RELAXING TIME
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Take vitamíns through inside and outside. We are
proposing you the simplest and pleasant methods to revitalize the organism, to
recover energy and to liberate tensions that take you to the estrés. It is time
for relax.
THE
BATH
A good bath, besides being a pleasure, it can become a cure of beauty that
helps to forget the tension and to rehidratarse. The keys of a relaxing bath
are:
- Temperature: the ideal is around the 37º c.
- Light: the intensity should be reduced to the minimum. That of the
candles is the most appropriate.
- Music: Something calm, rhythmic and pleasant
- Aromas: Some drops of essential oils. The most relaxing are those of
lavender, violet, neroli and rose. To take advantage of their effects,
breath deeply five times from the abdomen, not from the chest, letting the
scent penetrates in the body.
- Flavours: Green tea, adding a lemon bark and a mint leaf. To take it
cold and in small sips while one enjoys the bath .
- Duration: not to remain to soaking more than 20 minutes because the
fabrics of the skin are softened, the circulation is hindered and it can
also lower the tension. To finish with a shower in it is alternated it the
cold water and heat. To leave slowly wrapped up in a towel and to rest other
20 minutes
What can be added to the water:
- Milk, salts and bathroom oils to soften and to moisturize the skin
- Clay that has astringent properties and antiinflamatorias and it is
used to eliminate toxins and to improve cutaneous problems.
- Oil essential: the heat makes that its active principles penetrate for
the pores, exercising their effects benefits in the whole organism
FITNESS
To put on in form, to lose some kilo, to harden the legs is a healthy habit
that not favors alone our aesthetics but for the organism. It stretches the
muscles with exercises with soft movements that lengthen the muscle, they supply
it of blood, they avoid their premature aging and they endow him of elasticity
Also, they improve the mobility of the articulations and they induce to a
deep relaxation. It is not advisable to force beyond where the muscle allows it.
He/she suits to carry out the exercises slowly. To learn how to breathe slowly
and for the nose. If they are carried out the exercises at home the best hour it
is the one wakes up. This way the estrés is prevented
If you stay in the city, it looks for a gentle and calm park to practice the
oriental disciplines as the Thai Chi and Chi Kung. They have as objective
reconducir the vital energy, "Chi ", for the whole organism and to
unblock the points that support more tension. Their foundations are the
meditation, the movement and the search of the balance between the body and the
mind
To always use wide and comfortable clothes. In two months he/she can hardly
memorize the 24 basic movements of the Thai Chi that are the enough ones to
begin to notice their effects against the nervous tension and to put an end to
the estrés. Both disciplines should be practiced to the dawn and in the setting
of sun, since they are the moments in those that more vital energy circulates.
It is good to take a hot drink to favor the sudoración during the exercise.
THE
MASSAGE
The subcutaneous layers, the nervous terminations and the muscles are
activated. There are several types:
- Physiotherapy: he/she helps to recover the lesions and discharge the
accumulated muscular tension
- Lymphatic drainage: it stimulates the lymphatic circulation and it
eliminates liquids.
- Reflexología podal: it consists on pressing certain points in the feet
that belong together with other areas of the organism.
- Facial massage: he/she is carried out in the face, the neck and the ecote
with aromatic fragrances
Shiatsu: of Japanese origin, the fingers press in very specific areas.
- Tui Na: active the sanguine circulation by means of soft blows with the
song of the hands. Of Chinese origin.
- Shitao: it combines the soft stretching with the massage of pressure and
the placement of hot stones on the body.
- Nau Thai: they stretch out the muscles while he/she crowds together
carefully. Their objective is to increase the flexibility
THE BEACH
To recharge piles in the beach. The four elements of the nature, it dilutes,
sun, earth, and air to help to relax. The keys to get it are:
- To be exposed in the sun in a progressive way. To use creams of high
protection and to ingest antioxidantes, as fruits and vegetables.
- To take breeze bathrooms at first hour of the day and to try to take
little clothes since file the oxygenation of the skin.
- The more cold is the air, briefer it should be the bathroom. When
concluding, it is convenient that to be sheltered well and to keep rest
during about 30 minutes.
- To drink a lot of water to stay more moisturized.
ALTERNATIVES
Other alternatives exist to relax. Some days to pass in a Tourist Villa of
the Axarquía that you/they have facilities characteristic of pools to refresh
or that they prepare of " SPA" purified spring water. To make the
Healthy Route of those "hamman" for To the -Andalus and even to live
the experience of one day in a thermal center and lúdico, enjoying the
termalismo lúdico to beautify.
For more information:
www.magma-cat.com
Mayte Suárez Santos. Journalist specialized in
Medicine and Thermalism
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