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How to Use Water for Natural Stress and Pain Relief
We all experience some form of stress in our lives. Clinically, stress is a negative element that can threaten our physical and emotional health. One form of stress can diminish our resistance to other forms of stress. Therefore, stress seems to take on a momentum or it's own i.e. stress can cause more stress. When our healthy resistance, i.e. our immune system, begins to break down under too much stress, physical damage and disease results. In addition to physical stress e.g. sore muscles, pain, aches, tension, overexertion, exercise and inactivity that causes back pain, minor strains and sprains, we also experience emotional stress as well. Emotional stress can come from many sources. Emotional stress, as we know, comes from discord in our work and personal relationships, economic pressure, loss, grief, anger, fear, etc. Over time, stress actually builds up toxic deposits in our cells. Stress can create physical pain and chronic fatigue that leaves us without energy or rest, leaving us accident prone and effects our emotional and cognitive abilities leading to even more stress. Again, stress builds upon itself and causes a vicious cycle. Our lives can be charted in a energy wave pattern with healthy activity being at the high point of the wave and rest being at the lower point of the wave. If one phase suffers, it effects the other phase. Our energy wave pattern becomes almost flat. We then experience restlessness, lack of energy, depression, insomnia, muscles tension, less frustration tolerance, exaggeration of emotional reaction e.g. constant anger of a feeling of our wanting to cry constantly. This in turn strains our work and personal relationship and our relationship with ourselves. Sleep and relaxation interrupts this vicious cycle of stress and restore a healthy energy wave pattern of activity and rest which interrupts stress building on itself and causing us to experience emotional and physical distress. Water can play a vital natural role in helping us experience the rest and relaxation we need to end the cycle of stress and pain we are experiencing.
Our natural, innate relationship with water is both primordial and present. We live in water for months before we are born. Our bodies are composed of a large amount of water. We could say that we are water. We all know the natural attraction we have to creeks, lakes, and the ocean. Although not always in our conscious awareness, we instinctively "know" that water is vital and "alive". All our physical, intellectual, and emotional functions are modalities of water functions. Water provides all living things/beings with a flow of nutrients as well as a means of elimination. All living forms exist within the Earth's great hydrosystem. Water is the origin and present source of all life. In a full hot bath we become surrounded by water, the source of all life. This stimulates our primordial security feelings and responses and provides us with comfort, relaxation, and pleasure. Heated water relaxes our muscle tension that restricts fluid and energy flow. The magnetic fields of our nervous system flow through the surrounding water malecules. We experience the profound and relieving effects of water's releasing us from stress and pain.
We can turn our bath into a therapeutic anti-stress, anti-pain treatment. Our bathroom should be warm and we should have clean towels and a robe ready for coming out of our bath. We just fill our tubs with hot water increasing or decreasing the temperature as is comfortable for us. When our tub is as full as we can get it, without running over as we get into it, is the right temperature for us, we can note the time. We need to stay in the bath for 15 to 20 minutes, not longer. Submerge yourself with only your head above water. Let your thoughts drift into the quietness of your awareness of your breathing in and out. Inhale and exhale fully, which releases tension from our muscles. Relax into the water and become "one" with the water. Add hot water if you need it, but beyond that, stay as still as possible. When time as passed, rise slowly and towel off lightly and put on the robe. This process will greatly help reduce stress, break the stress cycle, and allow our bodies to fall into a deeper rest. Regular use of anti-stress, anti-pain bath will release many stress factors through relaxation. This allows us to recover our energy and stimulate a stronger natural resistence, enhance our immune system and recover our health.
We can further enhance the effectiveness of water's stress and pain reduction by adding herbal extracts and essential oils to our therapeutic bath. Herbal extracts and essential oils are made from natural plans by various means of distillation. Essential oils, e.g. Lavender, provide a relaxing aroma that in itself reduces stress and pain. These essential oils are used in the treatment modality of aromatherapy and can be added to our bath water for added benefit. We can also use aromatherapy candles by our bath to add even more effective benefits to our therapeutic bath experience. Aromatherpy candles add a soothing light and aroma to ease stress and pain.
In natural thermal pools found in nature are many dissolved minerals that also have an effective therapeutic benefit. Minerals play an important role in water conditioning. Natural sodium (salt) minerals such as sodium borate, sodium caronate, and sodium cloride neutralize metals and provide a mild electrolyte solutions which disperses botanicals evenly throughout the water and helps attract the botanical molecules to our skin. Aromatherapy bath salts and minerals added to our bath water helps us receive full benefit from aromatherapy essential oils that we have added to our bath
Water is a powerful therapeutic natural source of stress and pain relief. We are water. Water is life. We often take this for granted and therefore do not make full use of this natural healing agent. Many of us do not even drink enough water. If we are wanting to manage stress or to break a vicious stress cycle, we need only remember that water is a powerful resource. The next time we are feeling stress, we can remember to simply wash our hands, splash some water on our faces, or take a soothing drink of water. If possible spend time with creeks, rivers, and where possible with the ocean. If possible, we can introduce swimming to our exercise program. If this is not possible, we can naturally soak away stress and pain with hot baths enhanced with aromatherapy bath salts, aromatherapy mineral baths, aromatherpy essential oils or stress and pain formulas specially designed to be used with water such as ABRA Herbal Hydrotherapy Muscle Bath or ABRA Hydrotherapy Stress Bath.
About the Author
Jenny has more than twenty years experience with all natural health care products. More information about aromatherapy bath, aromatherapy and natural stress and pain relief formula is available at => http://www.sweetmedicineessentials.com/aromatherapy-bath-c-8.html
Wall Street Snake Oil
I'm sure that movie buffs are familiar with the snake oil salesman character which appeared in many Western films. He was a “doctor” with dubious credentials that traveled by covered wagon from town to town. The fast-talking salesman would sell “medicine”, such as snake oil, using lots of marketing hype and bogus “evidence”.
In order to enhance sales, the snake oil salesman would also always have an accomplice in the crowd (a shill) who would attest to the marvelous beneficial effects of the snake oil. The snake oil salesman would, of course, attempt to leave town before the swindle was discovered.
This practice became known as grifting and its practitioners grifters. Fast forward more than a hundred years and we still have snake oil salesmen who try to sell the public something of no real value. Such characters abound on Wall Street and, like their brethren of the Old West, they usually attempt to “leave town” before the swindle is discovered with millions of dollars from bonuses, etc..
A recent example was that terrific grifter, Bernie Madoff. He sold lots of bottles of snake oil promising investors smooth, steady returns year after year. He sold these bottles with the help of his shills – the feeder funds – who promised their investors that to keep their portfolios healthy they needed a dose of Bernie's “medicine”.
For another example of grifting, just look at all of the complex products that Wall Street sold around the world as “safe” investments without anyone being concerned about the risks involved with many of the securities contained within the products.
That scenario reminds me of a Three Stooges short where Moe, Larry, Curly were trying to sell bottles of medicine. Curly and Larry asked Moe, “What is this stuff used for?” Moe replies, “You want to know what this stuff is for?” Curly and Larry say yes. As Moe slaps them, he says “It's for SALE!” That sure sounds like a Wall Street sales meeting to me.
Wall Street Snake Oil Salesmen
People have to realize that Wall Street firms rarely have the best interests of their clients at heart. If anyone has some spare time, they may want to peruse a new book by John Kay of the Financial Times called The Long and the Short of It. Mr. Kay thinks that the financial world is greedy, cynical and self-interested. Gee, I wonder how long Mr. Kay has known John Thain?
Mr. Kay goes on to say in his book that individual investors should avoid most “professionals” and manage their own money. He has several good reasons for this. Mr. Kay points out that professional money managers need to make money off of your investments, whether you make money from the investments or not. Just think of all the fees paid out by investors to “professional” money managers in 2008, only to have these “professionals” lose a large chunk of their money for them.
Another reason that Mr. Kay thinks that individual investors can do a better job of managing their own money rather than “professional” money managers is that the individual can focus on long-term returns and absolute returns, not “relative” returns. Here's a direct quote from Mr. Kay's book - “The major risk a financial advisor runs is not the risk that his clients do badly, but the risk that his clients do worse than other people”, meaning other advisors' clients.
So if a person goes to their financial advisor and says “hey, I lost 30% last year!” their advisor will say, “Yes, but you outperformed the averages!” The emphasis of “professional” money managers is on relative performance, not on absolute performance.
As Mr. Kay also points out, Wall Street “professionals” think only in the short-term. Their primary goal is to beat the “benchmark” on a quarterly basis. If the “benchmark” is negative 30 per cent, Wall Street money managers are very pleased to have clients' portfolios return a negative 20 per cent. That would mean that they are a “star” in the Wall Street universe.
Unfortunately, this type of Wall Street “outperformance” can be very damaging to a client's long-term portfolio, such as a retirement fund. But such concerns really don't matter to Wall Street “professionals”. Where your portfolio stands in 5 or 10 years doesn't cross their radar screen.
I want to again emphasize another point about most Wall Street professionals who appear quite often on CNBC air. Most of these Wall Street people do not think for themselves, or think outside the box. Most of the guests on CNBC air simply run within the supposed safety of the “herd”.
Professor Richard Sylla, financial historian at New York University's Stern School of Business, says that Wall Street analysts and money managers have little incentive to produce anything that deviates significantly outside of the consensus.
Professor Sylla says, “They reinforce each other. That's the only way they keep themselves off the hook.” In other words, Wall Street money managers have their views skewed by one thing – self-preservation. If the money managers stay inside the safety of the “herd”, then their cushy jobs will be safe. Whether their clients make any money is well down on their list of concerns.
I did laugh when I saw one humorous line from Mr. Kay's book which was in agreement with my contrarian instincts. Mr. Kay said, “The best way to use the expertise of the financial services industry is to do the opposite of what they recommend”.
The Latest Bottle of Snake Oil
This brings me to the latest bottle of snake oil that the “doctors” on Wall Street ,with dubious credentials, are selling – deflation. The deflation trade has become an extremely crowded trade. This trade will probably become even more crowded over the next few months as government figures will come out showing deflation.
This will be the bogus “evidence” that the Wall Street grifters will be pointing toward. The shills on CNBC will be telling everyone “Yes, deflation is here and will be here for a long time. Step right up, pardner, and buy these wonderful zero per cent Treasuries! It will lead to healthy portfolios.” Please do not be suckered by Wall Street's short-term thinking shills, who never look ahead more than three months.
People that want to ride along with the deflation “herd” should take a really hard look at what actual deflationary expectations Wall Street has priced into the Treasury market. According to the Financial Times, the Treasury's inflation protected securities (TIPS) market suggests 4 per cent deflation this year and next, with inflation barely returning in 10 years, and also very little inflation for the following two decades.
This is staggering – the Wall Street “herd” is expecting our country to be wandering in the deflationary desert for the next 30 years! This did not happen even during the Great Depression. Anyone believing this delusional scenario deserves to lose their money to Wall Street, just the same as people who bought snake oil from a “grifter” in the Old West.
For contrarian investors, while the Wall Street “herd” is wandering in the deflationary desert, this scenario should lead them to buying TIPS over the course of the next few months. Where else can an investor get a 4.5 per cent risk-free, real yield?
Don't Become a Victim of Grifting,
Tony D’Altorio
Analyst, Oxbury Research
About the Author
Originally formed as an underground investment club, Oxbury Publishing is an investment think tank comprised of a wide variety of Wall Street professionals - from equity analysts to futures floor traders – all independent thinkers and all capital market veterans.
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