Are you okay with loving your body or do you undervalue your worth as a person because of some ill-perceived notion about physical appearances? How you view your body impacts how you feel about your whole being, not just physically, but also emotionally and spiritually. Certainly, we are much more than our bodies. Our physical bodies serves as the representative first impression, showing others who we are. it is important to honor your physical presence. Are you treating your body with the special care it deserves or are you treating it like the uninvited guest at the party?
Becoming comfortable with your body is not about crash dieting and spending hours at the gym to attain that elusive hard body. While I agree that incorporating good eating habits and regular exercise into our lives is important, having a good body image is ultimately about acceptance and loving yourself.
Caring for all your parts, not just the physical, is the fast tract to boosting your
body image. These are a few simple steps meant not only to help nurture and love your physical body, but to also help align your mind, body and spirit into a lovable self image for you to embrace wholeheartedly.
If your body is out of shape, it's because you are not being in it. Being overweight or out of shape is not only about what we eat. It's about our emotional state of being, how we deal with stress, how fast we process and clear life experiences. It's about how our life is going and how we are dealing and relating to it, both now and in the past. If you are overweight or out of shape, simply ask yourself what are you holding on to, what are the things you feel stuck on?
Try as you might, you cannot camouflage old age. We fail to achieve ageless beauty. The reason being that we failed to recognize it when we were young. Ageless beauty, says Ayurveda, comes from within. Ayurveda values inner beauty as much as it does value outer beauty. Beauty, it adds, is based on good health. What is more important is that whenever Ayurveda recommends an external application to enhance your looks, it always has some degree of effect that it exerts internally on you.
As hopeful young women stuff, slice, and dye their God-given bodies into a shell of its original packaging, one has to wonder about the "self" that is left behind. Has it been healed by this "transformation?" Are its hopes, dreams and unique quirks gone with the wave of a scalpel? Or even more alarming, what "self" is in charge now? What is its frame of reference? Is it doomed to be no more substantive than what lies on the surface?
Have you looked in the mirror lately? I mean, really looked in the mirror. What did you see? Were you surprised by the image being reflected back to you? Did it look like you? Did it meet the image you hold of yourself in your mind? Internal imaging is not only about your body image, but it is about your entire being, mind, body and spirit.
Your body is the only vehicle you have been given for this ride called "Life." Taking good care of your body will ensure a longer, happier ride. The following tips integrate your Body, Mind, and Spirit, which are all required to maintain a healthy, happy body!
