My advice is that you spend a significant amount of time and energy exploring and contemplating the details of Near Death Experience accounts... This will serve to promote and install the higher awareness that you are not your body. Now, this change in awareness will not happen over night - it's something you have to repeatedly revisit and work on. Gradually and over time, you will eventually reach the point where you find that you have transcended (risen above) your former conscious identification with your physical body as a 'source of self' (identity).... For me, this ended up having a really significant impact and ultimately changing my life...

Analogy: Your physical body is akin to a rental car that you experience while on a vacation. You don't get to keep it and take it with you - it's a temporary experience. If you go on a 2 week vacation and your rental car has some dings and dents, some rust, and makes a clanking noise - you don't get bent out of shape about it because you understand that your experience with the car is only temporary (it will pass). The same situation is going on with your physical body - but you have to expand & broaden your awareness so you recognize this is just happening on a grander scale (in relation to the rental car analogy). You can't take your physical body with you when you depart from here (no one can) - so what sense is there in being so attached to it and clinging to it as a source of identity? What does that accomplish?

Some other things to think about:

- Your physical body is never in any fixed or static state. It's constantly in a state of change (growth, ageing, regeneration), and has been from the minute you were born. What does this mean? That you can never look in the mirror and proclaim that "This is me" - because your physical form is never going to remain the same. This is true for when you are age 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, etc... So how can you ever really cling to your physical appearance if you realize that it's not constant, not fixed? It's not who you are - it's what you are experiencing (temporarily).

- Engage in this contemplative exercise where you imagine yourself to be 75+ years old. Can you perceive how your perception and relationship with your physical body would absolutely change at that stage in your life? Do you see the elderly folks at nursing homes walking around preoccupied with their physical looks & appearance - all while they are full of wrinkles and perhaps losing things like their hair & teeth, and their bodies begin to fail on them and give them a lot of issues? I don't observe this. I think with old age comes a natural change in identification with the body, or at least concern/preoccupation with one's physical appearance. The important thing here is that you do not have to wait until you are a senior citizen to bring about this change as it relates to your perception of your physical form. You can integrate these changes in awareness & perception at any time in your life - it just requires intention, effort, and patience.

- Another contemplative exercise, imagine you were diagnosed with a terminal illness and given 2 weeks to live. Now, with this life development - can you imagine yourself lying in bed fretting over your perceived physical shortcomings and 'flaws'? Would you be lying there still wishing you could change your physical appearance even though you knew your physical body would soon be expiring? Or do you think in that context your emphasis would be placed on matters of much greater and higher importance? Again, you do not actually have to experience a terminal illness or these hypothetical circumstances in order to bring about this change in awareness & perception that I am outlining above. You can start bringing this about right now - through ongoing contemplation and inner-work.

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One of my greatest life challenges was that I did not identify with my physical appearance - looking in the mirror what I saw did not feel like the 'real me'... This caused A LOT of hurting and suffering for many, many years because I was (understandably) operating with the limited awareness that "I was my body"... And when you don't identify with your physical appearance - it's painful because it feels like you cannot accept yourself and therefore that others cannot accept you. This is one big illusion that eventually needs to be exposed and then it can be risen above and you will liberate yourself from the hurting/suffering/pain and discover some amazing and life-altering 'truths' in the process. I know where you are coming from here. You're welcome to message me if you'd like to discuss this in further detail. Hang in there. You are NOT your physical body/form. It's akin to a set of clothes that you wear (experience) for a limited period of time, then eventually discard. You are actually so much more than your temporary physical form/appearance - and the real reward that's waiting for you comes from the process of discovering and realizing this for yourself!