MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL . . .

When they say 'if you feel beautiful inside, you'll feel beautiful outside' they're actually telling the truth.

Ever wonder why your image look different in the mirror than in the photograph, I always do! Like, my nose is not that ugly in the mirror but when someone snap a picture of me (especially profile-wise) I'm gonna be like "What's that thing hanging on my face, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF !!!! "

Via unitedspongebob

"Just imagine an Asian looking Squidward"

 

The standard of beauty nowadays was likely to be blamed but a recent study shows that the way we percieved our external look is actually determined by how aware we are to our internal states.

Like for example, some people might think their hands are bigger when they are actually not or in some cases some people might think they are thin when they are actually morbidly obese...

 

"Some people think Ms Tyra is fat fiercely real"

 

Recently British scientists had come up with an experiment to see the people's awareness of their body internal states.

I know y'all won't read that article, so I just summarized it, how nice of me ...

the scientists conducted two tests, in the first test all subjects were asked to count their heartbeats without checking their pulse. People who can count their heartbeats accurately, have higher internal body awareness while those that can't have lower awareness.

 

" On the other hand, this guy can count other people's heartbeats"

For the next test, the subjects were tested on how well their external body perception is, in an less-scientific words they wanna test whether the subject are able to see an accurate representation of themselves when they look at their image in the mirror.

For this test they use the rubber hand illusion

In this test, one of the subjects' hand were hidden from their view and a rubber hand was placed near their actual hand.

via abc.net.au

then both the rubber and the real hands were stroked using a brush and after 30 seconds the subject started to feel like the rubber hand was hers, after a few minutes the subject started to forget about their real hand indicated by the drop of temperature in their hand.

Remember the group that have less accurate result of their heartbeat count ?
That group were likely to say "I feel like the rubber hand was mine !" (probably in English accent). The temperature of their actual hand also drop much lower compared to the other group (the one who have more internal awareness).

So they concluded that people with little internal self awareness are more likely to perceived they external body less accurately, one example of that kinda person is moi... unfortunately.

via drsharma.ca

The same goes with anorexic people who think they are fat when they are actually super skinny.

The question is, how do you improve your internal body awareness, some people say Yoga, I say, a little break from reading all those fashion magazines !