Women Can Make You Do Anything

I know, this idea has been thrown around as a cliche about a million times, but as we delve a little deeper, we can see just how true it is. The power to do anything. Imagine the feeling of empowerment in being able to inspire the "launch of a thousand ships". Or imagine understanding that kind of power, and moving through the world with an awareness and sensitivity to it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know if there’s something affecting how you behave?

But first…

I’ve been reading Dr. Joe Vitale’s works, Buying Trances, Hypnotic Writing, The Attractor Factor, etc. and in his works he repeats over and over, many principles we champion here at SpiritSentient.

Deep focus and attention brings more of whatever the focus is.

Focusing on pain, creates more pain in the world.

Accept everyone, judge no one, agree with them and meet them where they are, then lead them.

Dr. Vitale references all this stuff as applied to marketing, and breathes new life into marketing through these universal principles. There’s one idea in particular that I really love though, which is:

"Have you noticed how often ads on television and in newspapers focus on pain to get your attention? The method works. But I don’t want to add to the pain in the world…In short, all the marketing experts who say pain is the greatest motivator have forgotten the power of our driving force in life: Love." — Dr. Joe Vitale.

Marketing based on the driving force of love! Sound crazy and outlandish? Maybe, but Joe Vitale applauds the process over and over throughout his books, and there is no question that he knows marketing. Labeled the "Father of Hypnotic Writing", Vitale’s passion and prowess for marketing has skyrocketed him and thousands of others to massive success with the spread and sale of their product or message.

He notes that pain is a very effective motivator for people, perhaps the most powerful, instant-manipulation tool, but he says that it eventually falls short, and overall, marketing through focus on people’s pleasure is cumulatively far more powerful.

I’m going to look at this concept through the lens of beauty and muses.

Musing on Inspiration Through Pleasure

Inspiring others through offers of pleasure is an interesting thing, and it can be done in very manipulative ways or through loving, unattached, offerings of value. Muses do this consistently and well.

What is a muse? Nature can be a muse, intense emotion can be a muse, and not uncommonly at all, a woman can be a muse (note: anything and anyone can be a muse, this list could go on forever). Beauty is one of life’s supreme pleasures. Beautiful women are certainly one of life’s key pleasures, and some would suggest they’re the epitome of pleasure, a kind of super-pleasure.

Melodie Moore (the heart and soul of Toronto’s hoola-hoop community, SpiritSentient Super-Fan, and beautiful radiant chick in her own right), recently made a post on her blog lotalove.com about fashion, dress, and beauty. In it she speaks on how dressing with others in mind is a loving thing to do, as is dressing for oneself, regardless of what others think; anything that offers or brings pleasure is what she’s talking about.

Note: before I start in on this, I’d love to offer a disclaimer to all those who intend to gripe that I’m not ‘being equal’ or offering the perspective of men being beautiful, etc. — I’m addressing something I feel will appeal to people, I could write a million watered-down perspectives, covering all the bases, but that’s not thrilling writing (or reading) to me.

In other words, she’s talking about the power of a muse, which (possibly because of my artistic background), I’ve often focused on. Throughout history, men have often been inspired towards massive undertaking and achievement because of the energy and pleasure a woman offers them, or even for the (often unfulfilled) future-promise of it.

• Wars have been fought when a man feels somehow that starting one will secure his enjoyment of a woman.
• Incredible ballads and chart-topping songs have been odes to women.
• Even Anakin Skywalker ended up becoming Darth Vader ‘for a woman.’ (See Stars Wars for more on this)

"Got to meet the hottie with the million dollar body / They say it’s over-budget but you’d pay her just to touch it / Come on!" – Nickelback, Something In Your Mouth.

This amount of attraction and inspiration is a form of control, if a person knows how to use it (think Angelina Jolie, Catherine The Great, Cleopatra). It’s control, and it’s a massive power to wield — think about it, what would you do with the power to inspire any act at all from another human being?

So there are a million examples of men being inspired by the pleasure a woman offers them. Just like Dr. Vitale pointed out earlier, women are not motivating people so much by the pain, but instead inspiring through the rush of offered-pleasure, and it’s all tied to attractiveness and beauty and youthful energy.

David Deida says:

People Will Do Anything? What’s Going On Here?

What’s going on is that women’s bodies are continually designed and re-designed, through evolution to be one of the most sublimely beautiful pleasures we can experience. Actually, that’s not exactly true, what’s happened more is that men’s brains and thought-processes have evolved to perceive a certain type of beauty, and society reflects this change in thinking.

Whatever the case, women have evolved geometry and curves, and habits that are magnetically attention-catching. This is a big reason why sex sells, but that may not be the best use of the power of beauty and pleasure. Not only have women evolved physically, but our culture and society as a whole has evolved.

• We’ve evolved an industry of decoration to elevate them to even more appeal.
• We photograph them almost incessantly in extremely flattering light and poses.
• Many practically worship them, seeking them out on screens and in clubs and wherever else.

Life and evolution and natural selection promotes things that serve life, and our culture of beauty is no exception. Life designed it as an enhancement of power and strength. We’ve evolved a culture of beauty that seems clear and easy to analyze, and yet, so many people are confused about it all.

Earlier I said that women’s bodies have evolved into a form of "super-pleasure." Actually, that’s not exactly what happened — what’s happened is that men’s brains and thought-processes have evolved to perceive a certain type of beauty, and society + fashion + culture reflects this change in thinking. Lately science has been focused on the idea that sensitivity to beauty is an aspect of the male brain, reflected in the physical manifestations of what we find beautiful. (see: Nancy Etcoff, Survival of the Prettiest)

Basically, how we think about beauty becomes reality over time, and because of how men’s thinking has evolved, a woman’s phyiscal body comes hand-in-hand with an interesting form of power.

How to Use Beauty and Pleasure

To manage the power of physical beauty, you need a well-managed mind. (Yep, SpiritSentient’s talking about thought-management again).

In support of this is Chizu Saeki’s work. Saeki is a stunningly beautiful Japanese skin-care expert with the most radiant gorgeous skin at age 60 you’ve ever seen. Her techniques? They’re almost all mental processes. She sells very few products and doesn’t tout some gargantuan line of skin lotions to be beautiful. She doesn’t harp on how hard it is or how long it takes. She focuses on a few principles: Get to know your body well. Love your skin. Desire to be beautiful.

And I’ll reiterate one of my favourite quotes from a truly beautiful woman:

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn

What this is saying is that the healthier a person’s mind and attitude towards herself, others and the human body in general, the healthier her energy and appearance will seem.

Oh sure, easy for her to say, she’s beautiful… right?

Well, beautiful people do tend to get a lot of ‘special treatment’, but that’s because a) the people around them habitually think certain thoughts about beauty, and b) they’re often comfortable with their bodies and beauty in general, they focus on offering pleasure/value to others, and they go the extra mile to do so. So yes, people love them, flock to them, and respond well to them. They’re making use of an extraordinary power. It’s so powerful, that as long as someone else is around to stimulate, you can use beauty, energy, and pleasure to create anything and influence anyone.

(Do you know how to use it? Are you interested in learning or prefer to remain ignorant?)

This power is not just for the naturally super-beautiful. It works for everyone in every relationship and every walk of life. Even an inanimate website like SpiritSentient is intended to be a somewhat more beautiful, more pleasurable experience, than a lot of other ‘Spiritual’ blogs out there. We do our best to offer pleasure and value and beauty (check out our I Love Women video for some real beauty.)

Everyone has beauty inside them, and through proper management of thought, each person’s own beauty-potential can emerge. Everybody has room to be ‘more beautiful’ and offer ‘more pleasure’ to others. Marketer’s like Joe Vitale know that any offering of beauty and pleasure is extreme power. People near (and sometimes far) will do practically anything for it.

To be able to work on one’s self — one’s thoughts and one’s body and one’s energy and one’s decoration – is to create heavy influence over other people. Period.

So what have we learned?

1. Pleasure is a more powerful selling tool than pain, according to our generations marketing king, Dr. Joe Vitale.

2. We have a culture of beauty mainly to enhance the power of inspiring others through pleasure, so says evolution (though it can be confused and misused).

3. Everyone has beauty potential, and the ability to offer ‘more pleasure’ to at least some other human beings. Hopefully this is common sense. If you were to ask the world’s most beautiful if they felt they could grow in their beauty, they’d all tell you "yes", and if you ask the world’s ‘least’ beautiful if they could grow in their beauty, they’d likely say the same (or at least know it deep down.)

4. This beauty-potential is vast power, and can be creatively used and managed to life-changing effect.

5. The way this management is done is directly related to our way of thinking, an idea championed by Audrey Hepburn, Chizu Saeki, and Sophia Loren, among others, as well as supported by science (Nancy Etcoff has many references for you.)

So as we can see there is quite a bit of truth in the original headline. It may not apply to only women, but the inspiration to great heights is definitely related to beauty and pleasure. Now, go out in life, fresh with an enhanced understanding and appreciation for beauty, your own and others.

Guys, be aware that women naturally have an incredible power, and make sure you handle yourself well in relation to it. Think: are you being influenced in ways that have you acting like a moron, or in ways that suit you and your goals.

Girls, give yourself credit and realize you have much more control than you may realize, go use it well in life. When you move and dress and converse each day, think: are you offering pleasure to others to get guys to trip over themselves and buy you drinks, or are you inspiring them to rock life and contribute to humanity?

 

Addendum: Ciara currently has a billboard hit that celebrates this power, in an oh-so-poppy way. Ciara – Ride [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6W4aK1sbs] “I market it so good / They can’t wait to try / Me / I work it so good
Man, these niggas try to buy me “

Any thoughts of your own on beauty? We’d love to hear them!