Do you love it when you hear someone “spiritual” say in a peaceful calm way with a smile at you, “You need to love your body?” I don’t. I know it’s true ultimately, but how exactly do I love my body when everything around me tells me I have to look like someone else? It seems like a foreign concept really.
I am around 5’2” and do not look like a magazine cover. I will never look like a runway model. That doesn’t mean I am not beautiful in my own way though. Anyway… back to the subject at hand…
Loving our bodies… to be honest this is still a challenge for me. I work on this daily. In many regards I get my Rockstar love on regular, but loving and accepting my body? This one is a tough one….
Like this morning when I had a rare moment of quiet in my home and decided to do some yoga. Everything was going great. I was feeling quite warrior-like and strong–until I came to a pose called the shoulder stand. Essentially this is where we lift our legs up pointing towards the sky while supporting our back and tucking our chin into our neck, like this:
My shirt slowly rolled up and then there I was, looking at my belly. I should first preface this by saying my three awesome Rockstar daughters absolutely LOVE my squishy post-baby belly. I sooo wish I felt the same. I try to look at it and feel appreciative for the home it provided 3 times to my children. Even my husband loves my body (miraculously and thankfully). But ME…loving the odd shaped squishy belly? This one is a tough one.
I’m working on it. I am not perfect. I want to love every inch of me, but self love and self acceptance is a journey. Sometimes it feels like a battle I do not always win. I still get up the next morning and start again. And that’s the point Rockstars- we focus on the incremental steps of change and growth. It’s not necessary to instantly wake up and love yourself (although that would be cool). What’s important is loving yourself a little bit more each day.
That’s about as real as I can get with you all Now I’m going to practice what I preach and focus on loving myself a little bit more today. One of the great resources that help me is using EFT (the Emotional Freedom Technique). For a great free resource on YouTube on how to love yourself a bit more, try this awesome short EFT exercise HERE and let us know how it works for you. You’ve got this!
