What is Body Image? How Can You Improve Yours?

Some people think they need to change how they look or act to feel good about themselves. But actually all you need to do is change the way you see your body and how you think about yourself.

According to healthy place.com, body image involves our perception, imagination, emotions,and physical sensations of and about our bodies. The feelings and the emotions that we encounter in our day-to-day life always changes. This is why it is a big part of how we deal with our body image. Self-esteem plays a large role on how we present ourselves and how accept our body image. If we have a high self-esteem, this makes us capable of being confident and make us proud of what we are and what we have in our body and in ourselves. The way we see body image is affected by how we are judged by others. Having a good perception about our body image is not an inherited trait, it is learned. This learning happens around our family, our peers, and the other people around us.

To develop a healthy body image there are things that you should consider doing. One of these is to listen to your body. Eat when you’re hungry; it is obviously not right to starve your body just to be “in shape”. Also exercise regularly in an enjoyable way, regardless of size. If you’re not into lifting weights and going to the gym, you can call up your gals and arrange a date where all of you can go out and play a certain sport you all love. This would make it really enjoyable and would be considered as hanging out rather than exercising. You also have to work towards self acceptance and self forgiveness, this means to be gentle with yourself. And last but not the least, decide how you wish to spend your energy- pursuing the “perfect body image”, or enjoying life with school, family, and friends?