De-stress Yourself With A Hot Tub
Does stress keep you up at night?Stress is ubiquitous in our day and age. And there are so many different kinds of stress and anxiety – it make your head want to spin.
We face scheduling stress, trying to fit way too many events into a day – making a valiant effort not to let anybody down and show up for all our appointments. And often failing (more stress!).
Stress comes from the pressure to perform. Everybody has expectations on how we act, how well we sell, how patient we are, basically about everything we do.
Of course, there are also physical stresses, if your job requires a lot of physical work. It’s just not easy.
And we create so many of our own stresses, too: Oh no, my scale is acting up again. Why is it adding five pounds? It already did that last month. Wrinkles. I didn’t ask for wrinkles. I can’t go out in public looking like a prune! I need new clothes. I feel almost naked in this outfit. Oh but I can’t wear that one – it makes me look like a prude. Oh, what should I do?
The result of all this stress, building day after day, week after week, is…
Insomnia! Everybody’s getting it. How many people are suffering from insomnia. Well, there are 60 million victims suffering from insomnia in the United States. There are 10 million more of our friends in Great Britain. And there are 3.3 million of our friends hit by insomnia in Canada. Well, with all those stresses, it’s no wonder we spend so many hours with our eyes wide awake
Fortunately, there are ways to manage insomnia, and one of those is remove the cover of the hot tub and relax before bedtime.
Most people fail to de-stress in front of a TV. That strategy will never work. Try closing your eyes and listen to what your ears are telling you from the tlevision. In most cases, the sounds are sharp and grating – and stress-inducing. Now open those eyes and count how many times in a minute modern TV shows change camera frames. This rapid succession of images has been linked with creating stress in people.
Rather than TV, try a hot tub. Look what a hot tub has to offer:
Water. People have known for eons that water sooths and relaxes. Listening to water flow is soothing. Watching water flow is soothing. Dipping out feet in water is soothing (as long as the water isn’t too cold, of course). Hot tubs offer all these features.
SAFETY TIP: Water is soothing….but also dangerous. Never swim alone….and especially never hot tub alone if you are trying to fall asleep If your hot tub works too well, you might even fall asleep in the water. And that could be deadly.
Buoyancy. Gotta love water – what else can you float in? Floating reduces the gravitational pull on your muscles, so right away you are releasing the pent-up physical stress your body has picked up over the course of the day. This set’s your body free from the grip of a day’s worth of gravitational pull. There , now – doesn’t that feel better?
Warmth. Warm is good. There is no denying that the warmth of a soothing spell in the bubbling waters of a hot tub has a soothing, calming effect on our entire beings. Our bodies relax in the warmth, it feels so good.
Steam. Breathing in steam has been known to increase our sense of well-being and therefore reduce many of our stresses.
Massage:Is there a word that more closely defines “relax” than “massage”? The water jets on your back can further reduce muscle aches and tension.
GOOD-SLEEP TIP: Sleep better at night knowing your hot tub is protected. Get a hot tub cover to keep animals, things and neighbourhood kids from falling in.
Many long-term insomniacs have discovered that a hot tub gives them the first good night’s sleep in years. Such is the value of stress reduction And regular use has even been known to cure some insomniacs once and for all. There is a trick to making hot tubs work so effectively. That is to give time for your body to cool itself down between the hot water and bedtime – this gives your body the signal our ancestors in cave-man days developed, that the sun’s watch is over and it’s time to sleep. Generally, a 90-minute wait is recommended, but even 30-60 minutes can often be enough.