The reconnecting step will look different for everyone, but turning our focus onto all that our body does for us, instead of the way it looks, can be transformative. In contrast to the body positive mindset, where you might be asked to write down something you love about your body—I love my smile, or my shoulders, or my neck—the body neutral practice doesn’t involve looking at your body from an aesthetic point of view at all. The reconnection phase of body neutrality is centered on what your body can do for you—or has done for you. It’s more action-oriented. The body is magical simply because
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