned skin, curves in the right places, thin, seducing, thick wavy hair, and perfect unblemished skin. The “ideal” body portrayed for men in this society, is muscular yet lean and tall. However, most people of these genders do not have these “ideal” perfect body standards that society has placed for their respective