Eye wrinkles are one of the most visible signs of ageing, as we usually look people in the eye. However, they are not always just to do with age and the ageing process. This area of the face harbours some exciting secrets. After all, eye wrinkles also have a lot to do with our emotional state and can disappear again when this improves. In addition, crow's feet are often due to our lost ability to orientate ourselves according to our hearing and wiggle our ears. Are you curious? Then today's article is for you. 

As a bonus, at the end of the article you will also find a Video. Believe me, you'll want to see what I'm talking about.

Smile lines and crow's feet

Firstly, I would like to clarify the difference between laugh lines and crow's feet. When you laugh and wrinkles appear around your eyes, these are laugh lines. They disappear again when you stop laughing. Crow's feet are always there. They are, so to speak, the engraved laugh lines. That's why some people say that crow's feet show that they've laughed a lot in life. Hm. Yes and no. Because crow's feet also show something else, as you will learn today.

You. Must. Drink!

The skin around the eyes is naturally very thin and therefore prone to wrinkling. Proper care of this area is simply very important. But I'm not going to tell you here to get enough sleep and eat right, yawn. But I wanted to remind you what I can tick off with this 😉 Drinking is even more important. The eye area reacts almost directly to your thirsty periods. If you want to prevent or reduce crow's feet, you need to be really well moisturised and well rested. All clear? Get to bed in good time and always start the day with a glass of lukewarm water. Use sun cream. You can't say this often enough.

The discovery of a sleeping muscle

You can read the tips on proper care everywhere. They don't go far enough. As always, we will work our way into the deeper layers. After all, I'm a facial yoga expert. So let's start by looking under the skin and find a muscle that some people call superfluous. We hardly move it at all. It's the muscle at the temple. We only use it when we wiggle our ears - in other words, never really.

Ears like a quail dog

I think at that moment, some of you reading this were trying to wiggle your ears. Well, did it work? Through my courses, I would make an amateurish statistic that about a quarter to a third of people are able to do this, although theoretically we all could. In times of sabre-toothed tigers, our ears were important safety organs and orientation instruments. We orientated ourselves much more by our hearing and it is possible that back then we were even able to tilt our ears like some animals.

A mini-lift with the right training

The ability to wiggle the ears appears to prevent and alleviate crow's feet. Deep crow's feet can indicate a totally inactive muscle with severe imbalances. Therefore, we will try to bring this muscle back to life. This doesn't just help with crow's feet. This muscle pulls the scalp backwards and thus tightens the entire upper part of the face. At the same time, we train the occipital muscle, which, when it is firmer again, has a mini-lifting effect on the face.

Exercise 1

From experience, I would say that it makes more sense to start by moving the occipital muscle. We can feel it better and the temporal muscle automatically joins in. What we want to achieve is for the scalp to contract backwards. Imagine that a thread is pulling your scalp upwards at an angle at the back of the crown of your head. Try to let your ears move diagonally upwards as well. They will do this almost automatically. If you find the exercise difficult, do it mentally first. Rely on your muscles to follow your imagination at some point. You can also place your fingers on your temples and ears and try to create a movement with the underlying muscle. Enjoy every little pulsation and try to develop this skill further.

Variant: Mental ear wiggling

There are some facial yoga exercises that you do mentally first. So if this concept seems strange to you, don't worry, it works. Because it requires mental strength and conviction, I find it helpful to recommend this Spiegel article to you: Thoughts make the muscles grow. Personally, I think there are still unimagined possibilities in this area, especially for facial yoga, which I will definitely take a closer look at and experiment with. For us, however, it is important to know that we are trying to train a muscle that may have been lying dormant for decades. So if you can't move your ears from the spot, mental training is the way to go.

Variant: Detour via forehead exercise

You may also be able to work on your feeling in this area by doing the following forehead exercise: place your palms on your forehead so that your index fingers are at the hairline. Press them firmly against your forehead. Now push your forehead downwards and move your eyebrows upwards against this pressure. Feel the small movement that occurs on the back of your head as a side effect. This exercise allows you to reach the occipital and temporal muscles in a roundabout way, so to speak. If you can then move it without help, you can wiggle your ears for all they're worth. People who can wiggle their ears have fewer wrinkles at the corners of their eyes.

Body's own filler

Another way to combat crow's feet is to plump up the area next to the eye. A rogue who thinks evil here, of course not with silicone, hyaluronic acid or anything else that puts a strain on our body. Healthy beauty and respect for the body are mandatory on my website. We increase the volume of the eye ring muscle in the area next to the eye. Through honest training, of course. And the following exercise is the best way to do this:

With facial yoga & Asian massages for firm skin

Before we get started, here's a little tip. The muscles in the face are closely connected and it therefore makes sense to do individual exercises. If you want to get things done, get yourself a good facial yoga programme and incorporate these exercises into it. Facial yoga costs me 7 to 10 minutes a day. I do it in the morning directly after applying cream, once the cream has been absorbed (otherwise my hands slip). It revitalises, removes puffiness and the skin is well supplied with blood. Years ago, I was able to eliminate my frown lines and firm my face as a whole. When I laugh, I have laugh lines. When I'm not laughing, my face is smooth.

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Exercise 2:

And now for our exercise: place your middle finger on both sides of the outer end of the eye. The index finger is next to it and is pressed against the skin a little more firmly than the middle finger. Now pull the outer corner of your eye outwards very slightly, really only slightly, so that your eyes are drawn out a little. Now try to squint your eyes slightly as if the light is blinding you. You are contracting the eye ring muscle, so to speak. Your fingers hold the resistance against which your eye ring muscle has to work. This resistance not only makes your muscle firmer, but also increases its volume, precisely in the area where we want it to be.

You can do a lot against crow's feet with these exercises. Don't forget that the skin in this area is very thin, so be careful. You should not pull and tug, it is enough to create a slight pulsation.

Face - the map of our soul

I find it exciting to look at wrinkles from a psychological perspective. Our face is an important means of communication, it expresses our feelings and emotions, which can be "immortalised" in the form of wrinkles. Viewed from this perspective, our face is a map of our soul. I don't presume to be able to read it; thanks to my profession as a psycho-kinesiologist, I am much better at recognising the body language and energy of the person opposite me. But there are experts who can tell a lot from the drawings on your face. What do they read from the crow's feet?

Conscious and unconscious emotions create wrinkles

The muscles in our face are subject to the expression of our emotions. We don't always have to be aware of these emotions. My frown lines (which I with my methods I was a worried person without even realising it. The fact that conscious emotions are engraved on our faces in the form of facial wrinkles somehow rings a bell. But what about unconscious emotions? These are suppressed and thus create unconscious tension in the facial muscles. This muscle tension eventually leads to the face we have.

The crow's feet have different meanings depending on their course.

• running upwards from the outer corner of the eye, they express joy. After all, they come from the laugh lines and these are only caused by a genuine laugh, in which the whole face beams. However, if they go too far, extending up to the forehead, they indicate excessive joy, which is more likely to be seen as excitement and mania. This exhausts our energy and should be avoided.

• crow's feet run downwards from the outer corner of the eye, indicating sadness. None of us is spared sad events. However, these wrinkles should not be longer than their upper counterpart, the happy wrinkles.

• If the downward mourning lines extend beyond the zygomatic arch and continue downwards (the zygomatic arch is basically what we call the cheekbone), they indicate grief and sadness. This is about deeply felt grief that is almost impossible to process.

Crow's feet and the gallbladder meridian

So much for the Chinese art of face reading. There is another interpretation of these wrinkles. As the gallbladder meridian runs through this area of the face, crow's feet can also indicate blockages in this meridian. The emotions associated with blockages in the gallbladder meridian are frustration, anger, resentment and weak resolve.

The acupressure point against crow's feet

When it comes to the most important acupressure point for crow's feet, it is therefore not surprising that it is located on the gallbladder meridian. Point Gb 7. You can find this point by drawing a triangle in front of your ear. Place a pencil vertically in front of the ear. As the lower part of the ear is further forward than the upper part, there is a gap between the upper edge of the ear and the pencil. If you now place a second pencil horizontally on the upper edge of the ear, you will find the point Gb 7 where the pencils cross.

Treat this point for 30 seconds. Simply place your fingertip on it and massage with a little pressure. The massage should be noticeable but not painful. 

A new radiance on your face

If you now feel like giving your whole face a new radiance and would prefer to do this through good body knowledge, understanding the connections, building up the facial muscles, stimulating the collagen fibres and reflex points, are my book and my course just the thing for you. Our face holds so many secrets and knowing them gives us the power to achieve better results. Much more is possible than we think! 

Video to the article

Here you will find a video that shows everything I have described here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christina's online course (facial yoga, facial cupping & scraping, reflex massage of the face)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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