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Hello!
I hope you and you family had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend; the weather certainly was beautiful. I was reading this article in the Discover magazine
about the importance of facial expressions and how they enable us to express emotions of joy, sadness, empathy, anger and so on. More importantly, they
enable us to recognize these emotions in others. Let me share with you some salient points of the article.
Mimicking faces is a deep instinct in humans – babies start doing it days after birth. It is not just a meaningless act. Experiments show that mimicry
actually helps us understand how others are feeling. In order for us to communicate with our loved ones, colleagues, and business associates, we need to
be able to recognize their emotions before we can empathize with them and respond.
Harvard University psychologist Lindsay Oberman and her colleagues demonstrated this mimicry effect in an experiment. Oberman had volunteers bite down
on a pen, then look at a series of faces shown to them. They had to determine what type of emotions those faces were expressing. The volunteers could
pick out those faces expressing sadness and anger with the same accuracy as those in the control group, that is, those who did not have to hold pens in
their mouths. However, they did a worse job recognizing the happy faces. Now, why is that?
Biting a pen just happens to require the same muscles one uses to smile. Because the smiling muscles were occupied during this experiment, Oberman’s
subjects could not use them to mimic happy faces. Without that feedback, they had difficulty recognizing when people are happy.
To investigate how facial mimicry helps us empathize, Leonhard Schilbach of University of Cologne and his colleagues recently made a brain-scanning
breakthrough. During unconscious facial mimicry, Schilbach discovered that several regions of the brain become active. Other regions become active
when we have emotional experiences, helping to retrieve emotional memories. Yet another part of the brain relays emotional signals to the rest of the
body.
When we mimic others’ faces, in other words, we do not just go through the motions. We go through the emotions.
Recently Bernhard Haslinger at the Technical University of Munich used a different method to test facial feedback. He temporarily paralysed facial muscles
and then scanned the subjects’ brains as they tried to make faces. To do this, Haslinger used a Botox®-like injectible called Dysport® which is available
in Europe.
Botox® and Dysport® are brand names of a toxin made by the spore-forming bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Botulinum docks on the surface of neurons,
blocking the release of transmitters. In small amounts it can be fatal. But in extremely small amounts it paralyses muscles for a few weeks.
Haslinger’s subjects were tested with one group who received Dysport® injections and the control group who did not receive Dysport®. In the Dysport®-free
women, a key brain region for processing emotions became active. In those who had the injections, that region was quieter.
In summary of this article, I will quote “Making faces helps us understand how other people are feeling. By altering our faces we’re tampering with the
ancient lines of communication between face and brain that may change our minds in ways we don’t yet understand.” Add to this what we all know, that
paralysed faces don’t express at all well, and thus are frequently misunderstood.
I personally see the situation as this: if we cannot express our emotions to our loved ones, and also are unable to pick up their signals, then any
communication has to become weaker. Have you ever heard “I don’t understand you anymore”, or “we aren’t even on the same page”. That’s mis-communication.
And that is why non-invasive anti-aging treatments are a much better and safer solution. It is true, these treatments cannot make a 60-year-old look
like a 30-year-old. However, they do help to reduce fine lines, tighten facial muscles, remove hyper-pigmentation, hydrate deeply, even improve skin
tone. I also believe that the face should match the body, so that you look fabulous whether in a full-length gown or in a bathing suit. Have you seen
celebrities who are in their 60’s and even 70’s with faces like someone in their 30’s? How do you think they look in a bikini?
Any questions, please feel free to email me or call me.
Smiles and hugs,
Liz
Liz Beavis
Director
Natural Beauty Anti-Aging Skin Care Clinic
519.216.7546
Liz@NaturalBeautyAnti-AgingSkinCareClinic.ca
www.NaturalBeautyAnti-AgingSkinCareClinic.ca
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