Just telegram style today... Thank you Helen for your (always) sensitive perceptions (above). Seeing these doll looking creatures fill me with sadness too. I refuse to accept it but I sympathise with them, as for ourselves, because they (we) are victims of a very sick era.

... one does not have to be a yoga-scholar to notice that all these areas mutilated and distorted and deformed by womans "fashion", are in fact power points in the energtic body..

The wasp figure is the suppression of the solar plexus, the power point for extroverted, self expressive, energy. The centre fuelling us stand into our own power. Suffocated by corsets, belts, etc. Suggesting (not even so) subliminally: "women should not self express".

Breasts: the area to give, sustain, nourish. Also object of sexual phantasies (about returning to being held, cuddled, fed and united). Overemphasized, suggesting: women's job is to feed, physically, energetically. In other, tribal, cultures breasts also stands for peace. Wherever breasts are in full view, there can be no war. This meaning has disappeared from our (post)modern world. Breasts are connected to the heart, and in fact (energetic or real) mother milk's source is the heart chakra, the centre for unity (not to be confused with romantic, sentimental, co-dependent, needy etc love, which belongs to second, sacral chakra).

High heels: being cut off earth chakras in the soles, etc. Meaning there is no sustenance, no feeding connection for the energetic body from / through Earth's energies. It is also important in relation to topics like: menstruation, birth, but I cannot go into details about it here now.

In general it is clear that our cultures gives a certain overemphasis to the higher chakras (as of they were in some way "better" or "more important"). This is not how it was in more matriachal cultures.

Also interesting, that my studies of Ayurveda (an ancient healing science where looking at body types, shapes and forms, is one way of diagnosis), taught me how our ideal of woman is very different from what Ayurveda regards as healthy and "in balance".
If we could "create" and see flesh and blood a woman's shape based on balanced Ayurvedic principles, we would be very surprised, it would seem sturdy and "out of shape" compared to what our eyes have been trained to consider as beautiful.

To me all this shows a very deeply ingrained distortion about far deeper issues than external looks.

Realign? It's not going to happen soon. it would take many generations. In my view.