The ritual goes away a little bit like this. Once or twice a month, I look forward to my little bathroom and greet my face in the mirror. Behind the unique space of this intimate space, I stare at my skin under a soft bulb. The lighting here is gentle and tolerant, but what I do on my face can’t be. I choose a soft spatula and use it to apply a gray goo on my face. I look far into my enlightenment, the glitter and the commercial I promise, and I wait.
It does not take long for the joy to begin.
As it settles in the cracks that grow with a smile and a smile, a repentant goo begins to dominate and torment and my whole face screams with fear. It burns and I love it. It hurts and I enjoy it. But why?
I’m not the only person who arrives to get the most unpleasant skin instead of the good cream that doesn’t ask me if I can endure it. And honestly, I don’t even know if my painful mask works or not, even though I look religious. What I do know is that suffering in some way makes it feel like it works, and that the pain makes me feel better at the moment.
The science of trauma, as well as how it affects guilt, helps to explain the attraction of the underlying skin. I love my cruel face because it sounds like self-pity, deliberately forgiving every time I protect myself from the sun unprotected. But the trick is that when we feel a little pain to accomplish something, our mind gives us a sense of accomplishment. The time for intentional pain ismasochism-They come with all the goods that were introduced as a sexually transmitted disease. But even beyond the skin, masochism is good and ubiquitous, and understanding is an important part of intimidating human behavior.
In 2011 learning published in Psychological Science noting the relationship between trauma and prevention, researchers asked students to write down one of two things: the pattern of rejection or exclusion of another person, or an innocent relationship. Afterwards, she wrote a survey to find out how she felt. Next, the fun part: They should wrap their whole hand in the ice as long as they can stand up. Some of them. The steering group got a chance to sit in the middle, bastards.
The researchers found that people who wrote about their erroneous memory held their hands in the ice for longer periods of time, realized that the ice was more harmful than the others, and later decreased significantly. Read it again. The perpetrators suffered excruciating pain, said it was painful, and felt innocent afterwards. To illustrate this, the authors refer to DB Morris’ book, The Nature of Pain, which states that “pain is naturally described as physical, but is more accurate in describing it as a physical, mental, and cultural intersection.” This theory states that people give meaning to pain, and Drs. Brock Bastian, one of the authors of the study, says that people are more likely to be in a group from birth to experience pain during punishment.
“I think it’s a relationship between pain and justice. The resilience that is felt can be felt as a judgment, as well as a way of expressing oneself,” says Bastian, noting that implicit punishment is linked to different repentance. “Not only do people tell themselves ‘I’m going to be punished’ but [they are] to run aggressively or to act aggressively and to meet the requirements for restitution and punishment through punishment. “As Bastian pointed out in the paper,” History has many examples of self-inflicted wounds or self-inflicted wounds aimed at cleansing. “
When it comes to skin care, a sense of guilt comes into play when we feel that we have done too much benefit complex of our toxic oils and microneedlers. The pain also gives us a taste of protection through self-discipline, making us compensate for all the mistakes we have made on our skin: skinless days, cigarette smoke, forced sniffing, sleeping in the shower. And when we pay for our sins with our skin, we begin to taste forgiveness.
But what I admire most about caring for the skin is not the wrong thing to do. There is something going on, something about how people create and realize value. “If something hurts, it can make a difference or do better,” explains Bastian. In many cases, the effort to make things better increases our awareness of its importance, “so the use of skin care products that damage and hurt less, may even make us realize that they are doing something else.”