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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
3 Steps To Loving Your Body
The truth is you probably don’t love your body right now. You look in the mirror and see something that you dislike or even despise. You have a thousand observations that are really judgments about just about every single aspect of your body and you can’t imagine changing your perceptions even the slightest. But it doesn't have to be that way forever. To really learn to love your body, even how it is right now, here are some tips:
1. Stop hating your body. It is almost impossible to change or care for something we hate. If we are going to take better care of our bodies, we need to change our attitudes about them. We have to learn to love them.
Loving your body does not mean that you have to like your body. Many weight-challenged individuals resist this because they think they have to like it before they lose all that nasty weight. But that is not really necessary. Loving your body is different from liking it and anyone can develop the ability to have body love. Body love means that you have to learn to care for your body, have some compassion for your body, relate to your body as if it was an abused child that showed up on your door step and asked for your help. If you begin to see your body as an object worthy of your love (not like) then the entire process of caring for it will change.
2. Listen to your body. Most people who are overweight stopped listening to their bodies long ago. We weight-challenged people learned that food would help us manage our unpleasant feelings. Once we discovered this, we stopped listening to our bodies and paid attention only to our emotions.
Every situation we face we look towards food. Then that sadness, loneliness and hurt all combined to force us to eat tons of ice cream and cake and candy bars and anything that would fill that terrible empty space that those feelings cause. Pretty soon we lost awareness of our body’s messages of being full or satisfied and eating became almost always about feeling better. Then we got fatter.
The truth is, your body is actually your friend and can tell you exactly what you need and want to eat and when you are full and satisfied. You don’t have to like your body to listen to it. But if you do listen, you will discover that it will be the best weight-loss friend you ever had.
3. Stop your body-criticizing monologues. You know exactly what I mean here. I am talking about your constant mental attacks on your body every time you happen to look in a mirror. You would not tolerate that kind of abuse from anyone on this planet. So decide to stop doing it to your own body. It never helps and it usually makes you feel so bad that you want to eat to make yourself feel better.
Ending your body-criticizing monologues will create a space in which you can listen to and care for your body whether you like that body or not. Soon you may even notice that your body thoughts are becoming a bit more compassionate and then you will be on the way to really loving yourself and your body.
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