Rejuvenate With These Anti-aging Exercises – Part 5

Part 5 of a series of fascinating articles by Derek Boughton about

How To Look Years Younger Naturally.

In Part 1, we introduced the concept of Facial Isometrics. In Parts 2, 3 & 4 we worked on the specific exercises from your neck to your eyes – natural health and fitness for your face. Now we’ll move up even further!

The following is based on Derek’s book ‘How To Look Years Younger Naturally’ available from the website YearsYoungerNaturally.com

9. eyelids

I also exercise the eyelids. While it is not much of a problem for most people, for some there can be a certain build-up of bagginess there. Anyway, I do it for completeness. So, simply blink the eyes shut and open for your requisite number of times (20 – 50), ensuring that for some of them, you completely open your eyes wide before closing them again. Then repeat this looking as far down as possible then again looking as far up as possible. If you feel you need more work in this area then you can do the usual left, right, alternate, both routine.

10. forehead

There are many who have permanently furrowed brows. Like crow’s feet, this is usually due to permanently tensed muscles. As explained above, we will tense these muscles then relax them. As it happens, the first exercise also stretches the crows feet area upward somewhat, so it helps there also.

a)      Use the muscles in your forehead to pull upwards then release. This should raise your eyebrows up and furrow your brow. Every so often, hold it up tight before releasing. When you have finished your requisite number of repetitions, close your eyes and relax for a short while then squeeze your eyes tight before opening. By the way, while furrowing up your forehead with this exercise, you could hold it there and do the under eye exercise as an alternative to exercise 8 a). Actually, I usually do both.

b)      Now we pull the forehead down the other way, so that the eyebrows move downwards, like a frown then release. This will probably also pull the eyebrows inwards together. If you suffer from a tense puckering between the eyebrows then put the sides of your forefingers on the inner part of each eyebrow and gently pull outwards. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and relax. Repeat this several times.

c)      Finally, alternately raise and lower the eyebrows. I usually finish with one long pull upwards and open my eyes as wide as possible then add a strong smile as well.

Now if you’ve been following the techniques in all five parts of these articles then this might seem like a lot of exercise time to squeeze into your busy day. But in fact, once you’ve got the sequence, doing 10 reps takes about 5 seconds or so which means that the whole lot only takes about 6 minutes! Once you increase the repetitions, it will last longer but by then you will have seen the results starting to show and be keen to incorporate it into your normal daily routine. I actually do most of the exercises while driving to or from work so it takes no extra time at all! Just be careful – there are some of them you shouldn’t do while actually driving but you can carry these out while stopped at traffic lights or when you get to your destination. Alternatively, you could do the exercises while undertaking the housework, watching TV, or wherever! I do this whole group of exercises once a day as many days a week as possible, so usually 4 – 5 times a week.

As already mentioned, some ageing of the face is due to lack of muscle use and some is due to stress causing the muscles to tense up, usually creating lines and wrinkles, especially around the eyes and forehead. The exercises above will help both of these situations. The tension related issues can also be alleviated by a variety of stress relief activities and there is a later chapter on this in my book 'How To Look Years Younger Naturally'. As I mentioned before, Botox injections are used to numb the poor muscles so that they cannot contract. Goodness knows what this does to the overall condition of the face muscles over time. Of course there are also several side-effects that can occur with such injections including headache, neck pain, bruising and nausea. Anyway, it must be much healthier and natural to relieve the tension with massage and other stress relief techniques.

So that’s the Facial Isometrics for you to use for the rest of your life – keep at it and see the incredible difference it will make. In fact, why not take a before photo of yourself right now and then another in a month or so and send to me at Derek@YearsYoungerNaturally.com.

The rest of this chapter on ‘Your Face’ contains some special but simple massages that are particularly good at rejuvenating your forehead and eyes, as well as information about pallor, neck issues, headaches, and the damage caused to your facial area by smoking. There is also some rather shocking news about the cosmetics industry that was reported in the press.

But of course, you can easily finish reading the chapter or the rest of the book by going to the website.

Here are some of the fascinating and important subjects covered in “How To Look Years Younger Naturally” –

Chapter 1 - your hair

Chapter 2 - your face and neck        

Chapter 3 - glasses and your eyesight         

Chapter 4 - your nose, ears and hearing     

Chapter 5 - your teeth          

Chapter 6 - your posture and lower back    

Chapter 7 - your abdomen and waist           

Chapter 8 - your legs, knees and feet          

Chapter 9 - the clothes you wear     

Chapter 10 - your mental attitude    

Chapter 11 - regular exercises         

Chapter 12 - daily stretch and warm-up exercises  

Chapter 13 - your bones and weight bearing exercise        

Chapter 14 - stress relief      

Chapter 15 - meditation, affirmations and visualisation     

Chapter 16 - your mind, brain and memory 

Chapter 17 - menopause and andropause   

Chapter 18 - food and drink

Chapter 19 - smoking, drugs and alcohol

I hope you have enjoyed these articles. If you would like information about any of the subjects above, you know the website to go to!

Here’s to a more youthful you,

Derek Boughton

www.YearsYoungerNaturally.com

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