The "The Healing Power of Water" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Reading an article about the healing power of water.  Neuroscientists say that spending time near oceans, lakes, rivers and other blue space can provide a range of benefits including reducing anxiety, easing mental fatigue and rejuvenating us.  By participating in water activities such as swimming or surfing can help us enter a "flow state,"  where we become fully immersed in what we're doing.  This tends to calm the mind, which is often absorbed by worry.  Bodies of water can also produce a glorious sense of awe...the emotional response to something vast that expands and changes how we see the world.  Water naturally relaxes us by taking away all the noise.  All we have to do is show up.  Water has special properties that may boost nature's positive impact, environmental psychologists say.  When you are near water, there is often less visual and auditory information to  process.  Your mind can rest. The sound of water, soothes us.  Its smell can provoke positive memories, producing a play of light, color and sound that is mesmerizing.  It holds our attention, but not in an overly demanding way.  It gives our brains a break from the intense, focused, cognitively depleting attention that much of daily life requires.   When we're floating in water, our bodies can rest in a way we never can on land.  Water is dynamic.  It gives our brains a break from the intense, focused, cognitively depleting attention that much of daily life requires.  Water helps your mind wander in a positive way.   So how can you harness the healing power of water?  Remember that all water counts.  Could be a creek nearby or a pool in the back yard or even a bathtub.  Even paintings or photographs of water can help.  Even spending time near water can help.  Perhaps a recording of water splashing against the shoreline.  Remember... it's not our bodies that need the element of life...it's our brain.  Make a recording of your favorite water.  It may trigger happy moments in your life.  You can spend time on the water anywhere, anytime in your mind.  Visualize the sun sparkling on water or the sound of waves smashing against the shore.  And, when the water you have imagined is really water, the positive effect will be even stronger.  It is not just our bodies that need the element of life, but our minds, too.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.