Love your body and it will love you back.00000
When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? Or are your first thoughts about dieting and how to rid yourself of that muffin top? Or how much you “hate” your nose, your hips, your breasts, the cellulite on the backs of your thighs? Stop and take a closer look!
If your body image is often a negative one, you’re not alone. Women are under constant pressure to measure up to unrealistic social and cultural ideals of beauty. Advertising and the media bombard us with images of mostly youthful, ultra-thin women with perfect skin, hair, and teeth.
So it should come as no surprise then that by age 13, roughly 53 percent of American girls are unhappy with their bodies. That number increases to …show more content…
Let them be, and learn to love and respect them.
“The groundwork of all happiness is health.” —Leigh Hunt, poet Think of the last time you were home sick with a cold. You likely weren’t obsessing over height or weight issues. You were probably cheering your body on to conquer that illness so that you could get back in the game of life.
Our health becomes so much more valuable than our appearance particularly in those times when we’re in danger of losing it. In other words, our good health is much more important than how we look.
To truly love your body, focus on being active, healthy, and fit. Get out and move. Walk, swim, bike, dance, do yoga, aerobics, participate in any kind physical activity. Don’t do it because you think you have to in order to look thinner. Do it because it makes you feel strong and energized and confident.
“Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz—something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.” —Chungliang Al Huang, author Your body is an amazing machine. Stop for a moment and think of all the things it does for you, every second of every day. It keeps your lungs breathing, your heart pumping, your muscles flexing so you can pick up a glass, hold someone’s hand, or walk into the next room. Every single cell in your body contains energy and
When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? Or are your first thoughts about dieting and how to rid yourself of that muffin top? Or how much you “hate” your nose, your hips, your breasts, the cellulite on the backs of your thighs? Stop and take a closer look!
If your body image is often a negative one, you’re not alone. Women are under constant pressure to measure up to unrealistic social and cultural ideals of beauty. Advertising and the media bombard us with images of mostly youthful, ultra-thin women with perfect skin, hair, and teeth.
So it should come as no surprise then that by age 13, roughly 53 percent of American girls are unhappy with their bodies. That number increases to …show more content…
Let them be, and learn to love and respect them.
“The groundwork of all happiness is health.” —Leigh Hunt, poet Think of the last time you were home sick with a cold. You likely weren’t obsessing over height or weight issues. You were probably cheering your body on to conquer that illness so that you could get back in the game of life.
Our health becomes so much more valuable than our appearance particularly in those times when we’re in danger of losing it. In other words, our good health is much more important than how we look.
To truly love your body, focus on being active, healthy, and fit. Get out and move. Walk, swim, bike, dance, do yoga, aerobics, participate in any kind physical activity. Don’t do it because you think you have to in order to look thinner. Do it because it makes you feel strong and energized and confident.
“Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz—something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.” —Chungliang Al Huang, author Your body is an amazing machine. Stop for a moment and think of all the things it does for you, every second of every day. It keeps your lungs breathing, your heart pumping, your muscles flexing so you can pick up a glass, hold someone’s hand, or walk into the next room. Every single cell in your body contains energy and