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Healing Waters
The bath tub is one of my most healing rooms of my house. My dear husband built and sculpted a beautiful Japanese soaking tub for two in my Arrowbear home. It is the perfect escape after a hard days work. It has candles, incense and music cued up whenever we’re ready to relax.
Prior to getting into my bath I dry brush massage my body starting from the furthest point and working my way toward my heart in a circular motion. This takes a good ten minutes or more as my tub fills.
Sometimes I use a salt or sugar scrub to get my circulation going. It helps to drink a cup of ginger or yarrow tea to induce sweating.
Also, a relaxing tea can be a great idea but I have also been known to take a glass of good Cabernet with me and soak away as well.
In my line of work I deal with others health and emotional problems and my ritual bathing is a way for me to cleanse my spirit and purge all negative energy from my body. To clear, I may add salt, herbs, and essential oils to heighten this experience.
Since the tub is for two, my husband may join me as well and rid ourselves from the remains of the day.
After bathing in Japan it is a normal ritual to soak in tubs even big enough for several people and socialize. But I have a two person soaking limit in my tub and preferably with someone I’m married to.
My ritual soak is not a place where I do my feminine hygiene or monthly body maintenance it is just for soaking and clearing. Maintenance is work. I soak here to clear myself, release and relax.
Women in the Victorian times used to bath and soak quite often by adding assorted bathing powders and bubbles to the tub. They were a lot calmer women in those days.
In earlier times, sanitariums would put their patients in mineral baths to calm them on a daily basis. We now go to a hot springs resort to receive this experience and pay through the nose as well.
Many homes are no longer equipped with a decent bathtub anymore. We personally ripped apart two bathrooms in each of our homes to achieve this experience, that’s how important it is to us. Read more »
Originally posted 2009-01-10 03:02:38. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
