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	Changing Your Body Image Accepting Your Body Part 4 by Kali Munro, M.Ed., Psychotherapist Kali Munro
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Changing Your Body Image
Accepting Your Body
Part 4
by Kali Munro, M.Ed., Psychotherapist

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Exercise to feel the change from how you feel about your body now to how you want to feel:

Identify how you most often feel about your body. This isn't how your body looks -- it's how you feel inside. Perhaps, you feel heavy, awkward, or cumbersome. Now think about how you would like to feel inside-confident, light, sexy, or graceful. Now use your imagination to consider what object, plant, animal, or colour best represents this feeling. For example, if you feel heavy, maybe a cannon ball would fit. Then focus on how you would like to feel and think of an object, plant, animal, or colour that could represent that, like a feather for lightness, or a cat for gracefulness.

Next, let yourself imagine that you are a cannon ball. Really put yourself into this; let yourself feel what it is like for you. Move around the room as a cannon ball. Is there anything that you like about this feeling, anything that you don't like? Spend time with this and gradually let yourself change into the object that represents how you would like to feel. As you slowly transform from the cannon ball to the feather, take notice of what it feels like to make that change. Be that feather in all its lightness. Move around the room as a feather floating in the air. Let yourself feel what it is like to be light as a feather. Notice how this feels, and what you like, and don't like. Stay with this feeling for awhile. Notice how you move when you are a feather.

When you are done, write out what you learned from the experience. Was it hard moving from one feeling to the other? What did you enjoy and dislike about both feelings? Would you be willing to continue practicing how you want to feel? What does how you usually feel give you? Is there anything scary about feeling the way you want to feel?

Answering these questions can give you important insight about yourself that you may not have known before. For example, some women discover that they feel comfort or safety in feeling heavy, and that they associate fear and vulnerability with feeling light or sexy. It's important to hear your answers and to explore why they are true for you.

These exercises can bring about dramatic change if you really put yourself into them, and make them a part of your life. I've seen women who once walked with timidity and hesitation, walk with newfound confidence after practicing this. The power of visualization can be quite remarkable -- especially in the area of body image -- because you are working on replacing one image for another. You are changing your body image to something that you want.

You Don't Have to Change Your Body to Feel Good

You don't have to change your body to feel better about your body. In fact, it's better not to try to force your body to change, but rather to feel comfortable and alive in the body you have. Loving your body -- and working on feeling the way you want to -- can not only improve your body image, it can help you feel happier in the rest of your life -- because you're accepting yourself.

Suggested readings:

Hutchinson, Marcia Germaine. Transforming Body Image, CA: The Crossing Press, 1985.
Hutchinson, Marcia Germaine. 200 Ways To Love The Body You Have, CA: The Crossing Press, 1999.
Roth, Geneen. When Food Is Love, CA: A Plume Book, 1991.

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