What Does “Love Your Body” Mean?
What Does “Love Your Body” Mean?
You have likely come across many people in life who do not love their bodies and wish that they could have a different one.
They believe and feel that their life would be so much happier and better if they could switch their body. I wish that were not the case and everyone would learn to love their body. What does “love your body” mean exactly?
Loving your body means learning to trust, accept, and appreciate it no matter what age, phase, or stage of life you are in. Knowing that your body is strong, perfect, and serving a very important role in your life. It is housing your soul while you are here on the earth to fulfill your purpose and calling.
You may be wondering, what are some reasons that would cause you to not love, accept and appreciate your body? Let’s answer that question below.
Why Can’t I Love My Body?
Some of the reasons why you may be finding it hard to love your body are because you think it is not the right size and color based on what you have been told by people around you, society, and what you have seen in the media as the ideal body type to strive for.
Let’s discuss next some reasons why it is so important to learn to love your body.
Why It Is Important To Learn To Love Your Body
Thank God that we all come in so many different shapes and sizes and there is no one type of ideal body. Life would be boring if we all looked the same.
You cannot give up control of your happiness to something outside of you because unfortunately, the criteria for what is considered to be an ideal body type today may change tomorrow.
Know that your body is also always going to be in transition and will continue to change throughout your life. The only part of your that is changeless is your soul.
The sooner you learn to appreciate and love your body the more likely you will be able to live your best life. Here are 7 reasons why you need to appreciate, accept, and love your body.
Improve Your Self Esteem And Image
When you start to practice self-love and appreciate your body it will improve your self-esteem and image because you will know that your love for your body comes from within you and not from outside and is not dependent on others.
You do not need anybody else to tell you whether you deserve to be loved, and accepted, based on whether it is considered to be perfect, the right color, or the right shape. You are perfect, enough, and matter the way you are or you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t matter just the way you are.
Knowing that will improve both your self-esteem and your self-image and give you the confidence to live your authentic life on your terms and to take on more challenges in life.
You will believe in yourself and feel empowered and be able to trust that you are fine, enough and will be able to do anything that you want to. Your life has infinite possibilities.
Feel Happier
You will feel happier and more content with your life because you will stop comparing yourself to other people. You will accept that you are here to fulfill a purpose and trust that you are in the right body to be able to do so. You will be able to catch, reduce and eventually stop your self-talk.
You will be able to feel better about yourself emotionally and will be less likely to suffer from depression and anxiety by being very content with who you are.
Have Better Physical Health
You will have more energy, better physical health, and well-being because your love for your body will cause you to look after it better. You will feed it the right nutritious food, get enough sleep, and exercise regularly so that you can have the energy to serve and fulfill your purpose.
You would be less likely to abuse your body and form any bad addictions like smoking drinking, smoking, and doing drugs.
Serve As A Positive Role Model
When you learn to accept and love your body as it is at every stage of your life you will serve as a positive role model and serve as an inspiration to others especially the members of our younger generation.
Teach them that there is no ideal body and that your body will always be in transition as you go through different stages of life. No one should have the power to dictate what you need to look like to be happy. You were not born to please everybody. You are here to fulfill your purpose the details of which are known by your soul and your creator.
Improve Your Relationships
Loving your body will help improve your relationships. It will help you feel more comfortable being intimate with your partner.
You will be able to attract healthier relationships in which people love and accept you the way you are and do not expect and demand that you go through procedures to change your body before they can love you. Never change your body for anyone.
Increase Creativity
You will feel bolder, and more creative in expressing your authentic style and live your life confidently on your terms. You feel comfortable dressing, accepting, and loving your body no matter your size, color, and sex.
Greater Sense Of Purpose
You will be more passionate and have a greater sense of purpose and be drawn to have goals for fulfillment. You will be less likely to worry about things and people whose opinion does not matter.
You will learn to respect, be kind to yourself, and be around a community of people who are also loving and accepting of you just like you accept yourself.
You may be wondering how you can begin to love, accept, and appreciate your body. Let’s discuss that next.
How Can I Love, Accept And Appreciate My Body
If you want to start loving your body more start a regular daily meditation practice to center yourself, and become aware of who you are, and your divinity, become aware of your negative self-talk and learn to reduce and stop it, and recite positive affirmations about your body daily.
Stop consuming negativity and do not be around negative people, surround yourself with supportive people who love and accept you, and learn to challenge and not follow any societal rules that do not serve you.
In Conclusion, loving your body means learning to trust, accept and appreciate it no matter what age, phase, or stage of life you are in. Knowing that your body is strong, perfect, and serving a very important role in your life. It is housing your soul while you are here on the earth to fulfill your purpose and calling.
Some of the reasons why you may be finding it hard to love your body are because you think it is not the right size and color based on what you have been told by people around you, society, and what you have seen in the media as the ideal body type to strive for.
You also know 7 reasons why you need to appreciate and love your body namely it will improve your self-image and esteem, make you feel happier, inspire you to have better physical health, make you a positive role model, improve your relationships, increase your creativity and give you a greater sense of purpose.
If you want to start loving your body more start a regular daily meditation practice to center yourself, and become aware of who you are, and your divinity, become aware of your negative self-talk and learn to reduce and stop it, and recite positive affirmations about your body daily.
Stop consuming negativity and do not be around negative people, surround yourself with supportive people who love and accept you, and learn to challenge and not follow any societal rules that do not serve you.
Next, read what is positive thinking and living for further helpful insights and tips.