"Love Your Body
it's Worth Your Love"

If you'd like to know how to love your body, let me start by asking you this: Did you know that:

• Usually, an average human being has 100,000 hairs on the head? Everyday 50 to 100 hairs are lost from our head but they are replaced the same day?
• On average, a person drinks 16,000 gallons of water in his lifetime?
• The time taken to grow a nail from the base to the extreme tip is usually 6 months?
• Our body contains the following: Sulphur, which is enough to kill all the fleas present on a dog; carbon, which is enough to make 900 pencils; potassium, which is enough to fire a toy cannon; fat, which is enough to make 7 bars of soap; phosphorus, which is enough to make 2,200 match-heads; and water, which is enough to fill a tank of ten-gallon capacity?

This alone is enough to say: "WOW, my body is amazing!". There are so many other things your body is capable of doing that you're probably not even aware of. Like protect you from bacteria. Every square of human skin has 32 million bacteria on it!

It can be hard to love your body when you don't understand what is going on inside. When my body first started going through the changes from a little girl to a teenager, I didn't really feel like loving it. I wasn't really happy with the changes. Especially, all that hair starting to appear everywhere. The pain of my breasts growing (sorry guys, this was for the girls). I'm sure men go through similar discomforts.

There was no way I could love my body. It took me years to even accept it, let alone love it.

"You Can Learn To Love Your Body"

You might be wondering just how to love your body. Especially when you´re having some discomforts or you just don´t like the way it looks.

The first thing you can do is to acknowledge that it is an outstanding machine worthy of love. Everyday it's there taking you through yet another day. Maybe going through moments of stress, dis-ease, abuse... But somehow it survives; somehow it is able to make it out alive.

Now, I'm not talking about the quality of your life right now. I'm just trying to make you see that just having this body is worth thinking about finding ways to love it.

Did you know that your body is connected to your mind through your emotions? That's why you often here teachers referring to the body/mind instead of just the body. Have you ever thought about something and felt a physical response? It could have been anything, good or bad. So what you think about your body is very important. If you think negative about it, it can "hear" you and "feel" those thoughts. Now, how would you feel knowing someone doesn't like the way you look and keeps telling you that day in day out? Pretty miserable huh?!

So the second thing to do is to start thinking positive about your body. Stand in front of the mirror. Ask yourself: "What is it I like about this body?" If you're thinking: "I don't like anything", think again. There is always something nice you can think of. It could be the way you smile, your hair, the shape of your hands, anything. Once you've established that, start focusing on those parts or that part of your body. This helps to start liking other parts as well.

Next start accepting that your body is the way it is and that you are the only one who can change it. That is if you´d like to. You can do this by changing your negative thoughts about it and taking good care of it. By the way doing this might not change the way your body looks at first, but what is more important, it will change the way you think and feel about your body. Believe me you don´t need surgery or going on an expensive diet to help you love your body. Your body will respond to the care and approval you give it by changing into a healthy lovable "machine".

"Take Care Of Your Body"

We all know that eating healthy, drinking enough water and regular exercise are good for us. Eating the right foods alone can make you feel so much better, making it easier to love your body. If you eat junk food, sugar or anything that doesn't contain enough nutrients to give your body what it needs, it can't function properly. You feel bad and start blaming your body when you get sick; making it very hard to love it.

Thinking positive about your body makes it so much easier to take good care of it. Taking care of your body becomes so much easier when you think positive about it. So when you start thinking positive about your body; you will automatically start taking better care of it; you´ll feel great, making it easier to love it.

I put together a free 5-day e-course on "How to Love Your Body". You can sign up for it in case you'd like to learn to change your perception of your body and start feeling great about it.

I wish you all the best on your way to a great life with a great body.

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