Love.Your.Body 💗

There are a few things in life that most of us have plenty of issues around……romantic relationships, money and our bodies being some of the top ones! In my life I’ve experienced hating my body because of how it looked and also how it ‘behaved’ and of course I’m far from alone here! The meditation I made for you will help you reframe how you feel about your body so you can start to lean into loving it (or loving it more), no matter how it looks or if you have any ailments or illness.

As I say in the meditation it is possible to love and accept your body and want to change or ‘improve’ it at the same time. Like my main man Eckhart Tolle says: ‘What you accept you go beyond.’

I also say in the meditation it’s helpful to not say : ‘I have a bad knee’ etc when a part of your body is injured/not functioning well. This might seem like a small thing but shifting away from this is powerful; in truth your body is never ‘bad’ or misbehaving but only ever lovingly any loyally there for you and responding to you. As the saying goes ‘it keeps score and it never lies’. In other words, your body is a physical mirror for your emotions, your lifestyle, what you’ve been doing to it, more than the other way around. Making the shift from blaming and hating on it (staying stuck with what is energy), and towards appreciating is so transformative.

The mind will tell you that pushing against unwanted will ‘get it away’, but the opposite of this is actually true. (Again, as Eckhart said!) This flipping of the script relative to your body is incredibly powerful.

The other thing I want to mention relative to how your body looks is this: I was doing some coaching last year and we talked about mirror work. The coach suggested I do a bunch of work related to image and so on. After the session as I pondered what we’d chatted about I realised I didn’t need to get all embroiled in that; instead anytime I saw my reflection or a photo of myself I didn’t like and my mind offered up the thought: ‘I look disgusting’ or similar, all I needed to do was shift this to: ‘This is what an attractive woman looks like when….’ Or: ‘That’s an unflattering photo/angle/lighting.’

This shift is so helpful because going along with a globalised thought like: ‘I’m ugly’ or similar opens the floodgates to a deluge of similar negative thoughts it can be challenging to extract yourself from.

So, two key reframes here:

1-Begin to lean into loving your body/loving it more as is, and see it’s never doing you wrong but instead responding to and loving you at all times.

2-Anytime you see an image of yourself you don’t like, DON’T go along with any kind of globalised thoughts such as ‘I’m ugly’, instead use the ‘This is what an attractive woman looks like when…’ (or similar wording that works for you), or ‘That’s unflattering.’

I super hope this helps,

Zofie x