Leg Shaving / Spiritual Head Shaving
Shaving ones legs seems important to the preparation of cleaning the conscious, giving a new face to a new day. Like a barometer of things to come, shaving gives a "spirit" to the coming of an approaching plan. The jeweled candy color selection for razors is endless…….as is the choice of how much pain you want to endure to prepare your conscious for enlightment. {For some that state of mind goes hand in hand with sex appeal.} Would you like your roots pulled out mercilessly? Or stripped out with hot wax?
It goes deeper then being just a woman – thing. Honestly if we just don’t care about life, we often don’t shave. Time out. This summersaults into other red flags…such as days of wearing nothing but shapeless sweat pants. A week end of “letting go” means to hell with razors. It can be quite free and liberating.
Give me a razor when a challenge comes in my life! Prepareth my mental attitude with a fresh change and the act of cleaning off “shadow” stubs. It is like erasing the negative and bringing in the positive.
"Tonsure" anyone? pronounced {TON - sher} Spiritual Head Shaving
"Tonsure" is the shaving of the head for a religious rite. Maybe why the feeling of shaving the legs feels like "preperation" can be compared to "Tonsure." {And besides it is a very cool word.}
"Tonsure" is a common practise for enetering the priest hood or monastic order. It represents making oneself pure and chaste.
{Maybe for one very brief moment this is what was behind Brittney Spear's mind when she impulsivly shaved her head?}
The act of shaving the hair symbolises celibacy, chastity or purity.
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Christian Monks have shaven heads.
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Hindu Priests have shaven heads. The temple at Madras which houses the massive Vishnu - a blue-skinned, four-armed deity image, has 500,000 + annual visitors. Pilgrims pay homage by removing their hair. 600 barbers are employed.
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Buddhist Monks have hairless heads and bodies.
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Islamic children (male and female) have their heads ritually shaven around the 3rd - 10th day of postnatal life.
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Hindu Widows have shaven heads.
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Hindu Women are expected to shave their heads ay least once in their lifetime.
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Mohicanism - in which the head was shaved except for a narrow ridge running centrally from front to back.
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Athletes (terrestrial and aquatic) - shave the head in a attempt to improve performance by reducing drag
So next time you shave... imagine your self a Priest or Priestess in a bath of milk, preparing your legs {or head} for the rite of purification.
Virtual Head Shaving Site ..see what YOU would look like with a shaved head!
http://headshave.baldlygo.com/Virtual_HeadShave.htm