Sometimes I have experiences that are thought provoking (wow, interesting revelation I hear you saying, and it’s ok because I’m even making fun of myself for that). And when I say thought provoking, I mean that they prompt me to start thinking in certain patterns, in certain ways about things in life that not only have to do with health and beauty, but also about how incredibly intuitive the body is, and how incredibly interlinked all the body’s processes are.
The thought I had this time, of course, was about acne, and more specifically about my experiences with acne, and how they were mostly, when you got down to the root cause, incepted by some form of inflammation in my body. How do I know this? Well, this inflammation made itself not only apparent in my skin by making me break out in various places with acne lesions, but also caused other things to happen which were quantifiable and identifiable as issues to me, that are linked to inflammation in some way.
Inflammation is really just an irritation of a body part or a lining in the body, or even something that has been caused by infection, which often causes pain because inflammation does that.
My experience this time has to do with my before-Thanksgiving time. I had three very stressful all day meetings at the last minute, the three days leading up to Thanksgiving, at my job. There was a sort of urgent matter that required a certain group of people be gathered together to help solve the problem, and I was one of those people.
We were put on the spot for a couple of days, and basically, the issue really relied on me and others giving the right answers, complete answers, and having a lot of knowledge of something. It was stressful. Especially to me, since I’m by nature a perfectionist and a pleaser, and I’m really trying hard at work because I truly feel that I’m lucky to have this particular job right now.
I noticed that the day after the first meeting, I woke up having an asthma attack. I rarely get asthma attacks any more. Asthma is sort of an inflammation of the bronchial passages that causes restriction. I also happened to be eating badly – a lot of junk food, which also tends to make me more prone to inflammation. Well, lo and behold, I woke up with two welts on my chest the next morning, and a new welt (yes, acne welts) as well.
Just that brief period of time of eating poorly and experiencing a lot of stress caused inflammation in my body enough to disrupt my hormones, causing a sort of hormonal acne breakout, as well as to give me an inflammatory response in my bronchial tubes. Crazy!
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