It's Time We Love Our Bodies

It's Time We Love Our Bodies

During my last yoga class I heard a great quote that is worth sharing.

"Did you ever realize how much your body loves you? I mean its always trying to keep you alive. That's all your body has to live for. Your body is making sure your breathe while you sleep, stopping cuts from bleeding, fixing broken bones, finding ways to beat the illnesses that might get you. Your body literally loves you so much. It't time you start loving your body back."

I fell in love with this quote the minute I heard it. Why, you may ask? Because I think it is super easy for all of us to forget how much our bodies do for us on a daily basis, not just in training and racing. Even if we don't forgot how much our bodies do for us do we truly love our bodies. This quote is such a different perspective from much of what I have heard or have experienced in my journey.

Especially around this time of year when we may be indulging a little bit more than we normally do it is easy to start judging our bodies.

Daily, we ask our bodies to engage in strength training, swimming, biking, running, or other activities so that we can accomplish our goals.

I know that recently I have been guilty of judging my body so I put it through a hard week of work when I should have been smarter. Now I am paying for it, bordering on the edge of injury and had to take a few days off to hopefully prevent the injury. Maybe I would not have ended up in this position if I had shown my body a little love instead of judgement.

Our bodies truly are gifts. I don't know about you, but I can't find any other creation that can take grapes, turkey, etc. and use the components to create bodily tissue like muscles, bones, or organs. And that is pretty cool. As the quote says our bodies fight for us to make sure we stay well. They fix bones so that we can move. We don't ask, they just do, because they love us.

So, especially during this time of year when things might a little hard, I am going to show my body a little love instead of judgement.

Please share below any ideas you have for showing your body a little extra love. We can all benefit from the collective wisdom.