How Is The Relationship You Have With Your Body?

The relationship you have with your body is not as obvious as you might think. This link, so evident and essential, is often kept in the background, despite its importance. The body seems to be such an obvious reality to some that it does not merit any exercise of reflection or conscience. However, this is not the case.

Often the relationship you have with your body is instrumental or functional. Instrumental when you take it as a way to generate a certain impact on others. In this way, you “take care” of yourself to be liked, or you adorn yourself to attract. It is also possible that the opposite happens: you hide from the gaze of others or you neglect yourself because you do not have a good self-concept in this area.

The relationship you have with your body can also only be functional. You remember him when you feel pain or get sick. While you are healthy, you forget that it is an organism in constant activity, and that everything you do, feel and think takes place biologically within it.

Laziness and obsession with the body

Some people have a distant relationship with their body. They do not explore it, they do not know it and it is also possible that they feel some contempt or apprehension towards it.  In those who have this problematic link, the two extremes can appear: those who are excessively modest and attentive to their body, and those who are basically indolent with their own body.

Those who become obsessive about their body are generally very apprehensive. They have a special insistence on the issue of cleanliness and the fear of germs. They are intolerant of the natural odors of sweat, urine or feces. They don’t see them as natural scents, but rather as a red flag. His modesty with grooming sometimes reaches extremes. In this case, the body is a combat territory and the expression of an unresolved psychological conflict.

At the other extreme are those who make laziness their norm. A sign of mental problems is extreme carelessness with personal hygiene and with the body in general. Premium not to bathe, not change, stink and not worry about this. There is something that occupies the mind so obsessively that the body takes a back seat. If your relationship with your body falls into one of these two categories, you certainly need help.

The emotions and the relationship you have with your body

Emotions are not positive or negative in themselves, but some of them do cause greater disturbance in the body. By disturbance we understand the activation of processes that alter the normal balance. Those emotions are anger, sadness, and anguish. And, of course, those that are a combination or derivation of these: frustration, stress, intolerance, etc. All these emotions are a response to stimuli that are perceived as threatening. Of course, they are perceived that way, although they are not necessarily so.

In the relationship you have with your body, your emotional universe influences a lot. There is abundant literature in which it is evidenced that emotions help to restore organic balance in some cases or facilitate the appearance of mechanisms that induce disease in others. Science has verified that anxiety is one of the most common companions of various diseases. In particular, infectious and autoimmune diseases.

Anxiety has also been shown to negatively influence surgical procedures. In turn, what is known as “stress” tends to alter the body’s normal recovery processes. The secretion of hormones during stress episodes increases the favorable conditions for the progress of some types of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases. They also depress the immune system and this helps other diseases to develop.

For many people, the effect of their emotions on the body goes unnoticed. They do not notice that, for example, the rate of their heartbeat increases, or the breathing changes. They are also unaware of changes in temperature, of the tension in certain muscles or of the acceleration in some processes. The relationship you have with your body goes through the question of how sensitive and aware you are of those changes that take place in your body. What you answer can give you an idea about the quality of that link.