Micro-needling life

No, it is not some sort of torture device used in medieval Europe or Guantanamo prison; it’s a Micro needling device.  

Micro-needling is one of the newest fads of the beauty world; a fad which more and more people (or women) are adhering to in order to make skin look younger, firmer, smoother and all those other good ‘ers’ you want for your skin.  Yes you heard correctly, people, or again women, and doing this to themselves…..willingly and doctors and estheticians are raving about the benefits of this modern day ‘iron maiden’. 

The principle of micro-needling is essentially to ‘injure’ the surface of your skin using tiny needles, made easy to use by the friendly micro-needling roller, and in turn forcing the body to send all kinds of good nutrients to your skin to heal the tiny lacerations.  This not only helps circulation (due to the inevitable bleeding that you might expect when stabbing your face repeatedly with needles), but it helps increase collagen production and moisture retention.  The idea being that the body will make an extra effort to heal itself when injured, and this healing process not only clears the wound, but it makes the area, in this case the skin, stronger for having endured such pain (and thank God).

The idea is brilliant!!! It’s using the body’s own natural, and brilliant, response to injury in order to improve the skin!!

This in turn made me think of just how different our emotional response to pain is.  Why is it that our emotional side is not programmed in the same way?  Why doesn't the body send ‘all those good nutrients’ to our bleeding hearts or broken spirits, but rather it takes a long detour along Route 66  straight to our brain; the self-esteem part of our brain usually, where the response is not so collagen-producing and moisture-retention friendly.  Where our auto-pilot, unconscious, perfectly programmed body would send what the wounded skin needs to heal itself, our conscious, fully in control, completely out of whack conscious self only tends to make things worse by transforming our pain into anxiety, self-loathing, usually more pain and all those other innutritious things. 

So why is it that our cerebral-conscious response to injury is so different?  Why have we never learnt to care for our injured psychological  interior the same way our body does naturally for our physical exterior?  Why the route 66 detour? 

I wish I knew, but maybe the answer is much simpler and all we need to do it turn towards our body’s natural response to condition our mental response; and take life’s micro-needling to our hearts and spirits as not only a chance to heal, but to make ourselves strongER every time (and of course keep up the actual micro-needling to keep on looking fabulous!)