Our face says so much more than we imagine

Viral videos, social trends, films, books, and TV series of recent times have surely taught us something about the new generation: it's the most spiritual ever. From yoga to various practices aimed at safeguarding mental health, to crystal therapy and ancient meditation rituals: we are constantly seeking balance and, to achieve it, we are willing to do anything, even self-exploration. We always want to discover more about ourselves because only by truly knowing ourselves can we understand what areas to work on. Physiognomy was among the first disciplines that allowed humans to "explore" themselves in an alternative way. In the past, it was used to establish a correlation between a person's physical characteristics, especially facial features, and their personality, moral qualities, and intelligence. In other words, it was thought that observing someone's face could deduce aspects of their personality. Today, physiognomy is considered a pseudoscience lacking scientific evidence, but the studies and branches born from it are numerous. The most well-known is probably morphopsychology, which is based on the idea that facial features, from the shape of the eyes to the width of the forehead, can provide clues about our personality, character, and even how we relate to others. Body psychotherapy also plays an important role in this field.

Everything you need to know about Bioenergetic Analysis

The pioneer of body psychotherapy, Alexander Lowen, believed "that through movement and relaxation, or by exaggerating tension and then relaxing the body's muscles, the underlying problem would come to consciousness and could then be discussed analytically". He considered Bioenergetic Analysis a psychology of the ego, born from the work of his teacher Wilhelm Reich, whose work in turn stemmed from collaboration with Freud and the Freudian circle before Reich was expelled from the psychoanalytic institute in 1927 due to his controversial ideas. As explained in the essay "Neurobiology and Psychological Development of Grounding and Embodiment," bioenergetic techniques, by stimulating the integration of "body maps" like vestibular perception, proprioception, and touch, can enhance awareness, vitality, and self-cohesion in various groups of clients with early disorders.

Biodec Face Mapping: An Innovative Method

The concept of bioenergetics developed by Lowen inspired Luca Mazza and his wife Erika Martino, a holistic practitioner specializing in radionics and radiesthesia and a psychologist, respectively. The couple founded an enterprise called Nuvelis Ray, a portal dedicated to psycho-physical and spiritual well-being. It offers holistic practices performed by accredited professionals, individual sessions for personal awareness growth, and radionics products aimed at purification and wellness. Among these, the phenomenon of Biodec Face Mapping stands out: "It is the decoding of emotions that are not expressed due to fear, of knots that one lacks the courage to face and that force continuous contraction of freedom. BFM is an in-depth analysis that examines the bodily expression of unconscious experiences, allowing for awareness and processing on the mental, emotional, and ego planes".

The Goals of Biodec Face Mapping

• Identifying emotions: Biodec Face Mapping could help identify subtle or difficult-to-verbalize emotions, offering a new tool for understanding oneself and others.
• Facilitating non-verbal communication: This technique could improve communication between therapist and patient, allowing the therapist to better understand the patient’s feelings.
• Increasing self-awareness: Through the analysis of one's facial expressions, an individual could develop greater awareness of their emotional patterns.

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Are our emotions linked to physiognomy?

The face is the most expressive part of our body, and thanks to its 40 muscles, it makes every emotional nuance visible. For this reason, research in emotion recognition nowadays has focused primarily on facial expression, voice analysis, and is beginning to explore technologies that also use body movements for automatic recognition. Another source of information comes from so-called universal distinctive signals. For example, one can recognize a genuine smile by the contraction of the orbicular muscles around the eyes, in conjunction with the zygomatic muscle pulling upwards diagonally relative to the lip muscles. Both muscles are difficult for most people to contract voluntarily. Some studies have shown that this smile, dubbed the Duchenne smile, after the anatomist who first discovered it, occurred more frequently when people were genuinely enjoying themselves, compared to when they were faking a smile to hide negative emotions. Practices like Biodec Face Mapping, when conducted by experts and with the right measures, can help us identify emotions, reconnect with ourselves, and recover a part of ourselves that we had buried.