Diva
Cambridge Diet Counsellor
No, not the tabloid newspaper but that glass one that you more than likely have adorned in your home!!
It's funny but most of us have at least one mirror in our home and most of us also go out of our way to avoid it....me included!
However, did you know that facing yourself in the mirror at least once a day, and preferably in the outfit that God lovingly gave you for your birthday, is the most powerful weight loss 'drug' currently available!
Paul McKenna advocates doing his mirror exercise daily in order to make friends with your body. Yet it's amazing how many people with a weight issue wince at the very thought of doing this. However, I have learned that this essential in becoming self aware and self accepting. How can you learn to love what you neither see nor accept?
This is a particularly close subject to my heart because it is only recently that I have been able to look in the mirror without judgement and without anger...my weight has increased rather than decreased but now I can look in the mirror and see that I am more than just my body but also that my body is my main source of support as I go through making the physical changes.
So now I'm going to challenge YOU with this easy exercise....
Do this repeatedly each day for a week and I'm sure you will start to feel differently towards your body. Come back and share with us how you're getting on and what observations you are making.
Once you have done this for a week, graduate to the Paul McKenna exercise whereby he challenges you to look at yourself through the eyes of someone who genuinely loves you and cares for you - this one is not for the fainthearted as it can produce floods of tears!!!
It's funny but most of us have at least one mirror in our home and most of us also go out of our way to avoid it....me included!
However, did you know that facing yourself in the mirror at least once a day, and preferably in the outfit that God lovingly gave you for your birthday, is the most powerful weight loss 'drug' currently available!
Paul McKenna advocates doing his mirror exercise daily in order to make friends with your body. Yet it's amazing how many people with a weight issue wince at the very thought of doing this. However, I have learned that this essential in becoming self aware and self accepting. How can you learn to love what you neither see nor accept?
This is a particularly close subject to my heart because it is only recently that I have been able to look in the mirror without judgement and without anger...my weight has increased rather than decreased but now I can look in the mirror and see that I am more than just my body but also that my body is my main source of support as I go through making the physical changes.
So now I'm going to challenge YOU with this easy exercise....
- Stand in front of the mirror and look yourself square in the eyes
- First acknowledge all those areas that you currently don't like
- Also acknowledge that you are in the process of change but you accept your body for all that it has done for you and now you are going to start treating it with the respect that it deserves by rewarding it with a healthy lifestyle to keep it energised and active.
- Look into your eyes again and feel the love, warmth and energy that you have inside for the person looking back at you...
Do this repeatedly each day for a week and I'm sure you will start to feel differently towards your body. Come back and share with us how you're getting on and what observations you are making.
Once you have done this for a week, graduate to the Paul McKenna exercise whereby he challenges you to look at yourself through the eyes of someone who genuinely loves you and cares for you - this one is not for the fainthearted as it can produce floods of tears!!!