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Yourfacial muscles need exercise just as much as the rest of your body. And
facial exercises work just like regular muscle exercises.
Intent.com suggests the following to keep your face looking young:
- Raise your eyebrows as high as you can and hold them for five
seconds. - Open your mouth as wide as possible and stick your tongue out as
far as you can and hold for a few seconds. - Using your three center fingers, press down on your cheeks and
smile as hard as you can to raise your cheek muscles against your
fingers. - Move your nose as much as you can from side to side.
- Lift your eyebrows as high as you can, open your eyes as wide
as possible and frown at the same time. - Pucker your lips out as far as possible into the shape of an
"O." Then change your expression into a wide smile. Repeat several
times. - Sit in a comfortable chair and look up at the ceiling. Pucker
your lips and stick your tongue out as far as possible to exercise your
neck muscles.
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Intent
April 27, 2010
From Dr. Mercola
Exercising
Your Face is Just Like Exercising Your Body
The idea behind facial yoga is the same as for exercising the rest of
your body, in that facial muscles will naturally begin to lose
elasticity and flexibility with age due to lack of use, which leads to a
droopy appearance.
Your face consists of more than 50 different muscles, stretched like
layered, elastic sheets on top of your cranium and facial tissues. These
muscles can act singly and in combination, creating the many facets of
facial expressions.
(This DataFace
web site offers more information about how the muscles in your face
work, including videos that show the facial expressions produced by
various facial muscles.)
But aside from allowing you to express emotion, your facial muscles
also play a key role in the contouring and shaping of your face, and
this is how facial exercises can help you maintain a more youthful look
as you age, by preventing drooping eyelids and a sagging neckline, for
example.
By regularly exercising your various facial muscles, you can ensure
they remain firm, which will support your skin and prevent sagging.
Increasing blood flow and circulation through these muscles can also
help counteract wrinkles.
Clearly, adopting a regular facial exercise routine is to be
preferred over costly, and potentially dangerous, plastic surgeries. It
doesn’t require any special equipment, although you can find various
contraptions that claim to help, but in general, you can easily perform
face yoga using nothing more than your fingers to create light
resistance.LOOK YOUNGER! w/ Happy Face Yoga
Facial Exercises