289 thoughts on “True Beauty… Defying Age and Ageing”

1. Kylie you’ve bought many things for the beauty industry to ponder over. The before and after photos are a testimony to how living from the inside out is important then living from the outside in.

   I loved reading this comment, ‘Each line, wrinkle, blemish and spot tells a story of how we have been with ourselves’. I see so many faces, and you can read the type of life they have lived.

   I recall doing some practice massage hours on a group of Indian women and one of the things that stood out to me was their lips whilst they were lying on the table. One by one, it described how not speaking from who they truly were, was in the shape and the way the lips rested on their faces. A sad state of affairs, but very obvious.

   This statement has power to it, ‘The change I made was the way in which I choose to live, and the energy I choose to live in: to live with love’, is the answer to many things then just skin deep.

2. “Do we actually want to look younger? Or do we want to look Truer?” What a great question, essentially, do we want to look like our true selves, like the love we are, or keep meeting expectations of body image and not realise the true beauty within? Regardless of how we look, how we feel is everything and I know for me when my essence is emanating through my body I am illuminated with a beauty that is unmistakable.

   1. Once upon a time my physicality led the way. Now my energy leads the way, there is a massive difference. Interesting to observe the difference, reactions and responses from people around me.
      True beauty is beyond our physical appearance and it has no choice but to emanate like the lighthouse beacon of light, that leads the way home…

3. Those who live in a loving way every day reflect this in their faces, ‘They look like the beauty I know is on the inside. How could you want to ‘look 10 years younger’ than that? This beauty however, is not determined by a line-free face, or plump lips and cheeks. It is a youth-fullness that radiates from within. It is the Light that glows from under the skin, outwardly, the vitality, the sparkle in the eyes, the full embrace of themselves, and commitment to life. I see Joy.’

4. The body is a marker of truth and it is always there to show us our choices, either loving or disregarding. This is the blessing that we cannot escape.

5. Reading this blog is a confirmation for me that I need to work on going deeper with my self love, with my self nurturing and loving and just appreciating myself so much more with all that I bring and all of whom I am. I have recently seen a side of myself that is seemed to hold ‘austerity and I know this is not who I am and yet it is a side of me that shows up when I am disconnected from the gentleness that I know to be my true nature. But it is the total opposite of who I am with me deep capacity to nurture. And so it is for me to feel this, embrace it and live it each and every day.

   1. Henrietta reading that you have recently seen a side of yourself that seemed to hold ‘austerity and you knew this is not who you are. Allowed me to feel this ‘austerity’ within me too which led me to have a greater understanding of how we hold back the immense love we have for ourselves and each other. It’s as though I portion my love out rather than just allowing it to be for everyone to feel or not.

6. Kylie, your gorgeous words are like a song pulling women and men to come back to what they know to be true – being gentle and loving beings, and holding a love for life and each other. This is the true beauty that we all hold within and when lived shows in our faces and in our bodies. Thank you for this simple and age old reminder.

7. I love what you have shared about our bodies reflecting back to us our choices. It makes it very simple. If we do not like what we see or how we feel, then we have every opportunity to make some changes. It fills me with wonder on a daily basis to feel how I do today, when I remember only too acutely how disdainful and critical I was of myself not so long ago.

8. There are so many tips around beauty in magazines and all are about to improve skin, to correct, to mask…but the ultimate way of being beautiful is simply being us, who we really are is already the most sexy, gorgeous, beauty-full version of ourselves. We don’t need to achieve it outside but to re-reconnect inside.

   1. ‘…the ultimate way of being beautiful is simply being us…’ this is a gem of a quote – I mean it does not really get any simpler or sweeter than this and the more I apply this the simpler and sweeter life becomes. Enjoying being who we are and developing this to a deep appreciation of who we are is properly healing.

9. There is an ageless beauty in people who is living Love that inspires me so much. I can see joy, acceptance, openess, and a still presence that makes me see what true beauty is about.

10. Great reflection Kylie. It’s interesting to look at how in the image industry everything is focused on correct the imperfections from outside but without having in mind that the way our bodies looks like is the reflection of how we are living. What you presents here makes so much sense and brings me to deeply appreciate the true beauty is already there, within us, no matter our age, and no matter if our body doesn’t fit with the beauty standards from tv and magazines.

11. Age simply says how many cycles around the sun we have taken and what we see in the way we look is the result of those orbits. If I am not liking the way I look, the only way to truly change is to change how I go around the cycle.

12. Great questions Kylie and wonderful to realise how much changes when we change.

    1. Some very relevant questions for all of us to contemplate, ‘How about our heart? Have we opened it in full, to beat the fullness of our love, or has it struggled to beat in a body that is constricted by a fear of being hurt?’

13. Beautiful observations on true beauty and ageing. Its wonderful to see people ageing well. Working in healthcare our view can often be skewed, but its more often than not that we don’t see people who are ageing well. Having a chronic disease or six is almost considered to be normal, well at least expected. So at some level we do know what we are doing to ourselves. However we can make other choices that reverse the ‘illness is normal in ageing’ trend.

14. When we are younger we think we can do what we want and get away with it, but our bodies have a way of reflecting back at us all of our choices, and I agree that’s what we don’t want to look at. Looking at the before and after photos, you can easily see and feel the difference from when the ladies were in connection and when not and the difference it makes to how they look.

15. “Our body is the subject of our choices and the way we have chosen to live.” It really hit me the other day when I was looking at my thighs and not really liking what I saw that my thighs are a reflection of how I have been eating, exercising and being with myself. That’s it. Simple. If I choose to eat certain foods, exercise a certain way, be kind/hard on myself etc… my body will reflect those choices. I know it seems super clear and a bit of a no-brainer but I really got it. So I can lament that moment in the mirror as it is nothing but a result of my choices. Which is good really as it means that I can choose differently.

16. Loving these before and after photos, such great examples of deeply personal change and, of how there is always someone beautiful inside.

17. Kylie what you have shared is so needed in a world where women are going to extreme lengths to turn back the clock and to keep their body looking younger than they are. I find it really inspiring when a women is confident, sassy and walks who she truly is, it’s a great confirmation.

18. Super inspiring blog Kylie, and one that allows us all to reflect on true beauty (that lies within us all) as well as the responsibility we hold in each choice we make. The more we love ourselves and care deeply for ourselves the more it gives permission for this beauty to shine out and inspire others to do likewise. Thank you for shining the way you do!

    1. I love this call to consider that our bodies reflect back to us the choices we make. And that in any moment we can start to listen and heed the guidance, insight and wisdom that our bodies offer.

19. “The most beauty-full women and men I have ever seen are those whose faces reflect the love that they live every single day. ” – it is about how we feel in our own skin and not about how much we fit a picture of beauty that we might have.

20. Do we want to look truer, rather than younger what a great question? It completely turns on it’s head the pursuit of a beauty ideal and brings it back to truth, do we want to be in our body so it reflects the truth of who we are. And as the photos so clearly show, those who have made that choice sparkle regardless of their age.

21. “Have we lived life at the expense of our body?” For me the answer is yes and the way I used to live is definitely evident in my face and in my body. It took me well into my 60’s to be content with how I look and to love the reflection in the mirror. I have now come to know me so well that I have finally settled into this wonderful body of mine. Yes, there are sags, wrinkles and plenty of age spots, but today there is a twinkle in my eyes and a lightness in my being and instead of growing older I actually feel like I am growing younger.

22. Only when we are able to feel and appreciate the ageless beauty of us moving and of our movement, ageing cannot be an issue.

23. I too am experiencing that the more that I accept myself the more beautiful I become. The two go hand in glove.

    1. Self acceptance, and love are paramount; and so it is very possible, ‘Is it possible that when living lovingly, we look more and more beauty-full every day?’

24. “Have we lived life at the expense of our body?” That’s a big yes from me, but in the last few years, as a result of making some deeply self-loving changes, I no longer live in disregard of this amazing body of mine. In my late 60’s there are plenty of wrinkles, blemishes and sags but on the inside, there is an abundance of joy and delight and these days that is what shines from me; in fact, I am sure that I am looking younger as the years go by, not older as is the accepted norm. Now that is one normal I am so enjoying dismantling.

25. The bathroom mirror at my work place is so well-lit and it shows everything, and a little while ago I just realised how quickly, all of a sudden, I was beginning to look my age (49), and I just had difficulty accepting that. What I could feel was how I thought I could still get away with not giving myself the all that I knew I could actually give but pretended that it was not possible, and actually what I could not accept was not the way I looked in the mirror, but the love I held back.

26. This is such a powerful blog with so much gold in it… because there is just so much hype and negative consciousness around getting older and ageing. I love how you blow all this out of the water, but at the same time being clear that we never get away with anything – and the future that comes to us is with the choices we make today!

27. I think you are on the money Kylie when you talk about why we don’t like ageing because “our choices become tangible”, and we realise that we did not get away with anything. There is such an arrogance that we think we can eat/move/do whatever we want and seemingly get away with it, but as you write here it does eventually catches up with us, and that is what we don’t like.

    1. Yes, we cannot escape the consequences of our deeds as the body is the one coping with every single one of them and with time it is seen and felt.

28. ‘Is true Beauty living who you truly are?’ Absolutely Kylie, it is so powerful when I see a woman or man living and expressing from their true essence, they become ageless as you are drawn to their beauty, wisdom and grace.

    1. When we live from who we are, we are naturally very loving, and honouring of ourselves, and this reflects in our face and body, ‘True change is not a change in behaviour, but a change in energy – one that is about living from the real you. Universal Medicine has presented about energy and the different types of energy that we can choose to live from. We can live with the true energy of who we truly are, or we can live the roles that we feel people want us to be, or live in the way we want to be perceived. Therefore, there is always a choice.’

29. Everyone is beautiful in essence, all we have to do is to connect to our essence and allow our beauty to shine out for all to see and feel.

30. Gorgeous Blog Kylie! ” Do we actually want to look younger? Or do we want to look Truer?” . . . I most certainly want to look Truer! This is real beauty to me, also.

    1. Yes, such an important question to raise. We run after beauty as we all want to be beautiful but we have all been fooled by what beauty is, having it made it a word which’s meaning we change over and over again, letting us all always be on the back foot of this defined beauty feeling not enough and worthy. All the while beauty has nothing to do with our sole outer appearance but the truth we allow ourselves to live.

31. It is beautiful to see our body and how it looks as a marker of our choices and so if we notice that there are things that are out of balance we know that this is only a reflection of our choices and thus always an opportunity for change.

32. There is an art to aging gracefully and acceptance of how our body physically wears out is fundamental to this.

33. The more I love myself the more I get a sense to love. Loving myself has a knock-on effect and the same goes when I harm myself by rushing or overeating… every choice has an impact in the next moment either building love or I choose neglect and disregard towards self.

34. This kind of beauty article is what women’s magazines should be full of.

    1. Absolutely Esther, perhaps one day they will, as we women return to our stillness and our sacredness.

35. I like what you have presented here that it is not our chronological age that we have a problem with but our choices – the way we have lived in our youth catching up with us and being reflected in our bodies.

36. The process of ageing is a beautiful one because offers the opportunity of developing until we get to a point beyond the body we came with. The reason why is so hard in many is the knowing that they are not going there.

37. “The most beauty-full women and men I have ever seen are those whose faces reflect the love that they live every single day. They look like the beauty I know is on the inside.” Through their eyes you feel all that they are and are inspired to live and appreciate your own inner beauty.

38. Beauty is truly from within, especially obvious in the before and after photos of the four ladies at the end. Their before photos look as if they are older then the after ones… they are incredible! It shows that we can never be given or made to be or look a certain way by another person… we will only look like and be like what we live.

    1. How we feel looking in the mirror at ourselves has also a lot to do with how open our hearts are at the time. If we are feeling down and out then we will be more likely to be critical of what we ‘see’ and likewise if we are feeling beautiful and open inside, then this too will be what we see or perceive with what we look out at.

39. ‘Have we breathed from our natural gentleness, or from the situations we face?’ A great reminder Kylie.

40. Thank you Kylie for sharing your wisdom on aging. This is a timely reminder for me to allow the beauty within to emanate every day.

    1. Gorgeously said Roslyn, I too feel Kylie’s beautiful words to be the instigator to go deeper with allowing my own beauty to emanate out and be seen.

41. Beautiful blog Kylie Connors, thank you. You are a ‘true beauty therapist’ – one who brings the innate beauty in us all to the surface.

42. This line stopped me in my tracks – ‘The most beauty-full women and men I have ever seen are those whose faces reflect the love that they live every single day’. Wow, so true. Beauty emanates from with us all – it is never just ‘skin deep’.

    1. True, and even when we’re not feeling our greatest, or have perhaps made some not so great choices, we can’t hide who we are, and the beauty and realness that is so obviously visible, just by virtue of us being ourselves, and living, moving and breathing as who we are, in full.

43. Shifting the idea or picture of what beauty is and that true beauty is a quality in which we move our bodies, express who we are and share with others offers a grand new view to the world at large. Beauty is a reflection of how we live and care for ourselves from the inside out and I too have found that the quality in which we live life reflects such depth of beauty, that you cannot ignore the palpable difference it has on how you feel. True beauty: an emanation of how we live and move working as one. Thank you Kylie.

44. A face and body exuding the joy and vitality of connection with the Soul is eternally youth-full.

    1. Spot on Jenny, no expensive moisturizers needed when you are connected to your Soul, as you glow and emanate naturally.

45. “Have we listened to our bodies, or have we been pressured by the world to live to its tune, and ignored our own?” So true Kylie we rarely listen to our body unless we are ill or in pain and even then we listen just long enough to get better and then go back to our old ways of conforming to everything around us and ignoring what is true for us. And so the cycle continues and it is these patterns that continue to age us.

46. “Why do we believe that we were more attractive when we were younger?” – Great question! There are so many ideals and beliefs we can subscribe to about how we think we should look or the ‘picture perfect’ we should fit into but that negates the true source of our beauty that comes from the light of our inner-most in expression – that spark or glow that is magnetic and can light up a room just by being who you truly are…

47. You offer the reader a healing in your sharings Kylie. An opportunity to heal from the on-slaught of not living who we truly are and that true beauty is truly from within. It comes from the quality in which we live our lives.

48. As a woman, I cannot lie, as I begin to grow older and my grey hairs are popping up and my lines are becoming more pronounced, I have had moments of panic. Moments that I stretch back the lines I have in the mirror and imagine yesterday’s line free face, that I never even appreciated when I had it. Then other days it doesn’t bother me and I see only the beauty. The media sends a very strong message about woman and ageing, it tells us that men are forever stallions, sliver foxes but woman, have a use by date and when it’s up, they are no longer attractive. Universal Medicine is going against the trends and reminding humanity that life is about energy, not age or looks. The way you live, is the way you shine. So, each time I have a moment of weakness and think I want a face lift, I just remember to bring more to my livingness.

49. True beauty shows on the outside yet comes from a spark from deep within. A truly successful story here about Kylie for all to appreciate what it means to feel beautiful and not ashamed to share it with the world…

50. This is beautiful Kylie. I work in skin care, and the fixation on anti-ageing is incredible. There is no way we can stop it, and the acceptance of it actually helps our natural beauty to shine. This is what I tell my customers.

    1. Love this, Rebecca. If we could just get to accept the natural cycle of ageing and embrace it as a phase of deepening awareness and self-acceptance rather than a self-loathing, self-negating encumbrance that leads to a dismissal of much of what we have become, then we couldn’t help but exude our natural shine. The current consciousness around ageing has placed a stranglehold on the true expression of the elder woman and the world is a sorrier place for the dearth of it.

51. There is definitely an inner beauty that exquisitely emanates out of the body once connected to, and it gives you back that sparkle in the eyes. When we have that re-connection to our inner essence we can once again feel how precious we are and begin to take precious care of ourselves.

52. The concept of cosmetic surgery and changing the way we look to ACHIEVE ‘beauty’ is so different to the ageing process you’ve talked about Kylie… Beauty is natural to all of us, and feeling bold and vivacious is something that can be guaranteed by the way we live rather than the specific features we have that fit any criteria.

53. Our true beauty naturally shines out into the world in joy and celebration.

54. Pictures tell a thousand words, and these really show such an incredible change, moving backwards through time!

55. The most important thing is not how I look, but how I feel when I look into the mirror. It is not what I see, but what is emanating that I am feeling. I could still see lines and tiredness, but whether I can feel beyond that, the joy that is reflecting unmistakably back from the mirror, and this is what I am responsible to unreservedly share.

56. Growing older offers a daily opportunity to develop the connection we have within, and through that our way of living changes and becomes more steady, more loving and more of who we are.

57. Best beauty tips ever and what’s more they don’t cost you a cent, “The change I made was the way in which I choose to live, and the energy I choose to live in: to live with love.” As if there isn’t hundreds of people that are living proof of this and what’s more it doesn’t end as they grow older they defy more and more the age they are. Like beauty, ageing comes from within, from your choices of how you live. Live hard and rough and this will impact you, live with a true care and love and this will support you. It seems so so simple, because it is.

58. People have an aversion to getting older because their choices start catching up with them and they don’t really like it, but then tend to blame it on getting older and not look at the choices they have made.

59. I’ve seen true beauty shine forth from those who do not hold back on the love that is within them and it’s glorious to behold and be with. Age disappears as do all the things I used to think determined what was or wasn’t as in facial features.

60. Kylie Jackson, you are a true example of reflecting we have an opportunity to be the amazingness that we are or not. It is not a day-to-day thing but a moment-to-moment action to build a true foundation and body that is the essence of the innate beauty untouched within. “However, if we feel that we have not made true choices, there is an opportunity in every moment to choose differently.”

61. This may sound totally cliche, but it’s true, beauty comes from the inside first. If we live beauty, hold ourselves and bodies as precious and express that Joy of what we feel within, then naturally, this is what shows on the outside.

62. It can be confronting to realise or recognise the consequences of our choices but if we don’t judge ourself for them we can only gain really by having a greater clarity in the way we want to live from that moment forth.

63. How we have been living and the choices we have made do become more exposing the older we are, so is this what we don’t like about ageing … ‘Is it possible that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have?’

64. Some great questions are posed in this blog that get us to really reflect on what we don’t like about our ageing. Is it that how we have lived is reflected in how we look more so as we age? ‘The choices we have made are more physically apparent to us: the abusive behaviours that we may have thought we ‘got away with’ in younger years are revealed through the body.’

65. I would love to see before and afters now 4 years later. How you look now is even more radiant, vital and glowing and may I say even younger than these after photos. Blowing away the ideas around age!

66. I’ve spent thousands on skin care products over the years to try and improve my skin… I despised having acne on my face and wanted it gone. I felt ugly and never actually felt beautiful… but as well as picking my face, I picked at myself constantly, so no surprise my skin showed that. I picked at myself for how I looked, how much I did or did not do, my intelligence, my body, my lack of commitment or self-worth etc. In the end Serge Benhayon supported me to see that my skin breaking out was me holding back the beauty I am. I should do a before and after now… knowing this and then taking steps to express the beauty that is there, my skin changed dramatically, no longer is it red and irritated or breaking out all of the time. I still occasionally have breakouts, however, now I’m taking notice and looking at what might that be showing me.

    1. Aimee that is amazing what you have shared, and the power of getting a true energetic reading on a symptom, and by taking action to share your inner beauty it cleared up.

67. I looked at a photo of myself recently and thought “gee I’m starting to look older” but then thought well its not necessarily about looking young ensuring that the divinity, sparkle and joy we naturally are is reflected on the outside – and this would look good at any age.

68. ‘Lines and wrinkles can be like scars on the face and body, from reaction and emotions: OR, they can be a beautiful memoir of many smiles, looks of Grace, understanding and love.’ This is true and the beauty that radiates from our face is from within us, from how we feel. Looking in the mirror we see our essence reflected so when we feel great we naturally look great.

69. This is amazing Kylie, just how much our complexion can be transformed by what we choose to allow in or react to, express and how we live. There is an instant difference between intoxicating our body with alcohol, drugs or foods that don’t support us, which is all brought to the surface in our face, and looking after ourselves in full, feeling clear and confident which again is how our skin looks!

70. The subject of age is a big one. There are so many beliefs around how we should or shouldn’t be at particular ages. The more the subject comes to light, the more I see how crippling it is to the individual and them being able to express themselves in the way they want. Just looking at clothes and how we are ‘expected’ to dress is one small part of this.

71. The pictures really say it all, the vitality and vibrancy in the the after photos is palpable. They are incredibly different in every way. This is really the antidote to the fast paced way of living and life, to take better care of oneself, health and wellbeing.

72. This reminded me of the search for eternal youth, yet we all have the ability to feel and look younger purely from the choices we make and loving ourselves from the inside out, it made me smile to myself, when I thought of how many companies assure us that it comes from inside a jar, or in a tube, when in fact it simply comes from within.

73. Love this article Kylie, and it is most definitely not a subject most of us a willing to look at! Except we have to every day in the mirror ! I actually avoided this successfully for 7 years by not owning a mirror, I lived on a narrow boat so never saw what I looked like but for a tiny bathroom mirror that I hardly looked in. Now I have a full length one, a big one in the bathroom and another one on my gorgeous dresser, I am yet to really embrace the memoirs of my face but I so often feel fabulous I can’t help but start embracing the lines etc, the life lived for 30 years was pretty abusive to my body so there is no escaping that, but thats been part of my journey to being so appreciative to the way I live today so I can embrace the past as much as the present.

74. Yes it is true, it is isn’t that we don’t like ageing but we don’t like to see our choices in our face (literally) and body. We don’t want to see the sadness, the anger, the given-upness etc. yet our bodies show it all and it shows us what we in truth do know, that our choices have big impacts on us and that we are very very sensitive. So yes it is not about better clothes or better make-up it is about having more love for ourselves, more care and to not be so emotional.

75. What a cracker of a blog, there is so much wisdom delivered and shared. What really stood out for me today was the question: ‘ Is it possible that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have?’. Wow, just to sit and digest this one question is very powerful and super supportive for humanity to stop and reflect on how they are living and how their body truly feels…because if we want good health later in life, how we live now matters, for every single choice we make, either harms or heals our bodies.

76. I love that our bodies are the markers and maps of how we choose to live… when we accept this they are our allies and guides, when we reject this we treat them as our critics and unwanted reminders of the choices we have made that may not have been so responsible or caring.

77. “Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?… The way we have chosen to live” – which becomes more apparent in the way we look as we age. Love that you have chosen to live is so palpable from the photos you share here. We may like to think it’s the products or the routine, but it is the energy. We do not like to think that we are making this choice every moment, but a choice to be aware and actually choose what we want to live with and express is what makes the difference.

78. So stunning Kylie, I remember you ‘before’ and while you were still physically very beautiful by societies standards, the woman I know now is beyond anything measurable by good cheek bones or a high forehead. Your beauty radiates from every pore, and your every gesture, word and movement contains it. A true role model for all women now thank you.

79. It is so different when we can see the wrinkles in our face as the end result of for instance the worries in our lives or, that we can see them from all the joy we have shared from living life in harmony with our true nature that is pure joy which lives within, no matter if we connect to it or not.

80. As I just had a wake up call from my body of how I have been abusing it for a long long time, it is time to ponder on what ideals and believes I still have around my body and aging. Like you said Kylie ‘It is as though there is an unspoken apology for not looking ‘young’ anymore.’ and I am also confronted, in a good way, with the choices I have been making through out my entire life and even lives before this one. In other words, messages from the body are always great stop moments, to feel there are wiser choices to make.

81. Kylie, your before and after photos are so hugely different and absolutely show the true effect of living a life committed to expressing love and truth. This is a beauty secret that everyone needs to know about.

82. We must redefine what beauty means. We have this association of beauty and age yet some of the most beauty-full and humbling people I have met have been so because of their age and wisdom they behold. Age has been their companion never their enemy.

83. “Our choices become tangible.” When I make more loving choices my eyes are brighter when I look in the mirror. Regularly stopping to look into my own eyes has given me an insight into how I have been living my life. It was confrontational at first, not wanting to see for so long but now I love it! I am adorable and beautiful to look at and if I avoid going to the mirror then thats a big alarm bell to go look!

    1. Super cute, Leigh. The power and sweetness of self-appreciation. I love how this expands and develops my appreciation of others.

84. You and many others are today turning the (predominant) beauty industry on its head Kylie…
    “Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?”
    We want to look like an image that means we look successful, youthful, well-proportioned, ‘desirable’ or whatever… and yet in this we wantonly give our power away to forces outside of us, and wilfully ignore the part we ourselves play in feeling truly beautiful, vital, joyful and the rest – from the inside, out.
    A great call to personal responsibility, and brushing away of the false beliefs we can so readily distract ourselves with… And the ‘proof is in the pudding’ with these stunning before and after photos! True transformations I see repeatedly in my everyday, with those who have embraced The Way of The Livingness, and who nurture the connection with their true and ever-beautiful essence, in the way they live their every day.

85. This is gorgeous Kylie and would be such a supportive and inspiring article for all women to read. The fact is women are all searching for something that they cannot buy in a face cream or in botox or other facial procedures and that is true love. When women discover this immense love within they will stop this obsession with trying to look younger and instead embrace their amazing qualities and they will naturally sparkle and glow with true beauty when they make this choice.

86. What an amazing testimony to true beauty… with photographic evidence! Thank you, Kylie.

87. ‘Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?… The way we have chosen to live.’ This is a super question to ask Kylie. I have had mixed feeling about the aging process. I look in the mirror sometimes and the image I see doesn’t always match how I feel. On those days its sometimes about not having taking responsibility for certain choices. But its also because I still feel so young inside but the body no longer matches that.

88. Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?… The way we have chosen to live. This insight is pure gold, and a powerful question to stop you in your tracks in the daily grind of life and reflect what ones choices are and have they brought true health and vitality? And if not…. what different choices can I make?

89. I reckon we have come to accept that age and being worn down physically and emotionally by life inevitably go together but what if this does not have to be the case? What if there was a way to live that did not wear us out and down but actually supported us? Then yes our bodies would age naturally but because we would be living with more joy and vitality we would still perhaps have the innocence and beauty of youth.

90. There are many images and ideals that abound in our media – TV, newspapers, magazines, billboards, the internet and so on that portray ‘beauty’ as belonging to youth or to a certain shape or an airbrushed/ photoshopped unreality, that by comparing ourself to these we can miss appreciating the beauty that is already within us and that remains untouched by age.

    1. And for many, beauty is actually enhanced by age as we let go of our attachment to outer appearances and develop a deeper and truer relationship with ourselves.

91. It is so true that “our face shows a life lived in sadness or joy, frustration or acceptance”, our posture and the working of our body also carries the impact of how we have been living. The fact is that on this planet school we tend to see the repercussion of our choices later. Of course when we are choosing to pretend we can choose whatever we want without bother to consider the repercussions on everyone including ourself, we would not like to see the telltale signs of the impact of our choices.

    Sometimes I laugh at myself (although in truth it is not funny at all) when I indignantly react to what life or my body is showing me as if I am demanding to know who put that issue there so I can point the finger to anyone and anything other than me. This is a great conversation linking our aversion to aging to our penchant to avoid responsibility.

92. This is a beautiful but challenging read for someone who knows isn’t taking the best care I could for myself. But rather than go any further down a route of being hard on myself I can pause and feel that I do not have to choose behaviours or thoughts that I know are ugly – like the seesaw between being irritated and then apologetic. I am not baulking at the honesty of knowing these behaviours or knowing the choice to chose what is not love has run deep for many decades. Yes, they easily show in my face but rather than feel shame, overwhelm or panic (which adds to the poisonous energy within my body) I can accept my past choices, see what motivated them and be honest about their impact so I know they only bring miser, and simply choose love. My past choices do not preclude me from love (despite what a part of me has fed me to believe).

93. “Is it possible that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have?” – yes indeed, how we have lived is written all over our face and in our bodies. It shows in how we walk, talk and carry ourselves. Two people can have wrinkles and lines on their face, but it is the quality they live that you can feel and see shining through their eyes.

94. When we love and appreciate ourselves this spills over into loving and appreciating everyone else too. We have a greater acceptance and understanding of life. This can’t help but show up as these feelings radiate from our body and show in our movements and on our face.

95. We cannot run from our choices! And my wish to return to my youth by looking young is to want a second chance to make different choices. But this I can do each day and accept me and all the choices I’ve made and realise I’ve always been beautiful just not accepted that beauty and so not lived it. So now it’s a choice to feel my beauty and allow myself to shine.

96. Kylie, great article, what you are sharing makes complete sense, ‘Is it possible that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have?’ I often hear people say ‘don’t get old’ or ‘I wish I was 10 years younger’, reading your article this now makes sense to me, the body does show us how we have lived as we get older and there is no hiding or denying this. It would be great if young people were shown how our lifestyle choices affect us as we age and so can learn, if they choose to, how to live more lovingly and responsibly.

97. It is good to have a reminder now and then that the ageing process is showing us the choices we have made, and that no matter what our mind would have us believe, we cannot escape the responsibility of those choices.

98. This brings a very healing perspective on ageing and what truly constitutes beauty!

99. I have been witness to seeing Mary-Louise come over to England every year and without any exaggeration she looks younger each time she comes. I came to understand that it was the quality in the way she was living and that its not at all about the physical even though she was definitely looking younger. It was the presences that she brings.

100. Kylie this is beautiful true wisdom of gold, its not the outer that makes the difference, its the inner love that brings the beauty and glow to surface. Its our loving choices that brings the sparkle to our eyes. I am also a therapist and offer beauty, and what you offer sure is so true.

101. I will be fifty in a couple of weeks and am inspired daily by my changing relationship with image and what beauty really is. As a young woman I was really frightened of ageing and losing my youthful attraction. Having worked with Universal Medicine for 10 years now, I feel more completely beautiful than I ever have and see the true beauty in others beyond their outer facade.

102. Deeply inspiring Kylie. I used to be hung up on what features I didn’t like about myself. what I realise now is true beauty is a quality and this quality can never die or age it is forever with us and quite exquisite.

103. True beauty is an extension of our life lived and the energy in which we move, breathe and express from. A very beauty-full piece of writing. Thank you Kylie.

104. Over the last few years I have seen so many people I know begin to look younger. This change has not come about as a result of a face lift or other medical procedures but simply by making a choice to live in a way that honours and nourishes their body. They may have wrinkles, frown lines, sun spots and more, but the beauty that you see is shining from the inside from a body that is finally being loved for the precious vessel that it is; definitely age defying, but in a totally natural way.

105. True beauty can be seen in the light of the eyes. The moment we reconnect to how we truly are we shine as living in a way that honours who we are changes everything. It changes our movements, our posture, our energy, our thoughts and our actions and brings to the light of day our true beauty.

106. Anyone can see from the photos of all four sparkling true beauties that you all definitely defy the ageing process.

107. Truly Beautiful Kylie, and you are a great living example for this article was written over 4 years ago and you are even more beautiful today than ever.

108. This is a superb article that asks some great and much needed questions and should really be in every beauty magazine around the world. There is no doubt that the choices we make have an impact on how we age and how we view aging, so it makes sense that the face can be transformed and reflect those choices accordingly when we choose to move more lovingly through life… as your gorgeous photos are a testament to.

109. An article we need in every fashion magazine. There is so much we can do for ourselves without the need to change anything but the quality we are with ourselves. We all deserve to be treated with deep care, respect and love. And if we do so our body will thank us for it.

110. It’s never too late for love. Never too late to choose gentleness and to cherish ourselves, to view our lives, our past choices with understanding, with compassion, to move with grace.

111. True beauty comes from within and there is no doubt that it is felt in every way. When we choose the love that we are in truth we can’t do anything but shine. It is our choice.

112. These before and after photos are captivating. I love looking in to the eyes and seeing so much difference. These just seem to go from dull to bright in each picture. And all because of a simple choice to live, move, and breathe in a specifically chosen quality of energy.

113. When we are saying ‘make us look 10 years younger’, we are actually saying ‘please remove the evidence of the lack of love we have been living’. This is because we as a humanity still live under the ill-seeded creed that ‘ignorance is bliss’ and that not-seeing is somehow equated with the ‘it’ not being there. That is, until the sum of all our past choices comes tap, tap, tapping on our door and can no longer be ignored. This ‘ageing’ process is actually a blessing for it is an opportunity for our love-less ways to rise up to the surface and be seen for the toxin they in-truth are and the effect that such movements have on our body and the being within them. The Fountain of Youth, if there was one, is actually the deep well of love that lives within each of our hearts. Such love is eternal and ageless and by allowing ourselves to drink from it we fill ourselves full of the love that we are, so that no longer will we seek to be quenched and thus filled with a substance we are not.

114. Age indicates the number of times we circled around the sun – the older we are, the more experience we have of going around in this life time, and perhaps we have a sense of ‘we should know better’ because we know somehow we are not living in the fullness of who we are and every part of our body shows the choices we have lived in our entire life, and the face is no exception. I have heard the saying ‘Every man over 40 is responsible for his face’ so many times – I didn’t know it was Lincoln who said it until now that I looked up on Internet, but I think he has got a point.

115. this is a very beautiful example to see Kylie – of how you are bringing through true beauty in how you live rather than the products you use. This is bringing in the quality of skincare and not just the hope that a product will deliver what you want. It comes from within first.

116. What a revelation, to consider that we don’t actually not like the ageing process, but more the choices we have made that may not support us to age well. So we might want to look younger, but only in the sense that we don’t want to hold in the body a message that says to us, that way of living is not true. So wrinkles can look and feel good if they are the wrinkles of a life filled with love, makes sense to me.

117. Your contribution on true beauty has made me realise that it is indeed the reflection of our past choices that we don’t like when we look in the mirror, never mind our actual age – wrinkles and spots don’t detract from the inner glow that those who choose love and truth emanate and it is never too late to make different choices.

118. This blog Kylie is absolutely amazing. This line pretty much is the answer to everyone’s concerns about their physical appearance: ‘Is it possible that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have?’ Our faces and our bodies show every moment we’ve lived through each and every wrinkle and through the quality of our skin and hair. It’s not a matter of having lucky genes – it’s about the responsibility and choices we make in our lives from day to day.

119. “When we live from who we are, we are naturally very loving, and honouring of ourselves. When we are not living from who we are, it is very easy to abuse the body.”
     Two sentences that sum up choices we make. It seems simple to choose to live ‘who we are’. But how many of us have allowed ourselves to actually feel the grandness and grace we are? In my experience until this has been felt, we think ‘who we are’ is the emotional rollersoaster of life, and to live this causes great damage to our physical body, great consideration is needed in discerning, feeling and choosing life.

120. The Way of the Livingness is the new anti-ageing cream! Its not what you apply from the outside that makes the changes , but the life you lead inside.

121. Wow, it is true Kylie that self love is the greatest beauty serum. But I feel what you say reveals something deeper: that our fight against ageing is truly a fight against life. For what age often reveals is the deep regret of having lived a lie each day instead of embracing our power. When the quality we live is light and kind full and bright then every wrinkle will simply be an enjoyable reminder of a life well spent.

122. ‘Have we breathed from our natural gentleness, or from the situations we face?’
     How often do we gasp for air out of surprise or shock from something that has happened, breath faster when someone is telling an engaging story or stop breathing all together when something tense is going on?
     This all has an effect on the body and how we are with ourselves. Ultimately, by choosing to change the rhythm of our breath to what is going on outside, we are absorbing it and choosing to not be present with the body.

     1. It’s so easy to forget that every moment has an effect on our body, and if something shocking happens it not only effects how we feel but our bodies too – you’ve described it perfectly.

123. As an ageless 63 year old I know what it feels like to age and to feel younger than I did when I was 50, which was before I started to attend Universal Medicine events.

     1. Great blog Kylie, my life has changed significantly and as you share life is all about connecting to our essence. There are so many people who have benefited from the presentation by Serge Benhayon.

124. Beauty is not just in how we look but it is how we feel too. When beauty is deeply felt and lived, it radiates out through our entire body, our eyes and face simply sparkles. The after photos of the beautiful women certainly are all sparkling with true beauty. Amazing!

125. The truth making has dismissed for so long is that beauty never dies with age. Beauty is defined and may wither in accordance to the quality of choices that we take. When we cherish ourselves, when we let commit to living our lives soulfully, which is so simple and natural to do, it is our soul that then shines through our eyes, glows from our skin and emanates from our entire being. Beauty is embodied, regardless of our age.

126. I love what you have shared here, Kylie. As i come into my 60th year, I can says that I feel amazing (most of the time) whereas in my younger years I never clocked how i felt, as i lived from one situation to another, one reaction to another and my body just trailed along behind me.
     Now I am much more with me feeling into my choices, appreciating myself and feeling a greater responsibility for myself and how I am impacting on the world.

127. At the age of 55 I have noticed that many others my age or younger are showing the results of the lack of self-care and love in their lives. The body really is the marker of truth.

128. “The transformations I have seen in students of Universal Medicine who have chosen to live who they truly are, are actually defying age.” So true Kylie. Our bodies are a true marker of how we have lived – and the choices we have made. When we change our lifestyle choices our face and body change too.

129. ‘Is it possible that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have?’

     I think you nailed it, we don’t like to see our bodies age because our bodies are like a map that shows us exactly how we’ve been living, and every cigarette we’ve had, every emotion, every struggle, and we don’t like to see how we have neglected ourselves and our responsibility in life.

130. Awesome blog Kylie and great question as to whether we want to look younger or truer. For myself its the latter and with that come choices that nurture and support my body which as a result mean I look years younger than my 47 years suggest.

     1. It is interesting why so many people want to look younger than their age. Like you’ve shared Lucy, caring and nurturing our body we naturally look vibrant, young and beautiful. Our body doesn’t hide anything, how we choose to live, all our choices are reflected in our body. Through our loving choices we can bring back our true beauty naturally.

131. Living from within and learning to allow life to come to us, for us to meet in our fullness is by far the greatest wisdom. Nothing is beyond us if we live in this way. There is no worry or needing to be one step ahead, simply an acceptance that life is full of moments where we can address it from our full loving selves, or alternatively try our damdest to control it so we don’t feel how out of control we actually are.

132. “Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?… The way we have chosen to live.” Great observation Kylie. As we get older our body our physical body tells us the truth about how we have been living – and we know it. However, it is never too late to make different choices, and yes, some of the scars of life will still be felt but as we choose to live true to ourselves this shines through.

133. As I approach 55 years of age I can feel that ageing is about being all of who I am, not holding back on my beauty or my wisdom, and equally not comparing myself to anyone else. Ageing for me is a process of being willing to evolve and learn each and every day, and caring, nurturing and loving my body so I can do all I deeply desire to do with all I am until I pass.

134. I really like that you are addressing energy over appearance. When a person loves life, it shines through their whole body and face. I have recently noticed that the number of woman that are choosing Botox has increased. Each time I see a beautiful woman choosing to change their face in this way, I feel sad that I cannot see their story, just very tight skin that is slightly swollen and unable to expression in its original design. We need more education on how ageing is a communication of the body and a gift to learn from and appreciate.

135. It is all about the choices we make that gets reflected in every part of our live, so it is obvious to me that the way we look is greatly affected by the energy we choose. Letting ourself live the energy we are innately to express, love, is supporting our body to the fullest, and this shows.

136. Thank you Kylie your blog highlights the obsession so many have with trying to look younger, I notice women especially can feel almost anxious about their looks or aging – this ends up making their face more tense and unable to shine in anyway. It is deeply inspiring when another accepts and truly loves themselves – they just emanate true beauty, power, joy and presence, women such as Natalie Benhayon and Miranda Benhayon have been powerful examples of this in my life for the reflection they constantly offer to women.

137. It is so true. I know I spent a lot of time not accepting that I had a choice and then not accepting my choices and then beating myself up about my choices. None of this was useful. The best things I did were taking responsibility and loving myself. Everything changed from there…acceptance, love and appreciation and no more longing to be any other version of myself.

138. This is gold Kylie, thank you for sharing. Beauty is beyond the depth of my skin. My choice of energy. The quality of love that I choose to live and express from.

139. This turns our whole concept of beauty upside down. Thank you Kylie for exploring what true beauty is.

140. ‘there is an opportunity in every moment to choose differently.’ Thank you. I do not need to hold a negative thought about a situation. When I do this it feels like I am dragging the past into the present I may not be able to change the past but I can change how I view it. ..this reflects in my face and how people literally view me. It is easy to see the ripple effect and the responsibility we carry.

141. Kylie, This is a lovely blog, I smiled all the way through reading it. I feel joy that we all have been offered the key to beauty in what Serge Benhayon presents. I also feel joy that I have chosen to live lovingly in my body and that in doing so my body is responding in many ways. Not only do I look younger and more content in my life that I did at twenty, but my body is constantly making physical adjustments that also correspond with the love I feel from within. My body feels more womanly and feminine in its shape and curves, and I am enjoying this immensly. I have realised, just recently that for much of my life I forced my body to be more manly, as I felt that women got a bit of a raw deal in the world, so to to now feel this very real difference in my body is not only immensely enjoyable it is a miracle.

142. It is beautiful to see the many changes that people have made through being more self loving and making more loving choices for themselves, and the amazing changes that have occurred, as we start to look younger.

143. I count myself as one of those who are defying aging despite my age. At 50, I feel and look more vital, clear and alive than I did when I was in my 20s, 30s or 40s. No special cosmetics or medical procedures, but simply a change in the quality of the way I live. As I develop more love for myself, the more beautiful I feel – as the inside emanates out.

144. The before photos really reflect a numbness in the eyes and faces, it’s a reflection of life feeling painful perhaps. The after photos are the complete opposite as the eyes and faces reflect joy, an openness, and a vitality. These are definitely not the usual before and after photos that focus on looks and weight, this is about the essence of the person sparkling forth or not.

145. The photos tell it all, but it is great to read your write up on it all. The way I look and feel has changed so much since I have been a student of Universal Medicine and I have been inspired and in awe of all the changes I have witnessed in the other students of the last 6 years. Who needs scientific evidence when it is right before your eyes.

146. I too have seen many people who through having attended Universal Medicine presentations have chosen to live a more honest life, by getting to know how the body communicates and allowing the body to take the lead, our choices change and through this we make more self loving choices.

147. ‘Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?… The way we have chosen to live.’ Great question Kylie. We cannot hide the consequences of our choices and when they are healing not harming they can be seen and felt in every cell of our being.

148. How true beauty has nothing to do with age but is a reflection of how we are living and when we are dissatisfied with this it is because we do not like to be confronted with the evidence of past choices. Taking responsibility for how we are living and the energy we are choosing can start at any age and the amazing transformations that are possible are amply demonstrated in the Before and After photos. Thank you Kylie for choosing to be the real you and inspiring us all.

149. True change is not a change in behaviour, but a change in energy – one that is about living from the real you.
     I love this . The pictures speak for themselves, living proof that we can defy ageing, look and feel younger, fuller, and be radiantly beautiful from inside out.

150. I believe that many people hit a point where they begin to notice physically, energetically, wrinke-wise or otherwise that they are ageing and with it for some comes a sense of shame and regret at a life not lived in truth when we were young. A way of living that by this stage is reflected in our skin, eyes, teeth and hair. For how we are on the outside is merely a reflection of how we’ve been living, cumulatively, up to that point.

151. Thank you for your sharing Kylie. I am amazed at your wisdom in what you have shared here, it has given me a fresh look at aging and the importance of not getting caught up in the youth oriented society we live in. There is absolute truth in what you reveal here particularly our wanting to look at least 10 years younger than we are, for what I wonder? Is it vanity or to try and fit in with todays youth oriented society? We need to look deeper into the reasons we want this youth culture. There is a different way to live as you say, and that is through valuing ourselves and our journey through life as presented by Serge Benhayon and his presentations of The Way of The Livingness. This is great reading for all!

152. It appears that aging is tied closely with how we see life. Many of us try to function through life, get by and fit in with how society is going and the aging process is no less reflective of that choice. We basically do not like knowing we are 40 and not living to the potential we know that age can bring when we connect to our inner most. The other way is to be in life and live life to its fullest, the age does not matter as it is a confirmation of the choices made

     1. In many non-western cultures old age is valued and respected. Women accept and honour its arrival without distress or dismay, and consider it to be a natural part of life.

        1. One of the many things we have lost in our youth obsessed western culture that places such high value on how we look. The increasing use of cosmetic surgery to attain the required ‘look’ is a deeply concerning trend whose effects will also show up with age and the lack of acceptance of themselves is then reflected back again.

        2. And in the west women have disposable incomes to pay to have their faces cut. In the west much publicity is given (and rightly so) to female genital mutilation in Africa. Less is said about western women and men routinely opting and choosing to have their faces and bodies mutilated in the interest of obtaining an illusory beauty.

153. Thank you Kylie for sharing, the photos say it all, in its age defying beauty. At any age we can be beautiful, true beauty has no age limit to it.

     1. True beauty has no age limit and unrelated to outward and conventional views of beauty. It’s an inner quality and based on our relationship with ourselves.

154. How many of us are still getting caught in the illusion that we cannot feel vital and young at heart regardless of our age?

155. Why do we not appreciate the heart felt wisdom gained from our everyday experiences of living and view our opportunity for growth and development from them as an asset rather than a liability?

156. It is indeed very very possible Kylie ‘that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have’. That all our choices are etched into our bodies as evidence cannot be denied in our photos as they clearly illustrate to us a record of time that confirms how we have been living …which is why we either love what we see or don’t love what we see in them.

157. Ageing isn’t the enemy, often I hear people say they have problems and their body isn’t performing as well as it use to. They say in passing “that’s old age for you”. Age has become an excuse for an accelerated non-functioning body. Whereas age has nothing to do with it rather than a measure of the time we have mistreated ourselves to meet such an end.

     1. ‘Age has become an excuse for an accelerated non-functioning body.’ So true Luke rather than accepting responsibility for past choices in the knowing that we can make different choices starting today which will be reflected in our bodies.

158. These photos are amazing and are proof that making loving choices and being yourself allows your true beauty to shine through no matter what age you are. Thank you Kylie this article is truly inspiring.

159. If all the millions and millions of people spending billions of dollars every year only knew the truth that lies in this article … true beauty is not rubbed on or off, it comes from within

160. These pictures really do say ‘more than’ a thousand words…! And this was a great reminder of the fact that how we feel inside and how others feel us on the outside (including the images they receive of us) reflects our choices and the way we are living. These before and after photos are absolutely an amazing example of the power of choice!

161. Awesome blog, Kylie, and awesome questions nobody dare to ask themselves.
     You gave the answers, thank you. Yes, it is all down to our responsibility for ourselves and our choices. Choosing love consistently builds a healthy body which looks and feels great, as we can clearly see from the pictures above.

162. A picture says a thousand words, and how our bodies and faces look… well that says it all! This is a great blog Kylie, uncovering alot of judgement in our appearance, both by self and the outside world. Yet the pictures are difficult to argue with, they shine with a quality that is being lived, a love that ’emanates’ and a magnetic pull to ‘wow – I want to look like that’. Best thing is it is something we can all do for ourselves and does not require fine bone structure, oodles of cash for this or that expensive product. Just being ourselves!

163. “Lines and wrinkles can be like scars on the face and body, from reaction and emotions: OR, they can be a beautiful memoir of many smiles, looks of Grace, understanding and love.”
     That is beautiful Kylie and I agree, seeing many people in the course of my day as a nurse, I get to see clearly etched on the faces of those I meet, the lifetime of choices, the trials and tribulations and the joys. What draws me first, more than anything else, is the eyes.

164. This is a real seminal piece, Kylie, revealing the truth of what lies behind our fear of getting old – the fear of confronting all those past choices that have built in momentum over the years only to present themselves truthfully in our bodies for all the world to see. It’s not that we need to change our view of ageing but our way of living on the way to ageing, so that our wrinkles are merely that ‘beautiful memoir of many smiles, looks of Grace, understanding and love’ that you so brilliantly describe.

165. A picture is worth a thousand words – Your comment Kylie. ‘Is true Beauty living who you truly are? Do we actually want to look younger? Or do we want to look Truer?’, felt so lovely to read because I could feel the loving truth in it. It is true that what we live can be seen and felt in every part of our being and physical presentation. If we look at the example of having a big night out, drinking too much and then waking up the next day and looking in the mirror or hearing someone say ‘You look terrible’, the way we lived the night before is evident in that moment. If we chose to abuse ourselves by the way we live of a period of many years that is going to show. Our body is amazing in the way it works and the moment we commit to loving ourselves by how we live, how we eat, how we think, how we move etc – then the body is going to respond to that. This blog portrays the truth about the choices we make and the way we value ourselves. The responsibility rests with us.

166. Thank you Kylie,this is an amazing read! it made me stop and feel the choices I have made in my life and the way my body reflects that and really appreciate how far I have come as now know that true beauty is within myself and I can feel it!

167. This is just amazing to read such a game changer. It is not about looking younger but looking truer. Thank you for this blog Kylie

168. This is a fantastic presentation, Kylie. So true, the body is the marker of truth and shows how we have been living. What the media and the beauty industry promote works so well in tandem with us avoiding to face the consequence of our choices and be responsible. I really love your last beauty tip – to choose to be the real us with the next breath.

169. So beautiful you are Kylie and such an inspiration, thank you.

170. This is such a great reminder, Kylie, thank you. I woke up this morning, after a late flight home last night, and thought, my gosh, I look my age! What I got to appreciate, is that although I am tired this morning, I will continue my day at work very honouring of this fact, and tomorrow I will wake up ‘fresh and glowing’! The way I choose to live today will affect how I will feel and look tomorrow – how awesome!

171. Wow Kylie – this is truly inspirational. Our bodies certainly do reflect how we have been living and so I love how you question here what in truth are we asking when we want to look younger. To not see how we have been living? It has been super empowering for me to realise by starting to be honest with myself, that we are responsible for the choices we make, although it can be confronting at first. But awesome also in that at any given moment we can make a choice to change and adjust or confirm and appreciate the way we are living. ‘Lines and wrinkles can be like scars on the face and body, from reaction and emotions: OR, they can be a beautiful memoir of many smiles, looks of Grace, understanding and love.’ – so beautifully said. Thank you for presenting another way where we can connect to a beauty within that is in truth divine, ageless and accessible to all.

172. “The change I made was the way in which I choose to live, and the energy I choose to live in: to live with love.” This is a true recipe for life as you have proved Kylie and the results are evident – you shine so brightly from the inside out and from that your beauty flows, seemingly without effort.

173. Kylie, this is so revealing for us all and a reminder to me personally that it is not about the wrinkles or grey hair but how I am living and expressing every day. So much self responsibility in what you have shared- we can spend so much time doing and buying things to enhance our outer body while the inner can be neglected and unloved.

     1. Yes Anne, Kylie’s blog is a great reminder that “our body is the subject of our choices and the way we have chosen to live”. No matter our age we can cherish ourselves and reconnect with our inner essence and recover the sparkle in our eyes.

     2. The interesting thing I’ve discovered here in my own experience is that whenever I’ve neglected the inner, it doesn’t seem to matter how much I invest in the outside, it’s still missing true vitality and lightness. However when I started investing in inner care, the outer started to naturally change at the same time, and without any conscious effort.

174. Kylie after I read your very informing blog the only thing I want to do is to look truer and not younger anymore. What a lovely way to be and so much simpler than chasing to look like a person that I am not. Thank you for this wonderful and spectacular insight!

     1. Love it Ester! And, could there be anything more spectacular than being the true you?

175. Do you want to look younger or truer? What a great question. True beauty comes from living and expressing the real you and that no one can give you, it is yours to claim alone.

176. Thank you Kylie for sharing from the beautiful you. Age is not so much about the number of years but more about the life that has been lived. The times when I am more fully with myself, if I were to be asked about my age I would have to say at that time, I feel ageless, just feeling beautiful. I love the words, ” True change is not a change in behaviour but a change in energy, There is an opportunity in every moment to choose differently

177. Yes I have definitely lived a life at the expense of my body; well no more (well mostly, without perfection!!)
     Very inspirational and wise Kylie, your expression is a great inspiration for me to deepen my loving choices, self care and self worth.

178. Love what you have shared here. I can feel the strength and power in your words – and the photos confirm the truth of your sharing.

179. An awesome piece of writing Kyle and I love how you make the distinction between aging and our choices, that perhaps when we think we are resisting aging and getting older we are in fact resisting our loveless choices that did not change or evolve us one inch, beautifully summed up here; ‘ Is it possible that our age is one of the biggest markers of responsibility that we have’? So many gems of wisdom here, and a super support for all who struggle with ageing, thankyou Kylie.

     1. Yes, and it’s interesting that getting older does not necessarily mean that we become wiser, unless we choose to learn from our choices and evolve… And so, our body supports us perfectly in this and in deepening our responsibility as we age.

        1. I love the wisdom that you share here Kylie; “getting older does not necessarily mean that we become wiser, unless we choose to learn from our choices and evolve”. Soon to be 66, I look back over the years and see many choices that I made that were not made out of love for my body and as a result my body shows that. But over the last 10 years I have chosen to make many self loving choices that support my body as it ages. The wrinkles and the sags are still evident but the joy that I live my life in radiates out and I know this is what people often feel first. And as for my wisdom; as I take responsibility for my body, my wisdom grows with every loving choice I make. My relationship with my body is growing deeper by the day, but I know that it will always be a beautiful work in progress.

180. Wow, that’s a beautiful way to look at aging. It shows how much it is in our choices how our bodies grow old.

     1. Absolutely Felix, we live in the body of our choices.

181. One of the greatest gifts that Universal Medicine has given me is how I have been able to open up to feel the grace and beauty of myself as I age, to enjoy the look in my eyes, and the clarity in my face, and to claim that in the world, with old friends and family, who always express how well I look.

     1. I Agree cjames2012, Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon have allowed me to let go of ideals and beliefs about what I need to look like and connect to the true beauty in me simply by looking in the sparkle of my eyes.

182. “Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?… The way we have chosen to live.” This question really hits the nail on the head for me Kylie, and as an ageing woman I am now paying attention to how lovingly I look after myself and my body. I have been inspired as you have been by Serge Benhayon’s example and the work of Universal Medicine.

183. ‘‘True change is not a change in behaviour, but a change in energy – one that is about living from the real you.’ Kylie, a master class in a simple sentence. Thank you.

     1. Absolutely, a masterclass in a simple sentence.
        ‘‘True change is not a change in behaviour, but a change in energy – one that is about living from the real you.’
        I really love what Kylie has written here and you have commented on, thank you both.

184. Such a profound blog Kylie and your powerful and insightful question, Do we want to look younger or do we want to look truer? is knockout. I feel deeply the truth of all you say and as a woman whose body is now ageing and the past choices and old momentums are coming out and can be clearly seen, I can say yes, that can be confronting to see where I haven’t lived truth and love, but also it offers a beautiful opportunity to look and accept and then make a different choice now, the choice to be love. And that is transformational for the body, although it may take a while to catch up, so the ageing process of the body is an amazing marker of truth and a blessing.

     1. This is a profound blog Kylie, I love it, wonderful questions. I also agree with what you are saying here Josephinebe having had similar experiences myself. The ageing process is as you say “an amazing marker of truth and a blessing.”

     2. Beautiful Josephine,

        It’s true that our bodies are such a blessing – where would we be without them Constantly showing us the truth of our choices?

     3. Our bodies feel everything, but most of us go through life not wanting to feel how our bodies really feel with the choices we make… (I know I did). But our choices always catch up with us, sooner or later, and as you so aptly shared Josephinebe2012, ‘the ageing process of the body is an amazing marker of truth and a blessing’. Gold!

185. “Is true beauty living who we truly are? Do we actually want to look younger? Or do we want to look truer?” These photos show a remarkable and inspiring difference when choosing to look truer. They may not look younger but they look full of vitality and there is joy and true beauty shining forth through their faces.

186. Wow Kylie completely LOVE this post, you throw needed light on the beauty industry itself and grace ageing with the question of responsibility and choice. Your words so loud and clear concerning beauty: “Is true Beauty living who you truly are? Do we actually want to look younger? Or do we want to look Truer?” – these questions and living a life that is not in line with our truth is clearly evident and as seen by these (before) photos. Incredible how a photo captures the truth….

     “True change is not a change in behaviour, but a change in energy – one that is about living from the real you” – again, perfectly wise words and especially pertinent in my job of Recruiting where people are looking to make a (career) change, switch jobs and have work/life balance. Jobs/careers can age a person through tiring or fatiguing them out, but when the choice to look at the energy is taken into account, it opens up a whole new level of consideration and the possibility of NOT living or working as the real-us.

187. This is a real life makeover – beauty from the inside and out. Your pictures and all the pictures say it all. We could spend millions of pounds on products and if the energy we live with is to lead a trashy lifestyle where we have no care or regard for ourselves, we will never reach the true beauty that we naturally are.

     1. Yes, I agree shevonsimon. You cannot buy true beauty.

        1. I find it interesting that many of those who are held as beauty icons by others will say in interviews that they are not content with their own looks!

           I know I will never be a cover girl on a magazine but I do now know I can feature as a shining star in my own life should I so choose.

     2. That is so true Sehvonsimon – and it needs women like Kylie and us to remember women to connect to this true beauty that we all naturally are.

188. Awesome article Kylie with amazing questions that make you stop and think about our relationship with ageing. The pressure of our choices can make for a life lived at the expense of our bodies and reflects it out for all to see. Those choosing to live lovingly from who they are, literally defy aging and as you have shown look gorgeous doing it.

189. Totally true Kylie, true beauty defies age and aging! If I look at myself in pictures taken at different points of my life, I may find pictures where I like what I see at the physical level but when the emanation of the picture is what I am feeling, I would not hesitate a second in not choosing that version of me and opting for the current one. Same thing for all of the pictures you have presented in your blog.

190. Kylie your words are so full of wisdom and the truth of the beauty that we all recognise in another. Taking your words to heart there is no need to compare or criticise. Instead we can choose to allow the love and delicateness to shine.

191. I absolutely love this blog Kylie. I instantly connected to the fact that the things that bother me about my appearance do so because they remind me of the very unloving choices I made to abuse my body. I have been left with wrinkles, scars, bruises, acne, eczema and dull skin as a result of the unloving choices I have made. I have also seen how connecting to the love I naturally am allows light and love to radiate from my eyes and this beauty can not be extinguished.

     1. Absolutely Leonne. It is interesting that often we use the way we look to confirm our worth or lack of self worth. For example, growing up, I remember girls saying ‘oh, I’m so ugly because I have a pimple/acne/eczema’ or whatever condition was presenting due to their choices. If we learn that the way we look is the result of our choices, we are constantly called to be more responsible, and we have the opportunity to be more loving with ourselves in every choice.

        1. Absolutely Kylie. We are educated to believe that attractiveness equals worth at every turn which makes it very difficult to see past something like a skin condition and feel the responsibility we have to ourselves. It seemed to me like the whole world was telling me to fix my skin but not the emotional state and behaviour that caused my body to express this dis-ease.

192. It is a very interesting question that you pose Kylie – Is it really that we don’t like our looks as we age or is it that we can see the choices we have made in our lives playing out in how we look. The before and after photo’s go to show that by changing our choices, choosing a different energy to live by, we can look younger and more vital the older we get.

193. This flips the idea of ageing on it’s head. It may not be the actual number that people react to but the fact that those years equate to the sum total of years of unloving choices. Like you say Kylie if love is lived everyday then why would you not want to celebrate being ten, twenty or thirty years older if that is a mark of increasing love?

194. Kapow Kylie. The power with which you speak here can only come from one who has seen through the miasma of all that we’ve bought into in regards to the ‘definition of beauty’.
     You have re-defined all that beauty is, in truth. AND, just what it is that we are really grasping for in the desperate clinging to ‘youth’. Indeed, it is not at all about looking younger, but actually reflecting the beauty that is there from within. Thank God for Universal Medicine and all that Serge Benhayon has presented, that we actually have all we need to develop the deepest, most treasured relationship with the beauty that does reside within us all. The pictures here stand as living testimony that this is possible for every one of us.
     Brilliant blog – more, more and more please…!

     1. Yes Victoria, there is nothing in this World more beautiful than what we each hold inside – and, what a great shame that we could possibly live life without connecting to the immensity of what is inside us just waiting to be lived. This was certainly the case for me before being introduced to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine – and, the result of choosing differently is evident.

        More… Yes… There is much much more to say when it comes to how beautiful we truly are.

        1. Expressed with absolute beauty and power Kylie, thank-you deeply.

195. True inspiration you are Kylie, a living, breathing, walking Beauty inside and out.

196. I have always felt OK as an adult about the way I look, face and body. It was the inner quality of how I felt that I was not OK with. Since beginning to re-connect to me in a more true way, making changes to the energy that I choose to live in and align with, the change in my body and face has been very noticeable.
     This continues to evolve and I feel more and more beautiful as the days pass and I more and more make my life about love. The ‘before and after’ photos show so much and are a great reminder, and even though what we can ‘see’ has often changed, it is more what we can ‘feel’ in the person that has changed. This is about the energy and we always have the choice.

197. Well, it’s awesome how our bodies are always talking to us, and how ignorant we can be about it, for the shame it would bring.

198. A beautiful blog and great in knowing that aging doesn’t make us less and wither away. With the choices we make we can shine and become more beautiful, buy expressing and living in a loving nurturing way we can improve with age!!

199. A powerful blog Kylie ‘The most beauty-full women and men I have ever seen are those whose faces reflect the love that they live every single day……
     This beauty however, is not determined by a line-free face, or plump lips and cheeks. It is a youth-fullness that radiates from within.’
     At the end of the day it is my responsibility to self-care and make loving choices that will determine my deepest feelings of beauty.✨

200. Such a powerful blog Kylie- I like how you bring it back to the responsilbility people don’t wanna take and see, when they age and see the results of it. Thank you !

201. Such a powerful article Kylie, it is indeed the choices we make that live in and are emanated out by our body. Seeing the amazing transformations in the “before and after” series there is no doubt in my mind that we are the product of our choices and that each of these examples, your self included, are testament to the loving choices that can be made – it is as simple as making that true commitment to ourselves and to live from love.

202. This is very powerful Kylie. I fully agree with “true change is not a change in behaviour but a change in energy” and as you wrote, how we look really shows the way we live. Thank you very much for writing this Kylie.

203. A great article Kylie. While reading it I found myself saying ‘yes’ to everything you say and also feeling for myself that my wanting to appear younger was because I did not appreciate and accept myself for the inner beauty that I am. This, for me, makes sense of the saying ‘being comfortable in my skin’ as now it is not the outer surface that I see in the mirror but the strong and loving woman I am within that I now feel. This is very liberating and lets go of all that self-judgement of ‘what I might have been’ or ‘if only’.

204. Just yesterday i was commenting on how a couple of older women in their late 60s and early 80’s looked so beautiful and vital. This is a common sight to behold amongst students of Universal Medicine, and as a younger woman, it brings so much joy. There is such a strongly held belief that once a woman reaches a certain age, she’s off the shelf, no good for anyone not even herself. These older women though who are members of the community of Universal Medicine and who have been living their lives based on the principles of self-care and love, defy this falsely held belief and show that a woman’s beauty has nothing to do with age, and everything to do with the quality of how she lives. Every wrinkle, line or blemish speaks of the quality in which we treat ourselves, and when this quality is love, that’s what emanates through the physical appearance of these women.

     1. Absolutely Katerina. It is super inspiring to see what loving choices look like at any age, and how the body responds to this. It totally defy the ‘norm’ of what we have come to accept and expect as ‘ageing’.

205. Wow awesome article Kylie ,our body does display the choices we have made and the way we have lived, when we decide to choose the truth we are, then our body responds accordingly. It is never too late.

206. Thank you Kylie for this very real and inspirational blog, it is profound what you are sharing here and I love the pondering on.. do we want to look younger or simply more true? true to ourselves and our natural beauty and with this we reflect that out to the world. This is so beautiful just as the women in the photos who have begun to accept their true selves – undeniably showing this sparkle in their every outward appearance too. It’s just so lovely.

207. “Is it really our age that we don’t like? Or is it our choices, and feeling the responsibility and consequences of our choices?… The way we have chosen to live.” This is a beautiful question and so true, if we live the true us – age doesn’t matter because this beauty is radiating through everyone’s skin.

208. This is a truly beautiful article Kylie… as we are truly beautiful when we honour the essence within us and reflect that, no matter the age. The photos here speak for themselves, they are alive and there is a depth of acceptance and knowing that radiates from their eyes. Very beautiful.

209. Kylie that is really impressive – the issue may not be aging but our choices becoming visible. It sounds true – I am more and more happy with the way I look as I get older.

210. Thank you beautiful Kylie for this awesome blog that exposes the truth about why so many of us worry about aging. I love this line in which you describe true beauty “This beauty however, is not determined by a line-free face, or plump lips and cheeks. It is a youth-fullness that radiates from within. It is the Light that glows from under the skin, outwardly, the vitality, the sparkle in the eyes, the full embrace of themselves, and commitment to life. I see Joy.”

211. It was a joy to read your article Kylie, so simple, choosing the right energy, love. Thank you.

212. Thank you Kylie for this truly inspiring blog. The difference we can make just by simply choosing to make self-loving choices is simply astounding as is testament to the beautiful women here. What is evident is not just the physical change, but more importantly the inner change you can see in the eyes and the feeling of joy in the photos.

213. ‘The body is like a walking ‘show and tell’’ – I love it – such a great way to explain it!

214. Great blog Kylie! It shows in such great detail how our different choices affect our bodies and our health and the way we look – it’s very inspiring.

215. Kylie, this article is stunning. And so true, our bodies really reflect how we live and yes as we get older they show clearly our choices. What I love most of all is that you present a different way of seeing that, that we can choose to be loving in any moment and it changes everything, it really is the quality we choose. The pictures say it all, alive from the inside out. Thank you.

     1. Yes, it’s true Monica.
        The pictures do say it all – It is undeniable – The quality of our choices affect absolutely everything (including us)!

216. I so enjoyed your blog Kylie, I would hate to think of what state I’d be in if I hadn’t had the inspiration of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. My skin was grey from smoking, I was over weight and bloated.Reading your blog and the many others I have read is a good way of keeping me on my toes and not slip back into old ways or stagnate. Thanks for this.

217. Kylie, I am almost(!) speechless after reading this and don’t know quite where to start other than to say thank-you for such an inspiring start to my day. I have often looked into the mirror with regret at the sagging jowls knowing it has been my choice to live with frustration rather than acceptance and in feeling powerless to change those choices, perpetuated the cycle. Your questions have opened up a truer way of seeing myself and the possibilities of transforming that by making a different choice. I know that when I am feeling my fullness, through living my day in the way of loving tenderness with myself, the routines and rhythm feed me back and I don’t even notice the sagging jowls anymore! I am captivated by the beauty and light that shines from my eyes and face – it is like there is a light glowing from within and I feel complete. I am realising that regret will no longer be with me by consistently choosing the pure love that I am from.

218. Thank you, Kylie. In re-reading this blog, I could only smile throughout. Your face and the glow of the other students of Universal Medicine is a joy. What stood out and feels very poignant is the fact that at any point we can all make choices to change our life, by choosing love. Thank you for this very timely reminder.

219. Thank you, Kylie for shining the light on another way of seeing ageing. An inspiring read! There is no more to be said as the photos are confirmation enough and show what is possible when we choose to make changes in how we are living.

220. Thank you Kylie for a truely inspirational article. It is interesting to reflect on why youthfulness in our societies is so worshiped. It is not because wrinkles, sagginess and white hair appear in older age but it is because we don’t love, appreciate and accept ourselves enough. The love we have for ourselves in all stages of our lives is what matters.

221. Thank you Kylie for sharing – it is very inspiring to read, the pictures show it all as well.

222. A truly inspiring article Kylie. There is no doubting the miraculous changes you can see in the pictures. You outline so clearly that its how we have lived that shows in our bodies, and that vitality and joy can shine out at any age.

223. This is an inspiring article for both men and women, thank you Kylie and much appreciation and thanks to everyone who participated in the Before and After section on the website universal medicine.net.

224. Thanks Kylie for sharing such an important and intriguing issue. The before and afters speak for themselves. If only we were taught at school to love and cherish our bodies.

225. This is a beautiful and inspiring blog – especially the words, “Is it possible that when living lovingly, we look more and more beauty-full every day? And, as we age, our bodies do get worn, but reflect a different quality – one of a life truly and lovingly lived, and not one of abuse, regret and a wish to turn back the clock.” They hold the true recipe for life and how to be truly beautiful.

226. Thank you Kylie for capturing this. It is so true!

     Even though my body is aging I love every bit of it! Even the skin sagging in some places and becoming softer and wrinkly. This is because I honour myself so much that when I look at myself I feel that love and honour reflected back to me and it feels so lovely. It shows me how much we feel our looks rather than just see.

     1. Very true comment, Judith. I love being my age because I deeply honour and appreciate myself. Feeling the beauty that we are inside is the key to graceful aging.

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228. Dear Kylie, your article has many nuggets of wisdom. And, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words so the photographs of yourself and others also contain wisdom and visibly demonstrate that of which you speak. As an ‘ageing woman in her sixties’, this article has helped me shift how I see myself when I look in the mirror. Instead of seeing the wrinkles and changes that make me look like my grandmother, I see the light in my eyes and the beauty that my choices are creating in my lived expression. Thank you.

229. Thank you Kylie for sharing this beautiful article. It is inspirational and as Jane mentions it would be great to have in all beauty salons for all women to see. Reminding us that we all have a choice on how we live and therefore how our bodies will present themselves as a result of the choices made.

230. Thank you Kylie, we can be beautiful at any age, and grow old gracefully, reflecting the harmony and stillness from within, and being this love for everyone.

231. Kylie, I agree with all that you say. As I was growing up I remember being shocked that people I saw as beautiful outwardly were the people that were most concerned about how they looked. I could not understand why this was happening until recent years… Now I see outwardly beautiful people have been strongly identified, seen and accepted by their outer beauty, this beauty has to be kept up to be seen/identified in this way. We all have our different ways we choose to be identified and seen by others even if this is not to be seen…

     The crazy thing is what I used to see as beauty, I now see as a strain – the eyes tell of a withdrawn sadness. Beauty for me is definitely a quality of acceptance and Love for self that naturally shines from within, out. There is a settledness in true beauty rather than the push that can be felt by an empty outer beauty. If we meet our true selves in the inner beauty we are, there is no longer a need or push to be seen/identified by the outside world — what could be more beautiful and sustainably fulfilling than this?

232. Thank you Kylie for your inspiration in this writing and the living example of what you have shared. May we all understand that each thought, feeling and action impact on our bodies…

233. Kylie, thank you. You are a living example of what living love is all about.

234. Very inspiring to feel and read how it’s all about choice and the care and love we chose to live in our day. Very confirming to feel the strength of joy from transformations shown in these photos. Beauty comes from how you are within, not just how you look on the outside. Thank you for sharing Kylie.

235. What a beautiful article. No products can fix what we have chosen… and what I have experienced is it doesn’t matter how far gone I was, or the not so good choices I made in the past… from today, I can become more responsible and make loving choices for me… and the results are right there in the mirror, smiling back at me.

     1. Completely agree Rosie, the rest of our lives starts today! I have never really looked back, my choices in the past have been really hard on my body, now I am able to reconsider how and why I do things and my face reflects the way I feel and live.

        1. Yes Rosie and Felicity we know our past and are responsible for the choices made, but everyday we can choose the love that we are. And I love the sparkle in my eyes and the glow of my skin and even my wrinkles are smiling back to me, I truly can say to myself at 55 years of age I am a gorgeous woman.(And I could not say this when I was much younger.)

     2. I love your response to this article Rosie. So often we focus on buying expensive products and makeup thinking that will do the trick, but as you say, from today you can start by making more loving choices for yourself and instantly ‘feel’ the difference.

     3. ‘No products can fix what we have chosen’ as they cannot create something that will hide the truth of how we live, and as the years go by that reflection is a constant, always telling us and the world if we are but honest enough to look.

236. Wow! One common denominator is the absolute glow strength and power in all of your faces. This is truly wonderful AND far surpasses any miracle cream. 🙂

     1. I agree Shevon, the glow and power in the pictures of everyone in their faces and eyes as you say is: ‘truly wonderful AND far surpasses any miracle cream’. It is a testament to the changes they have made in their lives after being inspired by Universal Medicine presentations and the responsibility they now live life with. Inspiring to re-read the blog – thank you for sharing.

237. Thank you, Kylie, for this truly, deeply beauty-full article. Very inspiring to read and feel, as you are.

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