According to Taoist doctors, our posture, the head position makes the face literally “drain” down, ageing ahead of time. How to restore beauty and keep it for a long time?
Body tissues may “leak”. With age, this becomes especially noticeable, we say so – the face seems to “swim”. How to avoid this, make the face fit and young?
Why do fabrics “flow”?
Facial tissues begin to “flow” because the “framework” to which they are attached – the bones – is in the wrong position.
Imagine how a shirt looks on a person with wide, straight shoulders. Now imagine that he is hunched over, his shoulders lifted and leaned forward. The shirt will wrinkle too! If you melt your shoulders again, then the shirt will straighten out.
It is exactly the same with tissues: the wrong position of the skeleton changes the natural direction of their current, “wrinkles” them. Few people know that the bones of the skull are also able to change their position – and create conditions under which the tissues begin to deform.
How is the head arranged?
Until now, many believe that the skull is a monolithic “cranial box”, a rigid structure. In fact, there are sutures in the skull that connect individual bones, and thanks to these connections, the entire skull retains mobility throughout life.
The bones of the skull move relative to each other. Of course, these movements are imperceptible – they are limited to millimeters. But those millimeters matter. And in matters of beauty, the face is decisive.
Muscles that pull
If the bones of the skull change their position, then the tissues attached to them also change. Here’s a classic example: press down on your frontal bone. What will happen?
The eyelids seem to lie on the eyelashes, the cheeks flow down, the corners of the eyes and lips creep down, nasolabial folds form. Did you feel? Our task is to avoid this effect and improve the condition of the skin. For this, the position of the bones must be correct. And what changes the position of the bones and reduces the mobility of the joints of the skull? Muscle tension.
As a rule, tension in the neck and shoulders is especially affected. If the neck is tense, it involves the muscles of the head in tension. Chewing muscles, one of the strongest in the body, are also important. When they are in hypertonicity, they pull all the structures of the skull onto themselves, and the face changes beyond recognition (not for the better) with age.
How to relax your head?
Chewing muscle and neck muscles tense constantly. And that’s okay. Against the background of stress, they enter hypertonicity, and this condition eventually begins to be perceived as the norm. How to relax the head – are there any special exercises?
There are no exercises to relax the head. But since most of the tensions that form in the muscles of the head have an ascending cause – that is, they come from below, from the neck and shoulders – exercises to relax the shoulder girdle are vital to restore the upward flow of tissues and preserve the beauty of the face.
For example, in the Qigong complex Sing Shen Juang, which consists of 12 exercises, the first four are dedicated specifically to the neck and shoulders. Thanks to these exercises, the correct position of the neck, blood supply to the brain and all tissues of the head are restored. And, accordingly, the current of tissues in this area is normalized.
Exercises to relax the shoulder girdle are always slow, delicate movements, in which the main thing is not amplitude, but control of attention and deepening relaxation, and not tissue stretching.
What do these exercises look like? Let’s try one of the Sing Shen Juang exercises to understand the system of working with tension in the muscles of the head and neck and evaluate their effectiveness.
1. Stand up straight, hands at the waist, feet shoulder-width apart. Stretch your crown up.
2. Stretch your neck, relax your shoulders. Begin to make a small rotation at the base of the neck: as if the crown outlines a circle with a diameter of 5 cm. The crown still strives up, the rotation is small and occurs at the seventh cervical vertebra – the base of the neck.
3. Move your attention to the region of the seventh cervical vertebra and ask yourself the question: “What else can I relax to make this rotation even softer and freer?” Note how the back of the head relaxes as the base of the neck area relaxes, how the chewing muscles react to this relaxation. Do 7-10 rotations in one direction and in the other.
This exercise can be done in front of a mirror every morning – before or after washing your face. Ideally, it should be combined with others that are learned as part of the development of Sing Shen Juang Qigong – in order to work out the entire structure of the spine (after all, everything in the body is connected – in particular, the position of the neck will be connected with the position of the lower back and even the feet).
As soon as you restore a beautiful posture and find a new quality of relaxation of the structures of the head, the face will begin to change – and the skin will regain the radiance of youth and true inner beauty.