This Is How Your Mind Can Mess With Your Skin

Dr. Akvile Ignotaite
7 min readJun 11, 2018

Why Do I Believe Calmer Mind, Calmer Skin?

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I find it’s really hard for me to switch off sometimes. Instead of taking life one step at a time I have a habit of thinking about everything all at once — which can unsurprisingly be really overwhelming. Not only does this leave me feeling stressed, my skin also reacts badly.

In order to show you why I believe in a mind-skin connection, I’d like to take a closer look into the topics of mindfulness, happiness, confidence and stress. All of these topics are interlinked and often appear cyclically in our lives e.g. stress = bad skin = lack of confidence = stress = bad skin etc. and alternatively mindfulness = happiness = good skin = confidence = mindfulness and so on (I could literally be here forever repeating myself).

Changing the way we think and feel is unsurprisingly seen as a difficult task. It doesn’t have to be though. When thinking of ‘changing’ thoughts and feelings this seems like a near impossible task but when you think about ‘training’ your brain it seems much more manageable.

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Dr. Akvile Ignotaite

Dr. Phil. in data & sustainability. Founder of System Akvile — SkinTech company -> www.systemakvile.com. Female entrepreneur.