You can’t love your body until you love yourself. So how does one do that? Start with these simple strategies. Let’s start about your limiting beliefs about your body.
Limiting beliefs
We ALL have rules and assumptions that guide our everyday perceptions. If you don’t uncover what they are, you continue to feed them – and they continue to control your life. When you have a belief about yourself, especially your body, it’s natural to hope that things will be different tomorrow. You vow to try harder, to get to the gym, to eat better. When you only look on the surface at what is going on, you will never really get to the source of the problem.
For instance, if you are struggling with your weight, you must give up the number mentally and let go of any rules or views you have about your body image, it’s shape and the number you want to see on the scale. By letting go of these obsessions, you will start to heal
Steps to Getting Rid of Your Limiting Beliefs About Your Body:
- The hardest one, but weight yourself once and then throw away your scale or give it to someone to hold on to for a few months.
- Let go of all the diets you tried and failed in the past. The past doesn’t matter anymore.
- Pick ONE thing you want to change about your eating (your food will have the largest impact on your weight) and only do this one thing until you feel comfortable that it has become a habit. This could take one week or several weeks. (ie. you want to drink less soda, so start to decrease your soda intake)
- Buy a journal. On the first page, write down all of your limiting beliefs. Once you’re done, tear it up and throw it away. Next, write down 3 things that you love about your body. Every morning bring the book with you to the bathroom, look in them mirror and say out loud the three things you wrote down. Repeat this every morning when you wake up and every evening before you go to bed. By doing so, you start your day with positivity and end your day with positivity.
- Replace the negative self-talk with a positive self-talk phrase. For instance, if you say ‘I can’t do this’, instead say’ I have all the strength I need so I CAN do this’.
Letting go of your limiting beliefs takes time, patience, and learning to love yourself. You will have setbacks, but that’s ok. Just keep moving forward and forgive yourself. None of us are perfect and we all make mistakes. Your only job is to have an open mind and by doing so, the next step will present itself.
You’ve GOT THIS!
Your Compassionate Coach,
Maureen
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