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Hair Care TipsLoving Our bodies "As Is": Three Fun, funny, No-Fail Techniques
by:
Vicki Hannah Lein
Affectionate Your Body “As Is”
Three Fun, Funny, No-Fail Techniques
by Vicki Hannah Lein, M.S. Counseling © 2005
Life coach, singer/songwriter, and humourist Vicki Hannah Lein offers original, no-fail techniques to help you start affectionate your body – as it is. Right now.
I’m Talking to You!
I detected
you groan once
you see the title. I cognize what you are thinking: “Not me. Not ever! I am too disgusting, too fat, too ugly, too unacceptable, too rejected, too skinny, too pock-marked, too flat-chested . . .” I have detected
it all and same
more of it to myself.
Aren’t you tired of want
you looked different? Aren't you sick of trying every new diet that steamrolls down the main road aimed straight at your self-confidence? Do you think possibly you’ve been duped by a youth-obsessed, anorexia-inducing culture? ? Isn’t enough finally enough, already?
A confession: I do not yet love my body altogether as it is. I am in recovery from a disapproval addiction, and I wish need to be in recovery every day for the rest of my life – and so wish you. This is not bad news; it is nice news. Recovery is fun. You wish live longer, laugh more, and have time to appreciate the important parts of your life instead of wasting your precious time focusing on that dry skin on your elbows or those little wrinkles about your eyes.
Technique # 1: Use Your Hateful Thoughts As Reminders to Love Yourself
Self-hate is a cunning beast, and he takes on disguises, telling us his proposal
is “for our own good.” He is relentless and persistent. So use him! Once
he appears, use his energy as a reminder to do thing
lovely and generous for yourself, such as cuddling your sweet lips on the bathroom mirror. You’ll dirty up the mirror, you say? Good! Those kiss marks wish inform
you to not take yourself so seriously, which is half of the battle.
Every time you have a mean thought simply about yourself, grab it by the throat, give it a quick kiss, and send it on its way. “Bye, bye, now!” You say as the hate and judgment scuttle out of your mind. “You go out and play in the middle of the main road now. Don’t look several ways!”
This technique wish activity immediately. Do yourself laugh and you have simply about won the battle. Your laughter has improved your digestion, reduced your stress, augmented the effectiveness of your immune system, and brightened your day. What’s not to like?
Technique #2: Get Out of the Beauty Race
Every person decides what is beautiful and what is ugly. Several photographers, for example, think worms are beautiful
and so they are. We can decide we are beautiful “as is” if we finish scrutiny
ourselves with others.
If you practice finding yourself inadequate, you get nice at it. But you can become an expert who replaces scrutiny
with appreciating the beauty about you – all beauty. Finish scrutiny
yourself to else folk right now. Go cold turkey.
Instead of decision making
yourself or others, enjoy the feel of your skin, the gentleness of a touch, the sweetness of a smile, and the glory of a generous nature. Take pleasure in the beauty of the sun shining in your friend’s golden hair. Simply don’t compare your own “dishwater, mousy” hair with hers.
If you start to compare your aging hand to a younger woman’s, kiss your own hand and say, “I love you, my sweet.” It’s easy to love this hand that works for you all day long – typing, picking up coffee cups, and touching
the cheeks of those you love. Don’t tell your hand it is ugly because it’s showing the unique history of your journey on the planet. Do you actually want the hands of a twelve year old forever? Once
you pay attention to what actually matters, every invitation to compare yourself with others wish turn into a moment of celebration.
Keep a journal. Write in it every day and celebrate yourself and else people. If you are not nice at this to start with, don’t worry. You wish get better.
Technique #3: Look at Yourself Naked in the Mirror and Celebrate Your Body “As Is.”
You can see why I saved this technique for the last. You strength
have to “cheat” once
you try this habit at first, at least it may feel like cheating to you. That’s okay. Is your lip worthy of love? Your temple? How simply about the inside of your arm? Your ears? The area between your thumb and your index finger? Your fingernail? Find several part of your body you find acceptable as it is.
Focus on one body part until you love it. Then find another part to love simply as it is. You strength
say: “I love you, Thumbnail. You are great. You protect me and I would-be be in a earth of hurt without you. I have taken you for granted until now, but I am through with that!”
You Can Do It!
If three techniques feel like too many, pick the one that sounds the most fun and start practicing it every day. You merit to be beloved simply as you are! Be the 1st one on your block to love your body “as is” and see the surprising
benefits. On second thought, who cares what the rest of the block is doing? Love now. You won’t regret it.
Simply simply about the author:
Vicki Hannah Lein is an award-winning counselor, singer/songwriter, international speaker, author, trainer, and life coach. For a free sample of her song “I Merit to Be Loved” and the introduction to her new book Woman with a Voice: Daring to Live Genuinely
Ever After, visit her web site: www.stepintoyourgreatness.us
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