The Most Important Relationship in Your Life

When it comes to any kind of relationship, I believe there can be two extremes. There are deep and lasting relationships on one side of the spectrum and then there are superficial and poor relationships on the opposite side. Deep and lasting relationships require quality time, love, affection, care, great communication, honesty, respect, compassion, and forgiveness. On the other hand, superficial relationships tend to have the opposite characteristics such as poor communication, hate, dishonesty, lack of care, harshness, hostility, disrespect, cruelty, and blame.

Last year during the week of Valentine’s Day, I had a similar message, but it’s so important and it will continue to be a relevant point that I want to mention it again here today and that is the relationship that you have with your body and the “language” you use with your body.

I truly believe that the relationship that we have with our body is the most important relationship in our lives, because our body is our home. We only have one and we travel with it wherever we go up until we take our final breath. Our body can be the cause of tremendous pain and suffering, or it can be our greatest source of joy and pleasure.

Yesterday, we celebrated Valentine’s Day, the day of LOVE. You may have told your spouse, children, parents, and grandchildren how much you love them, but did you tell yourself?

Today, I encourage you to examine the relationship you have with your body. Are there some changes that you want to make? How would changing the language and attitude you have toward your body positively affect your health?

A little extra credit: Imagine if every morning when you woke up and every night before you went to bed, you looked in the mirror and said out loud, “I love you.” How do you think that may affect your health choices throughout the day? Would you be willing to try this for three days? I’d love to hear how it went for you.

Wishing you joyful health in your 50’s

Kim