Become Your Body's Best Friend by Tuning In to Its Actual Experience
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Create a Powerful Ideal Body Image through Loving Your Body as It Is
Use the exercise "Create a Powerful Ideal Body Image through Loving Your Body as It Is" to get in touch your body as you actually experience it, working through your negative feelings about its problems, rediscovering your love for yourself through your body, and evolving it to greater health, strength, beauty, and grace. to create an ideal body image which is based on and aligned with the body that you actually have--rather than an idealized body image which is based on cultural values. to improve your body\'s condition from a place of loving it, rather than hating it.
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Relate Mindfully with Your Body with the Buddhist Posture Meditation
Use the exercise "Relate Mindfully with Your Body with the Buddhist Posture Meditation" to increase your awareness of your body's presence, and how comfortable you are in it. to increase the efficiency of your body's movements, eliminating the nervousness and waste that arises from living unconsciously. to resolve and purge yourself of attitudes that cause stress and distort your body, relaxing tight, fear-based control over it, by understanding clearly that your self is not identified with it.
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Become Whole by Appreciating the Unity of Your Body in Action
Use the exercise "Become Whole by Appreciating the Unity of Your Body in Action" to increase your rapport with your body\'s wisdom, so that by improving your relationship with your body, you are inspired to take consistent care of every part of your body and self. to synchronize your conscious awareness with the feelings and needs of your body by recognizing that it is a single organism that has its own perspective and needs, and by understanding that it will tell you what you need to know if you simply listen.to develop a greater and greater sensitivity to your body\'s perspective while actively involved in doing things throughout your life.
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Befriend Your Body, and Listen to the Nuances of Its Experience
Use the exercise "Befriend Your Body, and Listen to the Nuances of Its Experience" to develop the skill of staying in the moment--even when you have legitimate reasons for being worried or upset--as well as to motivate yourself to stay present for more and more of your life. to gain greater awareness of your body when active, such as when doing yoga or other exercise, while giving or receiving a massage, or while working with your hands or body. to get to know everything about what your body has to tell you throughout the day, so that you can adjust your behavior to reduce stress, tension, and negative habits of thought and attitude.
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Realize the Truth of Your Relationship to Your Body and Its Parts
Use the exercise "Realize the Truth of Your Relationship to Your Body and Its Parts" to more fully understand your relationship with your body, including fully realizing how it is both separate and connected to your true self. to understand your mind by observing the automatic nature of its activity in regards to your body, thus giving you a direct experience of the basic tenets of Buddhism. during a time of concentrated bodywork, at the time of a death in the family, to prepare for energetically healing yourself, while dieting, while dealing with a serious illness, or at a time of despair over your age.
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