Did the egg come first or the hen!! Similarly did stress come first or the acne!! To understand this we will need to understand how stress can cause skin diseases
Skin health and mental health are interlinked. Our skin and brain are embryologically linked as they are formed from the same layer called as ectoderm. They communicate with each other all the time and we can notice this when we blush, when we have goosebumps on hearing something extraordinary, sweating when stressed, acne flaring up before a big event and so on. Our mood affects our skin and our skin affects our mood.
This is because when we are anxious our sympathetic nervous system gets activated which results in increase in the cortisol in the body thus releasing inflammatory hormones and worsening all inflammatory conditions like acne, pigmentation, hairloss. Stress also causes immune dysregulation and makes us prone to autoimmune conditions like Psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, lichen planus, alopecia areata, etc.
So I am giving you a simple hack to immediately shift your system from sympathetic i.e. (flight or fight) to parasympathetic ( rest and digest) which immediately releases stress and anxiety and gets us into a healing phase. This simple hack is called as Left Nostril Breathing. and we just have to close our right nostril with our right thumb and breathe in and out through the left nostril 10 times. If there is a block in the left nostril then breathe in through the left nostril an breathe out through the mouth. Believe me it instantly shifts us to a more relaxed state thus breaking the inflammatory cycle. Do it whenever you feel stressed and see the magic.