Happy New Year! It's that time of the year again when everyone is making their new year's resolutions with the most common of all being weight loss. From exercise equipment, gym memberships and diet programs, we're surrounded by the pressures of weight loss marketing and media influence. But consider this, how many pieces of exercise equipment have you purchased but only used a few times? How many diets have you tried and disliked because you felt miserably restricted? Did you join the gym because you "should" but dreaded going?
I'd like to support and encourage everyone to seek lasting overall health this year, mind, body and soul. Connect with yourself by appreciating and accepting your body. Move your body in a way that not only brings you enjoyment but energy and inner peace. Instead of restriction or dieting, develop a healthy relationship with food by practicing intuitive eating. Listen and respond kindly to your body's hunger and fullness, wants and needs. And finally, re-connect with your spirit and healthy soul self, that part of you that wants to live and be free every moment of every day.
No number on a scale, fad diet or strenuous exercise program will deliver the healing, long lasting happiness that self love and acceptance will. So throw out those superficial resolutions and resolve to be present in your life this year and always.
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I will continue to check back on this one to encourage me --- trying to lose just a bit before my 25!!! Class reunion this year -- Yikes! Such a good message you are sharing with the world. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou've reminded me that the best resolution--for me, at least--is to remember to love myself enough to care *for* my body. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
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