Transcending Your Body Image

Today we learn from a very young age to identify with our body; we are acutely aware of the way it looks – too fat, hardly too thin, and God forbid that we should look our age. We surgically remove what we don’t want, artificially implant whatever we believe is missing, collectively spend an infinite amount of time, and millions of pounds “looking perfect”, maybe not realising that, ultimately, what we may be seeking is acceptance, approval, love. We all want to be loved, we want to belong, but we mistakenly believe that we must first be perfect to deserve it.

This perfect body helps to determine who we think we are. It is all about the image we present to the world, and yet, paradoxically, we tend to take no notice of the body’s messages to us. We are oblivious to the way it feels; we are out of touch with it. We have become like automatons, moving through life on automatic pilot, taking our aches and pains in our stride, unaware that the body talks to us, and that it is said that it never lies.

Yet the body can help us access our suppressed emotions, in themselves, a breeding ground for all kinds of dis-ease and, not only integrate them and increase our sense of well-being, but also find in the core of them, the gateway to the source of our being.

The Real Question

Hence, the real question when I look in the mirror is not “how big is my bum?” but “how do I feel inside when I look at myself in the mirror?” Do I love or hate what I see? Do I love or hate myself? What am I worth in my own eyes? Is it safe to fully show up in this body, or do I do almost anything to take myself out of it in order not to feel the fear, the grief, the anger, the self-loathing, that may be lurking there?

Your invitation

The invitation to you today is to truly connect with your body and show up in it, inhabit it fully, make peace with it, integrate your suppressed emotions by fully embracing them, and feel your body relax and “breathe”. You may, by the same token, find yourself less likely to compensate through unhealthy habits.

Nathalie Montille, has the expertise and the experience to facilitate the embracing and letting go of any perceived blocks to accessing your full potential and to showing up fully in your life.

Through a Journey process, Nathalie can, for example, help you access the root cause of the lack of self-worth that is probably making your feel that you are not lovable as you are, that you are not enough, will never be enough.

She can also look at your breathing pattern to determine how this lack of self-worth impacts the way you breathe, hence the way you embrace life. And, using Transformational Breath® she can help you release those physical blocks in your respiratory system. As you get in touch with your body and reclaim your breath, you may find that, by the same token, you begin to reclaim your life.

Take the first step towards embracing and loving yourself just as you are.