THREAD on how to change your face (by popular request)

Your face is the outward reflection of your emotional state. Frequent feelings solidify into permanent features. This is the mechanism of physiognomy.

"I was born with a resting bitch face"

No, you are a bitch.

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"Keep making that face and it'll get stuck like that" is exactly how it works.

Most people strive to be better. This is strictly an internal process for almost everyone — "I must be more kind"

You should simultaneously work the external angle as well — "I must smile more"

Think about what you think is "off" about your face.

Lips? Talk more, be honest.

Eyes? Learn to express Happiness as well as Sadness through your eyes, not just alone but in public.

Thin face? Smile more!

Stand in front of a Mirror. Smile wide. You can literally feel how muscles are pulling on your face, making it wider.

It takes time to build neural connections with the facial muscles, and feeling the skeletal structured underneath, but you'll get there faster than you think.

Whenever you are feeling something extraordinary, like if you're super happy, or hyper-emphatetic because you just did MDMA or whatever, take a look in the Mirror and see how your face looks.

You will be surprised to see how different you look. This could be you everyday.

It's like looking in the Mirror when you have a pump in the Gym. What you're seeing could be your new normal.

I don't condone face exercise regimens because this is about expressing your feelings through your face, not Maxxxing Lookz, though that will be the end result anyway

What you need to do is strengthen your control and connection to all face muscles, because when you have them under control, you will intuitively start using them to express yourself.

Atrophied, forgotten muscles makes for a Dull, Colorless and Dead face.

If you want, you can work towards holding face posture just like when you straighten your back.

If you tighten orifices (mouth, eyes in particular) you increase your focus. This is the face of an intelligent, Thinking Man:

You would do well to have a tightened mouth when resting.

Eyes should be fully relaxed (work on this. important to learn), but when you need to, you should be able to focus your eyes like lasers.

You think Sean Penn just naturally looks like this? That'd be as ridiculous as assuming bodybuilders are born beefcakes.

You can have any face you want, including ones you can't even make in front of the Mirror (yet)

The only way to win is to experiment.

I had asymmetry between My Eyes because of an old injury. Tried to adjust them so they looked the same, it was really hard and I made slow progress.

Then I cured it in a few days when I finally figured out how to do it..

All I needed to do was to close my strong eye and look a few minutes through my weak eye a couple of times per day, a few days later I was "cured"

The problem wasn't just eye muscles, it was the neural connection between Brain & Eye that needed strengthening.

So this is a life-long mission of self-growth, not an "exercise plan".

Keep an open mind and make observations about how you look in different emotional states. Connect with your muscles. Exercise muscles of interest for you, when you feel like it.

Look in mirrors a lot

You know how body-conscious people hate showing their body?

Well, if you hate having your picture taken, you are face-conscious.

Body-conscious can be cured by getting a nice physique.

Face-conscious can be cured by looking like the person you know you're supposed to be.

Thanks for reading and I hope what I wrote resonates with you, because I honestly think this is *more* valuable than getting a muscular physique.

ADDENDUM: You obviously need to have proper tongue posture at all times. Tip of tongue against back of front teeth, tongue against roof of mouth.

Learn to breathe better through your nose — wiggle your nose, connect with the muscles and feel your airflow improve — increases IQ

I guess the tongue isn't as static in real life as in theory.

You move your tongue when you smile, when walking to gauge your balance, when you taste a word you're thinking of..