3 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Body
How’s your relationship with your body?
For many of us, the answer is “not great.”
From the time we’re young, we’re inundated with messages about how our bodies are not good enough.
Our brains have a built-in negativity bias – a tendency to always look for what’s wrong.
Advertisers capitalize on that by telling us there are things wrong with us that we need their products to fix.
We can reclaim our minds and create the relationship we want with our bodies.
Here are three ways to get started:
Mirror work. Look into your eyes in a mirror, and say “I love you” and other nice things – out loud if possible. Try doing this three minutes a day for thirty days and see how your relationship with your body transforms.
Thought download. Write down all your thoughts about your body. Most of us have habitual negative thoughts that just keep looping around, so it can be very helpful to get them out of our head and onto paper where we can take an objective look at them. For each thought, ask yourself, “Is this 100% true? And “Is this helpful?” Come up with some more helpful thoughts and choose one to practice each day.
Gratitude letter. Write a thank you letter to your body, telling it how much you appreciate it. Write from the perspective of your current self and/or from the perspective of yourself at the end of your life.
Working on our relationship with our bodies is one of the most powerful things we can do to be happier and healthier, and free up our energy to live our best lives and make a difference.
Please take good care of your precious self. Our world needs your gifts of kindness, compassion, and empathy now more than ever.
Hugs,
Liz
