Not sure how you to cure your acne?
You are certainly not the only one. Most acne victims waste huge amounts of time and money because of wrong ideas on how to cure acne.
In this post I correct some misconceptions about how to cure acne many acne victims have. I got inspiration for this post from an email a reader sent me. I’m confident you share many of her concerns. Here are few excerpts from her email.
I’ve read a lot of what you say causes acne, and that a lot of the things I’ve been doing aren’t the answer. But i’m confused because you have other acne reviews on your site, so how do i know which i should try?
I don’t want to be “wasting” my time… because it seems like that’s what i’ve been doing in the past years with no results!
I just want your imput. I’m willing to do ANYTHING that will give me back my self-confidence, my life, and ability to enjoy so many more things!
I’m a very busy person, so I don’t have time to do some crazy diet thing, where I have to make all these concoctions and cook a lot…i’m always on the go. I’m always very low with money, so I can’t spend outrageously…
so, that’s why i’m so skeptical about paying to try new things, but I’ll give anything for something that really works!
Is your book give easy & simple to do (like DO this, DON’T do this etc…?) or is it all holistic stuff like “you gotta breathe right” sleep 10 hrs., meditate everyday, and think positive type thing? or is it so complicated that if you miss 1 thing you’re screwed? or “try this, it MIGHT help you?”
I’ve always thought my problem was somehow hormone-related…
Seems to me that your view on how to cure acne is a bit off the mark. Seems that you are after simple tips, guidelines and DOs and DON’Ts that get you clear. At least that’s the impression I got from your email.
Allow me to be blunt here and break it for you.
There are no simple tips and guidelines that will help you to cure acne. At least not anything that would work consistently for many people. Some tips and regimens may help individual people to cure acne, but often they don’t work for the next person.
The closest thing to a universal tip I can give is building health leads to clear skin. This is the message in Acne 101. I spent over 100 pages explaining and hammering this point in from various angles. Hoping that through this shock and awe bombardment the message would go through.
Health = clear skin is a radical departure from the way most acne victims try to get over acne. Simply because there’s nothing you can do to target or cure acne. Your skin is not in your control.
Different acne treatment products, regimens and drugs give you the illusion you can control your acne. But as the email pointed out the results are often wasted time and money and mounting frustration.
From my experience in helping people cure acne one thing is clear. And that experience includes being in touch with over 1000 acne victims, many of which have either cured their acne or seen significant improvements, curing my own acne and studying natural health for over seven years. From all this the overriding conclusion is:
Focusing your efforts on curing acne leads to failure.
More than anything the road to clear skin is learning to treat yourself with respect; in all three levels: physical, emotional and spiritual.
That means giving your body everything it needs (nutrients, fresh air, exercise, rest, etc.) and treating yourself with respect mentally.
If you constantly put someone down, make negative comments about them and don’t believe into them, do you treat them with respect? Then, why do you keep doing it to yourself?
Acne is a lesson in self-respect
Those who succeed in curing acne treat it as a lesson in self-respect.
They work not only on their diet but on all the elements of physical health. They weed out negative thoughts and beliefs about themselves. They go from pessimism to optimism. They challenge themselves and grow. They accept responsibility for their lives.
I know this was another high-flying answer wrapped in fancy rhetoric with little substance - or so some people would say. This also happens to be the same bunch of people who just want the quick tips and thus avoid hard work and responsibility.
The point of this post is not to give you a clear road map to clear skin. There’s no such thing. The point of this post is to change the way you approach curing acne. So that you can start looking for answers in places where you find them.
Let’s finish by going through few important points in the email.
Self-respect and happiness lead to clear skin - not the other way around
I’m willing to do ANYTHING that will give me back my self-confidence, my life, and ability to enjoy so many more things!
This is one life’s little lessons. You’ve got the whole thing upside down. You don’t get clear and then get back your self-confidence and start enjoying life. Simply because acne doesn’t hold you back on anything. Your own limiting beliefs and negative thought about yourself do. Acne is simply an excuse you use to justify them. If you get over acne without dealing with the limiting beliefs you simply find another excuse.
You first deal with the limiting beliefs and start respecting yourself. That gives you back your self-confidence and ability to enjoy life. After that most likely your acne goes away on its own.
You probably want to whack me on the head for not understanding your situation, and were I in your shoes I surely would understand that acne is the real problem.
I can just say I’ve wrestled with my own challenges in this field and know this to be true. Plus working with people who test Happy Skin Days and seeing how simply changing beliefs changes your whole outlook on life. So I hope you can take my word on this.
I’m a very busy person, so I don’t have time to do some crazy diet thing, where I have to make all these concoctions and cook a lot
Then you should be glad to hear that I never cook. I don’t even own pots and pans anymore. Not because I can’t cook but because I don’t see a point anymore. When I’m at home I mostly eat fresh and raw fruits and vegetables. When I go out I eat more normal food. I can’t think of a simpler diet.
This is one reason I love Clear Skin Lifestyle so much. It’s so simple and easy.
Is your book give easy & simple to do (like DO this, DON’T do this etc…?) or is it all holistic stuff like “you gotta breathe right” sleep 10 hrs., meditate everyday, and think positive type thing? or is it so complicated that if you miss 1 thing you’re screwed? or “try this, it MIGHT help you?”
It’s a bit all those - except complicated. As I made the point earlier, getting clear means learning to respect yourself. We all face different challenges in that area. For some people those challenges are physical, others may struggle with mental things.
With everybody starting from different points there’s no way for me, or anyone else for that matter, to give a simple one-size-fits-all solution. But I can give you a goal to aim at, and I can give you tools to look at your life and find the areas you need to work on.
For example I can say that it seems that your diet needs a little work, and then give you guidelines for what a healthy diet looks like. Or I can say that you could benefit from exercising more, so why don’t you see if you can think of ways to incorporate more exercise into your days. Or I can say that on the physical front it seems you are doing fine, but you may need to work on accepting yourself and on your negative beliefs.
So I can’t give you a dumbed down 3-step solution to clear skin, but I can help you to figure out where you are at the moment and how to move forward from there. I can help you figure out your own solution to permanently clear skin.
Clear for Life focuses more on the physical front. It helps you with diet, exercise and other elements of health. Upcoming Happy Skin Days helps you with mental side of things. It shows how to deal with negative beliefs and create a healthier self-image.
I’ve always thought my problem was somehow hormone-related…
Yes, of course it is hormone-related. But hormones are linked to your diet and lifestyle. You can’t separate the two issues. Anything that happens inside of you ultimately comes down to your diet and lifestyle choices.
You are in control of, and only of, your diet and lifestyle choices. Your body adjusts everything that happens inside according to those choices.
So in the end it comes down to respect. Once you start respecting your life it starts respecting you. When that happen you’ll just might notice your acne disappearing and your life getting happier.
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