iCiNG Transformation Challenge: 11/28
[ 10 February 2009 ]
Today’s exercise is to be grateful for your body & mind for all they do for you.
The more we appreciate our lives, the better things get. If you wake up thinking about how wobbly or unattractive you feel, the cycle of self-loathing is more likely to lead you to the cookies than the gym. You’ll probably get a major case of “What’s the point?”, & do something that doesn’t really honour who you are. But if you take a moment to think about how happy you are with your pedicure, your eyes, the muscles in your legs — whatever it is, even if it’s just something small — that positive energy will help fuel & power you towards making a choice that is good for you.
Take some time today to think about how crazy, sexy & cool you are. Focus on those feelings until they’re so wild & bright that you feel like you might spontaneously combust. Then take a breath & go about your day. See what a difference it makes!
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My body has given me a terrible sinus infection. I don’t feel all that grateful for it, but monday is a holiday and that makes things ok.
Also I have ordered shower bombs for myself and no one else :P
Even though my water was turned off today for reasons unknown, I’m trying to stay positive! This is just what I needed. Thinking of dancing Friday and VDay with my bf is getting me through the week.
i am going to think about the wonderful tired feeling in all my limbs, to motivate myself to exercise even more! i’m enjoying it so much.
Gala, are you familiar with BlogHer’s “A Letter to My Body” project (http://www.blogher.com/letter-my-body)?
I participated (http://www.alreadypretty.com/2008/06/letter-to-my-body-part-2.html) and found it to be TOTALLY transformative. I feel more grateful for the bounty of my body than I ever thought I could.
This is exactly what I need – and also found this!
www.cornify.com/
you might like!
x
so true. so true ….it’s like a domino effect and I’d rather have a positive domino effect than a negative one.
So true. Only positivity and bliss can come from honouring and loving your body.
Gala is the best! Is so hard to be happy with my body, but keep on going accepting and loving… Thank you gala for all the magic!!
Besitos!
This is such wonderful advice! Sometimes I want to just feel sorry for myself and spend all day in bed. This little pick me up is really what I needed!
Thank you!
Hey Gala I reckon you’d be pretty proud of me right now…
one of my things to do was to do something that scares the shit outta me…and I just did!
last night i added the guy i like A LOT (but doesn’t know i exist :( ) on MSN and today he came online. my initial reaction was to block him but I eventually unblocked him and had a very brief conversation…I was actually terrified! but now I’ve done it and I feel SO MUCH BETTER!!!
:D
ZOMG Gala, I only just listened to that very song on You Tube yesterday after many many years. How much I loved TLC.
Have you been spying on me..?
;p
Hmm… I’ll think about how I can dance for hours and how my smile makes everyone else smile, whether they like it or not…
You wanna get your mind blown, Gala? My blood pressure has dropped since beginning this challenge! Can’t thank you enough for lighting a fire under my butt. :D
I LOVED waking up to this post, thanks Miss Gala ♥
i always though i was conceited because i do this. is it if you do it every day?
haha, loveee that song!!
i have been writing my iTC progress over on my blog (:
So, I haven’t really been doing anything that I wanted to do for this challenge the last few days. So I’ve thought about it and realized that I don’t need to wake up earlier. It’s not going to happen. I hate doing a lot of stuff in the morning. I need to establish a night routine.
In the spirit of celebrating your body I’ve been taking care of myself a bit today. I’ve realized even small things like a warm bath and at-home pedi make me feel better.
I’m having a blast doing the “challenge”. I’ve been hooping with a tiny walmart one until today where I went to a class. The bigger one’s are so much fun, and it’s so relaxing!
I’m celebratin’ my body even though in one day I’ve managed to scrape up my knees while taking a tumble on my bf’s skates, and bruise my arms hooping! Yay
going strong on this end.
Gala you are so motivating.
haha and i love cornify.com i do it to my husbans computer when he some page up.
i just sent you an e-mail about my awesome day because i thought you would enjoy it…hope it puts a smile on your face—i am still smiling!! :D
Thanks love.
I was just going out dancing tonight but was feelig kinds unsure about my body and what to wear. I’m gona be crazy, sexy and cool! Yay!
XOXO
i just can’t seem to stick to my transformation. And then I make up excuses. UGH :( I love your words of encouragement but then I always forget about them… later. Please help…
I’m trying to break a habit, not cultivate new ones… so it’s so hard!
elle > i know what you mean but printing out some encouring reminders and sticking them on the wall (or even in your wallet) it sort of helps..
Hmm yeah
Right now its hard to concentrate on all the things that make me happy about myself now when i can’t stop being a pessimist. Its not that i can’t see the sun shining afther the dark clouds but there are those little voices in your head who always keep nagging about ‘what if’. I just feel that everything around me is doomed for destruction or something, i read somewhere that these little bumps are just challenges to bring you to the greater good but what if the ride takes forever? I want to be a rainbow warrior but i feel more like a worry-or
Today was not a good day in terms of waking up when my alarm went off but I did add a bit of running to my daily exercise routine so that made me feel pretty fabulous.
So Gala, I was thinking about writing a little anaonymous valentine note to the boy I’ve been crushing on for about a year now and I have no idea what to do with it! So I figured you would possibly have some fabulous insights on what to write or what to do. Any help?
I’ve been doing fairly well so far with the iTC. I’ve worked more raw food into my diet, posted more on my blog (even though I’ve been moving), got back into jump roping and yesterday I picked up a purple hula hoop. I’ve been playing with it all afternoon and I’m in love. It’s been forever since I’ve hooped, thank you Gala!
I was wondering, do you think we could do something once a week or something on iCiNG where we all share our favorite hooping playlists, videos, links or something? I’m dying for a new collection of hooping music.
Thank you Gala! This post alone made me feel a lot better about myself, inside and out.
This past year I was involved in an emotionally abusive relationship with someone that I cared too much about {too much that I stopped caring about myself and put him first at all times}. Last week I finally gathered up the courage and broke up with him.
I feel so free and liberated. I can do the things I want to do now, and when I look in the mirror, I don’t feel worthless, ashamed, or hate myself anymore!
I believe what really helped me build up the courage to set my foot down and get away from that abusive relationship was your Transformation Challenge.
Thank you again!
Hating yourself never changes anything (except sometimes for the worse!) but loving yourself makes a difference in your whole world!
Best day of iTC so far, pour moi! One of my main goals was to find employment & my interview today went swimmingly & I was offered the job. I feel like an extraordinary weight has been lifted off of my shoulders!!! Joy, rapture!
Sound advice today- I think before bed I will attempt some eft in front of a mirror concentrating on that..
Uhm! Feb. 11 was my birthday! Haha (:.
And, Gala, I am following in your footsteps because I ordered the best bags and shoes.
I MEAN FABULOUS HIGH HEELED SHOES.
WooWOO!