For the Japanese, the face contains many of the acupressure point throught which energy is activated and channelled.
The Chinese set store by the ancient art of 'face reading',
in wich the facial features and skin reflect the condition of the body's seven energy channels is in the jaw.
Westerners may lack formal system but they can nerver resist crrying out their own analysis, consciosly or otherwise.
i'm hopeless with names , but i never forget a face, is a universal refrain.
Whatever the cultural slant, our face is interpreted as the most graphic representation of person we have been and the one we are,
in body and soul. Yet most significantly it reveals our age. As the years pass, the picture on the cover of the book is not so much sketched
as etched - in wrinkles, creases, sages and bags. The most public part of our skin ages more quickly than any other.
How could it be otherwise? The skin is the body's most visible organ and the face its most exposed part.
Ever open to the elements, it registers the passing of every season.
The face is also the most expressive part of the body, capable of a wider range of movements than any other, and it rarely rests.
if you have found your vocation as a professional gurner or happily superannuated granparent, the resulting wrinkles are of little concern.
But if you're an ordinary mortal want is a daily reminder of its speed as you flick on the light over the bathroom mirror.
