Re: Re: comfortable in body?

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lori wrote:

> I think you've been given some real challenges re health issues so I can

> understand that it may be very challenging to view your body as a friend

> to you in any way. I think if I had these health challenges I might feel

> some degree of anger towards my body, I don't know if you do or not?

Definitely. But - hey! - it was me[1] that did the damage. My body for

sure didn't tell me to stuff myself and not exercise for 15 years.

> I

> wonder if you've ever made a list of the things your body does for you in

> a positive way, even though it gives you some real challenges?

Yes, but that wasn't very helpful. Maybe I wasn't ready for that

exercise back then, I'm not sure.

> I mean I know it's pumping blood for you and you're definitely breathing,

> which in my humble opinion, lol, is a really, really good thing!

Yes, these were the kinds of things I came up with back then. I don't

know why I can't be grateful for these things. Maybe I'm not really

angry at my BODY (and if so, it's uncalled for), but maybe I AM, but

it's totally stupid to be. Like yelling at a co-worker who gave signals

that a chore was to hard to do for him for not being able to get the

work done.

All that food and not enough exercise was simply too much for my body to

cope for and I can't stop yelling at it because it's too stupid to cope

with my mistakes... err...

Beating myself up because of that doesn't help either... *grrr*

Maybe I'm going to do the 4-day-win about " connecting with the body

through writing " . Sounded quite interesting when I read it.

> What else does it do good for you despite the obvious challenges?

At the moment I view my body as something I have to drag through life.

It's so huge and weak at the same time. Needs too much space, bumps into

stuff, is stiff and not strong. It aches and feels just awful despite

doing yoga. I have a hard time pushing the thoughts away how much more

flexible and how much stonger my body was in the past. How much more

HEALTHY, without all these aches and diabetes. :-(((

> And also just have a thought that we are so very, very much more than our

> bodies as you know already; our spiritual side and personality really do

> mean so much even if our society may not always affirm this.

After all it's the body we see first and it's the body that carries us

through our day.

> Anyway, hope you're having a decent day. I had to shovel about three to

> four feet deep snow today, but I had a neighbor volunteer to lend me a

> hand, and that was a big help!! The snow certainly looks beautiful and

> I'm glad it's here in time for the holidays.

Regards

s.

[1] " me " like in " my brain/mind "

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Hi s.,

You say that you stuffed yourself and didn't exercise for 15 years.

I think there must be reasons why you "stuffed" yourself, or maybe I aught to say overate instead, and I wonder if you can look back on the reasons and find compassion for yourself because usually people are just doing the best they can to cope with life circumstances, and maybe the overeating was the best you knew how to cope with tough circumstances? So maybe you and your body do deserve a compassionate understanding from the self-nurturing part of yourself? Are you in touch with the self-nurturing part of yourself? It seems like you are since you're looking for ways to help yourself. So maybe the self-nurturing part of you can extend compassion and forgiveness to you and your body for the overeating you'd done?

Just a thought.

laurie

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Sun, December 20, 2009 2:07:19 PMSubject: Re: Re: comfortable in body?

lori <laurietessyahoo (DOT) com> wrote:> I think you've been given some real challenges re health issues so I can> understand that it may be very challenging to view your body as a friend> to you in any way. I think if I had these health challenges I might feel> some degree of anger towards my body, I don't know if you do or not? Definitely. But - hey! - it was me[1] that did the damage. My body forsure didn't tell me to stuff myself and not exercise for 15 years..