KS&L 317 A Good Hair Day Part 2

Hair is so important to us that we build relationships with our hairdressers and/or barbers. Men now go to hairdressers as a normal thing. In years past, no real guy would consider going into a hair salon, but today, all that has changed. Men are paying considerably more attention to their hair, well beyond the functional crew cut/flat top of the 1950’s and ‘60’s.

One of the interesting elements of understanding the importance of hair is focusing on the way that the angle of our hair affects us. The mathematical degree of each curl or lack of curl will affect how we perceive ourselves in the mirror. When we say that ‘we just can’t get our hair to do anything today,’ usually means that we are having trouble getting the correct angles to manifest in our hair. The swoop, curl, poof of height, bang, drape of straight chic hair all affect how we feel we look. And how we feel we look affects how we believe our day will go. We seem to believe that if we start out with a bad hair day, an early morning fiasco of trying to get the right angles to manifest in our hair, that the rest of the day will follow those wrong angles as well. This is why once you cut your hair, you have to keep up with it and ‘work with it’ because as the hair grows, the angles are constantly changing. The problem is that we are not consciously aware of how we perceive our hair, or how those perceptions are constantly affecting us.

Hair crowns us. Hair is the halo of color, shape, texture, volume and shine that tops our bodies. No one wants to wear a crown that is lopsided, dented, thin or tarnished. Beautiful hair, for men and women is truly their crowning glory! Hair is one of the things that people notice first about us because it is a silent indicator of our overall health and outlook on life.

Balding routinely seems to be something to be avoided. Why are we always so surprised to see someone who is completely bald? Is the nakedness of someone’s head devoid of hair unnerving? Does that person appear vulnerable? Does hair, as we saw in the ancient story of Samson and Delilah, give us emotional, physical and spiritual strength? Is this why men desperately ‘comb-over’ their last remnants of hair and constantly wear some type of hat? It is fascinating to watch men who proudly walk around with a very bald head seem super macho – as if they have come to terms with the perception of vulnerability and changed that negative into a positive. No one ‘messes’ with them!

Perhaps this is why all the services routinely cut off all the hair of new male recruits. This removes the angles of our individuality and makes all the new guys look the same. Literally, they are all experiencing the same sense of vulnerability. This is a first step in getting total strangers to have an initial shared experience and begin to bond together; and ironically, it starts with hair. Over time, as their hair grows back, they find that they are changing as well, growing, maturing, and discovering who they are. Once those discoveries are made, then the new soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are allowed to have modest individual hairstyles. Military women are required to instantly conform to hair standards as well but they will never be as stringent as men. Perhaps no one likes to completely strip women of their uniqueness or utterly remove the female crown.

The better we are able to manage our hair, the happier we feel. Any illness is directly reflected in our hair and a healthy happy person usually has great hair. Our thoughts, actions and perceptions of ourselves echo out and become visible in so many ways. The more we stay in karmic balance the better we can look literally, from the crown of our head to the tips of our toes!