There is an ancient adage that says 'Water is life'. Unfortunately, in contemporary times most of us have become oblivious of the wise saying and have a tendency to pay no attention to the importance of water.
As a result, most of us look somewhere else for the magical element that would help to enhance energy, vigor and health enabling to increase our life span.
However, most of us tend to forget that the answer to wellbeing and long life is something very ordinary - water. In fact, the day we all are able to comprehend the entire importance of water, we will possess all the answers to the different processes of all life.
It may be noted that water is not self-reliant and inaccessible substance, but its attributes rely on its circumstance - the structure of water facilitates it to act in response to other different molecules.
It has been properly documented by anthropologists that in a number of regions across the globe, people appear to age unhurriedly and remain healthy till they are well past 100 years old. In these parts of the world people have hardly heard of degenerative ailments.
One such region, where people have been remaining healthy for over 100 years and where degenerative diseases were practically non-existent, is the Karakoram Mountains located in the north of Pakistan inhabited by Hunza people, while another one is the hilly region of Ecuador.
Water in Hunza is actually the water obtained by melting ice from the prehistoric glaciers - water that has been confined for several million years. In all probability, this is the purest form of water found anywhere across the globe.
The Hunza people consume this pure water throughout their life and, as a result, they not only live longer, but are also very healthy.
In effect, the water drunk by Hunza people does not enclose any of the common mineral salts present in mountain springs or well water, since the water has not passed through the hydrological cycle or water cycle (constant movement of water on, above as well as underneath the earth's surface) so as to pick up minerals and other substances along its journey.
Majority of the water we find today, encloses mineral salts. But minute mineral clusters comprising a high amount of silicates and carbon are found suspended in Hunza water.
This combination forms a perfect composition that is effective in sustaining as well as augmenting life span.
In school, all children are taught that water is a chemical compound containing two simple as well as plentiful constituents - a dipole (a pair of opposed poles) molecule containing two hydrogen (H) atoms that are positively charged and an oxygen (O) atom that is negatively charged.
While the formula of water (H2O) appears to be very simple, in effect, its structure is quite intricate.
It is interesting to note that so far scientists have identified or found as many as 36 dissimilar types of water, each having different amalgamation of hydrogen and oxygen, and variants of 'heavy' and 'light' water.
However, this is actually an exclusively academic area for most people. Therefore, it is not only suitable, but also too simple to refer to water just as H2O. However, the fact is that very small amount of water is actually H2O.
This is basically the 'base' water that collects different mineral salts in the course of its journey in water cycle. Precisely speaking, just the distilled water, which scientists denote as the pure form of water, is in reality H2O.
Liquid water is actually active as well as disordered, on the move every time in curves and twirls. The molecules of water squeezed together are continuously changing order, eagerly taking apart and reorganizing themselves in the region of other molecules.
In spite of the every changing variability of water, its arrangement is extremely strong. In effect, the molecules of water are amalgamated by means of hydrogen bonds, which are more adjustable in comparison to other chemical bonds.
These bonds are sufficiently powerful to bind, but frail enough to dismantle simply. In fact, these bonds actually possess the hint to the actions of water, while they draw together as well as take to bits several million times every second, rearranging every time in an extremely accurate structure.
The illustration of a solitary water molecule appears similar to the head of a Mickey Mouse, a big circle (denoting the oxygen atom) and two relatively smaller circles (denoting the two hydrogen atoms) in specifically ranged arrangements.
It may be noted that all molecules of water desire to form a three-dimensional configuration with their neighbours.
In effect, liquid water is composed of several billion minute structures that resemble crystals - the more crystalline the arrangement is, the improved the water will be.
Every human being is mostly composed of water and it is the means for all physical as well as chemical transformations in our body.
While a new born infant's body comprises approximately 97 per cent or water, the body of a hale and hearty adult contains around 75 per cent water. And as people get older, they generally dehydrated with the proportion of water in their body decreasing to about 65 per cent.
Talking about individual body parts, the brain contains 75 per cent water, the bones have 22 per cent water and even our tooth enamel comprises approximately two per cent of water.
In fact, the human body is a mass of delicately tuned biological as well as chemical reactions, depending on the notable attributes of water for life.
Human beings rely on water as a means for transportation of blood and other substances; as a catalyst and also to preserve the body temperature. In addition, water is also a major supplier of nourishments or electrical impulses.
The human body is composed of several trillions of cells that are detached and packed with diluted fluid. The balance of this body fluid is vital for our wellbeing.
In effect, any individual is able to survive for several weeks without consuming any solid food, but he/ she will dehydrate and succumb to it within a few days. Precisely speaking, the fluid level in our body is directly related to our energy levels.
For instance, even a loss of two per cent water that encircles the cells in our body (extracellular water) may denote a 20 per cent decline in the energy level of an individual. It is essential for every one of us to drink water every day with a view to sustain our health.
In effect, there is nothing that is vaguely controversial regarding this, as our wellbeing relies on the electronic swap over or energy exchange in our body.
This exchange is basically contingent on water - and on the vigor of the water that we drink.
Water contained by our cells and that surrounding them ought to have the correct polarization to catch the proper ions of sodium, magnesium, potassium as well as other substances that feed the inside of the cells in order to enable us to perform our normal functions.
It may be noted that the polarization of water is reliant on the positive ion swap over of the minerals present in the water. The balance of sodium and potassium in our body is delicately tuned - these two elements ascertaining a vital dynamic tension.
Lessening of any one of these elements would decrease the aptitude of a cell to react and, this in turn, will affect the essential acid/ alkali balance in the body, among other things.
Any healthy or vigorous cell intakes nourishments from the water surrounding the cell and the internal and external water are balanced by means of a process called osmosis through the membrane of the cell wall.
It is important that the cellular water encircling the cell ought to be of a weaker intensity compared to that inside the cell in order to facilitate the outer water to take away the toxic substances present in the inner cellular water.
In case the water we consume is packed with electrolytic conductor - too much of specific minerals and toxic substances, for instance, heavy metals that cannot be soaked up by the body.
It will have an adverse effect on the polarity of the extracellular water, so much so that may even reverse the osmosis process resulting in the development of life-threatening diseases like cancer.
The wellbeing of the cells in our body is basically sustained by a continuous process of regeneration. Anything that obstructs or hinders with this process results in cellular deterioration or degeneration of the cells - leading to ailments, ill-health as well as ageing.
Hence, it is essential to drink unpolluted and healthy water because more complex the contaminants present in water, the more problematic it becomes to purify the cells, regenerate cells and also to transport nourishments to different parts of our body.
Precisely speaking, there exists a direct connection between the extent of the cleanliness of the drinking water, effectual cell regeneration in humans as well as ageing.
Apart from collecting as well as transmitting molecular information, water also transmits exceptionally imperceptible energies.
In the 1960s, Bernard Grad, a Canadian scientist, undertook several experimentations on healer-treated water (water used in treating any patient) and established that water sustained by spiritual naturopaths possessed an encouraging impact on the germination of seeds.
He also confirmed that water which had remained in contact with any mentally depressed patient resulted in an opposite consequence. Hence, it has been established that water was capable of transmitting positive as well as negative energies.
While scientifically analyzing the water used by a healer to treat a patient, he discovered that the angle of hydrogen bond of the water molecule had endured a restrained, but noticeable change.
Movement of water is one of the crucial aspects that influence the energy of water, while temperature is the second factor.
The thermal inertia of water denotes that the temperature of water is not affected easily by any trivial changes in the atmospheric temperature.
Nevertheless, even very little changes in the temperature of water may result in remarkable transformations in the manner water works.
For instance, a mere change of 0.1°C (1°F) has the aptitude to influence the manner in which our bodies act and this may even give a hint regarding the beginning of ailments - such a minute variation in water temperature may result in significant effects on the vigor and wellbeing of an individual. Factually as well as symbolically, water is actually the earth's blood.
It may be noted that when water is cool and most compact, the condition just prior to freezing, it travels the fastest. In addition, water is changing continuously and, hence, water flowing through a warm and sunny valley will transform as soon as it gushes through a dark and forested clearing.
Water is most energetic when it comes from a chilly and shaded source. When water is cool, it is most energetic as well as amenable to picking up as well as to pass on physical and lively information to the mass surrounding it.
It is practically impossible to detach the understated and material attributes of water. In effect, both these attributes are an essential part of the life force of water.
Physical information has an influence on water. Water receives energy from its movement and cadence at specific temperatures enabling it to hold information as physical substances as well as pulsations from material and magnetic sphere. All these are pertinent and interconnected too.
Vigorous water requires an assortment of mineral salts as well as trace elements in order to sustain the water healthy and nourish the human body by means of their chemical and electrical makeup.
If there is an absence of minerals in the water that we drink, it may lead to health problems. Similarly, drinking water that contains excessive of wrong types of minerals may also result in health disorders.
Therefore, it is important that all of us get a supply of water that is healthy as well as balanced in terms of mineral content.
The excellence of water is usually dependent on several issues, especially at which stage of its cycle we are using it. Water that is most suited for use may be classified in six groups or as six different types - rain water, distilled water, ground water, surface water, juvenile water and genuine spring water.
Unfortunately, sea water, which comprises around 97 per cent of the entire water found on the surface of earth, is not suitable for domestic use - at least not in its natural form.
Although scientists describe distilled water as the most pure form of water, it is not available in nature anywhere and it also does not enclose any material/ mineral.
Being blank water devoid of adding anything to it, distilled water forms the basis for several homeopathic as well as other vibration treatments.
The purity of distilled water denotes that it absorbs anything and everything that comes in its contact, looking for soaking up minerals as well as nourishments wherever it may stumble on them.
It is not advisable to drink large amounts of distilled water, as it has the aptitude to percolate essential nutrients, trace elements as well as other constituents from an individual's body.
However, at times, distilled water may be used as a temporary laxative with a view to get rid of the undue toxic substances from the body.
Often, distilled water is categorized as immature or underdeveloped water since it does not possess the fine energies that are responsible for our wellbeing.
In addition, distilled water does not have any history, any reminiscence of water from glaciers or mountainous pools, rapidly flowing currents or winding conduits, sunshine, minerals of the earth, shady locales or any other powers that have an influence on the vigor of water.
Generally, it is better to consume ground water, since it is obtained from deep inside the ground.
Before coming to the surface, ground water has to pass through a variety of subversive channels and streams and it matures while traveling because on its way it absorbs several trace elements, besides several minerals that are useful for our health.
However, it is also a fact that these days some ground water may be polluted by effluence as well as chemical overflow.
The water that runs off the land for being stored in reservoirs and dams is known as surface water. Surface water encloses a number of minerals as well as salts that it collects from its contact with the soil and also from the environment.
Usually, the quality of surface water is somewhat poor, partially owing to the fact that the excellence of the water depreciates if it is accumulated in motionless pools that are put through intense atmospheric oxygenation and also when it is caused by experience sunlight.
In addition, especially surface water is also adversely affected owing to deforestation as well as unwarranted urban development.
Excessive urban development and deforestation both alter the mould as well as the cadence of the water ways.
In effect, water escapes the pure as well as deforested surfaces devoid of pursuing its favoured pattern of placid flow that enables it to amass and store material and additional information while it runs.
Most of the useable water that is supplied to homes and institutions through pipes is obtained either from surface or ground water.
Similar to distilled water, rain water too is immature water which is not apt for consumption for a prolonged period.
However, rain water is somewhat superior to distilled water in this regard since it encloses a number of minerals as it absorbs gases and some particles present in the atmosphere.
All the while, it is spiralling and collects mineral ions as well as life force till it is exposed to sunlight. At times, rain water may also turn out to be contaminated.
In fact, most of us are aware of acid rains - a situation when water gathers toxic and contaminating substances.
Spring water is generally considered to be the most excellent water for consumption provided it spurts out from springs located in mountainous regions.
The most excellent quality of spring water has a sparkling and vivacious blue color.
In addition, superior quality spring water contains lots of essential minerals dissolved in it; the water offers good health and is also appetizing.
In case you are receiving your drinking water from any spring, make sure that it is examined on a regular basis with a view to check the contamination levels owing to the contemporary farming practices.
This form of water comes out from great depths in the ground, maybe akin to geysers. However, juvenile water is called so because it has not matured during its travels from the underground to the surface.
In addition, juvenile water also does not enclose enough minerals to offer good quality drinking water.
For most of us, taking a bath means cleaning the body - getting rid of all the dirt, germs and parasites from the body. However, bathing has several other significances too.
In fact, taking baths on a regular basis is one of the simple ways of being in control of one's physical, emotional as well as spiritual health.
The plain action of having a bath has the aptitude to make you feel contented with yourself as well as the world that concerns you, soothe the disturbed emotions as well as raise your spirits.
It is important to remember that water remains at the core of all the processes of our life and taking a good bath has the potential to release as well as change several energies that are essential for living.
Health systems in earlier times realized the importance of water for our wellbeing and were aware of the fact that water formed the foundation of the entire health - they considered water to be the element that connected man, the earth as well as the heavens.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), ailments were a sign of disharmony inside the entire person and water to be essential for reinstating the synchronization as water is the carrier and mover of chi (according to Chinese philosophy, chi is the energy or form of life).
Even the Vedic healing, practiced in ancient India, portrays water as the element connecting an individual to the cosmos and considered that the 'prana' (life) present in water could be changed and converted into different other types of energy that helped to stimulate as well as reinforce the human body.
In ancient times, the Egyptians also possessed an integrated outlook regarding the revered as well as the material attributes of water. In fact, the ancient Egyptians also constructed temples where priests bathed as well as consumed water rich in mineral content.
They also proved water an effectual remedy for several physical as well as psychic conditions suffered by people. Ancient communities as the Sumerians and Babylonians also developed very enhanced bathing practices that helped to improve the overall health of people.
Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who was known as the father of medicine, supported bathing on a regular basis with a view to reinforce the constitution in addition to water applications for explicit health conditions.
Later, ancient Roman physician and philosopher Aelius Galen made several theories of Hippocrates official. In addition, Galen also endorsed the view that bathing was effective for specific treatments and was also a way to attain elevated health levels.
In fact, in the ancient Roman society, bathing was an integral part of life, endorsing convictions in healthiness, robustness as well as moral vigor.
On the other hand, in earlier days, right from the 4th century, all Arab towns possessed 'hammams' or Turkish baths. However, the practice of regular bathing faded away from Europe as the Roman Empire declined and came into existence once again in the 14th century.
Basically, bathing formed a secular as well as purposeful activity, instead of being the physical and spiritual concern of the bathers in early days.
A genuinely ancient means of treatment, hydrotherapy is considered to support self-healing.
Hydrotherapy includes several types of bathing - cold and hot to get rid of impurities of the body through sweating, unwinding the muscles as well as alleviating pain, using hot and cold compresses to treat rigid muscles and injuries sustained in sports.
For instance, sprains, sitting in sitz baths - two basins placed side-by-side, having a ridge to be seated, filled with hot and cold water to the level of the hip - to heal uneasiness, for instance, cystitis and hemorrhoids, taking a cold bath to cure swelling and tenderness as well as circulation disorders.
Other types of hydrotherapy include covering different body parts with wet clothes to alleviate fevers, aches, pains and muscular strain as well as to get rid of the toxic substances from the body.
Taking a Turkish bath, vapor bath, sauna bath or steam bath with a view to eliminate impurities from the body by means of perspiration, taking hot and cold showers alternately to heal headaches, inflammations, swelling as well as blood circulation problems, inhaling water to facilitate clearing symptoms of cold, for instance, nasal congestions, sitting in whirlpools or water currents to cure circulation and fluid-withholding problems and receiving physiotherapy or massage in tepid water to make destabilized muscles stronger.
It may be noted that generally health troubles transform over centuries, sometimes even over a few decades.
Thus, today we no longer require being concerned of apprehensive regarding several ailments and bugs that were considered to be life-threatening once upon a time.
Nevertheless, there are other health conditions that come up in their place. In fact, environmental pollution has proved to be one of the major banes of contemporary health.
Even possessing the most excellent facilities in the world, we are unable to keep away from pollution - all that we are able to do, even with the best of our capabilities, is to neutralize the consequences of pollution.
All of us are exposed to pathogens and toxic substances every day. They exist in the air we inhale, the water we use, the food we consume, at our work places and also at our residential places.
Precisely speaking, the environment we live in is intensely polluted by heavy metals as well as chemical contaminations discharged from industries as well as the agricultural process, by means of nitrates, organophosphates and organochlorines present in our drinking water and food as well as by way of electro-magnetic fields infiltrating almost all the areas of our survival.
Each of these contaminants engineer to make the natural defenses of our body more weak. However, we are definitely able to prevail over the consequences of this routing assault provided we take care of our health properly.
It needs to be borne in mind that every one of us possesses the distinctive knack of defending against as well as prevailing over the assaulting pathogens.
In fact, this ability is partially influenced by our constitution by way of its precise strong points and weak points, both genetic as well as acquired, and also by means of our way of life and surroundings.
In addition, all of us also possess a distinct metabolism and the ability to sustain the right equilibrium.
The common and easy action of bathing has the aptitude to boost up the constitution, invigorate the metabolism as well as fight against the consequences of pollution.
Soaking ourselves in mineralized water has the potential to alter the arrangement of the water present in our bodies, enabling it to receive the therapeutic vibration, which forms the basis of our life force.
In effect, minerals make it possible for life to exist. Minerals also structure the rocks and soils on the earth and subsequently provide for the waters of the world.
They form the foremost source of nourishment for all humans, animals as well as plants. Our bodies need vast quantities of a number of essential minerals, but only a dash of others called trace elements.
Minerals together with trace elements are similarly indispensable for our wellbeing, for instance our bodies require quite a few hundred milligrams of calcium as much as only a few milligrams of zinc.
People who do organic gardening are aware of the fact that a soil that is balanced nutritionally will produce healthy plants. Similarly, when our body is also nutritionally balanced, having all the essential minerals in precise balance, we are hale and hearty.
On the other hand, any type of disparity in minerals in our bodies may result in bad-health, malfunction of the body parts and different ailments. The food we eat and the water we drink form the main basis of obtaining the essential minerals for our body.
However, it is not possible to store them in our bodies for long, as they require being continuously refilled by means of intake of fluids and food.
The structure as well as the functioning of the cells in our body necessitate the intake of minerals and nourishments. In effect, they form an integral part of the biochemical composition of our bodies as well as all the physiological processes.
Minerals and nutrients serve as vital catalysts for the body to produce as well as assimilate vitamins, amino acids and enzymes - which form the basis of our health.
They are involved in all biological responses or results, for instance digestion, hormone production, communication of nerve impulses and in making use of nutrients.
In addition, nutrients and minerals sustain the subtle water-acid base within the body. This water-acid base is indispensible for the appropriate functioning of all our physical and mental processes.
When we are caused to experience numerous pathogens and toxic substances, our blood normally turns acidic. The more the presence of acid in the blood, the lesser amount of oxygen it is able to transport and also causes several other disorders.
This, in turn, results in susceptibility to invading bacteria and viruses, impaired immune system and even premature aging.
Acidity of the blood also has an adverse effect on the acid and alkali balance in our total system, counting stomach acid, saliva, mucus as also our skin.
Therefore, it is essential to have a precise balance of minerals in our bodies as it is important to augment the natural defenses of our body against stress, infections and contamination or pollution.
When the environment we live in becomes polluted it denotes that we ought to be even more cautious about ensuring that we always intake proper and sufficient minerals.
Taking a healthy diet is definitely essential in sustaining the appropriate levels of minerals in our bodies.
Nevertheless, it needs to be mentioned that in the present day world, where environment pollution is a major health hazard, taking a good bath regularly also has an equally vital role in sustaining good health.
Bathing helps us to soak up essential minerals by way of the skin. When we talk about bathing for mineral intake, sea bathing, mud bathing, salt water bathing and spa are especially pertinent.
Similar to the contemporary chemical contaminants and electromagnetic troubles having an adverse affect on water, altering the structure as well as weakening its ability to transmit or carry energy also affects water.
In the same manner, the electrical energy of the minerals has an effect on the water's electromagnetic field as well as its capability or aptitude to transmit therapeutic vibrations.
It is, therefore, important to note that taking a bath in mineralized water is one method to directly tap the essential energies of water.
The seas on the earth are the lifeblood or source of life of our planet. Irrespective of where we reside, the sea influences the energy of all people.
This is primarily owing to the fact that the waters of the sea take material as well as celestial information from one shore to another.
In effect, the flow of each drop of water on the earth manifests the tides of the oceans - encompassing the water we consume to the blood running in our veins. Therefore, the vast water masses on the surface of the earth have a direct impact on our essence.
When we talk about the sea, it calls up the bright image of wellbeing, bliss, energy or harmony.
To each one of us, the sea has some meaning and there is nothing else that has the aptitude to overwhelm it as the ideal tonic, which equally revitalizes the body as well as the soul.
Hence, taking a bath in sea water is able to restore deteriorating energies, cure physical and mental troubles and, at the same time, reinforce the body and mind helping us to avoid ailments.
To a certain extent, the movements of electric energy as well as the manner in which the movement interrelate with the electric and magnetic fields on as well as about the earth establishes the excellence of the air.
This partially occurs owing to the weather conditions, since sun, rain, wind and especially lightening and thunder have an effect on the electric field of the earth.
In effect, the profound and uneasy sensation prior to a storm is primarily owing to the accumulation of positive ions in the atmosphere that are only split following rainfall or lightening that carries the required elevated negative ions to prevail over the positive ions.
Besides the weather conditions, pollution is the major aspect which has an effect on the quality of air, wherein chemical contaminants whip the negative ions from the atmosphere.
Precisely speaking, pollution has a tendency to congest the air leaving numerous positive ions in the atmosphere, and the force present in flowing water releases a mass of negative ions.
While the water splits into drops, the positive ions stay with the bigger drops, while the negative ions escape freely by way of fine spray.
It may be noted that water along the sea shores as well as in the mountains is charged negatively all the time and this supports deep breathing as well as promotes augmented levels of energy.
Generally, it is believed that all natural elements are found in the sea - provided to it through several thousand rivers and streams that merge into the seas.
During the evaporation of water, the essential minerals in water remain behind to form the astringent salt water that we all call sea water.
The anti-bacterial action of sea water cleanses the skin of all types of infections, both from inside as well as outside. Therefore, taking a bath in sea water works as a wonderful tonic for our health, since it encloses minerals and vitamins that are nearly the same as those present in our blood plasma.
It may be mentioned here that the nourishment as well as the feeding of the cells in our body largely depends on blood plasma. This, in turn, ensures that all organs and parts of our body function in a healthy manner.
When the temperature of our blood is normal, the minerals in the sea water are able to enter the bloodstream and these are assimilated by the cells that require these essential minerals.
The absorption of minerals from sea water helps in rebalancing the entire body. In addition to all the important minerals, algae and seaweed found in the sea water also enclose essential proteins and vitamins.
These vitamins and proteins absorbed by the body from the sea facilitate in providing for as well as detoxifying the body by means of the skin.
In addition, seaweed has rich iodine content and this is a potent natural antiseptic. Iodine from seaweed also has a precise function in maintaining the balance of the thyroid gland that is responsible for regulating the biochemistry of the body.
It is important to note that the seaweeds and several algae are known to cleanse the oceans.
They possess the exceptional aptitude to soak in heavy metals and other contaminants - denoting that they have the ability to clean the sea water sufficiently enough to support and promote marine life.
The profound cleansing attributes of seaweeds and algae are just as powerful detoxifying agents for the human body. Nevertheless, the ability of seaweeds and algae to cleanse sea water denotes that they are themselves habitually contaminated.
Hence, one ought to exercise caution while obtaining algae from clean waters prior to utilizing them as food items in a system where detoxification and purification are essential.
Several spas across the globe offer a healing process known as thalassotherapy (a therapy that makes use of sea water and marine products).
In effect, thalassotherapy dates back to ancient Greek and involves a therapy using an amalgamation of sea air, mineral-rich sludge and clays obtained from the seabed and algae, which possess rich protein content.
Initially, thalassotherapy was suggested as a therapy to augment the constitution as well as to fight against digestive disorders and rigid muscles. It may be noted that treatments founded on mud and clays obtained from the sea are occasionally referred to as pelotherapy.
There are days when we get out of the bed brimming with energy, but there are also occasions when we feel extremely lethargic and completely distracted.
Some times, excessive of stress or even absence of sound sleep have an impact on our energy reserves, which are somewhat depleted.
Therefore, it is advisable that if you desire to start your day in a positive manner, take a good shower as it will help to re-vitalize the body and the mind.
In effect, the negative ions present in flowing water give us a feeling of energy and this explains as to why we have a feeling of being revitalized following a walk by waterfalls or crushing waves.
Even artificially created waterfalls are able to help us regain vigor as well as mental health.
In several cultures in northern Europe, for long people have been traditionally taking cold showers to enhance circulation as well as general strength, in addition to a positive approach to begin the day with.
In fact, Scandinavia as well as several regions of Russia possess very advanced water practices that combine physical gains with an entrenched, but generally implicit, faith in their emotional as well as social advantages.
People in Japan are also very conscious regarding the benefits offered by water. In effect, their attitude regarding hygiene and sanitization is basic to the Japanese philosophy and religion.
Precisely speaking the inference of sacrament cleansing passes through the ethos of the most ancient Shinto and continues to be unvarying all through the history of Japan.
Ritual cleansing is a very simple action and may even include an individual lifting his/ her hands and mouth at a fountain that may be located at the doorway of a Shinto shrine or simply praying beneath a chilly waterfall.
Several practitioners of martial arts too like to take showers below a waterfall, and in case there is no waterfall in the vicinity, every morning, they are likely to take a shower under a bucketful of freezing water.
It may be noted here that the pine possesses effective cleansing attributes. While this tree is a potent antiseptic as well as a deodorizer, the essential oil obtained from pine is generally advised as a remedy for respiratory problems.
In addition, pine also possesses other attributes that are beneficial for our health. Taking a walk among pine trees during the evening and watching them at sunset, you will be surprised to notice that they retain an impression of light much after all the other trees in the vicinity have plunged into darkness.
This provides us with sufficient hint that the pine trees possess the aptitude to get us the extraordinary energy that is vital for reinforcing our essence or life force.
The term spa frequently refers to a health center offering precise beauty therapies as well as exercise schedules that are roughly founded on some type of hydrotherapy.
However, literally speaking, a spa is a place having mineral springs and the name has been derived from Spa, a town in Belgium. In effect, this Belgian town used to be a wonderful place to identify the therapeutic prospects of the mineral-rich water available there.
In effect, all wells, spas or springs are exceptional, as their waters differ depending on their content of essential minerals and trace elements.
This type of distinction relies mostly on the clays, rocks and peats through which water is filtered as well as the natural gases discharged into the water coupled with the impact of the neighboring electrical and magnetic fields.
In contemporary times, the water from spas is especially valuable since the unhealthy diets and way of living result in numerous mineral deficiencies in our body.
When an individual soaks himself in mineralized water, his body obtains the minerals essential to balance the health problems and, at the same time, he experiences an enhancement in endorphins (anti-inflammatory hormones) that provide relief from pain and aches.
In effect, the treatment offered by spas actually blend the positive impacts of breathing in negative ions along with assimilation of essential minerals and trace elements, generally with the added advantages of intake of antibacterial plankton and marine salts.
It is important to note that if you are suffering from stress or any type of pain and you visit a spa, it is expected that you will leave the health center in state of delightful and pleasurable relaxation along with a sense of complete health and happiness.
Spa treatments are recommended for a variety of therapeutic purposes, including general wellbeing as well as a remedy for stress. In addition, spa treatments offer us several other condition-specific benefits and some of them are discussed below.
Every volcanic island around the globe is endorsed with many hot mineral springs that spill over the earth with a commotion that makes the most of the therapeutic energies of water.
Soaking oneself in one such hot spring water ought to be the most exotic of all bathing experience he/ she may have had.
It is a wonderful experience to bathe outdoors in continuously effervescent water that remains hot even though the air temperature is sub-zero and there is snow on the ground.
As is the case with spas, different hot springs possess dissimilar mineral contents. The hot spring culture is so advanced in Japan that the mineral content of each of their thousands of springs, known as onsens in Japanese language, is published as well as made available at all their tourist offices.
In fact, all through the history of Japan, visits to hot springs have been very popular among the people. It is interesting to note that the different hot springs are said to be effectual in treating precise ailments.
The Japanese visit the hot springs for a number of purposes - for simple relaxation, to promote overall health or even to cure the conditions they may be suffering from.
Habitually, the Japanese bathe in public places in a group or also at home - in effect, bathing is generally a family event in Japan. For several centuries, the Japanese have a habit of taking baths daily.
Their daily bathing process includes rinsing the entire body to get rid of the dirt and subsequently immersing the body in a deep bath tub or a clean water pool.
In modern bathrooms, whirlpool baths, also known as Jacuzzis, have become popular fittings in the United States as well as in Europe.
Spas, the outdoor equivalent to Jacuzzis, are more popular all over Australia since the climate in this continent nation is ideal for bathing outdoors throughout the year.
The Jacuzzi bath involves water jets blow up from tactically fitted nozzles enabling the water to move and collect energy all the time and forms whirlpools or vortexes whenever it encounters any opposition to its movements.
When you are taking a Jacuzzi bath, the moving water helps to relax as well as rejuvenate the body. In addition, Jacuzzi offers you the option of selecting a steady water temperature that goes well with you, or, alternately, you may also vary the temperature while taking your bath.
As a common aid to comfort and health, Jacuzzis are indeed wonderful.
The massaging impact of Jacuzzis is especially beneficial for individuals enduring circulatory problems or rigid muscles, particularly soon after participating in a sport, since they are effective in putting off an increase of lactic acid build inside the body.
It may be mentioned here that taking hot whirlpool baths facilitates in alleviating chronic pains.
There are several spa centers and hot water springs that also offer mud baths. In such places, the clients reel in hot mud and water that are rich in mineral content.
As you remain floating and calm in mud layers and hot mineralized water, your body will perspire and cleanse itself of all toxic substances amassed within.
In addition, the high temperature as well as the weight of the mud loosen up the muscles and improve circulation, inhibit the nervous system and also relax the joints.
Mud baths are especially effective for healing acne and psoriasis. To obtain the utmost benefits of taking a mud bath, you should take a shower and a cooling bath after the mud bath and subsequently just relax.
A steam bath or sauna is wonderful for invigorate your body and mind.
While sweating or perspiration is considered to be a natural therapy, always remember that you should keep away from taking saunas, steam baths as well as extremely hot baths if you are suffering from high blood pressure (hypertension), heart ailments, angina or diabetes.
It is advisable that you never take a sweat bath if you are enduring epilepsy, have asthma or a history of thrombosis.
It may be noted that dry heat is an excellent remedy for respiratory problems and also as a mild constitutional therapy. In effect, applying damp heat works most rapidly in releasing obstructed energies that are related to sinus problems and colds.
Similarly, administering hot steam treatments is very effective to treat bacterial or viral infections as well as to control minor fevers.
Hot steam facilitates in enhancing the skin action which results in sweating that helps to clean the body from within, getting rid of surplus waste by means of the two to four million sweat glands in the skin.
Sweat comprises approximately 98 per cent of water, while the remaining are toxic substances, such as salts, chemicals taken in from the atmosphere, heavy metals and also nicotine, provided on has the habit to smoke.
In addition, hot steam rinses out lactic acid, which is primarily responsible for rigidity of the muscles as well as exhaustion. Hot steam is especially beneficial for athletes.
The contemporary sauna manifests the ancient practices by the cultures as well as indigenous tribes, who often immersed themselves in hot springs and icy cold pools and waters alternately.
If not for millennia, for several centuries, steam baths have been a habitual aspect of life all over North and South Americas, Russia and also Finland. In most cases, people take a cold shower, a dip in a cold pool or even a roll in the snow after taking a steam bath.
The total contrast - taking a steam bath and subsequently cooling the body, actually promotes circulation and vitality and, at the same time, results in an ecstatic sensation.
In Finland, the sauna perfectly merges all the elements of wet steam, dry heat, a dive into a chilly pool and, wherever feasible, even a massage.
The Finnish sauna room is generally built with pine and has a little blaze of burning coal on top of which water is scooped from time to time with a view to raise the temperature as well as to enhance the steam.
Prior to entering the sauna, Finns prefer spending about 10 minutes or more in a dry heat bath with a view to initiate the sweating process. Subsequently, they enter the sauna with a small bucket of water.
Making use of a birch whisk, the Finns throw water on the burning coals as well as beat their body softly to improve blood circulation.
As a result of this action, the blood moves to the surface and allows the sweat to flow liberally, promoting comprehensive detoxification via the skin. Having spent about 30 minutes in the sauna, the Finns prefer to dive directly into a chilly pool.
Following the early shock, this act is actually an extremely thrilling experience. However, they would once again go back to the hot chamber, at times following a massage, and replicate the experience.
On the other hand, hammams or Turkish baths are basically dry heat baths wherein sweating is stimulated by means of hot air from heated stones, often subsequently taking a bath or shower as well as a massage.
The origin of the hammams can be traced to the luxurious practices of the ancient Arabic cultures and give emphasis to on sanitation and hygiene as stipulated by Islam. At the same time, hammams also impart the faith that the body is the temple of the soul.
It may be noted that the first hammams were actually sanctuaries or havens that connected physical and spiritual cleansing. They were extremely popular all over the Byzantine world or the eastern Roman Empire since c. A.D. 500.
These hammams comprised several dissimilar chambers and halls having exclusive healing rooms for body brushing, massages and mud wrapping.
It is interesting to note that women of those days were allowed to spend the entire day bathing in their personal hammams, massaging, unwinding, daubing, taking pleasure in one another's company as well as gossiping.
Even to this day, hammams do exist in several places and some of them have been reconstructed in their initial as well as innovative magnificence and intricacy.
In effect, a visit to a hammam is genuinely an erotic and lavish experience, something akin to a visit to an elite health center equipped with hot and cold rooms, massage, hot and cold pools, and aromatherapy and mud therapies.
Water exercise, often denoted as bathing therapy, makes use of the exceptional attributes of water and is performed in a soft manner with a view to work out the muscles and joints. It has several benefits which are discussed in detail here.
Floating or buoyancy is a bathing therapy which is turning out to be gradually more popular in the Western society, especially as a remedy for the demanding and tense contemporary lives.
Although majority of people may benefit from this particular bathing therapy, it is advisable that people enduring conditions like kidney disorders, epilepsy, schizophrenia, severe skin problems, thrush or fungal contagions should never float.
Floating helps to lower blood pressure as well as the heart rate. In addition, this particular bathing therapy inhibits the brain waves and, simultaneously, facilitates in balancing the actions of the left and right segments of one's brain, resulting in more comprehensive and ingenious thoughts.
When one floats on salts, it helps to reduce the extent of chemicals build-up in the body owing to stress and, at the same time, promotes endorphin (any peptide that occurs in the brain naturally) production.
Floating also helps people to get relief from common pains and aches and, hence, this form of water therapy is becoming more and more popular among people suffering from ailments like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - a neurological disease).
Many people have a fear before actually undertaking floating. Precisely speaking, they are usually apprehensive that they might have a suffocating experience or that the entire therapy may be unpleasant.
However, such concerns are unfounded and disappear soon once they start floating. In effect, majority of the people experiencing this water therapy claim that they realize their capability to regain an internal felling of harmony.
Normally, a calming music is played in the background during the initial ten minutes when majority of the people usually doze off to sleep.
Generally, a float continues for approximately an hour and people who take this bathing therapy switch off from the material world completely, leaving behind their routine realism and concerns and are, thus, capable of accessing a more profound state of consciousness.
It has often been implied that floating returns the feeling of lying in the womb of your mother and this possibly explains why this particular bathing therapy eases strain and stress.
Water is a wonderful means for remedy for recuperation from any type of injuries, including minor wounds, major injuries and surgery, as well as use for more than one sporting purpose or defensive fitness.
In effect, water helps to diminish the deterioration or corrosion on the body owing to recreational or competitive sports or duties related to jobs.
It assists in dealing with muscle disparities or postural troubles that have the potential to result in recurring, troublesome injuries owing to the excessive growth of the muscle groups that are made use of continually.
Niggling injuries may develop owing to job prototypes as well as recreational sports and if these are not treated timely, they may develop into a persistent pattern or a major troublesome damage.
It is important to treat the escalating symptoms appropriately as well as on time with a view to keep away from disturbing development or injury at some point.
In this regard, water therapy is extremely effectual since it offers an assortment of remedial as well as healthcare advantages, particularly in comparison to any other physical activity.
Prior to undertaking any water therapy schedule, it is essential to examine if you suffer from any precise health condition, such as open wounds, acute hypertension (high blood pressure) or hypotension (low blood pressure), skin infections, infections of the bladder or the vagina, allergic reactions to products used in pools, poor respiratory functioning, seizures or epilepsy, and/ or surgical stitches.
In case you are enduring any of the conditions mentioned here, it is likely that you will be prevented from participating in any water exercise program.
Alternately, as a minimum requirement to be able to participate in such programs you would be required to undergo medical examination and approval from qualified and competent healthcare providers prior to entering the water.
Water possesses numerous attributes and each of them is beneficial and curative. And when all the properties of water are combined, it makes this universal solvent and the basis of our life force all the more all-inclusive and favourable compared to any land exercise that one may undertake with the purpose of remedy and robustness.
Buoyancy may be defined as a force that moves upwards owing to the pressure put forth by the fluid wherein the body is submerged.
In effect, buoyancy works in opposition to the gravitational force permitting the body to move further liberally and more effortlessly compared to movement of the body on the land.
The reduced compressive forces are also a result of the consequences of buoyancy. The more deep an individual is in water, the more the reduction in the weight-bearing or compressive forces on every joint, in addition to the discs of the spinal cord.
Water exerts even pressure on all the parts of the body, but this increases as an individual goes deep under. Such additional water pressure is helpful in treating distension in the region of the joints or circulatory disorders.
This is primarily owing to the fact that stagnant fluid just about the joints is driven in an upward direction on the way to the heart by way of hydrostatic pressure.
When used in a harmless and effectual environment, the attributes of water are perfect to attain the remedial objectives.
Several persons who are not in a position to do their treatment in a usual clinical environment may take part in water exercise course with success.
In effect, all types of restraints owing to latest surgeries or incessant pains can be accommodated in a better way in water owing to the encouraging as well as the environment where the gravitational forces are diminished.
A number of factors are responsible for this and they are discussed in brief below.
Owing to diminishing gravitational pressure in water, the body is able to move without restraint and in general the weight is reduced. This enables the body, for instance, to draw out and raise the legs with no or little pain.
Excellent flexibility is considered to be a fundamental element for recuperating from any surgery or injury.
In general, balance is improved by making forward, backward and sideways movements in energetic or continuously moving surroundings.
While performing such movements, the environment is changing continuously, while the individual performing the water exercise too is moving all the time in such a multi-directional and resistant setting.
The supportive as well as reduced gravity environment of water has the aptitude to restore the complete loss of motion endured by any body part or extremity.
Such attributes of water permits an individual to push that particular joint more in the direction of its objective to regain complete motion without much pain in general.
The braced or casted arm or leg will achieve vigour and potency in the water owing to the fact that whichever direction it might have moved during the water exercise, it has been working against opposition.
This also holds true especially for stroke patients, patients who have undergone back surgery as well as people suffering from sclerosis (a condition wherein the tissues of the body become stiff or hardened).
When any injury or surgery has altered the movement procedure, especially of the arms or legs, it is essential to make that particular area learn once again to move in line with the remaining body.
Another instance of damaged movement prototypes is the limbs which have been put out of action by means of bracing or casting or even by a stroke.
The failing area is propped up by means of buoyancy and, therefore, is restored more effortlessly as well as less excruciatingly.
The basic appeal of water in the form of a remedial environment is generally safe. Several properties of water, such as buoyancy, its resistive nature and equal hydrostatic pressure on all the parts of the immersed body make it very supportive.
Debility, distension of limbs and joints, loss of motion or suppleness of the body muscles as well as the general loss of stamina are all dealt with in a safe manner in the aquatic setting.
People who are suffering from any extent of spasticity owing to cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, strokes, Parkinson's disease as well as any other condition will experience a decrease in their muscle tone.
In fact, despite their condition, it would be possible for them to move about without as much restraint in the water.
The decrease in spasticity is mainly attributable to the increase in body temperature of the person as well as the warming of the body muscles by means of circulatory reactions.
Water exercise is known to be versatile and multidimensional - offering numerous health benefits. Besides being an all-inclusive means of therapy, water provides widespread health advantages that are positive as well as constructive.
When we undertake water exercise for our physiotherapy, some of the benefits obtained from this process can also be achieved when we are working out to maintain as well as improve our fitness levels.
For instance, these benefits comprise flexibility, range of motion and strength. In addition to these benefits, there are several other reasons why we ought to opt for water exercise to enhance our general health and fitness levels.
When we undertake water exercises for rehabilitation, we gain muscle symmetry, cross-training benefits, weight loss, lower levels of blood cholesterol and augmented functioning of the body organs.
Maintaining healthy muscle equilibrium is very important, especially to keep off injuries sustained in recreational or competitive sports.
In order to achieve this, it is important to possess analogous strength in all the muscle groups and simply not the major muscles, for instance, quadriceps (the frontal thigh muscles in athletes who are sprinters).
It is possible to develop a superior general body strength or potency in different parts of the body my means of working in a multi-directional and resistive setting, as in the case of water exercises.
Irrespective of the manner or the place you move during the exercise, you are working against the resistance put up by water all the time.
Several individuals who regularly undertake water exercise have claimed that they have experienced better sleep patterns. In addition, they have reported improved digestive systems following the water exercise classes.
In effect, working out in the water has the aptitude to enhance the general efficacy of the different systems of our body.
It is important for an athlete to receive training in more than one sport (cross-training) as this helps in improving the symmetry of the muscles.
Nevertheless, sporting events that are basically unidirectional or one-sided need strength or potency in different muscle groups with a view to keep away from injuries caused by the excessive use of those muscles.
Tennis, golf, pitching in baseball and different racquet sports are some examples of sports that are one-sided or unidirectional in nature.
Raising the heart rate as well as the rate of metabolism by way of exertion or hard physical labor helps an individual to burn up additional calories in the body. However, this is somewhat akin to trick mirror.
Most of the times, the body sheds those extra flab or body fat, and it is only sometimes that one actually loses weight through exertion. In such cases, you may find that your clothes may be fitting better than before, but in reality your weight has not reduced.
In effect, while you are losing the body fat, you may actually be developing the slender muscle mass. Thus, in this scenario, you muscles have a greater weight compared to your body fat.
It is always advisable to gauge your loss of weight by the fitting and feeling of your clothes, instead of going by the number of pounds you have lost.
It has been found that participating in water exercises often results in reduced cholesterol levels.
