Healthy skin has amazing elasticity.
It can be pulled and stretched to a great extent without damaging it.
You can observe mothers of various animal species carrying their young by the skin of the neck with no adverse effect.

Your skin was supple and stretchable when you were born.
As you aged, it has become increasingly folded.
Each fold binds the skin to whatever is beneath it, as if you were tying it there with a string.
As a result, the skin loses its elasticity; it becomes hardened, tense and unsightly.

Most folds are not obviously visible, but you can deduce their presence by the tension and hardness they cause.

There is only one way to restore your skin's elasticity; grooming it.
Human grooming is the action of unfolding your skin with your nails.
When you groom your skin; you open up the folds by pushing your nail(s) into them and crushing their foundations.

Hard and tense skin is often associated with painful regions.
Human grooming those areas will also remove the pain coming from them.
Up to four fingers can be used simultaneously, and both hands can be put to the task.

Facial traits and features are only cutaneous folds in your face.
They can be opened, crushed, reduced, and eliminated with human grooming techniques.

Get quick information about human grooming.

Human grooming rediscovered - Video

The pain is in the skin - Video

Don't confuse smooth skin with unfolded skin.
The skin can be nice and smooth; but still be tense, hard and folded, because most folds cannot be seen.
Your system considers cutaneous folds as injuries, and it paves the furrow of each fold with fresh epidermis cells to protect the skin from further damage.
These new cells are "living cells".
To really find out how folded and tense your skin is, use one of the three following methods:

You can evaluate the tension in your skin by simply pressing your nail down anywhere on your body and evaluating how deep it goes.
Of course, your nail will dive in deeper if there is no bone beneath the skin or where there is a thick coat of fat.
The idea is to compare neighbouring areas to determine which ones are more tense, and thus, need more grooming.

If your nail can easily penetrate your skin; you can conclude that it is only lightly folded and healthy.
If on the other hand, the skin resists the push of your nail; it is very folded and needs attention.

One simple way to find out your skin tension is to;
1• Pinch the skin and pull it away from your body.

2• Examine how far you can stretch the skin.
3• Compare different areas.
Some places, such as your scalp, possibly cannot even be pinched.
That’s how tense the skin has become.

Still another method of skin tension evaluation;
• Place the tip of your nail on your skin.
• Add a bit of pressure.
• Try to move the nail horizontally and vertically.
• See how far the skin will follow it.

Analyze and compare the distances reached on both axes everywhere on your body.
Of course, the farther away your nail can move from its departure point, the more elasticity the skin has kept and the less folded it is.

The folds in your skin keep on deepening all your life.
You can observe small folds on the skin of a child, but these folds will grow and become large trenches when this person reaches old age.
However, one point will be more affected than the rest; it's where the two folds meet; the fold crossing.
The skin at a fold crossing is typically ten times harder and more tense than in the rest of the folds.
In addition, folds crossings dig much deeper into the skin.
They turn into compacted craters that dive into whatever is beneath them and fasten the skin to that location.
Several years later, the skin becomes hard like wood with reduced sensibility.

All these folds have a hardening effect on your skin.
Your system is disturbed by the folding and reacts by paving the bottom of each fold with fresh epidermis cells.
With time, your folds and their crossings become firm and solid objects within your skin.
Your skin hardens and its tension increases.

When you look at the skin of an old person, you don't notice the folds.
You focus on the loosely hanging portions of skin between them.

Folds and crossings have an anchoring action.
They pin the skin down.
But, between those locked positions, the skin may dangle, become stretched and flabs may appear.
It's important to understand that the problem is with the folds and their crossings.
Only groom deeply there.
The stretched, or flabby areas should be groomed superficially and will stop sagging once the hold from the folds is lessened or removed.

Grooming your skin has a considerable effect on its tension.
It reduces it locally, where you groom.
But the action of grooming any single fold crossing will affect all the others around it.
This principle is called tension redistribution.

On your body, each fold crossing has formed pulling relationships with its neighbours, and they've reached some kind of equilibrium.
When you groom one fold crossing, you remove part of its supportive structure.
This absence is felt by the other crossing in the vicinity.

Let's figure out what happens if you groom only the red fold crossing.
To picture this, let's imagine an unreal skin where all crossings would have the same pull.

If you only groom the red crossing; the surrounding crossings will gradually lose some tension on the side that is the closest to the groomed fold crossing.
It will take weeks and months, but the loss in tension will be redistributed to the neighbouring crossings.

However, most folds on your body are circular.
If you only groom one fold crossing, the other fold crossings all around the fold will be affected; but in a different manner.
The redistribution will decrease the tension for adjacent crossings, but it will increase it on the opposite side of the circular fold.
Removing tension from any crossing may shift your pain around.

Precautions and care must be taken when grooming your skin in places where pain is present.
Grooming the affected areas may provoke unknown reactions and even increase the pain.
Test-groom the regions for a few days before committing yourself to deeper work or exploration.
Be smart and go gradually.
Groom for short periods, several times a day, until the pain disappears.