How to Fall In Love With Your Health

How to Fall In Love With Your Health

Honestly, it starts with how you take care of yourself. It is in the cultivation of your health that you find self-love because after all, love is more than a feeling, it is an action. For too long we have been taught to believe that health is just the absence of disease and for someone living with a chronic disease, it means we are never healthy. I offer a new perspective of health. A definition of health that is not static, one that is flexible, one that allows you to define what health is day-to-day in a way that allows you to achieve it, sustain it and love yourself.

Here are 5 examples of how to focus on what’s right about your health so you can fall in love with it!

1. Shift Your Focus to What is Possible

There is always opportunity. If there is something you can do to improve your health, focus on what you can do instead of what needs to change. For example, if you eat too much refined sugar, then rather than spend your energy thinking of what you have to give up, pick one nutritious food to add into the mix. Think about it like balancing the scales.

2. Let go of Perfection With Acceptance and Tolerance

You do not have to be perfect to be good. Let go of the idea that to be healthy you must be perfect inside and out. Be more accepting of your strengths and weaknesses or another way to think about it, is skills and inabilities.

3. Scale Your Health Goals and Build Confidence

Scale your health goals in a way that you feel is truly achievable. By accomplishing goals we build confidence and that fuels future endeavors. For example, pick one meal per day to rev up on the nutrient density, let the other remain as they are for now and maybe always. This will also help overcome the fear of failure we unfortunately often feel related to taking on a new health endeavor. 

4. Use Affirming Positive Words

Eliminate the words; can’t, won’t, hate, too hard, try from your vocabulary and instead use; can, able, explore, practice, experiment.

5. Pay Yourself A Compliment

Every day pay yourself a compliment; in the end, you will receive dividends to add to your portfolio.

As you can see, feeling healthy requires you to accept and tolerate an imperfect body, stop focusing on what you cannot do, and give up thought patterns of self-loathing to embrace and explore the possibility of health. From the list above, pick the one that resonates the most with you and start there.