Anti-aging seems to be the new buzz-phrase for those wishing to optimize thier well-being and appearance after middle age. Can we ever really stop aging without dying? What is it everyone's really after?
It seems to me that the main goal of a well-balanced personality is most likely to age "well"; meaning feeling good, being physically and mentally active, and finally coming to that place in your life where you allow your own innate beauty to shine through. Finally accepting your personal beauty and uniqueness without feeling a need to compare yourself to the average.
I have been reading lately that plastic surgery is going out of vogue (finally), or at least the plastic surgery look is "out". This including the obvious bottle blonde, excessively breasted, pumped lipped, startled eyed, pulled-backed fleshed worshippers of a certain ideal. I read one blog (can't recall the link) that stated "if you want to look over 70, get a facelift". Wow, maybe the tide is turning.
I honestly believe that physical and mental health is the answer to aging well. And those things that add to quality of life are continuous lifelong learning, new experiences, positive relationships with others and development of skills. Travel, develop a personal discipline that makes you happy, offer a hand up to others and honor your body.
Carol
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Beauty from the Inside Out
Anti-aging is an area of healthcare and esthetics that has been growing since the Boomers became middle-aged and panicky. Everyone wants to look and feel as vibrant as possible as long as possible. That is what cosmetic acupuncture can help you achieve.
The Process:
After a complete TCM (traditional chinese medicine) intake, examination and differential diagnosis, very tiny needles are inserted into the face. Distal points will also be needled to balance all the meridians. Dietary and lifestyle advice are integral as well as a prescription for herbs and/or nutritional supplements to strengthen the constitution. Most practitioners will also discuss proper skin care.
The Commitment:
The initial protocol is 10 sessions within 5 weeks. The maintenence is typically 1x monthly. If the practitioner discovers that you are not healthy enough to benefit cosmetically from the treatment, she will usually offer other options to get you to a greater degree of health before starting the protocol, much the same way a plastic surgeon won't perform a cosmetic procedure on a compromised patient. You will have the best results if you are willing to follow all the practioner's lifestyle recomendations. You will be brought to a place of better health, beauty and balance.
The Results:
Outwardly, wrinkles diminish, skin color evens out, skin glows and achieves a more youthful texture, sags and bags uplift. All naturally, all coming from the inside out.
Inwardly, menstrual and menopausal symptoms balance out, digestion typically improves, as does energy, mood and sleep.
The Science:
Mechanically, the tiny, superficially-inserted needles create micro-traumas that the body will heal with increased collagen production. As any student of biology knows, when there is any compromise to the body's defenses, even something as small as miniscule punctures in the skin, circulation will increase to the area bringing nutrients and white blood cells. This creates an immediate improvement in the appearance of the face.
TCM-wise, the needles are inserted into specific acupuncture points to enhance and raise spleen qi, improve T&T, tonify lung and kidney and balance the yang meridians.
It's good for you, it works and there's no surgery or injection of toxic or synthetic substances.
A TCM note about facelifts:
Any surgery, including a facelift, involves interrupting the flow of qi in the local meridians by cutting into the tissues. This can cause a chronic stagnation of qi in those meridians and ultimately, depletion. If this is not corrected, you will actually age faster than you would've otherwise. From the inside out. Fortunately, cosmetic and traditional acupuncture can be applied to re-establish this flow.
The Process:
After a complete TCM (traditional chinese medicine) intake, examination and differential diagnosis, very tiny needles are inserted into the face. Distal points will also be needled to balance all the meridians. Dietary and lifestyle advice are integral as well as a prescription for herbs and/or nutritional supplements to strengthen the constitution. Most practitioners will also discuss proper skin care.
The Commitment:
The initial protocol is 10 sessions within 5 weeks. The maintenence is typically 1x monthly. If the practitioner discovers that you are not healthy enough to benefit cosmetically from the treatment, she will usually offer other options to get you to a greater degree of health before starting the protocol, much the same way a plastic surgeon won't perform a cosmetic procedure on a compromised patient. You will have the best results if you are willing to follow all the practioner's lifestyle recomendations. You will be brought to a place of better health, beauty and balance.
The Results:
Outwardly, wrinkles diminish, skin color evens out, skin glows and achieves a more youthful texture, sags and bags uplift. All naturally, all coming from the inside out.
Inwardly, menstrual and menopausal symptoms balance out, digestion typically improves, as does energy, mood and sleep.
The Science:
Mechanically, the tiny, superficially-inserted needles create micro-traumas that the body will heal with increased collagen production. As any student of biology knows, when there is any compromise to the body's defenses, even something as small as miniscule punctures in the skin, circulation will increase to the area bringing nutrients and white blood cells. This creates an immediate improvement in the appearance of the face.
TCM-wise, the needles are inserted into specific acupuncture points to enhance and raise spleen qi, improve T&T, tonify lung and kidney and balance the yang meridians.
It's good for you, it works and there's no surgery or injection of toxic or synthetic substances.
A TCM note about facelifts:
Any surgery, including a facelift, involves interrupting the flow of qi in the local meridians by cutting into the tissues. This can cause a chronic stagnation of qi in those meridians and ultimately, depletion. If this is not corrected, you will actually age faster than you would've otherwise. From the inside out. Fortunately, cosmetic and traditional acupuncture can be applied to re-establish this flow.
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