Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Look ten years younger - without surgery
Ann Robinson
Julie Christie
There is a four fold increase in women over fifty seeking to have their face enhanced by cosmetic surgery and half of them are doing so to help their careers, reports the Telegraph today. 'Silver surgery' is increasingly seen as the way to provide a 'golden future' for the ambitious women still confident in their powers and wishing to enhance their work prospects.
Feeling pressure from younger women, with role-model examples from celebrities like Anne Robinson, Toya Wilcox and Julie Christie who've all reportedly had cosmetic surgery, many are endeavouring to look a little bit better by reducing the baggy-eyed look and dropping jowls and firming up their jawline by opting for the knife. As 'aesthetic surgery' is no longer seen as expensive, £10,000-£20,000 or the price of a new car, and as we become more savvy about procedures it seems almost expected and common-place.
But as Douglas McGeorge of the BAAPS (British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons) points out, surgery is not a cure-all or guaranteed life-changer. It's not the new face that gives the woman a new job, but the confidence the facial changes may bring for her. "If you feel better, you perform better" he says. And I couldn't agree more. But are more women having surgery really to help their career, or is it just they want to keep up appearances and are tagging this reason just to help their conscience?
Another thing to bare in mind is that our face is an outward expression of what is going on inside. We express how are through facial expression, our complexion and lines. And changing the outward appearance does nothing to change the health and functioning underneath. It's like putting a new orange skin on an ageing piece of fruit. (Sorry!)
I have worked with many women who have changed in terms of facial appearance and posture so they look ten years younger.....without having cosmetic surgery. The clarity and elasticity of our skin can be helped by improvements in oxygenation of the body through better breathing, reductions in toxicity, attending to the alkaline/acidity of the body and drinking more water. Better posture gives us more height, apparent slimness as well as better bodily functioning including improved breathing that helps oxygenation of our blood and skin. We move more athletically and carry ourselves with more poise. The better inner-functioning is expressed through our face. A reduction of stress in our internal organs shows itself facially with a relaxed and lively demeanour.
