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LIVE WELL WITH LAURA

Health, body, mood, and weight loss

by Laura Burkett-Holstine, HHCLaura Burkett, HHC

Sometimes it seems we are simply asking the wrong questions:

“What’s wrong with me? How can I fix this?”

“Why am I so tired all the time?”

“Why can’t I lose the last 10 pounds?”

“Why can’t I just feel more even and balanced?”

“How can I keep my body from changing?”

It seems we are tirelessly playing the game of “management” when it comes to health: stress management, weight management, behavioral management. 

By managing, are we fully able to listen to the wisdom of our unwanted symptoms, behaviors, and habits? 

Why not ask questions of engagement rather than continuously trying to manage your stress, body, eating habits, and moods?

When we finally agree to dance with what is, we are able to hear the wisdom in whatever we feel we are struggling with.

Let's ask bigger questions. Take a look at the following to warm-up:

Weight (and the quest for its loss)

What is weight for?

How do you know how much you (or anyone) should weigh?

What is nutrition?

What makes you feel “heavy” in body? In life?

Body Image

What is the purpose of having a body?

What determines our body image? Where does it come from?

Where are you with your body image these days? Are you happy with it? Wanting to change things?

Moods

What in the world are “mood swings,” in your definition or understanding?

Are you OK with the basic fact that your moods can fluctuate, perhaps dramatically?

What exactly makes your negative moods change towards the positive?

Have you ever been depressed and successfully come out of it or through it? What has worked for you?

Health

What heals?

When does healing happen?

Realize that some of your answers may not fully be yours. Don't take ownership of all your beliefs as it takes a family, city, and culture to create them. Simply observe what you believe to be true. Exercise the “curious muscle.” 

Join me this fall at Cascade Yoga Studio for a three-part series, The Yoga of Eating: A Divine Reconnection With Food and Body. We'll examine, challenge, and dig deep into cultural paradigms, personal belief systems, and learn to dance with what is. We'll honor our existence as human beings by analyzing the human experience of having body weight, body  image, and moods.

More information about Laura's Yoga of Eating: A Divine Reconnection With Food & Body >

Visit Laura at www.RealFoodWellness.com