Thin dreams
Have you wondered about how you perceived yourself when you were very young?You might remember a confident person curious about life and living. It’s the experiences that gradually seep into you and change the way you think. Then as you grow older, you try to get out of the mess that your thoughts have helped create. Dealing with your body image is just that. It’s revisiting your childhood and looking at the child you once were. Did you perceive yourself as fat, as skinny? Were you just a label?
No.
You had potential. A world to explore. Dreams.
Then as you grew older, the people who started crowding your universe started talking about the way you look and you started noticing. Maybe I am fat. Maybe I’m too skinny. And then it started to hurt. And then it took just a glimpse of yourself in the mirror to feel upset. I’m not good enough. You look at all those perfect bodies on magazine covers and splashed all over tinsel town. You watch the adoration they get and you feel glamor is beyond you, so is recognition and even love.
The story Body image boost key to treating eating disorders explores how self-perception is the key to battling eating disorders. Using a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and “experiential” therapy, doctors at the Menninger clinic have devised a 12 -week Eating disorders Program to help people with all kinds of disorders from anorexia to binge eating.
The program is interactive and takes people with disorders on a journey toward change in attitude. Because at the end of the day, you have to be positive about your self-image and combine a diet-exercise regimen with your change of heart. As they say, a healthy mind makes a healthy body.
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March 1st, 2007 at 2:49 am
hey,
Is it the other way that “your state of mind determines the state of your body”. A happy contented heart will be motivated to look good, be healthy whereas disappointment leads to bad eating habits which starts whowing on the body.
Very interesting article , keep going
March 1st, 2007 at 3:00 am
Thanks for the comment Champ:)
It’s a vicious cycle.If you hate what you look like you won’t be motivated to live a healthier lifestyle. And if your lifestyle sucks,you won’t look good.As simple as that.