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Weight Loss and Health Secrets with Jason Christoff

Get To The Root - In Order To Lose Weight and Get Healthy (Final Part)

In the last 2 articles I have reviewed the idea that most people have great difficulty sticking to a healthy living regime because they may be unfamiliar with the simple act of loving themselves.

If you interviewed a group of people on the street you would get near 100% of them answering that they do indeed love themselves. Oddly enough, the people who are the unhealthiest usually make the most emphatic declaration of loving themselves but if you look at their actions we often see something completely different. People who really love themselves get up and respect the body with every decision they’ll make during the day. Loving oneself means placing the health of the body first and everything else goes into the second priority position.

The foundation of a day for someone who loves themselves begins with the concept of unconditional love for self and other. That means you love yourself no matter what cloths you wear, how you look etc and you also don’t judge ‘others” based on how they look, what they’re wearing or if you agree with their lifestyle or not.

Unconditional love is the opposite of conditional love. We are taught conditional love by certain institutions in our lives so sometimes we’re not even aware if we are loving ourselves in the right way or being loved by others properly as well. Even some of our religious icons are portrayed as providing us with conditional love. The most famous of course is that if you’re good you get to go to heaven and if you’re bad you get to cozy up for ever in hell.

The conventional idea of Santa also sees children receiving presents if they’re good and coal if they’re bad. We are taught early in life that love can be taken away from us at anytime and this conditional love model is based on controlling someone else’s behavior. We also see this in schools with certain behaviors worthy of the “A” grade and the people who don’t repeat exactly what they’re told receiving lesser grades. We are also taught to love our partners using the same conditional love model. We tell our lovers that we will take our love away if they do this or that, or find others attractive etc. When we’re surrounded by conditional love and judgment we are prone to love ourselves and judge ourselves in the same unhealthy way.

Unconditional love means you don’t judge yourself or others and you treat the body as a temple. Coffee drinking, as the first meal of a day, is a concrete sign of body disrespect because the body needs food, not coffee. Whole organic live food at every meal is the highest standard of body love anyone can show themselves. Someone who wants to flog themselves and increase their suffering will find as many ways to hurt themselves as possible. Processed foods, alcohol, narcotics, tattoos, body piercing, bad sleep habits, surgeries, steroids, vaccines, medications etc You name it and they’re usually into it because “body disrespect” is an easy habit to develop in our culture. Even their choices of entertainment often involve representations that hurt the body. (violent movies, UFC obsessions, gambling etc)

Restrictive diet practices are not a form of body love and are unfortunately a key component of body disrespect. Body love means getting in touch with the body and supporting its’ natural function. Body love is about taking full advantage of the body you were given. A proper amount of exercise is what the body loves for movement. No exercise at all or excess forms of exercise, like Iron Man competitions or marathons, are often the form of exercise chosen by people who are more familiar with the body abuse model. People who don’t love their bodies in the right way often do work yet they’re more prone to be workaholics because love of self doesn’t flow easily in their lives. It’s important to understand that people who have habits of body disrespect often care for others immensely but if you study their behavior they give all their energy to others as a way to avoid loving themselves. These people often care for others until their own health deteriorates. (the “Jesus on the Cross” syndrome) They are usually chronic fundraisers or “do-gooders” but if you look at them it’s obvious they never “do good” for themselves because they reject the idea of loving self first and others second.

If you want to know more about body love and even why people are programmed to hurt themselves, as opposed to loving themselves please visit my health website http://www.jchristoff.com. Loving yourself needs to be mastered before you become healthy because everything you need to do, to be healthy, involves some form of body love. If you’re not familiar with loving yourself you won’t be able to do the simple things, which will make you lose weight and foster health.

 

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