There was someone I was talking to this week who needs all my health secrets. They need to get healthy in a hurry so I’m leaving nothing on the table here. This is a complete step by step guide. I’m not sure how many parts this will eventually be. Lets start.

Step #1 – Look at your habits and find which ones represent body love and body disrespect.  Body love is any action that shows respect to the body. Body disrespect is obviously the opposite of that.

Body love is about paying attention to what the body needs to be healthy like having a healthy bowel movement, eating organic unprocessed live food at every meal, not skipping meals, drinking clean spring water in between meals, getting the right amount of exercise, having sex, getting proper sleep, working a normal amount of hours in a day, getting into the sun, interacting with others in a loving way, relaxing as a daily ritual (massage, meditation, yoga etc)……basically just avoiding any action or product that insults the body etc. Body love is about recognizing the body as “supreme intelligence” and supporting it’s function. Body love is about recognizing that the body knows best. You would never hurt something if you really loved it.

Body disrespect is anything that damages the body like taking medications, having surgeries, eating processed foods,  drinking toxic tap water, not having proper sleep habits, drinking alcohol, using narcotics, over exercising, over working, not treating others with love or respect, smoking cigarettes, skipping meals, participating in calorie restrictive diets, avoiding the sun or using toxic block while in the sun, bathing in toxic products (toxic beauty care products, toxic cleaning products. fluoride toothpaste, mercury teeth fillings etc), exposing yourself  to x-rays/CT scans/MRI’s and other toxic radiation, watching excess TV, vaccination, believing in restrictive sexual practices etc. Body disrespect is about thinking the body is the “village idiot“, too dumb to make it’s way successfully through life on it’s own and therefore in need of many forms of forceful or violent persuasion….to keep it’s blundering ways under control. Body disrespect is about thinking the body knows very little and that science knows best.  It’s really easy to abuse things you don’t like.

Now, if you participate in more body disrespect than body love you will be very prone to reject any proposal that makes you more healthy only because body love may be unfamiliar to you as a habit. If you don’t really like your body, hurting it becomes second nature.  If you give a simple healthy diet to a person who disrespects their body, they won’t follow it and it would have nothing to do with the diet. It has to do with them not wanting to love themselves or their bodies. The diet means love and they don’t want to love the body. The diet is not the problem.The love of self is. If the solution involved more body disrespect, the person who hurts themselves would often be in 100% because that’s all they know. That’s why a person who hurts themselves with bad lifestyle choices seeks out toxic drugs or surgeries as the solution when they finally win the game of breaking their body. Self love is absent in the solution and more disrespect/injury is pursued.  

Any thing that shows love, respect and caring to the body is often rejected immediately because it doesn’t fit the “disrespect” model that person has been living since their very first years on the planet.  The organizations who teach us to hate our bodies (and therefore ourselves) will be discussed in the next post.

Step #1 – Look over your habits and start categorizing your behavior into body love and body disrespect categories.  Step #2  comes tomorrow………….