How to Improve Your Body Image - Take the Great Body Image Challenge with Marc David

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Have you ever tried to change the way you think about your body, only to find that it was harder than you thought it would be? If so, you’re not alone. The dialogue you have with yourself about the way you look can be one of the very hardest thought processes to change--and that’s unfortunate, because so many people are suffering from hurtful inner conversations about their body. Where do these painful and damaging thoughts come from, and why is it so difficult to let them go? Why can’t we just replace them with loving, uplifting thoughts that empower us to show our true beauty to the world? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you won’t want to miss this fresh new video from #IPEtv. Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, offers some straight talk about who profits when we’re busy hating our bodies, and poses a challenge that will have YOU looking at your self image in a whole new way. Tune in now!


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Greetings friends, this is Marc David, founder of the Institute for the psychology of eating

Today’s topic: The Great Body Image Challenge

Let’s see if we could agree on one thing from the outset here my friends:

Body image is a pretty tough place to make any kind of headway.
There are a lot of people who simply don’t like their own body.
There are even more people who don’t love their own body.

Stated in another way, there’s a huge amount of people who live in a constant inner conversation of body hate. Women are especially vulnerable to this, though I see it more and more amongst men.

When I say a constant inner conversation of body hate, I’m talking about incessant and silent self-criticism, self attack, self judgment, negative statements aimed at self, feelings of disgust for one’s own body, or body fat, or specific body parts, and so much more.

This is one of the most shocking and unfortunate mental pastimes that people engage in.

It crushes the soul.
It robs us of our power.
It drains our energy.
It has us wasting our time in over-exercising.
It has us wasting our time in foolish diet strategies.
It stops us from being more intimate with others.
It inhibits the flow of love.
It weakens us.
It slows our personal development.
It attracts to us the kind of relationships that often wound us.
And it’s a damaging legacy to pass on to our children.

Most people believe that they can heal their unfortunate image of their own body by simply changing their body. Sounds like it makes sense. Sounds like it would quickly take us out of our misery. It sounds completely reasonable. But quite frankly, I don’t see that working so well. Yes, there’s a small subset of people who lose weight and like themselves better. But the majority of people I meet don’t share that fate. It seldom works.


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