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    Facial Gua Sha: A Step By Step Guide to a Natural Facelift
    Facial Gua Sha: A Step By Step Guide to a Natural Facelift
    Facial Gua Sha: A Step By Step Guide to a Natural Facelift
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    Facial Gua Sha: A Step By Step Guide to a Natural Facelift

    By Clive Witham

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    Facial Gua shafocuses on a popular anti-aging beauty technique from the Far-East which is aimed at enhancing the look and feel of your face totally naturally.

    Through a holistic approach in which the face and the balance of the body are seen as interconnected, this book shows you how to use light scraping techniques over the face and neck area to help enhance and rejuvenate yourface on a deep level and help to combat wrinkles, eye bags, crow’s feet, facial lines and other signs of aging.

    It also shows you how the imbalances in your body can influence your face and how you can activate the vitality of your skin and muscle tone through ancient Oriental ideas of health and wellbeing to look and feel the best you can.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMangrove Press
    Release dateDec 15, 2017
    ISBN9780956150752
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    Clive Witham

    Clive Witham L.Ac., M.Sc., is a licensed acupuncturist and the director of the Komorebi Institute and the Gua sha Center in Spain. For more than a decade, he ran a chronic illness clinic in North Africa. The creator of Ecology in Motion Gua sha, he specializes in Gua sha and promoting the knowledge of ancient Chinese healing as a viable, practical world medicine. The author of several books, including Holographic Gua Sha and Facial Gua Sha, Clive lives in Barcelona, Spain.

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      Facial Gua Sha - Clive Witham

      herein.

      1. INTRODUCTION

      BEAUTY IS BUSINESS

      Let us start with some facts.

      Fact 1: There are more than 20 million cosmetic procedures carried out worldwide every year and the number is growing substantially year upon year¹.

      Fact 2: Most of these procedures take place in four countries: the USA, Brazil, South Korea and Japan.

      Fact 3: Four million of these 20 million treatments are face and head procedures such as facelifts and eyelid surgery, and around 7 million are Botox injections².

      With facelifts at around $6,000 and Botox treatments between $200 to $500 a-time, clearly large sums of money are changing hands in the pursuit of beauty. But more than the jaw-dropping amounts of money involved, the worrying thing is why are so many people so intent on changing their faces. 

      THE EGYPTIANS

      The search for beauty is nothing new. It has been going on for thousands of years and involved all sorts of remedies both familiar and strange. Four thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians were using animal oils, copper flakes, salt, earth, fish glue (which is gelatine made from the bladders of sturgeon fish in case you are wondering), vinegar and alabaster to improve skin texture³. They had decided that an ideal face contained many rounded features such as a rounded, short nose, a rounded chin, a sloping forehead and thick lips.

      THE GREEKS

      While these features dominated the artful representation of Egyptian Pharaohs for millennia, the ancient Greeks decided to go one step further and mathematically calculate the correct facial proportions of beauty. They did this by deciding that the face should be divided into three sections: From the hairline to the eyes; from the eyes to the upper lip; and from the upper lip to the chin. For beauty to be established, the three sections had to be equal in height.

      To this they added that the width of the face had to be in correct proportion to its length. To calculate exactly how big this proportion was, they drew on great philosophers and mathematicians like Plato (428 – 347 BCE) and Euclid (365 – 300 BCE) and applied the idea of the Golden Ratio - also known as ‘phi’ after the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet - to the face. This meant that the length of the face should be 1.618 times the width, and width in turn should be 0.618 times the length. And so beauty had a number.

      These ancient ideas stuck in the western world and feature greatly in art and sculpture especially from the renaissance period (1300 – 1600 CE) onwards. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is a classic example of the proportions of the golden ratio.

      THE CHINESE

      The ancient Chinese also had a stab at defining what it means to be beautiful. Cosmetic treatments known as ‘Mei Rong’ can be dated all the way back to the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) where herbs and acupuncture were used to try and preserve the youth and beauty of the court concubines⁴.

      They had a similar idea in dividing the face into three equal horizontal sections but they differed in the landmarks to do it: From the hairline to the eyebrows; from the eyebrows to the bottom of the nose; and from the bottom of the nose to the chin.

      The width of the face was divided into five equal parts, each the width of an eye. This classification was called ‘three stops and five eyes’ and later became known as the vertical thirds and horizontal fifths rule⁵.

      BEYOND THE CALCULATIONS

      The fact that beauty has been mathematically quantified is fine as an academic exercise but does not however take into account that we see life through different eyes. What represents beauty for one person may not represent beauty for another. Indeed it should not take you too long to think of someone who is generally regarded as beautiful but who does not fit into these proportions⁶ and anyway the whole exercise becomes rather redundant when you realize the fact that virtually no one actually has these proportions in the real world⁷.

      THE BEAUTY WITHIN

      Beauty is therefore more about our perceptions of the world around us than any social norm. And this perception comes from our own emotional-psychological make-up that we bring with us to any perceived preference. To put it in other words, our own beauty and those of others is a direct reflection of our emotional, physical, mental, spiritual state inside our own bodies. Despite what we are bombarded with on a daily basis through media channels, it is not the sum reflection of the first layer of skin that surrounds your body and the muscles and bones that support it. We are essentially who we are inside. Not outside. Beauty shows itself when the internal balance of your body is at its optimum level and what is inside quite literally radiates outwards. 

      A NATURAL SOLUTION

      Which brings me to the point of this book. It is not about getting a quick fix. It is not about the latest cosmetic fad. It is not about changing to what other people tell you that you should be. It is all about enhancing who you are. How you look. Both inside and outside. It is about how the present and the past has impacted on making you the person reading this right now. It is about using that information and bridging the gap, either perceived or real, between the past you and the present you. The natural facelift in the title is referring not only to the cosmetic idea of changes at the skin level but equally at changing the face we show to the outside world. An external and internal facelift. In this way it can help to lift the veil which can often obscure the real you.

      2. WHAT IS FACIAL GUA SHA?

      SCRAPING YOUR SKIN

      In China, where Gua sha is used as part of treatments to reduce the effects of aging and enhance the skin, it is claimed that regular facial Gua sha can promote the growth of new skin cells, help renew your complexion and reduce clogged pores, control acne, tighten the chin and enhance the ability of your

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