How can Kinesiology help with skin conditions?
Common skin conditions, such as acne, eczema, psoriasis and rosacea can cause real distress. Besides their appearance and subsequent effect on our self-confidence, they can be thoroughly uncomfortable to live with and frustrating to know how to treat.
Because these common conditions only happen on a surface level, we often make the mistake of thinking that they’re only skin deep, whereas in reality there are a myriad of factors which contribute to them.
This is why I now work with Divine Healing which is a gentle, powerful way to uncover what’s really going on beneath the surface. The skin is often the body’s canvas, showing us where deeper layers of stress, emotion, or imbalance are waiting to be acknowledged and released.
Symptoms help us understand our body
Symptoms are our friends, they are the body’s way of trying to get our attention, a bit like a smoke alarm going off alerting us to a fire. It’s an invitation to investigate further.
However, within our current healthcare system, the widely favoured approach is one which focuses on suppressing the symptoms, rather than investigating them. You can see this clearly with the current treatment for skin conditions which includes topical steroid creams to ease discomfort, antibiotics to kill bacteria on the skin, chemical face washes and the hormonal contraceptive pill.
While they may temporarily ease the discomfort of the skin condition, they fail to investigate the root cause, meaning the condition never goes away. They merely cover up the symptoms, keeping us stuck in the misguided belief that the problem has gone, when in reality the real problem carries on, out of sight and out of mind.
We are vastly complex beings and our physical body is only one part of who we are - we are also made up of our emotions, our energy field, our past, our programming, our trauma and everything in-between.
The role of diet with skin conditions
Nutritional deficiencies play a vital role in our health. Due to over-farming and chemical treatments of the soil in the UK, we have a drastically reduced quality of soil which in turn decreases the vitamin and mineral content, meaning we need to eat a lot more to gain the same benefits than our grandparents did.
A poor diet alongside a sluggish digestive system and a stressed body also means that we can often fail to get what we need nutritionally from our food because the body can’t absorb the nutrients. This is why making sure our bodies are functioning well is so important.
Diet can certainly influence skin health, and foods like dairy, sugar, or wheat can trigger flare-ups for some people.
We never want to vilify food but the truth is that there are certain foods which are biocidic to our bodies, which essentially means that they do more harm than good. Sugar, for example, when we eat too much of it can cause inflammation in th body.
Everyone is biochemically individual which means that what one person might be sensitive to, may not be the case with someone else. What works for someone else may not work for you, it’s a bit of a process of trial and error when it comes to taking command of our own health and wellbeing, but it always pays off when we start to realise what foods make us feel good, and what foods cause flare ups.
The role of detoxification with skin conditions
The world we live in is full of toxicity, from food, chemicals, emotions and our environment. And for women, we are bombarded with marketing for all kinds of products, skincare and makeup that we’re sold will make us ‘prettier’ but in reality most of them contain huge amounts of chemicals that actually do our skin more harm than good.
And often the way for a toxic overload to present itself is through the skin.
This is because the skin acts as a secondary organ to the large intenstine, which is one of the major elimination channels for our bodies to process waste and toxins. So, sometimes, if things can’t be processed through our bowels, they get processed through our skin - resulting in acne, breakouts, rashes and all sorts of other things.
The lymphatic system also plays a large role in moving toxins and waste around the body but if we’re not stimulating our bodies enough, with physical exercise, a little too much of a sedentary lifestyle and not enough hydration, then it can become sluggish and ineffective.
Lastly, the other powerful organ used in processing toxins is the liver. However, if we have a diet high in alcohol, fatty foods that the liver finds hard to process, and medication, then our livers can become overburdened and unable to do their job as well as they can.
So, sometimes just taking out the things that put more of a burden on the liver can be a real support for our skin.
Emotions and skin conditions
Just as the body processes physical toxins, it also carries emotional “toxicity”: unexpressed feelings, old hurts, and unresolved stress. When these aren’t given space to move, they can build up beneath the surface and show through the skin, in redness, breakouts, or irritation.
And while our diet and lifestyle can create unpleasant skin conditions, I also believe that stress, self-criticism, and unresolved emotions have just as much, if not more, of an impact. That’s why addressing only the diet doesn’t always resolve the root cause.
When looking at any symptoms in the body, we always look into emotions because they often play a leading role in the root cause. The mind and body are a machine that works as one, so the effect of negative emotions and stress are important to take into account.
Scientists have recently discovered the role of the Enteric Nervous System (the gut brain connection) as well as the study of psychoneuroimmunology, the impact of your thoughts on your immune system. However, what they have yet to realise is that it’s really psychoneuro-everything-ology; every emotion affects our health.
Whether it’s anger, grief, fear or stress, from twenty years ago or two weeks ago, these negative emotions all have deep-rooted implications on our wellbeing and can manifest into seemingly unconnected conditions in the body.
These past emotions linger deep in our subconscious and on a cellular level in our bodies which makes it very hard for us to be aware of them and how past hurts relate to our health now.
This is especially relevant with skin conditions which often have a deep-rooted emotional cause.
Common emotional root causes of skin conditions
Evette Rose, author of Metaphysical Anatomy, writes that the skin is a person’s physical barrier boundary that keeps them safe and protected. When circumstances, environmental factors or people challenge this barrier, it will speak up for itself by means of itching, burning or irritation.
If we are struggling with healthy boundaries or feel unsafe, our skin lets us know.
Louise Hay, author of Heal Your Body, also explains that the skin protects our individuality, so that when that’s threatened, our skin reacts. So, what they’re both saying is that skin conditions are ultimately a response to the psychological stress we experience when someone invades our personal boundaries.
I often ask clients whether there is there someone ‘getting under their skin’? We can also ask if someone is ‘happy in their own skin’ because when we itch and scratch and pick at our skin, we’re really itching, scratching and picking at ourselves.
What are we not accepting about ourselves?
Alongside irritation and overstepped boundaries, anger can also play its part with skin conditions, especially with acne which is often a result of little eruptions of anger and resentment and rage boiling under the skin.
If we do not understand what we are feeling or why we are feeling a certain way, we are then unable to express our emotions in a balanced way, if at all. These trapped emotions can then build pressure up to an intolerable energy that needs to get out and erupt in a different way and the skin is a way out.
Looking beneath the surface
If you’ve tried creams, diets, or medications and nothing seems to shift, it might be that your body is asking for a different kind of support - which could be physical through trying new things with your diet, or maybe a little more of an emotional support.
Skin conditions are not just physical inconveniences, they’re invitations to look deeper, to listen to yourself more closely, and to bring compassion to the parts of you that are calling out for care.
By addressing the underlying emotional and energetic causes healing can start to happen from within, resulting in changes in both your skin and your life.
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