4 Must-Do Mindfulness Exercises To Boost Your Body Image & Life

This comment by the author below "hooked" me at once.  How true this is, when a person's self talk is loaded with self hate, criticism, and worse.


"When I was in a body image black hole, my mind would run with mean thoughts. I’d become one big, clenched ball of self-criticism, anxiety, tension and negativity".


http://blogs.psychcentral.com/weightless/2011/06/4-must-do-mindfulness-exercises-to-boost-your-body-image-life/

"As Bays says in her book, our usual way of looking at life isn’t loving. It’s either neutral or negative. This makes me think of how we zero in on our perceived body flaws. We zero in on our cellulite, pockets of fat and bloated belly, and forget to appreciate ourselves as whole beautiful beings.

Instead, try to look at life with loving eyes. Bays writes: “When people try looking at the world with loving eyes, they report a shift in how they see objects and other people.”

So rather than bashing your body, looking at it with disgust or just being uninterested, see yourself with loving eyes. The same eyes we use “when falling in love, when we see a new baby or a cute animal.”

Here is a book that I most definitely will read. It changes perspective toward one's body and the power of the mind to make one either love or reject self image and body consciousness.  Excellent!