Self Love And Acceptance: An Aspect.

Remember this: Every life is full of moments when you feel over burdened with demands, responsibilities, or personal trials.

When it is time to hunt all those cares can be put on the back burner. You finally have a momentary release from the albatrosses of the world. The only supply and demand is what you require for the product of your endeavors. If hunting is your 'me time' then why not take advantage of the moment and actually work on your inner being. You will be the better for it.

Everyone that hunts has been there. Waiting. When you have that kind of time on your hands, pull up a blade of long grass and put it square in your teeth. Do as the cows do: chew cud. Roll that sucker around in there and think your way to a better you.

One such idea to mull over is how you treat yourself as a woman who hunts. How do others treat you? Take a nice piece of stationary out, write these two questions down and scribble ten things that come to mind off the top of your head. This can be done in the deer stand as well. Really be honest with yourself. Fold it up and leave a copy in your stand so when you return everyday during hunting season you can decide if your outlook stayed the same or if you need a little 'self-love' makeover.

If you can clean your gun and oil it you can spend some time on yourself and the outlook you harbor.

As a female who hunts, when developing your aesthetic outlook, regarding the aspect of self love and acceptance into your arsenal is imperative. Whatever relationship you have with yourself before, during and after the hunt is the foundation for what other people see in terms of how they will visualize, approach, and treat you. The female hunter must be very aware of her self-cultivation in family, work, charity, and hunting.

In the spare moments of hunting, the Aesthetic Female Hunter should extend to herself devotion or attention of centering and connecting with her own heart and spirit through a landscape of temperamental nature. Learn to offer self love and acceptance to yourself then affirm these values. Believe in your own worthiness. In respecting, nurturing, and treating yourself as a treasure you can begin to cherish the Aesthetic Female hunter inside of you. Others will see this shining through and in turn will return as much as you are willing to give and receive.

The goal is to grow and expand yourself and your ideals using hunting as the platform to improve ever portion of your life.

If you are ever in a position as a Female Aesthetic Hunter that lessens your mentality, you have the right to set your boundaries and not apologize for it. Stand as strong and collected as you would when you focus in on your target, hold your breath then pull the trigger.

Women who hunt are not 2-dimensional beings on a computer screen. We are multi-dimensional beings that are capable of looking good, feeling good, and acting (respectable that is). You are your own Ambassador of Hunting. Where ever you go you are representing some portion of hunting as an individual. You can still be sexy but not ridiculous. Never make yourself ridiculous. The role and space that you occupy in the realm of Hunting will make you a caricature based on the spectacle you make of yourself.

When you step out into the field/woods with your gun, accept yourself and your deeds. At that moment you are beyond anyone's condemnation. If you can extent this to yourself then you can extend it to another person. Your tolerance can be someone else's tolerance. Accept your own imperfections. See your imperfections in another person as acceptable mistakes.

Always ask yourself these kinds of questions:

Am I showing myself self-love and acceptance right now?

Have I evaluated what will happen after the decision making process and how it will affect my position in the Hunting sphere?

As an aesthetic female hunter is this behavior or choice going to damage or lessen my respectability?

Will my actions give people and excuse to lessen my value or ability?

If Hunting was my partner right now how embarrassed would it be by my actions?

Is this the way I want my family, friends and associations to perceive me?

Learning your lessons helps others in your stead learn a lesson or two themselves.

You are a Lady of the Game Hunt. Treat yourself accordingly.

~Courtesy of the AOFH~

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The Beginning Of A Journey: Upon Closer Inspection.

Remember this: The road starts somewhere

These are my philosophies on Hunting, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty, ideas, and the undetectable truths of life that ebb and flow like wind through the trees. As I expect, each individual person to come to their own conclusions. My intent is not to project my thoughts, as a belief system, for someone to adopt, but yet an example to be used as a tool for others just starting out. 

I always wondered on my thought process when it came to seizing an idea and mulling it over. I had a friend that told me one time that I was always pondering. What if I am the type of person that dwells on the ability to detect all the ingredients in a composition? 

Hunting is a composition, much like a work of art or a faceted gem. Depending on the perspective, each view can be different at any given time. If you break Hunting up into several pieces, can each piece stand alone to signify an identifiable marker of  Hunting as a whole? Should not all facets be taken into consideration of the whole? 

I think so. I am looking every day at the meager, mundane, or the illusion of such and the thin veil that lays over life.  I either looked to hard, not enough, or not at all. I remember a Physics professor named Dr. Peterson say..."upon closer inspection". That is what I am always performing.....a closer inspection of things that my senses experience and what my mental processes form after all the information that can be gathered constructs. Let us go together as hunters and take a ‘closer inspection’ of Hunting, Fishing and the Wilderness; a precious jewel, from the eyes of a female hunter.

The Aesthetics of a Female Hunter begins with digesting a world view, regarding how that fits into your belief system of a concept and how you manifest that ideal in the form of a personal aesthetic from the center of your heart and soul. This personal aesthetic can be based upon experiences or life skills you learn from the cradle to the grave. 

As women, the world view of hunting can be seen as a personal experience that is a part of your daily life. The world view of hunting is a less personal experience and information you take in from outside sources. These sources can be negative or positive, but you as the female hunter, are the decision maker on what you allow and don’t allow. 

The aesthetics of a female hunter takes into allowances that each individual female has a separate and unique upbringing or experience. 

This personal aesthetic is a family heirloom the female hunter can pass along to her children or anyone that she cares to share her inner thoughts and world with. One could argue that you would not take Hunting into your being as a part of you, but you do. Females and males who hunt do have the capacity to exert a certain amount of intuition. Whether women have more, or men have more, is debatable. It depends on the individual regardless of sex. 

Depending on the approach, in the form of activities people enjoy in life, if you are mindful of what you are doing, will find a certain amount of beauty and ugliness in the imperfection of the activity of hunting. There is always a Ying/Yang aspect to the functioning of the natural world. 

On any given day in the life of a human being, in this day and age, you will find an amount of pressure and anxiety pressing down on the individual. Hunting is a form of depressurizing that some choose to participate in.  In those moments before dawn and just before dusk, harmony and tranquility seeps in to relax and ease the hunter and empties the mind. In those moments the hunter is most humble.

Pack your backpack and prepare for a journey. We are hunters, after all.

~Courtesy of the AOFH~

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