17
Jan
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If you struggle with body image issues, you’re not alone - in fact, despite what you see on social media, even your fitness gurus can be struggling with varying degrees of body dysmorphia.
This article is all about how to truly embrace your own beauty and physical looks, so you can feel confident in your body - yes, just as you are.
Did you know even supermodels struggle with feeling ‘ugly’?
In this snippet of my interview with world-renowned human behavioural expert, Dr. John Demartini, you’ll find an insightful story of “one of the most beautiful women in the world”
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If you take this to heart, it will transform how you see yourself.
“So a few years back, I had an absolutely beautiful woman. One of the most beautiful women in the world voted by a number of magazines as a client. And she came to me and you look at her and you go, whoa, she's a 12 on the Richter scale of 10. But she thinks that she's less than a six. I thought, that's interesting. She's got sort of a body dysmorphia idea. And what we found out is that she was comparing herself. She was comparing her hair to a woman who had thicker hair, and the overall image of that individual woman overall wasn't better, but her hair was. Then she was taking her thighs and comparing it to another woman, another model. Then she was taking her breasts and comparing it to another model. Then she was taking her eyes and compare to the cheeks and her bottom. And she took all the different parts and compared them to individual woman. But no one of those women by themselves had the whole package better than hers. But she was comparing parts and every part she was comparing to and being and trying to go, Oh, I wish I had that. She was minimizing her image of herself in that it was not even appreciating her own beauty. And everybody else could see it, but she couldn't see it because she was comparing her life to parts of other people. Not the whole of those people, not one of them which she replaces with. But she liked her hair. She like her age, like her thighs, et cetera.

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Any time you compare yourself in splitting yourself and not look at the whole picture and you go and take these little parts, you're not going to appreciate your whole. So you want to make sure that you go through and look at your whole life and look at where your strengths are and stick out and quit comparing yourself to other people.
I keep saying that we're not here to compare yourself to others. You're here to compare your daily actions to your own highest values, what you're going to excel and you're going to have the greatest self-worth. And then you realize that you, with your own unique values, which are fingerprint specific, is where you will excel. You will have the greatest confidence and you will be the one that everybody else is going, Oh my God, look at what they've accomplished.”
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