Happy Body Day

Hear Ye. Hear Ye. I proclaim this day as National Body Holiday.

In keeping with the idea that every day is a holiday, today I’ve chosen the body. Golly, the body is our most valuable possession.

How can one celebrate Body Day?  Feed yourself whole wonderful foods. After all, our health is more important than our appetites.  The body loves to eat, but it is not equipped to eat processed foods.

Be kind to your body.  Look in the mirror with approval – you can see your body’s reflection in the mirror and it wants you to be kind. I used to pass by the mirror first thing in the morning and frown at my wild hair, the dried drool, and my overall rumpled look.  One day I stopped in my tracks – how crazy it was to criticize myself in the mirror when I just got out of bed. Oprah doesn’t even look like Oprah until after an expensive makeup job.

Another way to honor and celebrate our bodies is to actually be in our bodies.  A quick and easy way to be in the body is to feel what the bottom of your feet feel like throughout the day. What kind of pressure is on the bottom of the foot? The pressure changes when we lift our feet.  This awareness seems to connect me from head to toe. I love it.

Again, Happy Body Day.  If you are reading this then I’m sure you have a body. Honor it – today is the day!

Anne Sermons Gillis