Bathing
Take time to relax and care for yourself and your family in your own modest spa.
the body-mind connection, and especially the Sense of Touch, can be used intentionally to reach different mental or emotional states more efficiently.
When we use substances like caffeine, sugar and alcohol to change our physical, mental or emotional states, we also dull our experiences.
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Our bodies affect our minds, and a bath is one of the few ways you can dramatically change your body’s experience of the world. Almost all of us have bath tubs, while a pool or a hot tub or sauna are not available to all of us all of the time.
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Bathing can take a lot of forms, each with their own experience and benefits. Some people insist that a cold water plunge before or after a warm bath is critical. In the same vein, some people swear by the benefits of cold showers. You can immerse yourself in water in a lake, the ocean, a pool, a hot tub, a bath tub or even a shower (kind of). I may even include wet and dry saunas in this list. An extreme example of this is the isolation tanks, like in the movie Altered States, though you’re not likely to regress to an earlier form of human, like they do in the movie, if you use one.
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These are all about the sense of touch, whether it’s heat or cold, wet or dry, it is a way to engage your entire skin in the same sensation. It can be relaxing or invigorating. And there are physiological responses to the sensations, like the release of endorphins or even adrenalin.
Therefore:
Take time to relax and care for yourself and your family in your own modest spa. Use heat and cold, still and moving water to trigger changes in your physical, emotional and mental states.
A bath can relax you or stimulate you depending on the state you’re looking for; a cold bath (or even an ice bath) can be a Ritual that begins your creative time—Time to Create