Actress/Model Clara Fernaldo Reveals The Secrets of Beauty (IN and OUT)

1. Begin each day with thoughts of gratitude. Appreciate every experience, even the challenges.
2. End each day by relaxing every muscle in your body. Start at your scalp and allow each hair follicle to breathe. Move to your forehead, your cheeks, your temples, your smile lines. Relax your shoulders and watch then un-hunch. Relax your chest, your belly, your hands, your perineum, your hips, your knees, your ankles, your toes. Allow every part of your body to soften.
3. Eat a whole foods diet. For extra glow, include as many raw foods as possible. As an African girl, Fufu is top of the line, but to a minimum.
4. Allow 10 minutes per day for stillness. Meditate, pray, breathe- just be quiet with yourself.
5. Affirm your inner beauty. Make positive statements of affirmation to yourself (i.e., “I approve of myself. I am valuable. I am loving and lovable. I am abundant.”) Say them. BELIEVE them.
6. Exercise at least 30 minutes each day. Even if it’s just a walk around the block, getting your juices pumping helps quiet the mind, tone the body, ground you, and nurture the spirit.
7. Release judgments and criticisms. Accept that all of us are doing the best we can, imperfect though our actions may be. Give us the benefit of the doubt as we strive to be the best we can.
8. Let your creativity flow. Find a way to express yourself and allow yourself time to tend the creative spark within you.
9. Smile often. Not only will it benefit your health, but it will touch others. Even better, laugh out loud. One elderly lady wakes up each morning in her nursing home, laughs like mad, wiggles her arms and legs in bed, and screams, “I’m alive! I’m alive!” The nursing home attendants swear it’s her fountain of youth.
10. Be authentic. Tell the truth to yourself and others. Let your freak flag fly. Living outside of your own authenticity is never pretty.
11. Engage in love. Love someone that shows overwhelming caring and attention to you. Follow your instincts though.
12. Tend your spirit. Find spiritual community in a church, Commune with the Divine. Let your aura sparkle.
13. Pamper your body. If it makes you feel beautiful to wear lip gloss, give yourself a facial, take a long hot bath with lavendar bath salts, get a massage, or deep condition your hair, go for it! But do it for you-not for anyone else.
14. Avoid being mean. It’s a sure way to negate beauty.
15. Practice preventative health. Why wait until something goes wrong?
16. Look in the mirror every day and say, “I am beautiful, just the way I am.”