Beauty Through Health
Everyone wants to be beautiful these days. People are looking for ways to feel younger. No one wants to be old or diseased or infirm. You see commercials for hair and skin products regularly on television and in the magazines.
There is a move to bring the population to a higher standard of youth and beauty.
Society as a whole is living longer. I hear fifty is the new forty. So what does that mean? We want to look forty at fifty. Heck, we want to look twenty at forty. I vote for that one. Is it unrealistic? I do not think so. With the longer life span, there has to be a change in the aging of the body. Having a decrepit body at ninety when you still have another thirty years does not make sense. There is an answer out there – more than one.
With a longer life, there are certain expectations and desires that go with it. What is the point of living longer if you cannot have fun? And if all your friends are dying off, you have to make new ones. The only way to make new friends is to be able to get out of the house and be public. That means you need to be able to move and look good doing it.
Right now, you look at the older generation and say, “No way do I want to look that old. No way do I want to be housebound when the world is moving all around me. If I am going to live longer, I want to have enjoyment in my days.” With enjoyment is the unspoken desire to retain your beauty.
Getting older is fine. Being old is not so fine. As our lifespan increases, beauty becomes a necessity. By being beautiful and staying beautiful, the world pays attention to you. You have a secret that everyone else craves. You become someone special.
Beyond being special, beauty allows you to stay connected to the younger generation.
Sometimes the extra wrinkles set you apart from the younger generation. The lines on your face create an age gap which translates into a gap in understanding. You are looked upon as being different, set in your ways. The teenager says to herself, “How can someone that old really understand what I am going through?”
By looking younger, or not so old, you may have an easier time convincing the teenager that you really do understand.
It is good to have many years over your head, just not written on your face.
What are a couple of options for getting rid of the wrinkles?
One way is through a surgical facelift. It is a short procedure, including the recovery time. The excess skin is removed and viola, you are young and beautiful. Then the months pass, maybe even years, and your face begins to wrinkle, and with the wrinkles comes the dreaded sagging. What do you do? Have another surgical facelift? Hmm. Your skin has lost its elasticity and your face looks stretched and unreal. Even though you can cut away the wrinkles, you know, given a certain amount of time the procedure will wear-off again and you will look wrinkled and aged.
There has to be a better way to beauty that will smooth the wrinkles, lift the skin and keep the elasticity so that the face stays younger looking, longer.
Let’s take a look at skin in general.
The skin is the largest organ in the body. It protects the body from the world outside and it maintains proper temperature through the opening and closing of its pores.
When other organs do not function properly, for instance, when digestion gets stopped up and you have constipation or when the blood is not being filtered by the liver or kidneys due to an accumulation of chemicals in the system, the skin helps out by removing the waste and toxins in the form of odor, perspiration, sores, ulcers, rashes and pimples.
The face, in Oriental Medicine, tells the story of the whole body in its coloration, blemishes and lines. When you are tired, you get bags under your eyes. When you have a fever, your face turns a shade of red. When you have allergies, the eye lids become red and swollen. When you are under stress, pimples break out on your neck and chin.
If the face looks old because the body is having problems, why not fix the body then the face will look younger, less haggard? You are probably thinking that fixing the body is great but that might take a long time. I have tons of things wrong with me. I want to look younger now.
So, how do you get the face looking better in a short amount of time? One way is to work on the face directly which in turn helps the rest of the body. Acupuncture facial rejuvenation, also known as, acupuncture facelift does just that.
Facial Rejuvenation achieves both a more youthful appearance and a healthier body and mind.
Rejuvenating the face rejuvenates the body. When the body is filled with vitality, it reflects on your face.
During cosmetic acupuncture, each wrinkle and furrow is viewed in relation to the whole body. The points located near the wrinkles and furrows correspond to a specific organ system. By needling these points, the skin becomes smoother and the organ system related to each area gets a treatment also. The more treatments the face receives, the more healing the organ system receives.
You will find that as you continue regular facial acupuncture treatments, your back aches, your indigestion, your bloating reduces in severity to such a point that you stop having the symptoms. In this way, you heal the body by retaining the beauty in the face.
Beauty is not skin deep. It is the reflection of the health in your body. Your vanity is simply your body asking for help. Listen to its whisperings. Give it what it craves, what you crave. Give it its vitality, its smooth operation, its ability to be and do for you what you want to be and do. It lives for you. Choose beauty through health and you will find your body thanking you in vitality, strength and calmness.