The human body comprises of 70% water. It assists several bodily functions such as digestion, cleansing, regulating temperature, keeping body cells hydrated, and providing joint lubrication amongst others. Several bodily fluids, such as bile, sweat, blood, etc. are dependent dominantly on water for their production. Drinking water is important in order to aid the smooth functioning of our body, as well as to keep it free from toxins.
Hydrotherapy engages not only with how water is utilized by our body internally, but also the effect of external physical engagement with this life giving liquid. A dip in a tub filled with cold water can effectively cure sore muscles, while warm water eases pain in cases such as cramps. Mineral water baths help to rejuvenate skin and have been popular since times immemorial in royal families to keep up a healthy glow. This nature of indulging in skin care is free from harm unlike using commercial skin care products that are full of chemicals.
Hydrotherapy believes in the spirit of nature, and treats the human body as per its responses to its natural instincts. Steam inhalation during hydrotherapy keeps nose and throat infections at bay. This also serves to protect your hearing, ease inflamed sinusitis, cleanse pores and remove dead skin cells. Drinking water at regulated time intervals, never with food and always with an hour’s gap before and after meals ensures that the body is well supported in its day-to-day functioning.
Hydrotherapy is an eco-friendly method of treatment as well as indulgence. It requires no processing, and results in very little waste after its use. The human body responds very affirmatively towards the intended effects of hydrotherapy, primarily because it is instinctive. The human body does not have to adapt to foreign substances when induced with hydrotherapy. This results in quick results, reflex like responses and ultimately, a healthy and toxin-free body.
A healthy mind is said to reside in a healthy body. Once the body is free from the pressure of having to engage with foreign chemical applications of pain-relieving gels, cosmetic lotions or sugar-loaded drinks, the mind is free to function at its most optimum levels. Such a body is free from frequent headaches, disease and ill-habits such as unhealthy and compulsive eating. Hydrotherapy also has a great role to play in managing one’s weight. Excessive consumption of junk food leads to obesity and heart problems. In hydrotherapy, you can personalize what you consume by adding fruits to your diet, cucumber and mint in your drinking water, lemons, pineapples, watermelons, whatever you like! The world is your oyster and the pearl within it will lustre only as much as the case within which it is enclosed.
Regular observation of hydrotherapy will leave your body free to achieve its maximum potential. Taking up hydrotherapy is quiet akin to a decision we often take to widen our horizons. The body heals itself naturally, and effectively, when there is plenty of water to aid its recuperation. When in pain, regulated temperature of bath water in a tub can cure the most notorious of pains as it reaches the innermost crevices and pores of the body.
In an age of pollution and excessive engagement with digital gadgets, our bodies are more and more exhausted. Sulphur, nitrogen, carbon and other pollutants plaster on to our skin as we move through traffic. It is imperative to remove them from the surface of the skin that encases our bodies. This is quite like it is important to remove parasites or chemicals from a surface, lest they erode it. Several bacteria and viruses also attach themselves onto the human body via external contact. These could be from public areas such as shared toilets at work places, stairway hand railings or simply long working hours in closed air conditioned spaces. One must get rid of these organisms from the skin surface since they often start festering in bodily pores.
With the digitization of almost every aspect of our lives, the human body gets very little of its original bodily movement. For example, hands are dominantly busy typing either on a keyboard, engaging with touch screen phone, driving or switching between channels via television remotes. Our hands need to relax and be in their natural structures for considerable periods to allow them rest from such strenuous and unfamiliar activities. Swimming or soaking them in hot water bowls is a proven way to allow them such rest.
Swimming, or even floating in water, is almost the need of the hour in the current technology addicted scenario to allow the body to be engaging with a focus on itself. It allows the body’s muscles to relax and return to its natural structural state. Soaking one’s body in a tub of carefully administrated water, can resolve a large fraction of new age health issues which have gripped the world like a plague. It takes away stress, both from the body and the mind.
Hydrotherapy is your chance to let your body return to its instincts, and its pace. A toxin free body is a temple for a peaceful mind. Drinking plenty of water can be life-saving, in addition to being life enhancing. Practicing hydrotherapy, at first might require discipline, but later becomes a habit. A very healthy habit, that ultimately leads to a well-rounded life. Your body is your primordial home; one must nourish it and cherish it. All else exists because your body exists. When your body is made so dominantly of water, why must you deprive it of its chief constituent and parch it to bad health.
Treat your body to hydrotherapy and you’ll see the difference in the mirror, at work and in nights of peaceful sleep. Insomnia will be at bay, as anxiety flushes away with bodily toxins. Compliments and accomplishments flood in, as you perform at your optimal best. Your body has given you a chance to be, now is your chance to allow your body to be its best, and to let it be.
