Module 2.4: Improving Your Body Energy

Body image

Your thoughts and feelings about how your body looks.

Positive body image

1.  An accepting and respectful attitude toward your body.

Negative body image

1. Dissatisfied or critical thoughts and feelings about your body.

Appearance

1. The way someone or something looks.

Physical traits

1. Body features, such as height, hair color, or body shape.

Internal characteristics

1. Personal qualities, such as kindness, creativity, or patience.

Identity

1. The qualities, beliefs, and experiences that make you who you are.

Perception

How you see or understand something, which may differ from reality.

Influence

1. The ability to affect someone’s thoughts, feelings, or actions.

Peer pressure

Influence from people your age to look, think, or behave a certain way

Society

 A community of people connected by shared relationships, customs, and institutions.

Media

1. Forms of communication, including television, magazines, and websites.

Social media

1. Online platforms where people share content and interact.

Advertising

1.  Messages designed to promote products, services, or ideas.

Physical ideal

1.  A standard of appearance presented as especially desirable.

Idealized image

1.  An image that presents someone as unusually perfect or desirable.

Representation

1. The way people, groups, or ideas are presented.

Image editing

1. Changing a photograph or other image after it is created.

Airbrushing

1.  Retouching an image to smooth skin or change visible features.

Weight stigma

1. Negative beliefs, judgments, or unfair treatment based on body weight.

Muscle dysmorphia

1.  A condition involving intense concern that one’s body is not muscular enough, even when it is muscular.

Eating disorder

A mental health condition involving serious disturbances in eating behaviors and related thoughts or feelings.

Risk factor

1.  Something associated with a greater chance of developing a problem.

Race

1.  A social category often based on perceived physical traits, such as skin color.

Ethnicity

1.  A shared cultural background that may include ancestry, language, and traditions.

Racial identity

1.  A person’s sense of connection to a racial group.

Ethnic identity

1.  A person’s sense of belonging to an ethnic or cultural group.

Body diversity

1. The natural variety of human body shapes, sizes, and appearances.

Values

1. Beliefs about what is important or worthwhile.

Critical thinking

1. Carefully examining information before deciding what to believe.

Analyze

1.  To examine something closely to understand its parts and meaning.

Strategy

1.  A planned approach for reaching a goal or managing a problem.

Self-talk

The thoughts or messages you direct toward yourself.

Body compassion

1. Acceptance, care, and kindness toward your body.

Acceptance

1. Recognizing yourself as you are without treating differences or imperfections as failures.

Body positivity

1. Valuing bodies and appreciating differences in body shape, size, and appearance.

Body criticism

1. Negative comments or judgments about someone’s body.

Negative influence

Something that encourages harmful or discouraging thoughts or actions.

Support

1.  Help, care, or encouragement.

Advocate

1. To speak or act in support of a person, cause, or idea.