Facial Exercises

Like the whole body, the face too requires exercising to keep it young and beautiful. By doing facial exercises, you strengthen and tighten the muscles of the face, you stimulate the blood supply and also nourish your facial skin. As you grow older, the muscles of the face begin to sag giving appearance of fine lines called wrinkles. By doing these exercises, you straighten and tighten the muscles and prevent wrinkling of the skin.

Try to push the face out stretching the skin toughly over the skin. Hold it like that to a count of four. Relax and repeat 10 times.

Chin and jaw

1. Lean your head as far as will go. Then open your mouth. Put your chin out and slowly take it up until it closes your mouth. Do this 5 times.
2. Touch your nose with your tongue.
3. Touch the roof of your mouth with the base of your tongue.

Mouth and cheeks

1. Put the forefingers at the corners of your mouth and stretch it as wide as possible. Relax and repeat this 6 times. Keeping the fingers still there, try and pull the mouth shut, forcing the muscles to work. Count 6, relax and repeat 5 times.
2. Open your mouth as wide as you can. Close it very slowly with tension. Repeat this ten times. Turn your head frorn left to right when doing this exercise to maintain your jaws.
3. Blow out your cheeks as if you were blowing a balloon. Relax and repeat 6 times.
4. With your mouth closed give a big false smile. Relax and repeat this 6 times.

Forehead

Without moving the rest of your face try to move your forehead and without wrinkling it push it up towards the hairline. Hold it to a count of 6 and relax. Do this as often as you can.

Eyes

• Open your eyes as wide as possible. Hold to a count of 6 and relax. Do this several times.
• Roll your eyes around in a circle. Do it slowly first one way, then the other.
• Keep the eyes closed. Contract the muscles by blinking hard. Hold the muscles tight for a few seconds. This reduces puffiness of the eyes.
• For dropping eyes, open your eyes, and put your middle fingers into the corners of your eyes, then you gently squeeze the eyes shut and you will feel the muscles there working away.

Neck

Exercise No.1

Sit with your back straight. Drop your head forward to touch your chest, bring your head upright and drop it backwards. Do this exercise 6 times.

Exercise No.2

Sit with your back straight. Drop your head to the right side so that your ear nearly touches the shoulder. Bring the head upright again and drop it to the left. Repeat this 6 times on either side.

Exercise No.3

Slowly roll the head around front, left, back, right and to the front again. Do this four times first clockwise and then anticlockwise.