Taking Bra Shopping To a Whole Other Level

by Sara Harris, Health Practitioner, Australia

Recently I have been feeling it is time… time for some new bras!! I simply feel that I deserve it! I have grown more into being me and more into myself as a woman, and have found that my breasts have changed – my breasts and I have moved on!

I never thought I would say this in my lifetime… but my breasts have actually grown! Not a huge amount, but I can certainly feel that ever since having the Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) with the EBM trained practitioners from Universal Medicine, and committing to claiming more of myself as a woman –  my body, including my breasts, have taken on more of their natural shape and fullness.

So today was the day where I finally made it to a store that a friend had recommended a while ago. It is a very cute little boutique which has very carefully selected brands of the finest quality ‘intimate wear’. I had saved some money and had a specific and quite generous amount that I was going to spend… but I quickly learned that I was not going to be walking out with a few bras… that I may just have enough for one – good bras are expensive!!

I guess I had always gone for quite basic bras. You see, my breasts are quite small and nothing ever seemed to really quite fit. I never really took the time for myself to find a store like this one, which was supportive and catering for all breast sizes, and also to allow myself to be assisted by someone who knew which bras would work and which ones wouldn’t for my shape and size. I never gave this opportunity to myself because I had already discounted my breasts – like they were nothing, and like they didn’t matter. And I had devalued myself and my worth based on an idea of what I thought breasts should be, and on an idea of what I thought a woman should be also in relation to her breasts’ size and shape. This was very convenient because it allowed me to ‘stay young’, to ‘stay small’… to stay like a little girl, and this had kept me from claiming the true woman that I know so very well and deep within me. It also kept others in treating me this way.

Knowing what I know now about myself and the woman that I am today – living in a way that supports me to claim more and more of my natural fullness all the time, I can look back and see how much comfort I was living in. For example, and to describe this ‘comfort’ or even ‘convenience’, if I stayed the little girl, then I didn’t have to step up, take responsibility and be all that I am; be a woman… and I could (‘conveniently’ and ‘comfortably’ so) keep on allowing others to maintain having a certain amount of power or control over me. So it felt comfortable and safe for me to stay small, though mostly for others’ benefit – because if I were to actually claim this natural fullness of true beauty that I know deep within me, then there was a good chance that I might ruffle some feathers or shift the weight in the boat, so to speak, with this (unsettling for them) natural radiance of mine.

Now I see myself and my breasts in a completely different way. I am beginning to really feel the absolute power in my presence and the natural tenderness of being a woman. My breasts feel full and alive as I have claimed them back as being a part of me as the woman, and no longer the little girl.

Hence this bra shopping experience is one of a woman (i.e. myself) who feels her value and her worth and is now no longer afraid to emanate her gorgeous and very natural womanly ways…

And so, in this particular store and on this particular occasion, I was dealt with by a very lovely woman who was most willing to assist. I felt so looked after as she gathered bra after bra for me to try on until we first found the right size, then the right shape and then the right style. We had a lot of fun! Most of all, I was overjoyed to feel how supportive the whole experience was, and I knew this was because I had already felt that I was worth this; that I deserved every bit of it.

As soon as I put the bra on, my breasts and I knew that it was the perfect bra! Everything about it – the fit, the shape, its elegance, and the quality, was amazing. This bra just confirmed how I was already feeling in myself – full, alive and very tender and loving. I have never spent so much money on a bra, but I didn’t even think twice about it!

Now sitting here this evening, with my beautiful new bra taking its cherished place inside my drawer and shifting some of the old bras out, I’m reflecting on the awesome experience I had today and appreciating the entire process that happened for it to occur: it was an honouring of me, since it was for me… and I realised that I had just taken bra shopping to a whole other level, and celebration too!!