Dry Brushing 101
My Personal History with Regards to Dry Brushing
Dry brushing is one of the practices I’ve included at the very early stages of my lifestyle change in April 2016. As of April 2018 it has been exactly two years that I have been dry brushing regularly. As opposed to other starting points, I haven’t been experimenting extensively with this actual practice. So far it has been a pretty straight forward practice that I happened to include in my weekly routine. I have no real evidence that it is specifically helping me in my regeneration process, other than seeing all the dead skin falling out of the surface of my body, and feeling more energized after each dry brushing session.
As with sunbathing and other starting points that I’ve been sharing on this blog, one should adapt this practice to her own reality in order to be safe and get the best results. As I mentioned earlier, my approach is fairly simple and hasn’t changed much since the beginning. That said, there are plenty of different approaches, information, and opinions about dry brushing on the web. There seem to be plenty of room to get more involved than I have been with this practice and experiment more extensively with it.
While browsing through the information that is out there, I have to admit that I was a bit surprised to see articles and posts about dry brushing on many beauty websites. I personally see dry brushing as practice to support well being more than beauty. The positive effect in beauty is a sort of a byproduct of getting healthier in my opinion, but obviously there is a lot of emphasis out there on the superficial benefits of dry brushing.Continue reading