Articles -
Outer Beauty Reflects Inner Health

As printed in Tone Magazine
October 2004, Volume 20 Number 2.

ENERGY
Outer Beauty Reflects Inner Health

Article prepared by:
Judi Jhannel Walden, B.A.A.

   Consumer consciousness is changing.  What shoppers found acceptable in beauty products ten years ago is no longer acceptable today.  How an individual presents him or herself publicly now has to be politically correct.  Perfumes and scented skin and body care products are out. Offending anothers personal space with chemical-soup perfumes and after-shave lotions is not OK.  Cosmetic face masks for women are passé.  So where is the trend going?  At last – it’s going in the right direction.  Consumer consciousness is now linking to health consciousness.

   Your real face, the real you, is what people want to see.  When a person is wearing a disguise and hiding behind a cosmetic facemask, it makes you wonder – just what are they trying to conceal?  Are they open and honest or…?  Instead of trying to artificially look better on the outside (rather superficial don’t you think?) we would be far better off if we  worked on our looks from the inside – out.

   Our face is a map of our inner health.  The study of face analysis is called physiognomy …pronounced fizz-ee-og (as in grog )-nom (as in nominate )-ee…the art of oriental face diagnosis.  This is an ancient tool used by practitioners to analyse past, present and potential health issues. 

   The lines, crevices, blotches, spots, bruising, dark colour, broken capillaries, roughness, paleness, dryness and rawness are present there for a reason.  Your face is revealing the health status of your brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, digestive system, bowel, reproductive system, heart and emotions.  Ignore or try to cover up what your face is trying to tell you to your peril!  This is information we need to pay attention to; we need to use it to become more health savvy and beautiful.  Improve the health of our organ and energy systems and the results will show up in our face.  Six months of inner health balancing can see a person looking ten years younger, feeling more energetic, having a better functioning brain and an improved outlook on life.  All by working on their looks from the inside – out.

   Then there is the perspective of health and beauty from the outside – in, but from a different point of view.   All chemicals that we put on our skin through deliberate topical application or from happen chance  contact with our skin  can show up in the urine within twenty minutes of our touching them.  Makes you think doesn’t it?

    Many products touch our skin.  Deliberately applied products would be cosmetics, shaving preparations, massage lotions, skin cremes, hair removers, hand cleaners, after-shaves and deodorants.  Happen chance products that come into contact with our skin that we might not be aware of  the toxicity of  would be shampoos, hair styling products, hair dyes, dish detergents, laundry soaps, fabric softeners, house-cleaning products, dry cleaning solvents, and synthetic fabrics.  These all impact on our inner health.  Superficially these products  - whether you consciously choose to put them on or not – may temporarily achieve their purpose.  Yes they seem to clean well.  Yes they do make your skin look better for now.  But what is the cost of their long-term effect?

   The question is, do they improve or stress our health?  In most cases they stress our health.  Their chemical components lodge in our organ, blood, muscle, and bone tissue interfering with our functioning level and energy flow.  On the map of the face they end up creating exactly what we have been attempting to avoid – weathered, tired and ugly looking skin.

    The skin is permeable to solids, liquids and gases. Why would we put anything on our skin, hair, nails and clothes that isn’t safe to eat?  It ends up in the wrong place – inside our bodies as a toxic substance.  Would we eat a bowl of ingredients in a lip-gloss for breakfast?  What about your hair colour, or your after-shave toner, or your dry cleaning solvent?  Would you have that as a little snack?  Stress your organs and it will show up on your face sooner or later – and it is usually sooner.

    Being healthy means having the energy, positive outlook, emotional temperament, stamina, resilience, intuitive know-how, and inner balance to create a life that is joyful and balanced for us.  Let’s choose to be healthy!  Absorbing and ingesting substances toxic to us negatively affects our health and consequently our looks.

   This leads us to the question of where do we find balanced healthy skin care and beauty products?  Most drug stores are not the place to buy the best skin care products although there are some that are becoming increasingly market aware and as such are stocking more natural products on their shelves.  The educated consumer however, is going to find a wider range of products in the health food stores than probably anywhere else.  And yet, even then, can you truly find the best product for you?

   The consumer savvy individual is likely frustrated with what’s available on the market.  Can you find what you want to buy?  Are the prices realistic?  Do you know what you need or what is best for you?  Where can you find the answer to your questions?  And most importantly, how do you control the quality of the ingredients that come into contact with your body?

   The answer… make your own!   Not only that, you can then customise your product to fit your special skin/complexion care needs as they alter from season to season and from day-to-day.  At-home skin, complexion and looks care follows simple theory techniques and strategy. Learn the basic information and you will have an enormous repertoire of knowledge to play with.

   Skin care products are very inexpensive to make.  The big bucks you pay for in pre-manufactured products results from shipping, packaging, licensing, testing, insurance, sales, printing, advertising and storage costs.  Put your money into quality ingredients and create your own. Personalise. Customise. Beautify.

   If you are not ‘poisoning’ yourself on the inside with what you apply on the outside, you will look and feel better.  Your complexion will glow. Your hair will be lustrous, and your skin will be firm and smooth.   

   Your face is on the outside where everyone can see it.  It is a billboard for all to see and it advertises everything you have done and continue to do.  You can have a great complexion but you need to start with ‘healthy’ products on the outside in combination with inner support to totally enhance your beauty.  This is true beauty, the kind that is real and lasting.

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Judi Jhannel Walden is a holistic health practitioner and medical intuitive.  She is trained in physiognomy and also designs and teaches workshops on organic skin care (Beauty Boot Camps / Beauty Extravaganzas).

For more information she can be reached at The Ranch Retreat at (613) 273 – 7507, theranch@rideau.net
www.TheRanchRetreat.ca