Face Reading: A Mother and Daughter Comparison

More Than Genetics

Using traditional Chinese Face Reading we can decode the messages our faces reveal. As an example, let’s examine this mother and daughter photo. When your diet and lifestyle are right for you, your vital energy and innate beauty shine through unhindered. But if you’re not in balance, if there’s an energetic snarl from a poor diet or lifestyle, then your face announces it—and in specific detail.

Face reading is a system of correspondences between outward signs and the internal organs. It is a fascinating study based on 2500 years of observation and research. Like one point on a hologram, each facial characteristic contains information about the whole system. Facial indicators (such as off-color, wrinkles or puffiness) read out what’s going on inside. With Face Reading you can recognize these markers and then make appropriate dietary and lifestyle shifts to recharge your health and natural beauty. I’ll discuss three facial indicators in this photo, what they signify, and the Rx for their resolution.

1. Joy Lines

Let’s start with the outer eye corners. The mom has wrinkles, or crow’s-feet, radiating from her eye corners. The daughter does not. This is not surprising, as wrinkles are, in part, a function of aging. What was once the plump, well-toned and hydrated flesh of childhood slowly loses its tone and moisture as we age. Creases then form around the most exercised muscles.

With laughter and a heartfelt smile, the eyes crinkle up. So by your thirties, if you’ve smiled a lot, expect to see these laugh lines. According to traditional Chinese medicine, they reflect one’s heart energy and its capacity for joy. In your mind’s eye, flash on Mother Teresa or the Dalai Lama and their dozens of crow’s-feet. These lines accentuate their sparkling eyes and reveal their frequent displays of joy and compassion.

Rx to Increase Joy and Support Your Heart Function

So if you’re blessed with joy lines, flaunt them. And/or to grow them and strengthen your heart, here’s your daily prescription: hearty belly laughs and ready smiles.

2. Puffy Eyelids

The second indicator we’ll examine is the swollen skin above the mother’s eyelids. Swelling here is one indicator of compromised digestion. If you have flaccid lids, you’re apt to find that exposure to a food or environmental allergen intensifies their volume. As you’ll see in my clients’ Before and After photos, implementing appropriate dietary and lifestyle adjustments typically reverses this. If, however, you’re a senior with chronically swollen eyelids, then it will be harder to tone them, but you can at least slow down the process.

So take a look at your eyelids. If they’re saggy, page through your photo album to see if you can discern at what age they started losing tone. The odds are that it will correspond to the start of digestive challenges. Should your lids droop to the point of obscuring your vision, get a blepharoplasty to surgically remove the excess. Of necessity, such eyelid lifts have become a common medical procedure.

Now look beyond your own face and you’ll be surprised at how many people today have challenged digestion with the often-accompanying swollen eyelids. Are you ready to be astounded? If so, look at historical portraiture, sculpture and early photos. Prior to the advent of our industrialized food system, you’ll note that with the exception of Shar-Pei dogs, puffy eyelids were rare.

Rx: Support Digestion and Tone Eyelids

These observations lead us to the holistic resolution for flaccid eyelids. Identify and then eliminate foods and/or environmental and lifestyle factors that compromise your digestion. Eat three daily meals of freshly prepared whole foods containing moderate carbohydrates with adequate protein and quality fats.

3. Sanpaku Suggests Low Energy

Last we’ll examine the eye itself to observe if the white sclera shows below the colored iris. Note how the mother’s top and bottom eyelids partially eclipse her blue iris. Mom’s white sclera shows only on the two sides of her iris.

The daughter’s hazel iris rides higher and is eclipsed only by her top eyelid. We see white on the remaining three cardinal directions. This is called sanpaku (a Japanese term meaning three whites) and typically reveals compromised vitality. See Eyes Reflect Vitality which includes a Before and After photo sequence showing how quickly sanpaku can improve in six-weeks.

The position of the iris reflects one’s kidney chi or life force and is likened to the sun’s orb. Just as the sun rises over the horizon with space above, an infant’s eye shows white sclera above their iris. Their “three whites” suggest dawn and that they have vital energy to last a lifetime. However, white below the iris, as we see in the daughter, is associated with the setting sun or diminished energy.

Rx: Rebuild Core Energy

Not to panic if you see white sclera under your iris when looking straight ahead. It simply means that your core energy, or kidney qi, invites support. Here are general guidelines to accomplish just this. Reduce stress and eat well. Get adequate sleep and regular exercise (but do not exercise to the point of exhaustion). Reduce caffeine and alcohol and eliminate recreational drugs.

What Does Your Whole Face Reveal?

As our skin is thinnest in the eye and mouth region, these two areas contain the most facial reading clues. However, color irregularities, skin texture, ledges, bumps, and sunken or hollowed regions occur anywhere on the face and point to specific health concerns.

What does your face reveal? My Face Reading blogs offer details and photos showing multiple facial indicators. Or order your own Face Reading Report with diet and lifestyle suggestions specific to you.

Photo reprinted with permission from Bare Essentials Magazine, vol. 44, pp 96-97.