Do you do this?

“If you can’t get out of it, get into it.”

One of my all time favorite sayings. Ever.

I think my girl Gretchen Rubin said it.

I use it with everything.

The dishes.

A long car ride.

2020.

And my favorite one.

MY BODY.

Here is the thing.

I have a body. This body. It is not going anywhere (I don’t think it is at least).

I am probably going to be with it for a very long time (again, we shall see).

It is what I will live in until I die. I am going to be in it no matter what.

I literally don’t really have a choice in the matter.

So why not “get into it?”

Love it on purpose?

Greet it everyday in the mirror with reverence?

Say what I think it might like to hear?

Literally get into it - feel it, breathe with it, experience it.

This means:

1. Watching for what my default thinking currently is around my body.

2. Deciding on purpose if I want to keep thinking this way.

3. If I want to think in another way, I chose a new thought that I believe.

This looks like:

1. Default thought: “Oh wow my brain is saying it doesn’t like the little place above my knee cap, my brain says it is kinda chubby and should be more defined, it should kind of go in there, rather than out.”

2. Decide if I want to keep thinking it: Oh god, no I don't want to think that! That makes me feel like a**! It leaves me with some shame and just in a low level bad mood when I chose to think that. It creates all kinds of results I don’t like, like throwing in the towel, comparison, guilt etc etc etc.

3. New chosen thought that I actually believe: “You know what Laura, you have seen hundreds if not thousands of women with legs that look a certain way, so of course you think your old thought, of course you think you should be different than you are, but let’s actually look with fresh eyes and see what we want to think, what if we thought, you know my thighs are actually really cute right there, they are so strong, I actually really love them and all they do for me.”

I have a body.

I have two choices.

Love it or hate it.

It is so much more fun to love it.

So I work to continually, consciously, choose it and love it. Even with all my cultural conditioning.

I have practiced it for so long now I don't even want to get out of it in the first place.

And bonus. Loving it makes it so easy to be at my natural weight permanently and effortlessly.

You can do this practice with anything you feel like you can’t get out of.

Have the Best Week Ever,

Laura

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