Everyone wants to look good, and it’s not just a matter of ego. Even babies have been found to show a preference for beautiful looking faces. It’s just natural to enjoy beauty.
A key aspect of an attractive face is the condition of your skin. No matter how well structured your cheek bones may be, the effect is largely lost on observers if your skin isn’t appealing.
A great many in our modern world have skin problems, and over-the-counter and prescription medications are sold by the cart load as we seek to rid ourselves of unwanted skin conditions.
But treating just the skin, via topical applications, is an inadequate response. That’s because, as Ron Garner explains in his book Conscious Health, “Unhealthy skin is a prime indication that there are more serious malfunctions within the body.” When the main organs of elimination are overloaded, the body uses the skin as a channel for detoxification which can manifest as skin problems such as eczema, acne, dry skin, and dandruff.
Your skin is a barometer of what’s happening much deeper inside you. Healthy skin is produced in response to a diet that supplies the nutrients it needs, good digestion, and regular elimination.
Even as your skin reflects what’s happening within, it also absorbs both beneficial and deleterious factors from outside of you. Few of us realize just how porous skin is to chemicals, such as chlorine in our bath water, and other environmental factors. It’s like a satellite dish, absorbing a plethora of invisible influences.
On the plus side, your skin plays an important role in manufacturing vitamin D. Few foods contain vitamin D, so it’s important to let the skin do its job. Especially when, as study after study has indicated lately, vitamin D confers so many health advantages upon us.
For instance, just this past Tuesday, December 19, a study released by Harvard School of Public Health in Boston indicated that vitamin D plays a role in protecting against multiple sclerosis. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, involved studying the serum samples of more than seven million US military personnel, 257 of whom developed MS. The study suggests that many cases of MS could be avoided by simply raising vitamin D intake.
Your skin absorbs sunlight, then manufactures vitamin D from it. But, says Ron Garner, author of the book Conscious Health, it’s essential to keep your skin “free of soaps and chemicals, allowing it to breathe and perform its functions unencumbered.”
We don’t tend to think of all the substances we put on our skin as potentially harmful. In fact, we usually use them to try to improve the condition of our skin. But, “All these substances, many of which are toxic, clog the pores, which then forces toxins and waste products to accumulate in the skin and in the deeper layers of the body.” When the pores are clogged, your body can’t adequately eliminate poisons. This can lead to disease.
It pays to be conscious of what you do to your skin—both from the outside, and from the inside. “Fingernails and toenails are actually skin,” Ron Garner explains. The skin inside the mouth also absorbs chemicals, necessitating reconsideration of the kinds of cleansers and breath purifiers we use. Plus, you also want to be careful what you put on your hair, since the scalp too is absorbent. Healthy looking hair, and a scalp free of dandruff, are additional barometers of health.
Tips for keeping your skin, nails, and hair healthy are featured in Conscious Health. You’ll enjoy being your most attractive self when you follow Ron Garner’s sound advice for becoming consciously healthy.
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