Healthy Body Healthy Mind – 10 Ways To Create Both
Want a healthy body healthy mind? Here are 10 strategies to help you develop a healthier body and mindset today.
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Want a healthy body healthy mind? Perfect! Here are 10 tips to help you develop a healthier body image as a healthy mindset usually leads to a healthy body.
In case you haven’t guessed, life is so much easier when you have a healthy body image.
Why is this so?
Because a healthy mind breeds a healthy body and vice versa.
An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body has the potential to hurt your health.
So please do not let your mind bully your body.
Whether you acknowledge it or not, we are all perfectly imperfect and beautiful just the same.
All of us would gain so many great benefits from simply appreciating, respecting, and learning to love our natural body shape.
The good news is you can love yourself just the way you are while still working on becoming healthier and moving toward the size and shape you prefer. This is also a goal worth working towards.
Your body, mind and soul were designed to act as one. Connect the three and you will align with the life of your dreams. Roxana Jones
Try these strategies to increase your comfort with your body:
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TIP # 1 – Appreciate everything your body can do for you.
Consider that your body can climb, run, walk, dance, sleep, laugh, dream, and myriad of other things. That’s impressive. It is a gift. Appreciate it.
Stop trying to fix your body; it was never broken. Eve Ensler
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TIP # 2 – List the top 5-10 things you love about your body.
It might be your hair, eyes, skin, bellybutton, and feet.
You know what parts you like.
Take a few minutes to think about it or ask your friends.
All of us have something special if we take the time to look for it.
Can your lungs breath?
That is excellent.
Can your mouth smile?
Beautiful.
Can your eyes see?
Another gift.
Can your ears hear?
More things to be grateful for.
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TIP # 3 – Acknowledge that physical beauty is only skin deep.
That applies to certain physical attributes.
However, the physical beauty caused by vibrant health – from eating nutritiously and exercising – is inside and out.
The beauty of your personality can also cause others to see you as a great beauty, even if you notice flaws.
Real women are fat. And thin. And both and neither and otherwise. Hanne Blank
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TIP # 4 – Keep your thoughts positive.
We all have the power to choose our thoughts.
Think positive things and avoid letting the internal criticism creep in.
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TIP # 5 – Wear clothes that make you feel good.
We all have clothes we like to wear. Go with the clothing that makes you feel like a million bucks.
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TIP # 6 – Realize that society’s role models for the physical ideal are impractical.
Most of us could not look like a male or female fashion model regardless of how much work, time, and money we spent.
It’s simply not possible.
Those people are one in several million.
Be grateful for the body you were gifted with.
Love who you are, flaws and all.
The most revolutionary thing you can do is love your body.
People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. Salma Hayek
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TIP # 7 – Think about the most impressive people throughout history.
Ask yourself how much their body or appearance mattered to their success.
Do you think it mattered at all?
The most important accomplishments in history were not accomplished with beauty or brawn.
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TIP # 8 – Ask yourself how you’re benefiting from disliking your body.
What do you gain from speaking negatively about your body?
Remember your body hears everything your mind says.
Is it making you shy, miserable, or less effective?
Is it keeping you from being able to focus on creating the fulfilling life you desire?
Chances are all the results of your disdain are negative.
You may this this will motivate you to try harder.
If so, I hate to break the news to you but it doesn’t work that way.
You can’t hate your way to a body you love.
The mind and the body are not separate.
So what affects one affects the other.
This realization can help put you back on the road to thinking more positively about yourself.
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TIP # 9 – List 5 reasons why it is silly to believe that the more slender or attractive are happier.
You can certainly think of 5 without too much effort.
Here’s the thing.
Your self-worth doesn’t change depending on your size.
Sometimes this is easier to acknowledge in other people.
Do you think that someone who is heavier is less worthy than someone who is thin?
Do you think they are more or less capable of feeling happiness?
Hopefully you can see that your size doesn’t determine those things in you.
There is nothing wrong with your body but there is a lot wrong with the messages which try to convince you otherwise. Rae Smith
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. Louise Hay
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TIP # 10 – Exercise because it feels good.
Please don’t exercise for the sole purpose of losing weight.
Enjoy moving your body and lifting your mood by naturally releasing your endorphins with exercise.
If you need to lose weight, the accompanying weight loss is a great bonus!
All in all, take some time to implement these tips to help you enjoy and appreciate your body more.
Remember you need to take care of your body as it’s the only place you have to live.
Focus on the positives and avoid any negative thoughts about your body.
Think about all the incredible things that your body does for you each and every day.
Make it your goal to fall in love with yourself, with everything you are.
Once you’re able to stop focusing on whether or not your body looks “perfect,” you can move forward with things that are most important to you, like creating the life you desire in the here and now (not “someday when you look different”).
Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.
People always ask me, “You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?” It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Gabourey Sidibe
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