Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 3:27PM | Amy C Love Your Body
Love is defined as “an intense feeling of deep affection.”
We love our families, our lovers, our children. And we love our passions and our sports and hobbies.
But when’s the last time you either heard someone say, or said yourself, “I love my body.” (And really meant it.)
How many people do you think have an intense feeling of deep affection for the skin they’re in? I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking that number’s pretty small.
Loving your body isn’t about looking good or performing well. It’s about connecting to our body as part of who we are.
We are one and the same with our bodies. Yet so many of us fight it. We launch long and drawn out battles with all the things we can’t stand about our bodies. It’s like this disconnection with something we see as outside of ourselves. Something separate.
Yet it’s not. The mind, the body, the soul, if you will, are all connected and the more we fight against one, the more disconnected and misaligned we become with ourselves. And the more misdirected our energy is spent. And, the more unfulfilled and unhappy we find ourselves in various parts of our lives.
It might be a subtle sense of dissatisfaction with our choices, or vague sense that there’s something we’re missing. Or it could be an all-out-war against our core being.
Whatever it is, reconnecting with ourselves (and the body we inhabit) is essential to feeling as alive and engaged in the world around us as we dream about. When we are aligned with ourselves, possibilities abound and life becomes richer and more vibrant.
get to know your partner
Think about your body as your partner. Your teammate. The one who’s there all the time, through everything with you.
Whether you like it or not, your body is sticking by you, and I think that’s pretty awesome. Who else has stuck by you and experienced your life with you every day?
So what would it look like if you treated your body as you treat your family? Your lover? Your kids? Even your business partner?
What would it look like if you were compassionate toward your body? Accepted it for all that it provides you? Were generous and patient with it?
It’s true: we’re often our own worse enemy. We expect far more from ourselves than we do others. And we tend to be much more critical of ourselves and our actions than we are towards others.
What if the story changed? What could life be like if we exercised our capacity to sincerely love the body we have (and stopped being so critical of it)?
How would it be different? How would we nourish it? Move in it? Would there be a different kind of energy?
love your body: the workshop
I am co-hosting a workshop that will teach you how to begin to build this new, loving relationship with your body.
If you're tired of fighting your body. If you find yourself spending too much time focusing on the negative aspects and want to shift your perspective to the positive and make a strong, internal shift on how you view your body, I hope you’ll join us.
The workshop begins March 6 and registration is open. You can check out more details here, but in short, it's a six-week course that will be conducted over the phone. (You can be anywhere in the world—and even hang out in your PJs).
We’ve been cooking this up over the last several months and it’s going to be good. It’s in-depth, customized and I think (though I might be biased) really special.
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