Happy ‘International Happiness Day’! We are celebrating this year’s theme: Keep calm, Stay Conscious & Be Kind SCO style.
Happiness is a mental & emotional state of well-being that affects all areas of our lives. Staying calm and stress-free can work miracles for your health and your skin. Staying conscious and choosing local, organic food and beauty products will enrich your life with healthy nutrients. Be kind to yourself and your skin by immersing in some TLC to keep you glowing from within.
Does happiness really affect your skin?
Your feelings, be it happy or sad, are written all over your face. Skin is one of the best indicators of the state of your mind.
Shirley says, “When you’re happy, your skin is happy. You emit happiness and beauty.”
When you feel good internally, your skin maintains its clarity and gives out a healthy overall radiance. Being happy enhances your skin’s ability to repair and renew itself, resulting in radiant, healthy, and youthful looking skin. When you’re angry or stressed, your skin gets irritated too and can lead to break outs and imbalances in skin tone.
Dr. Neetu Nicolas, a renowned homeopathy doctor in Dubai, says, “Skin is the external communicator of our mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. With beautiful skin, anyone can confidently face the world. Stress can exacerbate skin conditions and vice versa. There will be derangement in the absorption and digestion of vitamins during stress. When we are happy, our body releases happy hormones that give a glow to your skin.”
Happiness releases feel-good hormones like oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. These hormones promote healthy blood circulation, enrich oxygen in your blood supply, and enhance your body’s proper functioning.
When your skin receives the needed supply of oxygen and nutrients, it gives a healthy glow. Also, by maintaining a happy frame of mind, you avoid stress hormones that inhibit the production of collagen and elastin. So your skin becomes more balanced and looks beautiful.
5 Ways to Increase Your Happiness to Enhance Skin Health
Life is busy, but you’ll be happier when you find personal satisfaction, enrichment, friendship, and purpose.
#1 Enjoy the small things.
Instead of finding happiness in worldly things, remember to find joy in the little things. Enjoy a cold swim on a hot summer day, savor the aroma of your favorite dish, or walk barefoot in the early morning sunrise or moonlight path and absorb the energy from the sun and moon. These are just small things, but they’ll enrich your life and boost your happiness.
#2 Do more of what you’re passionate about
Pursuing your passions is highly conducive in increasing your happiness. When you do what you’re passionate about, you’re broadening your horizons and developing your potential, which results in higher self-esteem and enhanced well-being.
#3 Connect with others
Supportive relationships contribute to our psychological wellbeing. Loneliness impacts your immune system and increases your susceptibility to anxiety and depression. Healthy friendships add positivity to your life, increase your sense of belonging and keep you calm. All these aspects boost your happiness quotient that may result in radiant skin.
#4 Be grateful
Gratitude helps people connect to a higher power. With gratitude, you acknowledge the good in others. Harvard researchers say that gratitude helps people experience positive emotions, improve their health, relish good experiences, and build strong relationships.
#5 Take steps to enrich life.
Practice self-love and be good to yourself. Be mindful of your thoughts; never let them control you. Developing a positive attitude, taking responsibility for your actions, and making bold moves brings variety and creativity into your life. Surrounding yourself with positive people enriches your life.
Love the skin you’re in
Try these simple steps. They’ll surely increase your happiness levels and result in good skin; regular cleansing, exfoliation, moisturizing and treatments will significantly enhance your skin health and make you feel fantastic. If these products bring added benefit and support to others’ lives too, well then that’s just creating double happiness and an immense feel good factor.
A balanced lifestyle, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, proper hydration, restful sleep, exercise, and meditation can positively affect your skin health. Good lifestyle choices keep your skin happy.
Give yourself a break, don’t take it all so seriously and laugh as much as you can xx
