Instant Facelift Options - Acupressure Exercises

Offer the Ultimate Facelift Alternative

Learn a simple facial toning program that you can do at home to revitalize the facial
muscles and actually tone your whole face.

No need for needles, surgery, or pain!

An acupressure facial consisting of facial exercises provides a daily routine that you
can do in just a few minutes each day.

Facial exercise works better than electrical toning and has been practiced in China
regularly for thousands of years.

It can even help eliminate the desire for cosmetic surgery when practiced regularly.

If you want to transform your looks without cosmetic surgery then create your own
facial exercise program incorporating these acupressure facelift exercises into your
skin regiment routine. This daily facial workout is certainly a very low-cost natural
facelift option that tones and revitalizes the facial muscles without the expense and
pain of surgery.

With practice the following four exercises can even change the apparent shape of
your face after several months of daily facial acupressure. Understand that facial
exercises are not quick-fix solutions. But they do provide a natural and positive
approach to the appearance of younger skin. In time you will really see a positive
difference in your skin tone. Everyone has the potential to stay young looking, or
look younger than their actual physical age.

4 Acupressure Facial Exercises

You can combine these facial exercises with your natural skin care program. Since
the skin responds particularly well with acupressure you will see results in your
complexion, tone, and stress lines. Your facial muscles will relax, and the overall
vitality in your skin will improve reducing signs of aging. This facial routine is
nourishing to the skin and underlying structures, including strengthening the
muscles.

The exercises use the balls of the fingertips and also the palms of the hands. In the
first two and last facial exercise, you will apply pressure to key acupressure points on
the face. Use firm, but gentle pressure...slightly uncomfortable, not painful--actually
to a point where it feels good.

You may also find that some places you touch are going to be tender and sensitive.
If you notice tender spots, then most likely you are hitting the exact points. After
time these places will become less sensitive. Just as a muscles in your neck and
shoulder are sore at first when you begin massaging them, but after a little while the
muscles relax and release. The same occurs with your facial muscles. An acupressure
facial is powerful, and subtle at the same time.

In China it is believed that a wrinkle is actually caused by stagnant Chi (the word for
life force energy). This first facial exercise is designed to naturally eliminate crows
feet and tone the entire eye area.

Facial Exercise for Toning Around the Eyes

Using your middle fingers work bi-laterally around each eye

simultaneously. You may want to use some natural moisturizer or organic massage
oil, and remember use slight pressure as you circle around each eye area.

First place your middle fingers at the beginning of your eyebrows. You are going to
follow the top of your eyebrow to the end of your eyebrow and continue under your
eye by pressing your fingers on the top of your cheekbones. Then continue to the
inside corners of your eyes. Do this facial exercise in a circular motion around the
eyes thirty times, and the complete set once daily.

Very few beauty professionals understand the crucial importance of how facial
muscles interact to create our facial appearance. For example if you sleep on your
stomach and smash your face into the pillow, over time you are going show signs of
wrinkling wherever your face is continually stressed or squished. It is said that those
who sleep on their backs often have younger looking faces with less wrinkling. With
acupuncture you are not necessarily working each of the muscles independently, but
you are stimulating the Chi, which in turn benefits and tones the muscles.

As you age, repetitive patterns cause some muscles to become over-exercised or pull
on the face. This can cause jowls, turkey neck, baggy eyes and also premature
wrinkles. So it is vital to stimulate the right facial muscles. Chinese regenerating face
exercises can help the muscles remember your vital facial signature.

Facial Exercise for Revitalizing the Eyes

For this facial exercise we are going to stimulate the acupressure

point at the side of your face about 1/4 to 1/2 inch beyond the outside corner of
each eye. The second points to stimulate are directly under your pupil on the top
edge of your cheekbone. This face exercise can soften fine lines and wrinkles around
the eyes. Press each of the points bi-laterally for around three seconds, then release
for a moment, and then repeat again for thirty counts. It is best to practice this
pressure point exercise three times a day.

Big Washing Face Exercise

We credit this technique to Yen Wei Choog, an acupuncturist in Northern California.

This facial acupressure technique will tone, stimulate your face, and clear your
complexion while also preventing wrinkles.

First make sure you wash and dry your hands so they are clean. Then charge your
palms by placing them together and briskly rub them back and forth. An optimal
number of times to charge your palms is thirty-six back and forth movements. You
will feel warmth in your palms as Chi energy forms.

Now place both of your energized hands on your face with your little fingers along
side your nose. Move your hands in a circular motion by moving upward. As you
move your hands upward your finger tips will cross your forehead and then move
downward and your thumbs actually pass over your ears. Again, begin at chin and
move along side the nose, over the eyes to forehead, along hairline, over ear, and
then back to the chin again. Do this sweeping motion lightly across your face thirty-
six times.

As you incorporate this technique into your daily skin care procedure the Chi energy
will harmonize in your face protecting your skin from the effects of aging. Any form
of natural anti-aging skin care when combined with these Chinese acupressure
techniques for the face will really get a boost in its effectiveness.

Full Pressure Point Facial Exercise

You may also want to consider twice a week adding a full

pressure point acupressure facial to your routine. You can easily follow this map of
acupressure points at the left noting the points on the face. This is an optimal
exercise for creating a natural facelift alternative. Again, use the balls of the
fingertips and apply bi-lateral pressure. There are only two points, on the forehead
and one at the crease of the skin that are single points.

Everyone has a unique facial signature of muscle development, formed by the way
that the features are animated and interact to produce facial expressions. Your facial
signature plays a large part in how your face looks and the way it ages. Maintaining
and developing your facial signature is the secret to staying sensual, sexy and young
looking, but there are many factors in life that erode the stay-young potential in your
facial signature, and these can take their toll by dulling your natural attractiveness
and making you look older.

Acupressure is More than Just a Natural Facelift

We all know that cosmetic surgery costs is expensive and also has some risks. The
use of Electro stimulation devices do not invite Chi into the face nor do they address
the muscle's needs to actually revitalize and bring back your youthful facial
signature. The benefits of these acupressure facelift techniques keep your facial skin
from growing a little older each day. You will gradually see a difference as your skin
becomes smoother and more radiant. If you are interested in reversing facial aging
practice this routine for a month, and notice the difference. You will be pleasantly
surprised and most likely will incorporate these exercises into your daily skin care
routine.
Give yourself some TLC with this soothing, gravity-defying facial acupressure massage.

Give yourself some TLC with this soothing, gravity-defying massage, writes Anna Warwick.

Before you begin: 

1. Prepare your massage oil carefully. 50ml of carrier oil, with 50 drops of essential oil to suit your skin type, should last for about

two weeks. 

2. Starting at T1, pinch gently but firmly all along each eyebrow and along the temples. 

3. Starting from the bottom of the chin, pinch slowly along the jawline to the base of the ear.

The massage: 

Dampen your skin with a wet cloth. Dip the pads of your fingers lightly into your oil and gently rub your palms together to spread

it. Each step should be carried out on both sides of the face simultaneously. Do each movement three times.

1. Rest your fingertips lightly on your cheekbones and pause for a beat or two.  Sweep your fingers up over your forehead and

down the sides of your face. This will get your Qi energy flowing.

2. Place your fingertips at T1 and slide them upwards to T4. 

3. Slide your fingertips from the base of your central frown line out towards your temples, smoothing the skin as you go. 

4. Place your fingers at T1 and massage in small rotating movements out to T4. 

5. Slide your fingertips up the central frown line from T1 to T2. 

6. Massage in rotating movements from T2 along the hairline to T3 and then all the way down to the temples. Repeat to S1, S2

and finally to S3. This step is an excellent way to prevent headaches.

7. Massage outwards from S1 to the hairline, level with the top of each. Now slide your fingers over the same area.

8. Massage in rotation from S2 to S3, taking care not to stretch the skin.

9. Using your middle fingertips, massage gently from M1 down to M3. Now slide all three fingers from M1 down to M3. 

10. Using your middle fingertips, massage downwards and outwards from M2 to L3 and then to L4. Then slide all three fingers

along the same path. Steps 9 and 10 will help to tone the muscles around the cheekbones, and relieve congested sinus.
11. Place your fingertips in the small indentations just under your cheekbones, level with the middle of your eyes. Press gently

upwards onto the bone for a few seconds and then release. 

12. Place your three middle fingertips at M2. Use small, deep rotating movements to massage under the cheekbones and towards

S4. 

13. Place one hand on each side of your nose, palms together. With firm even pressure, slide your palms outwards across your

cheeks towards the temples and the ears. 

14. Using your index fingertips, massage from L1 to L4, using small deep rotating movements. This sequence will release toxins

and ease tension around the mouth and jaw.

15. Slide your three middle fingertips from L2 down to L3 and out to L4. Repeat using small, deep rotating movements.

16. Place your fingertips on L1 and slide them out to L4. Then place your three middle fingertips on the chin and make slow

rotating movements along the jaw to your ears. 

17. Using just the very tips of your fingers, tap feather lightly all over your forehead and cheeks. This action tones the tissues and

gently stimulates the flow of blood to these areas. 

18. Using the flat part of your fingers, massage in big circles from the base of the neck, up the big muscle on each side to your

hairline. This step reduces tension that builds up from sitting, driving or talking for a long time. 

19. Use both thumbs to massage with broad, spiralling movements from just below the ears to the back of your neck. 

20. Hold the tops of your ears between your thumbs and index fingers and make little pinching movements all around the edge of

the ear until you reach the corner of your lobes. There are many pressure points on and in the ear that connect to the whole

body, so working the ear is important. Complete the massage with step 1.