Does your self-care go beyond skincare? Do you understand that your beauty also lives in your health – physical and mental?
How important is balance?
With the continuous growth of the aesthetic market, a wave of new procedures and techniques arrived and caused drastic changes in the faces, bodies and self-esteem of so many people. Comparison, eating disorders, inferiority complexes and many other disorders and anxieties were developed, even facilitated by social networks.
However, there is one point that has almost been forgotten: the importance of treating human beings together, attending to all their systems, needs and desires, as is done in integrative aesthetics. In today’s article we will discuss the relevance of combining well-being, aesthetics and health!
In 1947, the WHO – World Health Organization, defined health as: “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease”. Although this definition does not seem so coherent with the reality of a large part of the population, we can observe an important point: well-being is directly related to health, in contrast to aesthetics – appearance and beauty.
This does not mean that aesthetics do not play an important role in an individual’s life, because considering “mental and social well-being” we can point out disorders and situations that contradict this state, due to the subject not feeling satisfaction with their physical appearance.
The limit between beauty and health is not in seeking a body considered beautiful, or even carrying out aesthetic procedures with qualified professionals, but precisely in disrespecting this threshold of danger to well-being, and blindly accepting any treatment, following recipes and tips for random weight loss on the internet or simply not prioritizing your health.
In order to conclude this brief list, it is interesting to highlight how aesthetics today, despite not being directly related to health, can be used as a means to obtain it, whether on a mental or physical level. There are indications for aesthetic treatments to alleviate symptoms or even as prophylaxis for certain diseases, in addition to their fundamental role in self-confidence and self-esteem.
Aesthetic treatments are essential in optimizing health when they bring improvements in quality of life. At the aesthetic clinic, you must seek to teach your clients/patients how the relationship between health, well-being and aesthetics can transform not only their physical appearance, but also their personal and interpersonal relationships, performance at work, and even their relationship. In front of the mirror.
For the boundary between aesthetics and health to be preserved, aesthetic procedures and health must be aligned. Therefore, the doctor must transmit truthful information regarding treatments that aim to guarantee the results expected by the patient, in addition to being duly qualified for the role.
Therefore, ensuring the limit between aesthetics and health means carrying out procedures safely and with the best possible results. The health of patients must always be prioritized.