Mind Over Matter- Feed your Faith and Starve your Fear With Beniasha Kharas Dongre

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Guest of the week: Benaisha Kharas Dongre

“You make an impression when you have created a brand of yourself and the best way to create this brand is with your image.”

Benaisha Kharas is an Image Enhancer, Inspirational Speaker, and Fashion Style Expert.

She is passionate about helping her clients project an influential, charismatic, and stylish image in their personal and professional lives. She is the absolute expert in the art and science of personal style and image management. In fact, she is the“go-to Image Builder” for women, young adults, corporates, and fashion houses. At IMPA (Image Management Professionals Association), Benaisha is the only youngest Senior Image consultant to facilitate expert classes across India. Fashion Magnet Anita Dongre highly endorses Benaisha’s expertise and has got her entire sales staff sell fashion and luxury, ‘The Benaisha Way’.

She is India’s youngest internationally certified Image Consultant since 2012, Benaisha has inspired and trained more than 2000 people to be Style, Image, and Fashion Conscious.

She has provided personal consulting to more than 250 HNI clients to present themselves with more poise and polish. Being dyslexic, yet incredibly popular in the media; Benaisha does not let her obstacles come in the way of her dreams. At the tender age of 10 when her teachers told her to go to a special school, she chose to become her own hero and fight for her dreams. She graduated with double majors in sociology and entrepreneurship. After receiving a standing ovation for her TedxTalk, she again inspired thousands at ‘Kaggaz’, a forum for the youth and shared her vision of India’s Young Image. Education Times invited Benaisha to speak and motivate their audience on image and career. Gulf Times has appreciated her work done with Qatar Airways and Indian Women’s Association of Doha. Benaisha also made her presence felt on India’s first image management TV show ‘Image Banani Hein’ on Zoom TV.

Benaisha helps her clients on colour, style, wardrobe editing, personal shopping and dressing for those tricky events like weddings, interviews and dating. She also advises fashion houses on creating delightful customer experiences, artistically sell fashion and luxury, and effortlessly convert walk-ins into shoppers. Corporate Clients like BMW, Qatar Airways, Deloitte, Jeena & Co, and many more count on Benaisha for transforming their executives to be their Brand Ambassadors with strong communication, personal image and influence skills. She is deeply interested in working with differently-abled children to inspire them to lead meaningful lives. She has also helped children who suffer from attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, and down syndrome to regain their confidence and enhance their self-image.

Benaisha, an avid lover of books, travel, and fashion; lives in Mumbai India.

Excerpts from the Session

You can also watch the entire session video here:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFrmjNunYw6/?igshid=18bxhkcuwl99i

But, for those who like to read or keep a note of the expert’s opinion, we bring the entire excerpt of the session so that you don’t miss out on anything. Here are the points that were covered in the live session:

Fear is something that all of us have experienced at some point in time. It is been a very constant emotion for some people. Some of us even spent half of their life with this emotion and sometimes it becomes a part of our system which makes us believe that fears will never go away.

What is the fear?

Fear is one of the most basic human emotions that we all go through. It is programmed into the nervous system and works like an instinct. From the time we’re infants, we are equipped with the survival instincts necessary to respond with fear when we sense danger or feel unsafe. Fear helps protect us.

Why is it so common?

It is common because…

• We do not rationalize our thoughts: we believe everything
• We consume data that’s not ours.
• We believe that we must know everything and uncertainty is something to be worried about.

What fear does to us?

• It stops us from believing in ourselves sometimes
• It stops us from moving forward from the past
• It clouds our judgements about people and things
• It makes us believe things that don’t always exist.

How can we deal with fears?

• Know that all that we fear lies outside of us.  
• We need to take time out and rationalize the thought
• If you can’t chill-imagine the worst and see can you do something about it?
• See the evidence
• Don’t try to be perfect
• Go back to basics- drugs and drinking is not a solution. Always take a positive pause and distraction.  
• Reward yourself at the end

Rationalizing, questioning, thinking of the worst and then coming back and then probably changing your plan together is the way to deal with your fear. A single step will never help.

Conclusion

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. 

Follow the above-written pointers to bid adieu to your fear once and for all. 

Footnote

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