How to Practice Body Neutrality

Whilebody positivity曾经被认为是培养与我们的身体关系的理想方式，一个新的术语，身体中立, is now considered a healthier way of engaging with our physical selves. This is because body positivity can be a difficult task for people with marginalized bodies, and also because the movement was co-opted by influencers who were cisgender, non-disabled, thin White women.

本文讨论了身体中性运动的目标以及它与身体阳性的不同之处。它还提供了您可以在日常生活中培养身体中立的方式，以便接受您的身体，就像它一样。

What Is Body Neutrality?

Body neutrality stresses a lack of attachment to how exactly your body looks at any one moment, and discourages time spent fretting about your physical self.

此外,身体中立鼓励你e your body as a functional vessel. Because of these reasons, people with边缘化bodies have resonated better with this notion than that of body positivity.

How to Practice Body Neutrality

If you'd like to start practicing body positivity, you may be wondering how to begin. Here are ways that you can begin integrating this practice into the various parts of your life.

Self-Talk

Feeling neutral about your body doesn't necessarily happen quickly or feel natural at the start. Your best chance of easing into this mindset lies in how you communicate with yourself about your body.

Adopting a neutral mindset with yourself can eventually become second nature with the following regular tasks:

• Acknowledge the ways your body functions well通过说话，“我的手臂很强烈，”我的腿可以骑自行车一小时，“或”我的大脑非常迅速地思考。“
• Acknowledge the ways your body doesn't work well for you,事实上，通过事实来删除这些东西的情绪充电。例如，允许自己承认“我的膝盖不易弯曲”这样的事实，或“我的身体不舒适地进入餐厅椅子”，可以帮助您接受那些东西作为你生活的一部分，而不是试图隐藏它们或感到羞耻。
• Perform self-love activities only when it actually feels uplifting,and not when it feels like effort or untrue.

与他人的对话

We are a society centered around a body ideal that is unattainable for most people. Conversations with others about bodies are common, but we are slowly beginning to understand that no one benefits from these unrealistic standards.

It may seem harmless to point out to a very tall person that they are tall, or to a thin person that they are thin, but these words can be deeply unsettling for the people receiving them.

To practice body neutrality when in the company of others, do not initiate discussion about bodies, and steer the conversation away from that subject when it arises. You are free to offer any reason, or no reason at all. A simple explanation for why you are shifting the conversation is, "Talking about people's bodies can be a harmful experience for them."

食物和饮食

为了以一种中立的方式进食，它最有意义地专注于哪些食物适合您的身体和味蕾。选择你消化井的食物，你享受味道的味道，并用能量燃料是练习身体中立的最直接的方式。

The concept ofintuitive eatingfits perfectly with body neutrality. There are many resources to get started with this, and it can be a process to tap into what does and doesn't work for your body. Little by little, you'll become more in tune with what works best for you.

Body neutrality has no one diet that fits it. You can choose to follow a specific eating plan if there's one that makes you feel great, or eschew them entirely and rely on trusting your gut when deciding what to eat, and when.

服装

You have every right to wear clothing that is comfortable to you and that you enjoy the look of. We have judgmental notions about that, such as the 1980s era claim that "spandex is a privilege, not a right." Though others may be judgmental about what people wear, you don't have to be.

要从身体中立的空间穿着，请选择你喜欢的衣服，在你的身体上感觉很好。决定你在情感上舒适的穿着可能是一个平衡行为。那是因为如果你知道你穿着东西，主流人口不会批准，它可能会导致你感到自我意识。

Since body neutrality is about not focusing excessively on your body, clothing choices that make you feel extra focused on it aren't the best idea. Instead, find a middle ground of clothing you love that way you can stop thinking about your clothes once you put them on.

Exercise

All bodies benefit from movement. However, the exercise industry at large unfortunately has a focus of losing weight, changing the shape of your body, and burning fat.

接受你目前的身体和塑造你从表演练习中释放你可能不喜欢的练习，但无论如何都是为了燃烧卡路里或脂肪。相反，为了练习身体中立，你应该选择你喜欢做的活动，然后一旦你累了或疼痛就停止做。

如果您不喜欢举重或跑步等标准锻炼，则可以坚持使用您身体的活动更微妙地比健身房锻炼更微妙。这些练习形式的一些例子包括：

• Roller skating
• 游泳
• Dance class
• A home dance party
• 实际动作角色扮演
• Cleaning
• Playing a musical instrument

Social Engagement

Social media is a complex thing: on the one hand, it can help us stay in touch with and up to date about our friends and loved ones. On the other hand, people only share parts of their lives they want others to know about, and that can lead to an unrealistic presentation.

如果你遵循人们在社交媒体上,不管他们are people you know in person or not, seeing what they are up to should make you feel good and happy. If it doesn't, and instead makes you feel down on yourself, the body neutrality approach would be to stop following them.

因为你可能不想冒犯朋友或爱人，所以你可以选择哑光，而不是完全取消关注，以便他们不知道改变。你应该受到你所看到的生活的启发，对自己感觉不变得更糟。

如果您发现自己将您的生命与其他人的生活进行比较，特别是如果您觉得自己留下来留下您的速度，最好的想法是看不到那个人的股票。

来自粗糙的一个词

身体中立性是一种安全且可管理的方式与您的身体有健康的关系。通过练习这些步骤，您可以开始与您的身体的关系，让您的时间和情感能量达到享受您的生活。