Body Image: WHAT YOU THINK YOU BECOME!
YOU BECOME!
Body image is your internal concept of how you appear on the exterior. Your body image is based upon more than just your actual physical characteristics; it reflects your subjective perception of your outer physical self. Since it is generated inside your mind, your individual filters of experience will contribute to your internal concept of your physical self. Self image is based on emotional, psychological, and socially influenced considerations, including your visual appearance, how you think and feel about your appearance, kinesthetic considerations (i.e. how you sense and control your body), and your life experience.
Normally, body image includes having all four limbs. It may also include external objects you associate with yourself, such as clothes or the automobile you drive. Body image is not static. It changes with your age, the current fashions, how you feel about yourself, your state of health, and how you are seen by family, friends, and others in society at large.