You can’t get clear until your self-image is clear. Holistic health is the only reliable way to permanently clear skin. Readers love Clear for Life.
Those are just few of the results of a recent customer survey I did. Thanks for everyone who got back to me. Here’s feedback on the feedback, and few golden nuggets that help you get clear. You’ll pick up something useful even if you haven’t read Clear for Life.
You can’t outperform your self-image
Interestingly quite a few people commented that CFL gives them fantastic results when they stick to it. Unfortunately they keep falling off the wagon and in the process making a mess of their skins.
While I agree that staying healthy in today’s world takes some work, I wouldn’t say it’s difficult. The truth is that eating and living healthy is easy – once you get over your own limits.
If you find yourself repeating a pattern where you make progress and then fall back, I believe you need to work on your self-image.
In the personal growth circles it’s well-known that you can’t outperform your self-image.
Deep in your subconscious mind you have an image of yourself; your self-image. That image shows what you really believe and think about yourself. It shows what you can and cannot do. It shows what your life is like.
Your mind’s job is to make sure that your life matches your self-image. Scientists say that 95% or more of our behavior is subconscious. Humans like to believe they behave rationally and logically, but even a cursory look shows this is not true.
Your subconscious mind controls most of your actions and choices. It guides your life to the fulfillment of your self-image. One way this happens is through your thoughts. If you think exercise is boring, you’ll find it hard to motivate yourself to exercise. If you believe eating healthy is difficult, you’ll find that it is. But if you believe exercise is fun and eating healthy is delicious and fulfilling, living a healthy life gets easy.
While it’s true that you are free to choose your thoughts most people don’t exercise that power. Instead the choice happens in the subconscious level. And here’s where your self-image guides your destiny.
In each moment your subconscious feeds your mind with thoughts and images that guide your life towards your self-image. If you haven’t trained your mind your life inevitably slips towards your self-image – even if you fight it.
Acne can be part of your self-image directly or indirectly. You may see yourself as a victim of this horrible curse. Or you may, for example, believe that you don’t deserve love; acne then justifies that belief and gives you something to point your finger at, you can say the reason you haven’t found love is because nobody would date anyone with your skin.
I used to be afraid of success. I has a belief that it’s better to be small and not attract too much attention on myself – thanks to my childhood. This held me back in many ways. For example my mind created food cravings. I used to be able to stick to raw food diet for few days. But regularly also found myself eating pizza, coke or some other junk. I pushed my limits and my mind had to bring me back to my “comfort level”.
Luckily I found that belief and got rid of it. The food cravings disappeared overnight. Now I’m free to choose my meals and eating healthy is easy.
If you keep hitting a wall and can’t get past a certain point, I recommend you work on upgrading your self-image. Awaken The Giant Within by Anthony Robbins shows you how.
Holistic health is the only realizable way to permanently clear skin
Going through the feedback it got painfully obvious that getting clear is a holistic effort. Acne is a complicated problem and I don’t think anyone really knows how it happens. Equally obvious is that there’s no simple solution that would be permanent and would work reliably for many people.
Constantly working to improve your health is the only way to permanently clear skin. Further, you must put in all the pieces of the puzzle. Health is not just about diet or exercise. You have to work on it at many levels. You have to eat healthy, you have to move, you have to sleep well, you have to remain positive, and so on.
The feedback shows that you’ll get the best results if all the elements of health are in balance. Weakness in one area can hold you back from getting 100% clear skin.
Most acne treatments ignore this fundamental truth, so is it any wonder their track record is so miserable?
The biggest problem areas for people were sleep and stress and negative attitude.
Stress and negative attitude are related to your self-esteem and mental image, and I wrote a bit about sleep here:
Feeling tired and can’t figure out why?
6 Months to clear skin
I also have to admit that I may have been too optimistic about the time it takes to get clear. I usually tell 3 to 4 months is a reasonable time frame for big improvements.
While many people get good results within 4 months this may not be enough to get you completely clear.
I’ve gotten quite a few emails from people who tell me that they’ve been following CFL for 3 to 4 months and are still breaking out. Granted, their acne is much better than it was before starting CFL. Cystic acne has faded to whiteheads and breakouts happen less frequently and fade away quicker.
Still, when you expect to be completely clear, it may be hard to appreciate these changes and many people focus on their remaining acne – instead of how much better their skin looks now.
I should have communicated more forcefully that in the 3 month mark people are still going through the detox process and it’s normal to keep breaking out. It doesn’t mean you do something wrong or you couldn’t get clear.
From the feedback I get 6 months seems to be a better timeframe for completely, or nearly, clear skin.
Of course this changes from person to person, and I’m sure some people say they got clear much faster and some say it took longer than 6 months.
People love Clear for Life
I’m especially happy about this – and perhaps even a little proud. I asked those customers who bought Clear for Life at least 6 weeks ago – so that they had enough time putting it into practice – how satisfied they are with it.
A whopping 51% gave the highest rating. Here are the results:
About 10% of the people I send the survey filled it. I realize that there can be a positive bias in the answers – people who are happy with CFL are more likely to respond to the survey. Still, it shows people get results with Clear for Life.
And if you haven’t read Clear for Life the chances are you’ll love it.
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Clear for Life – The lifestyle for health, happiness and clear skin
