Day 5: Taking Care Of This Magnificent Body

Welcome to Day 5 of this 10-day series on living your life more fully with less stress and greater ease. Each day will offer very short videos that suggest practices to bring into your day.

Maintain your “home” (your body) with caring attention. Our bodies are our permanent home for life on this earth, and we only get one home to care for.

Often, we disconnect from and ignore our bodies (and the helpful messages they send us) or we engage in harmful self-criticisms or self-judgments. But how we care for our bodies has far-reaching implications for our overall health and well-being.

Disclaimer: This video is purely for educational purposes and is not intended as a substitute for mental health intervention or treatment of any kind.

Transcript

Hi, Welcome to day five. Today's invitation is to take some small steps towards taking care of this body of ours, This home that we live in. And it's so easy for us to neglect our body to often live from the head up. And to often have not such a great relationship with our bodies as well. And so I want to invite you to do two things today. One is to really pause and appreciate the magnificence of what actually goes on in any given moment in our bodies. It's pretty incredible when we stop and really think about what it takes for this life to be sustained. In all the things our body does to help that happen. And also really looking for just a little step that you can take today to do something kind and caring and nourishing for your body, Whether it's physically nourishing yourself. With some kind of a healthy food. Or. . . Whether it's just getting a little bit of movement, A few minutes of stretching, Going for a short walk, Maybe pausing and doing a three-minute meditation to bring a little bit more calm into the body. So just choosing one thing that, And it doesn't have to take long, Even just a few minutes. Of doing something kind, Caring and nourishing for yourself to really take care of this home that we. . . That we have, And that again, We often can neglect. So I invite you to try that and take good care.