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Various Methods Used to Reduce Stress and Wrinkles
- By Jeff McDougall
- Published Monday 25th 2010
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Some people believe that intensive meditation, and practices such as yoga, which include stretching and relaxing body postures, and also different types of meditation are a good cure for wrinkles and that with ever increasing peace of mind, your wrinkles will tend to subside. For some kinds of wrinkles, which are caused by muscular tension this is probably true and that with a greater sense of inner peace, external symptoms of worry or distress, such as frown lines and tense wrinkled skin, will be much reduced.
Practices such as yoga and meditation focus on releasing the tension caused by negative emotions which can depress your way of thinking and also have a negative effect on the way that your body physically functions. Most mediation techniques, including yoga, start with a requirement that you place yourself in some form of balanced posture, which can be as easy as sitting upright in a chair, you don’t need to stand on your head. Taking on a good posture is often the first step towards deeper and better breathing. When breathing is deeper, more paced and controlled this can create a less stressed and more relaxed feeling that with time and practice can be extended through the whole body. When attention is focused on areas of the body that feel particularly tense or stressed, most of the time it is around the forehead, the jaw line and back of the neck where a person will feel the most tense, stiff and constricted. A lot of tension is held around the neck and shoulders and in the facial area. Spending some time identifying the areas where you feel most tense and actively relaxing these areas, can make you feel as though a
burden has been lifted from your shoulders, and most will feel their entire face relax as they practice meditation.
Meditation practices are not so much about repressing distressing emotions, but coming to a realization of what triggers the negative emotions, and an acceptance that life is a series of good and bad things happening, but that you don’t have to be so emotionally involved with everything that happens to the extent that it causes you to be excessively downcast or depressed, or anxious. With meditation you learn to be more accepting of events as they come and go, and that while you still feel the emotions, you learn to let them go. It is this ability to move on and let go of past events, whether pleasing or distressing that allows you to live more fully in the moment, and allows you to be completely free of the past and more flexible in your approach to the future. It is this freedom from unnecessary and pointless worry and care that gives your life forward movement and hope for the future, and feelings of optimism. Some see facial and other wrinkles caused by muscular rigidity and tension to be just an external symptom of emotional conflicts that inhibit the muscles and make them rigid and tense.
The idea is that when the mind is released from inner conflicts and tension, this enables the whole body to become less stressed and more relaxed – the heart rate slows down, breathing is deeper and more regular, digestion and appetite improve, a person feels healthy and has more energy to be active and take an interest in life. When this happens, the facial muscles are also relaxed, have natural movement and will not hold the skin in fixed lines and wrinkles. Try it for yourself and see if achieving inner peace will make you wrinkle free!
Practices such as yoga and meditation focus on releasing the tension caused by negative emotions which can depress your way of thinking and also have a negative effect on the way that your body physically functions. Most mediation techniques, including yoga, start with a requirement that you place yourself in some form of balanced posture, which can be as easy as sitting upright in a chair, you don’t need to stand on your head. Taking on a good posture is often the first step towards deeper and better breathing. When breathing is deeper, more paced and controlled this can create a less stressed and more relaxed feeling that with time and practice can be extended through the whole body. When attention is focused on areas of the body that feel particularly tense or stressed, most of the time it is around the forehead, the jaw line and back of the neck where a person will feel the most tense, stiff and constricted. A lot of tension is held around the neck and shoulders and in the facial area. Spending some time identifying the areas where you feel most tense and actively relaxing these areas, can make you feel as though a
Meditation practices are not so much about repressing distressing emotions, but coming to a realization of what triggers the negative emotions, and an acceptance that life is a series of good and bad things happening, but that you don’t have to be so emotionally involved with everything that happens to the extent that it causes you to be excessively downcast or depressed, or anxious. With meditation you learn to be more accepting of events as they come and go, and that while you still feel the emotions, you learn to let them go. It is this ability to move on and let go of past events, whether pleasing or distressing that allows you to live more fully in the moment, and allows you to be completely free of the past and more flexible in your approach to the future. It is this freedom from unnecessary and pointless worry and care that gives your life forward movement and hope for the future, and feelings of optimism. Some see facial and other wrinkles caused by muscular rigidity and tension to be just an external symptom of emotional conflicts that inhibit the muscles and make them rigid and tense.
The idea is that when the mind is released from inner conflicts and tension, this enables the whole body to become less stressed and more relaxed – the heart rate slows down, breathing is deeper and more regular, digestion and appetite improve, a person feels healthy and has more energy to be active and take an interest in life. When this happens, the facial muscles are also relaxed, have natural movement and will not hold the skin in fixed lines and wrinkles. Try it for yourself and see if achieving inner peace will make you wrinkle free!
