Lately researchers have proved what acne suffers have know all along - stress either causes acne or at least makes it worse.
Since the skin is the boundary between what is within the body and what is without, it becomes a sounding board for what is going on inside the body.
The skin is also the interface with which our mental and spiritual bodies interface with the world.
Most of our perceptions about the world we live in have some relationship to the sensations of our skin.
In fact the word we use to describe the sense of touch and the word we use for our emotions is the same - "feeling.
" When we have emotional upsets that cannot be expressed in words or actions, our skin often speaks for us.
Note the blushing of the cheeks when someone is embarrassed.
The cheeks say what the words cannot.
Adolescent acne is often related to sexual development.
As the sex organs develop and different hormone are secreted, the structure of the skin changes.
If at the same time, the teenager is feeling conflicted about the mental and emotional changes that are going on, his skin may do the talking for him.
If his sexual expression is stifled by religious or other sociological conditions, his internal conflict may be externalized and communicated by his skin.
The more comfortably children can talk about he changes in their life, the less they bodies will have to express these feelings for them.
There are several tools that are indicated to correct an emotional cause for the physical condition.
One is Emotional freedom techniques or EFT by Gary Craig.
Color therapy, chakra therapy or Reiki would also help to provide the needed balance.
Regular exercise has also been shown to help lessen acne.
The benefits of exercise to emotional stability have long been know so it is no surprise that acne clears up when a person is emotionally balanced through exercise.
Treating a physical condition like acne form an emotional or spiritual perspective may seem strange at first but when we stop to realize that our bodies are simply the manifestation of our personal energy fields, emotion treatment becomes the natural choice for healing.