Water makes you feel calm. It's not just your imagination. The sight, sound, and feel, of water can take you to a calmer, more meditative state of mind.
We're being forced to slow down. So how can you relax?
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Swimming produces an overwhelming sense of mental tranquillity.
Relaxing in your pool or spa can open your mind.
Sometimes, our daily routines make impossible to just relax. Even just to take the thought to slow down and breath, to 'stop and smell the roses', is no more than a fleeting thought. Life is busy, or it has been, until COVID-19.
Now, it seems that our busy lives have come to a screaming halt. Job losses and illness just add to the stress.
If you're a pool or spa owner, you are already have an advantage!
Relaxing in your pool, or spa, actually does slow your brainwaves. Your mind is working at less than a frantic pace. People who float, relaxing in pools of still, tranquil, water register a change from more active brain waves to much slower ones.
Being in a relaxed state of mind can release your flow of creative ideas by allowing you to day-dream in a way you wouldn't if you were more focused on your day-to-day tasks.
Owning a pool or spa has so many health advantages. But the
most important one is that it has no age limit. Swimming, regardless of water temperature can:
- Slow your breathing and heart rate
- Lower blood pressure
- Lower the levels of stress hormones
- Improve your mood and concentration
- Lower fatigue
- Speed up recovery from injuries
- Provide support while you're exercising
- Improve joint flexibility
- Improve blood flow to major muscles
- Reduce muscle tension
- Reduce chronic pain
- Reduce anxiety
- Invigorate your mind, body, and soul.
Spas, and heated pools, have the added advantage of massaging you with warm water at your own selected temperature.
And Another Thing...
Using magnesium salts in your pool, rather than the normal sodium salt, can help you relax even more. Magnesium salts are absorbed through the skin, and are said to have the following benefits:
- Helps in relaxing tired muscles
- Conditions the skin, great for people with sensitive skin
- Softens water - it feels like satin, some say
- Avoids the smell of chlorine
- Is easily added to water - so you can use it as well in spas and your bath, as in your pool. (Ask your pool professional for dosage rates.)
So if you're at home during this COVID-19 crisis, with more time on your hands than usual, try serious relaxing in your pool or spa. Now you now know the extra benefits!
Relax - and Swim Happy!
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