ENRICH YOUR HEALTH
- RISE Ann Wicken
- May 17, 2021
- 2 min read
We’ve all seen it before. The perfect picture of health.
The thin, barely clad, glamorous young woman or the buff, bronzed, shirtless guy indulging in a
green smoothie post workout as they smile and laugh.
Who of you ever looks like that after a workout?
IT ALWAYS LOOKS MORE LIKE THIS!
As a woman, in my early 50s, I find all the BS around fitness, diets and appearance most disturbing.
Sadly, I see *Dysmorphia as an ever-present issue in woman and an ever-growing number of men, and not just young people but people my age and older.
Bloody hell when will we get beyond this notion that skinny, toned and starving are the goals to being healthy?
How often do you think or hear people say how healthy and fit someone is based entirely on how they look?
How is it possible to judge someone’s health based solely on their appearance?
Why is it that appearance seems to be what society sets as a primary standard of health?
LET ME SAY THIS AGAIN!
Your overall health is not determined by your physical appearance alone.
Health is not about how you look, health is about how you feel.
Mental, emotional, social (and spiritual) health is equally as important.
On any given day you may be feeling well in none, some, or all areas of your health. We all have days when we feel like we can skip and dance through the day like a 3-year-old girl dressed in a tutu, carefree happy and enthusiastic for life. Other days we feel like we are wearing lead boots and a suit of chainmail, weighed down and overburdened.
It’s important that you think of health as more than just what you look like. Be sure to check in with your:
Mind – how are you thinking and talking to yourself today?
Emotions – how are you feeling and letting yourself react today?
Relationships – how is your connection with others today?
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“I have been LOVING doing your workouts. I love that they are only 30 minutes so I can always squeeze one in. I LOVE that you don’t bang on about losing weight and just ENJOY movement and I love that you don’t have a shitty annoying voice like everyone else on Youtube.” GH
*Dysmorphia a mental illness involving obsessive focus on a perceived flaw in appearance. The flaw may be minor or imagined but the person may spend hours a day fixated on it or trying to fix it. The person may try cosmetic procedures or exercise to excess.
All very true. Narcissism seems to have become an industry nowadays, with Social media and television full of vacuous individuals preening themselves. Unfortunately it gets in the way of making valued connections and authentic relationships. Is it getting worse, or was it always thus, and we become wiser as we get older ?