Love, honor, respect and cherish it, treat it well, and it will serve you in kind. Respect is treating your body with the same care you would give any other valuable and irreplaceable object. Learning to respect your body is vital. When you respect your body, you are in partnership with it. You become grounded in your physical body and able to benefit from all it has to offer you.
Respect carries reciprocal energy.
Your body will honor you when you honor it. Treat your body as a structure worthy of respect and it will respond in kind. I know a man named Gordon who views his body as a sacred temple. Besides keeping it extraordinarily fit through regular exercise and sports, he maintains excellent health by always caring for it diligently. He eats only healthy foods, would never dream of going out in the cold improperly dressed, and generally treats his body as a valuable treasure.