Comments on: Love Your Body, Love Your Life http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2009/11/love-your-body-love-your-life/ The Power of Appreciation Thu, 17 May 2012 13:10:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jessica http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2009/11/love-your-body-love-your-life/#comment-556 Jessica Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:54:15 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=186#comment-556 I've been suffering from some health problems lately which I have been working hard to heal. Along the way however I have felt resentful of my body...thinking "why are you doing this to me? Why don't you just heal". This article helped me realize that I need to be more careful to nurture my body and think positive thoughts and know that it will heal itself in time. Thanks for your guidance as always. I’ve been suffering from some health problems lately which I have been working hard to heal. Along the way however I have felt resentful of my body…thinking “why are you doing this to me? Why don’t you just heal”. This article helped me realize that I need to be more careful to nurture my body and think positive thoughts and know that it will heal itself in time. Thanks for your guidance as always.

]]> By: Mary McManus http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2009/11/love-your-body-love-your-life/#comment-544 Mary McManus Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:23:39 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=186#comment-544 Hi everyone! I hated my body for years because I had paralytic polio when I was 5 years old. Because I hated my body, it hated me and I experienced many medical problems. In December 2006 I was blessed with the diagnosis of post polio syndrome - in a sense I had hit rock bottom and the only way out was up. I learned how to love my body for the first time in my life thanks to so many healing angels at Spaulding Rehab Hospital in Boston. As I saw the love and compassion they had for me, I was able to use it as a mirror and embarked on a journey of healing mind, body and spirit. I discovered the gift of poetry-although my body was immobilized by the post polio, my spirit flew free and I visualized and imagined healing. I celebrated my body and as I loved my body just as it was while imagining feeling free and dancing, physical healing began to take place. On April 20, 2009 I crossed the finish line of the 2009 Boston Marathon as a mobility impaired runner raising $10,535 for Spaulding Rehab. I now speak at Rotary Clubs, running clubs and any venue that invites me to share my journey to demonstrate how our bodies may be 'imperfect' but our we are perfection and beauty in Spirit. I am no longer ashamed of experiencing tremors and embrace my uniqueness. I have also found a passion in the crisis of polio and post polio syndrome - besides raising funds for Spaulding Rehab by running the marathon, I donate 20% of book sales to Spaulding's Polio Fund; when members of Rotary International purchase my book, I donate 20% to their End Polio Now Campaign. My dream is to create a polio free world and to help those who have already experienced polio and post polio syndrome to find their spiritual freedom and celebrate and rejoice who they truly are despite any physical challenges that they/we face. Hi everyone! I hated my body for years because I had paralytic polio when I was 5 years old. Because I hated my body, it hated me and I experienced many medical problems. In December 2006 I was blessed with the diagnosis of post polio syndrome - in a sense I had hit rock bottom and the only way out was up. I learned how to love my body for the first time in my life thanks to so many healing angels at Spaulding Rehab Hospital in Boston. As I saw the love and compassion they had for me, I was able to use it as a mirror and embarked on a journey of healing mind, body and spirit. I discovered the gift of poetry-although my body was immobilized by the post polio, my spirit flew free and I visualized and imagined healing. I celebrated my body and as I loved my body just as it was while imagining feeling free and dancing, physical healing began to take place. On April 20, 2009 I crossed the finish line of the 2009 Boston Marathon as a mobility impaired runner raising $10,535 for Spaulding Rehab. I now speak at Rotary Clubs, running clubs and any venue that invites me to share my journey to demonstrate how our bodies may be ‘imperfect’ but our we are perfection and beauty in Spirit. I am no longer ashamed of experiencing tremors and embrace my uniqueness. I have also found a passion in the crisis of polio and post polio syndrome - besides raising funds for Spaulding Rehab by running the marathon, I donate 20% of book sales to Spaulding’s Polio Fund; when members of Rotary International purchase my book, I donate 20% to their End Polio Now Campaign. My dream is to create a polio free world and to help those who have already experienced polio and post polio syndrome to find their spiritual freedom and celebrate and rejoice who they truly are despite any physical challenges that they/we face.

]]> By: Lisa Earle McLeod http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2009/11/love-your-body-love-your-life/#comment-543 Lisa Earle McLeod Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:46:38 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=186#comment-543 Two truths: 1. It's hard to feel good about your body if you go on television, it magnifies every flaw. 2. It's disrespectful to feel bad about your body if you've ever given birth. Anyone who has ever pushed a real live human being out of their body should be grateful and in awe, no matter how many skinny new york news anchors they have to sit next to. Remind me of this next time I go on a book tour. Two truths:

1. It’s hard to feel good about your body if you go on television, it magnifies every flaw.

2. It’s disrespectful to feel bad about your body if you’ve ever given birth.

Anyone who has ever pushed a real live human being out of their body should be grateful and in awe, no matter how many skinny new york news anchors they have to sit next to.

Remind me of this next time I go on a book tour.

]]> By: Stephanie Romeo http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2009/11/love-your-body-love-your-life/#comment-542 Stephanie Romeo Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:15:50 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=186#comment-542 Acceptance....is the key to all my problems. I struggle with loving my body as well. I should be treating my body with golden gloves and every bit of kindness I can muster up. I've abused my body for years with drugs and cigarettes. I have not used drugs for 3 years now and I am presently battling smoking. I just happened on to your blog and I think God is doing for me what I can not do for myself. When I was reading about loving my body I started thinking how blessed I am and there must be a reason I am still alive. It gave me the courage to not go buy any cigarettes. Thank you! I agree that it is a deeper issue and definitely we are programmed to think, feel and believe if are body's are not perfect or close to perfect we are somehow less of a person. For me, honestly, I hate to say this....for years my body was a way to get attention. I don't turn as many heads now... how sick to want someone to be attracted to me based on my looks. Now it gives me understanding to why my past relationships were so bad. I think it is human to want to look nice. I hope that for today I will put more emphasis on feeling good and healthy above any physical appearance. You can spend time shining up the outside all you want but it won't fix the inside. It is like having trouble with your car's engine and taking it to the mechanic an saying, just wash it up, put some wax on it and it will be fine. It doesn't help the car run any better. Acceptance….is the key to all my problems. I struggle with loving my body as well. I should be treating my body with golden gloves and every bit of kindness I can muster up. I’ve abused my body for years with drugs and cigarettes. I have not used drugs for 3 years now and I am presently battling smoking. I just happened on to your blog and I think God is doing for me what I can not do for myself.

When I was reading about loving my body I started thinking how blessed I am and there must be a reason I am still alive. It gave me the courage to not go buy any cigarettes. Thank you!

I agree that it is a deeper issue and definitely we are programmed to think, feel and believe if are body’s are not perfect or close to perfect we are somehow less of a person. For me, honestly, I hate to say this….for years my body was a way to get attention. I don’t turn as many heads now… how sick to want someone to be attracted to me based on my looks. Now it gives me understanding to why my past relationships were so bad.

I think it is human to want to look nice. I hope that for today I will put more emphasis on feeling good and healthy above any physical appearance. You can spend time shining up the outside all you want but it won’t fix the inside. It is like having trouble with your car’s engine and taking it to the mechanic an saying, just wash it up, put some wax on it and it will be fine. It doesn’t help the car run any better.

]]> By: Jan http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/2009/11/love-your-body-love-your-life/#comment-541 Jan Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:11:12 +0000 http://www.mike-robbins.com/blog/?p=186#comment-541 I have been using EFT, lately, to change the way I relate to, and feel about, my body. It has been fantastic! I have been using EFT, lately, to change the way I relate to, and feel about, my body. It has been fantastic!

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