Beautiful body and sound mind
Body shaping
Options for surgical body sculpting
We are a society of mostly affluent people. We needn’t worry about our basic needs, therefore, and begin focusing on higher-level desires. Reaching the top of our needs pyramid, we note we start striving for self-fulfilment. We test the limits of our capabilities, explore our talents, want to achieve ideals or want to be the best at something. The need for self-fulfilment may take different forms. Some want to do something new, for instance, learn a few foreign languages, although they used to know only their native tongue before. Others will focus on development of an existing gift, still others will wish for a faultless body.
Who doesn’t know sayings like ‘Cult of the flesh’ and ‘A sound mind in a sound body’? Most of us not only have come across these slogans but also care for their health and appearance in a variety of ways. No wonder these notions are not alien to us. At the time of ubiquitous media and multiplicity of their communication tools, we are, whether we like it or not, bombarded with information about how to get better, how to look after our appearance, which diet is the wonder diet or which food products will supply most vitamins. Media messages are overwhelmed with images of the ideal body, proportional figure, and broadly-understood beauty. We follow trends and care for our skins, try to eat healthy and think positive. The cult of the flesh is no longer the preserve of body-builders to become part of our everyday lives as more and more people are physically active. Thus, we go for walks, biking, and to the gym to have pleasant-looking and attractive bodies. Indeed, beauty, health, being fit give rise to positive emotions.
Changing ideals of beauty
Our world keeps evolving, we’re living at a time of changing fashions and multiple possibilities. Trends followed in one global region may differ from those set elsewhere. Ideals have also shifted over the ages. People saturated with some values looked for different impressions. Ancient Greece wasn’t only a place where sports were worshipped and athletic bodies applauded, but also a time of admiration for the body built in line with the ‘golden ratio’ or ideal proportions. That ‘divine ratio’, initiated by philosophers of the time, was propagated a dozen centuries later by Leonardo da Vinci, who created the Vitruvian Man that presented the right sizes and proportions of the human body. That liking for harmony and symmetry has stayed with us until today. We keep looking for them in ourselves and in others. The medieval attractiveness of the female body was associated with slimness and plumper flesh of a breastfeeding mother, on the other hand. The Renaissance brought worship of the Rubenesque shapes, often too ample and not too healthy if measured by our present standards. For a change, corsets were expected to emphasise narrow waists afterwards. The Classical period saw a return to ancient trends. Victorians admired female shapes modelled with corsets again. The early 20th century brought huge changes as well as different requirements of your own body. Subsequent years define other canons of beauty. On the one hand, Marilyn Monroe was the model of female attractiveness, juxtaposed with thin, even anorexic-looking models, on the other hand. Not only a sporty and symmetrical body but also highlighted assets of the female flesh are factors of beauty nowadays.
Surgical body shaping
Regretfully, the path to an ideal body fitting the current trends is not always easy. A healthy diet and regular exercise can do a lot, yet not everyone will be able to boast equally spectacular effects. Everybody may exhibit varying tendencies to thin, build the muscle mass or grow fatty tissue and not everyone can shape all parts of their body as needed and expected. In some cases, therefore, effects of your dreams will require surgical techniques of body shaping, recommended to those with excess fatty tissue, inflexible skin that may be excessive in some areas, and those wishing to shape and emphasise certain body parts, for example.
Those with shapeless buttocks or breasts can take advantage of their own fat resources in other body regions to shape and rejuvenate unaesthetically formed areas of their bodies. Fatty tissue is most commonly harvested from your stomach and thigh as part of liposuction procedures. A protruding abdominal fold can be liquidated by means of abdominoplasty or its less complicated variety, namely, mini-abdominoplasty, which focuses on stomach imperfections below the navel. Beautiful arms and thighs, free from redundant fatty tissue or drooping skin, can be arrived at with plastic surgeries of these body parts. A calf, in turn, can be shaped using implants. Redundant and inflexible skin remaining after a substantial weight loss and deforming your figure can be successfully removed, for instance, as part of an abdominal integument correction.
Surgical body shaping generates spectacular effects. Your body not only acquires its proper shape and proportions and looks younger, slimmer, and more attractive, but the skin also becomes firm and flexible. The plastic procedures mentioned above will thus become steps on the path to self-fulfilment as well as a road to self-acceptance and a perfect opportunity for overcoming your complexes. Changes and improvements to the body help gain your inner harmony.
Both ladies and gentlemen wishing to feel better and look more attractive can take advantage of the potential of surgical body shaping. It could have seemed some time ago procedures of this type are addressed to a younger and possibly better-off age group, yet now increasing numbers of mature people in their prime are interested in these medical procedures. There is a rich variety of body shaping procedures and everyone, no matter what age they are, can choose those suited to their needs.
You should keep in mind, however, plastic surgery won’t replace working on your body and its appearance and surgeries can’t be treated as slimming substitutes. Surgical body shaping should follow implementation of appropriate dietary standards, loss of redundant kilos or more intense physical activity. Effects of shaping procedures, meanwhile, should be fostered with healthy habits. Only such an approach can assure long-term preservation of results of a surgery. Surgical body shaping may be complemented with procedures from the plentiful portfolio of aesthetic medicine that will not only support cellular rejuvenation processes but also help fight stretch marks, scars or cellulite.
