From: ‘Don’t beat yourself up’: 10 ways to feel happier with your body as the world reopens

Date:   8/3/2021 2:51:15 AM ( 3 y ago)

Find your true priorities

“We are still in a global pandemic,” says the body-confidence coach Judi Craddock, “and your priority should not be to lose weight. There have been a lot of people expecting to lose weight and get shredded during lockdown, and placing huge pressure on themselves to have this dream body. But that should not be your No 1 priority. Instead, decide what is important to you. Is it reconnecting with family? Nurturing your mental health? Getting back into your hobbies? Put your focus into these things, instead of worrying about how your body looks.”
Focus on what your body can do, not how it looks

Psychologist Dr Suzanne Manser is an advocate of the body-neutrality movement. Many of her clients struggle to feel positive about their bodies. “It’s so hard for many people,” she says. “Body neutrality is easier to get to: focusing your attention on what is actually meaningful about your body, which is the fact that it allows us to live, rather than how it looks.”

In Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, Eric Greitens Navy SEAL says, “The first step to building resilience is to take responsibility for who you are and for your life. If you’re not willing to do that, stop wasting your time reading this letter. The essence of responsibility is the acceptance of the consequences — good and bad — of your actions.”

“When we’re struggling, we don’t need a book in our hands. We need the right words in our minds. When things are tough, a mantra does more good than a manifesto,” writes Greitens.

At the root of resilience is the willingness to take responsibility for your progress and outcome.

The only person that can really push you a little bit further in life is yourself.

Obstacles are uncomfortable, stressful, and can be scary. Sometimes it can feel so overwhelming that you’re not sure how to keep going.

However, if you can embrace the impediment that stands before you, accept the problem as it is and prepare to challenge it, and take action despite the present setback, you can find the way that you didn’t know was there.


 

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