Work With Your Body Instead of Against it [1]

“The body and mind are inextricably connected; and the former is a physical manifestation of the latter-what we feel, what we repetitively think of and believe about ourselves-what we deserve: health, life and ease or struggle and a slow death.”- Amy Jalapeno

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Our bodies are so good to us yet we often fail to recognize this. Our legs and arms help us to move, our hearts pump blood, and our lungs breathe in oxygen, without even the slightest conscious thought that they are doing so, and we so often take these things for granted. In fact, if anything, instead of appreciating our body for the amazing machine that it is, we talk negatively towards it.

We critique, judge, and compare our bodies against this version of the “perfect body” we have concocted based on what society has told us we “should” look like...