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FAcing Our Healthwith DeAnna Batdorff

FACING OUR HEALTH

Choose Health Not Beauty It is fascinating to me what we can figure out just by paying attention and asking, what does it mean? If we can learn to ask this question and then answer it with whether it is showing us cold, dry, hot, wet or a combination, we can heal ourselves through proper choices to support the issue. The idea of doing the opposite never fails even with skin care. If your skin gets dry, do you moisturize it? This is doing the opposite. If we can get beyond looking in the mirror and turning away with disgust and doing nothing, we can change what we see. Choosing health is choosing beauty, because when we are healthy we are shining from within and it surfaces to what is seen. This is why when we are happy, people comment positively and when we are sad, people ask, “Are you tired” or “Is everything OK”? Healthy observation, touching, loving ourselves and asking honest questions about how it got like this or what can I do to make it different are the key to self care, which is self-love. The time it takes is minimal and a little goes a long way.

The Three Modes Of Examination 1. Observe what can be seen. 2. Touch the body and feel the tissues. 3. Ask questions about emotional and physical symptoms.

Observation or Inspection What We Can See

• Facial Characteristics • Head And Neck Shape • Characteristics And Distribution Of Hair • Body Weight/Height • Birth Constitution (Bone Structure) • Posture • Skin • Extremities • Body Language • Speech • Urine • Feces • Tongue • Eyes • Nails

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FACE ASSESSMENT Nerve Endings

Reading the face as an assessment tool can be a sensitive subject that takes honoring positive aspects first, a non-judgmental attitude, being willing to look deeper into our truths, and honesty about what is seen. We are from our parents, good and bad, so there is a lifelong genetic journey that is connected to our face. The face doesn’t lie to us; imbalances surface and are exposed, yet what a gift to have the ability to look right at it and see ourselves. There are many different aspects that present themselves in the face. First, we see lines or what society calls wrinkles. They can change more than we think and offer a look into our deep emotional and physical issues. A deep line is telling us what is deep inside. Some lines we live with for a lifetime, they do not go away. They act as a constant reminder throughout life about an organ to pay attention to. Some lines may simply be genetic and not necessarily an imbalance in the present. Just because you have a line doesn’t mean you have an issue, yet there is a disposition connected to it. If you have many lines on your face, it does not mean you have health disorders in all of your organs, but it is telling you that you are dehydrated in your body and you can change that by implementing wet foods and remedies. As you read your own face and add up symptoms, it will become clear what is imbalanced now and what is to be prevented. Neither Chinese Medicine nor Ayurveda made their facial map by saying, “Hey let’s put the intestines on the forehead and the lungs at the nostrils.” They used human cadavers, like all medical sciences, to figure out how the body works and what are the connections. This is why both medical sciences came up with such similar maps of the face. The autonomic nervous system, which is the nervous system connected to each one of our organs, has nerve endings in the face, hands and feet. We can also read our hands and feet; this is what reflexology is based upon. We have nerve endings that end in the face and they communicate what the end result of that organs health is. Not only can we assess our facial lines, we can also assess the skin color, texture, the proportion of our eyes, to nose, to lip size and shapes. An example would be, someone born with a large nose often has sinus issues. If your nose becomes enlarged, often it is expressing that there is mucus congestion or if the nose turns red (color of heat) a sinus infection or allergies may be present. The good news is that some of our lines and skin variations can be minimized and even go away. First, we have to surrender to what we see, appreciate it for telling us the truth, then commit to healthy opposites. I have changed my ruddy, prone-to-rash skin issue by cooling my body down with alkaline foods and have even healed myself of eczema. I still get rashes when I eat foods that are heating and acidic. I love my Gua sha for softening my lines and keeping my skin healthy, but I have to admit, sometimes I wish I could rub all my wrinkles away. In the end, some are still there. I do feel better doing something rather than nothing, and it does soften my appearance and supports facing my health beauty. If I can see my parents in my face that means I can see what health conditions can affect me in the future. I can consider any health crises they have gone through and work on preventing them. This is a great tool if you are adopted, since you may not have a health background to refer to, but you do have a face. Prevention is everything to feeling secure about how we look and our future outcomes. Think of it as a savings account: you can live without it but there is no safety net for what happens.

© DeAnna Batdorff, The dhyana Center of Therapeutics

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FACE ASSESSMENT

Forehead – Intestines

• Central Area - Small Intestine (Anxiety) • Along Hairline (mimics the abdomen)- Colon/Large Intestine (Anxiety)

o Ascending colon up the right of hairline, transverse colon across hairline and descending colon down the left of the hairline

• Emotion of Anxiety - “Worry Lines”

Temples – Gallbladder (Trust) • Includes around ears • Emotion of Trust

Eyes - Water Works

• Under eyes - Kidney (Guilt) • Eyelids – Bladder (Trust) • Outer Eye (crow’s feet area) - Adrenals • Inner eye (at tear duct) - Blood circulation • Emotions of Guilt, Trust and Envy

Nose – Lungs (Grief) and Heart (Attachment) Bridge (area between eyebrows) - Unprocessed fats in the gut

• Between the eyes o Right side - Liver (Anger) o Left side – Spleen (Resentment)

• Emotions of Anger and Resentment Length of Nose to Tip - Heart and Blood Circulation Nostrils

• Right nostril - Right lung • Left nostril - Left lung • Emotions of Grief and Attachment

Cheeks – Stomach(Fear)

• Ball of cheeks - Stomach • Cheekbone - Stomach ability to digest fats (next to gallbladder) • Emotion of Fear

Dimple Area - Ovaries/Testes

• Dimples are a genetic sign of reproductive weakness, may not mean it is happening, but is in the genes

• Emotion of Self worth

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Chin - Uterus/Prostate

• Central chin area below mouth • Emotion of Stability

Jawline - Endocrine Glands and Chakras

• Center of Chin - Ovaries/Testes - Root Chakra • Sides of Chin - Adrenals - Sacrum Chakra • Directly Below Iris of Eye - Pancreas - Solar Plexus Chakra • Aligned with Outside Edge of Eye - Thymus - Heart Chakra • Aligned with Temples - Thyroid - Throat Chakra • End of Mandible - Pituitary - 3rd Eye Chakra • At Edges of Ear - Pineal - Crown Chakra

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SKIN ASSESSMENT

Skin represents what is chronically imbalanced in the digestive tract and has affected the tissues. Where you see the skin symptom on the face correlates directly to the organs on the face map. Skin Color Symptoms

• Pale/White - Poor blood flow, circulation - COLD or WET • Blue - Stagnant lung circulation - breathing issues - COLD • Darkened/Discoloration - Dehydration - DRY • Blotchy - Inconsistent circulation - HOT and COLD • Yellow - Bile release from gallbladder, imbalanced fat metabolism - HOT • Red or Ruddy - Inflammation, lactic acid build up - HOT • Purple - Stagnant heart circulation - WET

Skin Texture Symptoms Moles – Unresolved Plaque May be genetic weakness (no toxicity is present) but genetically predisposed. Considered toxins that are benign, but were not released quick enough before surfacing to skin.

• Translucent - Low blood flow - COLD • Dark - Occurred from Vata depletion/plaque in intestines - DRY • Red - Occurred from Pitta inflammation/acidic/oily gut - HOT • Skin Tags - Occurred from stagnation of immune/blood/lungs - WET

Skin Pore Symptoms

• Psoriasis - Trauma trapped in pores (can be heavy metal toxicity) - COLD • Dandruff - Pore covered with scales - DRY • Blackheads - Clogged pores - DRY • Eczema - Trapped lactic acid inflammation - DRY and HOT • Acne - Excess toxic build up - HOT • Enlarged - Profuse inflammation - HOT • Cystic Acne - Yeast overgrowth - HOT and WET • Whiteheads - Clogged pores - WET