{"id":243847,"date":"2020-06-13T03:32:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=243847"},"modified":"2020-06-13T03:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T10:59:53","slug":"eumorphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/13\/eumorphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Eumorphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dysmorphia: hating how your body looks (even if it looks objectively great).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eumorphia: loving how your body looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are we allowed to love the way our body looks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/1BXa08rZ?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eudaimonia (good demon, good inner spirit), or &#8216;happiness&#8217;, or &#8220;human thriving&#8221; (eu means &#8216;good&#8217; and daimon refers to our inner daimon or demon or spirit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dysdaimonia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thought of eumorphia first came to me via Nietzsche, who coined a word &#8216;dysdaimonia&#8217;. Essentially the <em>OPPOSITE<\/em> of human thriving (eudaemonia). People with a parasitical spirit, who just wants to suck out the joy of all human happiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dysmorphia?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Why flex if you&#8217;re not the strongest person in the room, your county, your gym, the park, your state, your country, or the world?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is funny, because there are many bodybuilders who are objectively insanely jacked and ripped, yet &#8230; they have low self-esteem. So the question about body builders and weight lifters and powerlifters, etc:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Did you start bodybuilding or lifting weights with low self esteem and started to lift weights to increase or augment your self esteem, or did you start lifting weight <em>already<\/em> with a high self-esteem, and you started lifting weights to increase your already high self-esteem?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To clarify, did you start lifting weights because you were the skinny fat kid who always got picked on? (I was a fat kid who was teased a lot and I started lifting weights at age 11 to not be fat anymore). Or did you already have a high self esteem, and lifting weights was another way to increase and augment your self esteem even <em>further?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-delay=\"3\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1180\" height=\"787\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-243837\" data-id=\"243837\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069967-scaled.jpg?resize=1180%2C787&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069967-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, 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2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069999-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069999-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069999-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069999-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069999-scaled.jpg?resize=675%2C450&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069999-scaled.jpg?resize=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/EK069999-scaled.jpg?w=2360&amp;ssl=1 2360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1180px) 100vw, 1180px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My life story <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growing up as a kid, I liked to run around. I was very physically active, as my mom took me to the park all the time. My mom tells me stories of when I was a kid and I went to the park and it was time to go home &#8212; she would say she was leaving without me (to incentivize me to leave). But I would ignore her and still play on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/0em3m6pd?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=auto&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward a bit, I&#8217;m in New York and my mom is working all the time. 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