Hair Growth
ll hair growth reflects physical, mental, and emotional health. What we think and what we eat affect the quality and strength. Humans are extremely visual. It is important for survival. The dependence on vision, for better or worse, has been throughout humanity’s existence. It’s interesting that hair is on the top of the body. It is one of the first things you see when you focus on the face.
People often visualize long, flowing locks, usually worn by white, Asian, or Hispanic women. However, there is such a wide variety of hair types that deserve attention and appreciation—curly, coily, tightly coiled, wavy, kinky, and straight hair, to name a few. Women around the world express themselves through natural styles, locs, twists, braids, and many other forms that reflect different heritages and histories. All hair textures and styles carry their own unique beauty and meaning.
In the wonderful, informative book "Timeline" by Michael Crichton, one of the women time travelers had to wear a wig because in the part of Europe they were revisiting, it was illegal for a woman to have short hair. Death was usually the sentence.
When a woman is unable to grow hair associated with her gender, it may feel like a shortcoming. Women compensate; wigs still exist. Black women get extensions or have their hair braided. There are those who sport short hairstyles, without caring about how it is received, and look beautiful. Women of African descent wear their hair very close to the scalp and are fine with it. For centuries, Black women have been shamed into submissiveness and humiliated by the beliefs of men and other women who had straight or different lengths of curly hair. They embrace their expression of womanhood regardless of what the world accepts, empowering themselves and leaving men to fear that which made them easier to control.
Beauty comes from within, not from what society tells anyone it should be. Hair growth and styling are up to the person who wears it.
The Goddess Within by Allison L. Williams Hill
Hair Growth Cycle
Hair grows as cells divide rapidly during the Anagen, or Growth Phase. Growth slows down, and then the hair stops growing in the Catagen or Transition Phase. The hair remains in this state for two to four months in the third phase, called the Telogen Phase or Resting Phase. The hair is released from the head, and a new one takes its place. So, hair is expected to leave the head. The important factor is that the better the body's nutrition and health, the stronger the hair becomes, and cells divide, pushing the shaft forward and resulting in longer hair.
New cells are constantly forming in the hair bulb. These cells stick together and harden. The full strand of hair develops from this group of hardened hair cells. Because new hardened cells keep attaching to the hair from below, it is gradually pushed up out of the skin. In this way, a single hair on your head grows at a rate of about 1 cm, or 0.3937007874 inches per month.
Whether it is straight or curly depends on the hair's cross-sectional shape. Round hair grows straight out of the skin, typical for white people. The more oval the cross-section, the curlier the hair will be, a typical trait of Black people.
The color of the hair is determined by the amount of melanin in the melanocytes. This can vary a lot from person to person, and it changes over the course of a lifetime. The amount of melanin typically decreases as people get older, and more air gets trapped inside the hair – it then loses its color and turns white. Depending on someone’s original hair color and the number of white hairs that grow, the hair on their head then turns gray or white.
Gary Null, Ph.D., held a study for women experiencing menopause in the 1990s, I believe. It was at a time I desired to participate but could not afford it. Many women experienced the return of their natural hair color and other physical, mental, and emotional improvements when they changed their diets and included supplements. The National Institutes of Health has conducted studies. I personally think that gray, white, or silver hair is less a sign of aging, people as young as 17 have gray hair, but more of a sign of what the body is missing. The body’s health can benefit from support. (1)
People immediately visualize long flowing locks usually kept by white, Asian or Hispanic women. In the wonderful, informative book "Timeline" by Michael Crichton, a woman who was one of the time travelers had to wear a wig because in the part of Europe they were revisiting it was illegal for a woman to have short hair. Death was usually the sentence.
When a woman is unable to grow hair associated with the gender, it may feel like a shortcoming. Some women compensate; wigs still exist. Black women get extensions or have their hair braided. There are those who sport short hairstyles, not phased by how it is received and look beautiful. Women of African descent wear their hair very close to the scalp and are fine with it.
The shapes of their heads are beautiful and they evoke womanhood and, I think the fear is, POWER. Beauty comes from within, not from what society tells anyone it should be.Hair growth and styling is up to the person who wears it.
Hair Growth and Energy
In(tuitive)-Vesica Art Design Energy is applying various methods to stimulate change. It is of and about energy.
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas keep their hair long, including the males. Males who were trained as "Code Talkers" during World War II. The armed forces tested regulated short hair. The indigenous recruits with long hair were tested. Their grades were higher when their hair remained long. This outcome provided evidence for the Army to make an exception, exempting them from the short hair requirement.
The Masai warriors braid each other's hair using only three strands at a time. The women wear their hair short.
There are many beliefs surrounding hair. Some people say that hair receives electromagnetic energy. However, so does the entire body. Some people say the hair receives cosmic energy. While this has not been scientifically proven, there are shared individual and collective subjective experiences.
Women wear hair from other sources. Indian Hindu women practice a centuries-old religious ritual called tonsuring or shaving their hair, a symbolic offering to deities. After it is cut, the hair has no life, separated from the body that grew it. Women who have it woven into their hair benefit from the aesthetic qualities only.
African Hair (I think their tresses are a-maze-ING!)
Desire for Maximum Hair Growth
To encourage hair growth for the head, and men might desire this for mustaches and beards, use the dates below to help you accomplish this goal. The cheapest method available is massaging with the pads of your fingers. This will move blood into the scalp. Your blood should be healthy enough to provide what your hair needs to grow. If it is not, visit Health and contact me for a free health history.
Lovely with Hair by Allison L. Williams Hill
People embracing their identities have brought forth the creative expression of many hair styles.
Traditional Japanese Female Hair Style
Portrait of Natural Hair
Cut to Encourage Hair Growth in 2019
Moon Night 1
Power Days with the Moon for Hair Growth
Power Days are excellent for meditation.
Visualize doing the work. On the day given as the best day, see yourself as if you are I your body. I don’t think it is successful if you visualize yourself. Seeing you. However, if that works for you, do it.
What do you see when your hair is longer?
Your arms are in motion. Your dominant hand holds the comb, brush, or pick as your other hand holds the hair out from your head.
Feel yourself doing this! As you do your hair, behave as if you are combing, brushing, or untangling your hair beyond where the hair actually ends.
See your hair color as you desire it, the highlights are where you desire them to be. You see your face in the mirror. You see your dominant hand holding a mirror to see the back of your head reflected in the mirror in front of you.
Moon Night 2 by Allison L. Williams Hill
Rubba dub dub
Yah got pads?
Put ‘im up!
Put ‘im up!
Massage those follies!
Use the plump tips of your fingers to massage your hair where you want growth. You will feel warmth because you are encouraging blood flow. Blood carries minerals, phytonutrients to the follicles to nourish them and to remove waste. Do this daily as you visualize how you want your hair to look and feel.
Cut to Discourage Hair Growth in 2019
The Desire for Minimal to No-Hair Growth
To discourage hair growth for arms, armpits, chests, abdomens, pubic region, legs feet, face, eyebrows, and ear and nose hairs, see the hair return less and less. Continue to do this to the point you see nothing, no hair at all. It will take time. You are investing time when you do this.
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1. The content is in my ebook for which I am determining the title. Will notify when it is available.
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