As someone who's taken an enormous amount of portrait photography over the years, I can tell you honestly that the vast majority of women do not believe in their beauty. Quite a number of guys don't believe in their handsomeness. At best, for a tiny period in their lives, they thought, “I look okay.”

Trust me. A photographer sees the crestfallen look in a woman or some guys when they must pose for the camera. Their faces betray their inner struggle at the lack of self-worth.

While some do, it's usually only for an abbreviated time period in which they believe (have self-worth) in themselves.

Some felt cute in childhood, but then even by age 15 or so, they lost their self-worth. They were inundated by images on TV, film, and magazines. They looked in the mirror, saw the changes in their bodies , and thought, “I can never look like those people. When people praise me, they're just being nice, or they want something so they compliment me.” Jaded by age 15, it's tragic isn't it?

Then some grow very handsome or beautiful, past an awkward stage. They stand erect; they feel genuine pride in their appearance; some even cultivate beauty or handsomeness because people noticing is like an intoxicating drug. Some aspects of themselves are ideal and match the images they see. The praise increases.

By age 25, a lot of them feel a decline in their physical form. They feel they “peaked” and now even if attractive, then “their time is over”. Realistically, if they were models and sometimes actors, then they would get less and less callbacks and be noticed less. Some, even think they're no longer young! The fact that they're not models or actors is besides the point in their minds, which is both sad and humorous at the same time.

By thirty, the overwhelming majority feel a dramatic decline in their physical appearance. It takes a toll, particularly on women. Some feel like giving up and stop improving themselves. A lot of women use artificial means to “boost” their appearance: collagen injections, breast implants, tummy tucks, butt implants, cheek implants, hair extensions, very expensive makeup, perfumes, and on and on.

Because a lot of guys exercised up until then (but perhaps in far lesser amounts than their youth), then due to the presence of testosterone, the guys maintain a more youthful appearance. Other guys gain a lot of weight.

Women produce testosterone in their adrenal glands. It's why they feel sexual attraction. It triggers it. Those who produce more testosterone, will look younger. Since testosterone creates sexual desire, they have sex more often. More on that later.

Estrogen can in youth create a soft appearance and a glow, and you've seen that in pregnant women. As someone gets older, abdominal fat actually starts producing estrogen. It makes people look prematurely older. We don't know why.

By age 35+, the fat pads in the face begin to decline. Small hairlike fibers called suspensory ligaments act like scaffolds and help oppose gravity. They're all over your skin, and as they buckle from abuse to the skin, the skin sags. Faces lose their tautness.

A lot of people start noticing more and more gray hair. Their lack of exercise starts catching up with them. Since their body is not focusing on muscle development, the body spends it's time processing the bad food put in their bodies. Much of that is trying to metabolize fat, and since it's in excess, it goes to the belly. Less glycogen goes to the muscles and they begin to really lose their tone. People start to feel old.

Some even rationalize that they're effectively middle aged since they could possibly die by age 70.

All of these things destroy self-worth. The internal picture of physical appearance, which is self-image, that grows warped in the mind, and often Depression manifests in behavior.

What's the problem? What's the solution?

The problem is, beauty is noticed when you have high self-worth. You only have high self-worth if you believe in yourself. When others see that you do have high self-worth, then they believe it too. This is the overwhelming source of beauty, not physical appearance.

If you have high self-worth then it becomes self-confidence. If it continues to increase, now you hold yourself in higher esteem (a very high value of something) and so have self-esteem. Only a poet notices the nuances of language. Those are the differences in those three words.

A lot of people may project high self-esteem in public (lawyers for example and some doctors), but in the night, at 2:30 am, they feel false and lying and a fake or a fraud. They can't maintain the “facade” and it crumbles. They don't really believe in their self-worth, they just pretend they do.

Believe in yourselves. You are all beautiful and handsome. You are especially those attributes when you sincerely communicate in warm ways to each other. You logarithmically (the graphed line curves sharply upward to the SKY) have those attributes when you flirt and connect with someone.

When you do that, others notice. They can't help it. It's part of the human instinct, the imprint inside of us that makes us human.

Now read back over those statements about awareness, intimacy, communication, and flirting. I think they will make more sense now. More about connection later.

By the way, the topic is related to conspiracy. It is the greatest conspiracy there is. It is why you are sheep and controlled by the corporations. They play upon your wish fulfullment and your lack of self-worth. As long as you don't believe in yourselves, you will give power to corporations because your think, "If I buy their products, I will be beautiful or that thing will give me self-worth...and it never does."