http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/features/mind-skin-health-connection
Good Day All!
Here she goes again. I can just hear all the groaning going on out there. Well, just don't shoot the messenger. I am here to tell you that your internal state has a direct bearing on the health of your skin. In Psychology Today, Elaine Zablocki talks about the Mind-Skin-Health Connection. I've provided the link here so you can go and read for yourself the veracity of this phenomenon. http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/features/mind-skin-health-connection
This shouldn't be startling news to you. It's more like something you say to yourself, "easier said that done." True. But, none the less true. And today is a good day to change this, right now.
Where do you think all those wrinkles come from? Stress. I used to watch my Mom screw up her face in concentration. Always the same face, deepening those same lines. And my Dad would get the same lines when he got angry - deepening those lines over and over again.
I used to get hives, always when I was nervous or upset. The emotional condition inside has a direct bearing on the skin. Sometimes it's immediate; sometimes with practiced responses, over time the results are evident. Want more first hand evidence? I have had a set of twins in my life since the 4th grade. One twin is happy go lucky and handles things in an even way. The other twin is negative and greedy and mean. After I hadn't seen them for about 4 years, I chanced on them and was shocked. The first twin looked as lovely and twinkly as ever. The second twin looked like the witch in the Wizard of Oz - you know, the one the house fell on! Identical twins and their internal states of being were etched on their faces. One beautifully, the other hideously.
Both were choices. I might add here that the second twin has spent quite a fortune in plastic surgery in order to erase the damages of her "negative internal state."
It is imperative that one gets a handle on their emotional state. Perhaps your motivation is you want to look younger, get rid of that eczema, or you want to be beautiful at any age. I'm rooting for the last one; beauty at every age. But no matter what your motivation is, you will always be led back to your responsibility for managing your internal self.
In stress the human mind is believing something that it thinks is real. So we have a response in fear or anxiety or rage or whatever. This internal response to the external situation produces a chain of chemical reactions in the body. Repeatedly over a lifetime, this takes it toll. Since in this blog we're focused on skin care, we'll stick to that. So wrinkles, excessive flight or fight responses diminish the quality of the skin - elastic and suppleness. We tend to hold our breath, and deprive the skin of oxygen and nutrition. The skin begins to look sallow or dry. These are all responses to internal stress. And, overtime, they take their toll. Left unaddressed, the habituated pattern leaves its marks.
So, what to do? Well, make a decision to begin handling these mental ideas that cause you to respond with a stressful response (fear, shallow breathing, anger, etc.) to begin handling them, even seeing them with a different view. Instead of being afraid, I'll take a deep breath and remind myself that it's never over til it's over...and there's always more. I'll change my response to laughing. I'll be mindful when I'm in anxiety and take a giant break from what I'm pushing at.
I'll take my yoga practice into work or home or the board room.
Getting a handle on stress means you've decided to take a giant step towards being the deliberate designer of your own life and skin. Say yes to all the laugh lines. Bring on all the joy creases! Celebrate all the facial tracks of ecstasy. Point your intention towards giving up stress and embracing the adventures of life. You'll be gorgeous.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Friday, September 28, 2007
Rosacea
hello Everyone!
Lately I am encountering people with rosacea. I had no idea it was something more than a red face or a tendency to blush or flush. I found a website (see link) http://www.internationalrosaceafoundation.org which is full of information. What I will try to do here is summarize what I learned for you.
Rosacea is first and foremost a systemic problem that manifests in the symptoms of rosacea.
Oddly, this is coming up more and more. The links to too much sugar, phony sugars, acidic foods, poor digestion and elimination. The body is attempting to cope with an overload of the wrong acidic factors from too many of these foods: breads, starches, alcohol and phony sugars.
My friend had a severe case of skin cancer. She went to a holistic MD who immediately put her on a diet to change the PH of her system. She followed it religiously for approximately 8 months. At the end of that time her skin cancers were gone. So there definitely is something to this. Add in the element of not enough pure water intake and simply moving about, exercising, walking. The body is a finely tuned system that certainly can take quite a bit of abuse, but there is the point where it cannot keep up with the constant drip, drip, drip of toxins we consume. I am convinced that a wholesome diet of organic foods is essential, as well as using only organic products eliminates much of the overload that the body tries to endure.
My grandmother lived to be 90 years old. Here death certificate said "natural causes". True enough. She was of solid peasant stock from Serbia. She worked hard, physically all her life. She dug in the garden, cleaned the house every Friday like the priest was coming for an inspection. She threw herself mightily into all her projects, especially cooking. She made strudel from scratch, as well as raised donuts and stuffed peppers. The difference in her day? The foods were not toxic. Her doctor constantly chastised her to lose 25-30 pounds. He died at 65. In her day people were not so sedentary, the foods were whole and pure. They enjoyed their food and their work.
My point? Joy (the absolute lack of stress) is an element critical to physical well being as well as and obviously emotional well being. I used to work with my Gram in the garden, and she loved the small things, enjoying the whole of just being there. The smell of the earth, the green of the plants, the beauty of the flowers. She was always wholly engaged in the activity and not worrying about something future or past. She lived right now. No stress. No anxiety. Couple this internal state with wholesome foods, nothing every packaged or fast food...you have the recipe for a healthy body and a good life.
Back to rosacea. Start with a good digestive system, which starts with wholesome, whole foods in balance. Leave off the white breads and go easy on the starches, alcohol and absolutely eliminate anything chemical (sugars and oils) from your diet. Enjoy the goodness of pure foods.
Walk about. Stretch and exercise your body and feel how good it feels to be in that body. Taste the goodness of pure water. What you're aiming for here is to get your body system back to alkaline rather than acid. Eat fresh vegetables, yogurt with live cultures, give thanks for such abundance and goodness.
My thinking is that roacea is a first road sign that your system if out of balance and in need of attention. Attention now avoids more serious dis-ease later.
One Group makes several products that can help internally and externally. Internally is In Liven a probiotic (good bacteria) food supplement that is 100% certified organic; and when taken daily restores the natural flora and fauna within the digestive track that can help process sugars and carbohydrates and proteins and move them on out of the system easily and elegantly. In conjunction is Berry Radical Antioxidant, a superfood that is also 100% certified organic. When taken daily gives you the necessary dietary requirements to combat free radicals that cause havoc in the body. And topically, together with their 100% certified organic skin care system is their Miessence Couperose Serum which works topically together with the internal treatments. The System taken as a system works beautifully.
I told you this would be a place for honest information about good skin care. It includes the whole package of you: mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically. The "symptoms" of anything are the symptoms of dis-ease that is to say, unease and imbalance. I'm devoted to your becoming beautifully in balance from the inside out.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
Lately I am encountering people with rosacea. I had no idea it was something more than a red face or a tendency to blush or flush. I found a website (see link) http://www.internationalrosaceafoundation.org which is full of information. What I will try to do here is summarize what I learned for you.
Rosacea is first and foremost a systemic problem that manifests in the symptoms of rosacea.
Oddly, this is coming up more and more. The links to too much sugar, phony sugars, acidic foods, poor digestion and elimination. The body is attempting to cope with an overload of the wrong acidic factors from too many of these foods: breads, starches, alcohol and phony sugars.
My friend had a severe case of skin cancer. She went to a holistic MD who immediately put her on a diet to change the PH of her system. She followed it religiously for approximately 8 months. At the end of that time her skin cancers were gone. So there definitely is something to this. Add in the element of not enough pure water intake and simply moving about, exercising, walking. The body is a finely tuned system that certainly can take quite a bit of abuse, but there is the point where it cannot keep up with the constant drip, drip, drip of toxins we consume. I am convinced that a wholesome diet of organic foods is essential, as well as using only organic products eliminates much of the overload that the body tries to endure.
My grandmother lived to be 90 years old. Here death certificate said "natural causes". True enough. She was of solid peasant stock from Serbia. She worked hard, physically all her life. She dug in the garden, cleaned the house every Friday like the priest was coming for an inspection. She threw herself mightily into all her projects, especially cooking. She made strudel from scratch, as well as raised donuts and stuffed peppers. The difference in her day? The foods were not toxic. Her doctor constantly chastised her to lose 25-30 pounds. He died at 65. In her day people were not so sedentary, the foods were whole and pure. They enjoyed their food and their work.
My point? Joy (the absolute lack of stress) is an element critical to physical well being as well as and obviously emotional well being. I used to work with my Gram in the garden, and she loved the small things, enjoying the whole of just being there. The smell of the earth, the green of the plants, the beauty of the flowers. She was always wholly engaged in the activity and not worrying about something future or past. She lived right now. No stress. No anxiety. Couple this internal state with wholesome foods, nothing every packaged or fast food...you have the recipe for a healthy body and a good life.
Back to rosacea. Start with a good digestive system, which starts with wholesome, whole foods in balance. Leave off the white breads and go easy on the starches, alcohol and absolutely eliminate anything chemical (sugars and oils) from your diet. Enjoy the goodness of pure foods.
Walk about. Stretch and exercise your body and feel how good it feels to be in that body. Taste the goodness of pure water. What you're aiming for here is to get your body system back to alkaline rather than acid. Eat fresh vegetables, yogurt with live cultures, give thanks for such abundance and goodness.
My thinking is that roacea is a first road sign that your system if out of balance and in need of attention. Attention now avoids more serious dis-ease later.
One Group makes several products that can help internally and externally. Internally is In Liven a probiotic (good bacteria) food supplement that is 100% certified organic; and when taken daily restores the natural flora and fauna within the digestive track that can help process sugars and carbohydrates and proteins and move them on out of the system easily and elegantly. In conjunction is Berry Radical Antioxidant, a superfood that is also 100% certified organic. When taken daily gives you the necessary dietary requirements to combat free radicals that cause havoc in the body. And topically, together with their 100% certified organic skin care system is their Miessence Couperose Serum which works topically together with the internal treatments. The System taken as a system works beautifully.
I told you this would be a place for honest information about good skin care. It includes the whole package of you: mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically. The "symptoms" of anything are the symptoms of dis-ease that is to say, unease and imbalance. I'm devoted to your becoming beautifully in balance from the inside out.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
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