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How to feel better with ACNE -

Tip#2 STOP LOOKING!

Is this you?

Do you run to the mirror as soon as you’ve woken up to check on your acne?

Do you survey your acne with your face nearly touching the mirror?

Do you check up on your skin at every possible chance?

Well, STOP DOING IT!

You already know you have acne, and looking at it in the mirror every couple of hours isn’t going to make it go away any quicker, it just reminds you that you have acne which makes you feel bad. Feeling bad makes it harder for you to get clear. So stop it! =)

My morning ritual would be to get up, go to the bathroom, turn on all the lights, lean over the sink so I can get my face as close to the mirror as possible and look at my face from every possible angle. Then I’d say to myself. ‘Nope they’re still there… and they’re not getting any better… *sigh*’

To make things worse my bathroom has a very harsh fluorescent light placed right above the mirror which would shine the light downwards onto my face and really highlight all the craters and shadows that my acne cast onto my skin.

So basically I would start the day by making my acne look its worst and then implant the worst possible image of myself into my brain. That image is how I would think of myself for the rest of the day (or until I looked in the mirror again).

This routine was pushing my goal of having clear skin further and further from me because:

1. I was continually focussing on my acne

Remember, according to the Law of Attraction anything you focus on will only get bigger.

2. I was exaggerating how bad my acne was which made me feel worse than I should have

Why is this exaggerating you ask? Well the main reason acne made me unhappy is because I thought other people thought I was unattractive because of it.

So when I was looking in the mirror, with my face 3 cm away from it, with the fluorescent light shining on it, I was putting that close-up image of myself in my head and then thinking that that was the way that everyone else saw me.

But do you realize that most of the time, no one gets that close to your face? When you talk to someone they stand about 1 meter away from you, not 3 centimeters away!

So if you’re going to check up on your acne, before you walk away, stand back about 1 meter from the mirror and look into your own eyes (which is what people do when they talk to you) now I bet your acne is about 60% less noticable =)

Now I didn’t start doing this on purpose, it came about accidentally while I was on holiday. I was lucky because the place I was staying at happened to have a dim but warmly lit bathroom with the mirror recessed into the wall. There were probably other factors like the color of the walls, but basically it was one of those mirrors that you just always look good in. =)

So every morning I would wash my face, get dressed, do my hair etc. and I would look in the mirror and say ‘Hey! Not so bad!’ Nothing had really changed, it was just that the lighting and color of the walls made my skin look better.

So I would walk out of this place I was staying at with the exact same skin I had before but guess what? I didn’t feel so bad! Even though my skin hadn’t changed, my own perception of myself had and It COMPLETELY changed everything! The way I walked, the way I interacted with people, my level of happiness all changed because I had a different, improved image of myself implanted into my mind before I went out.

When I got back home and looked at my skin in my own bathroom mirror again, I realized how much the harsh lighting and my habit of getting right up against the mirror was making me feel bad about my skin, so I started changing my behavior and also my surroundings so that I would look better to myself, which made me FEEL better about myself. (E.g – standing back, not turning on the fluorescent light anymore, looking in the mirror less often etc.)

So basically my advice for you is:

1. Don’t look at your acne so much

If you can’t do that,

2. When you look at your acne, stand back from the mirror while doing it

If you can’t do that,

3. After checking out your acne, step back approximately 1 meter away from the mirror, look straight into your own eyes and remember this is how noticeable your acne is to other people when they talk to you

4. If you can, find a more ‘appearance-friendly’ environment for you to get ready in, whether that means buying new light bulbs or getting a new mirror for another room

Some of these tips require a little self-discipline as you will need to break the habit of looking at your acne often and close-up which is pretty deeply ingrained in many acne sufferers. But, they can be done.

It’s all about reducing your focus on acne and seeing your acne in a better light (literally!) so you will feel better about yourself and your skin.

Again, when you feel better about yourself that is a positive emotion, and when you feel positive emotions only positive things can come to you!

Peace,

The Anonymous Guru

P.S – If anyone has any additional tips on how to see your acne in a better light please share them in the comments section!

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