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How Important are Friends to Your Health?

Picnics, road trips, and shopping hold some of the fondest memories hanging out with my friends throughout the years and research shows this is not only good for my physical health, but my mental health as well. That’s right; all those nights staying up to the wee hours of the morning soaking in your hot tub while talking to your best friend can have an overall positive effect on your physical and mental health. Of course we’re talking about healthy friendships mixed with a balance of respect, support, and appreciation intertwined with humor, honesty, and understanding helping us to coping with life’s challenges. Good friends can make all the difference when the road of life gets a little bumpy.

Uchino, Cacioppo, & Kiecolt-Claser (1996) studied the link between social support and physiological processes. Their studies found social support positively affected immune system, cardiovascular, and endocrine functioning as well as slowed down the biological aging process. The key again is healthy relationship adding a positive dimension to your life. Relationship bringing stress into your life can have the reverse effect.

Research also finds supportive relationships can thwart the negative effects of life’s challenges on mental health and one’s sense of well being (Basic Behavioral Science task Force of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, 1996). Having socially supportive relationships to talk about the loss of a loved one, workplace concerns, your child’s latest antics, and other concerns can alleviate stress, increase self-esteem, and provide needed support. So the next time life throws you a curve, schedule some time out to chat with a friend. It just may improve your overall health.

Basic Behavioral Science Task Force, National Advisory Mental Health Council. (1996). Basic behavioral science research for mental health: Family processes and social networks. American Psychologist, 51(6), 622-630.

Uchino, Cacioppo, & Kiecolt-Glaser (1996). The relationship between social support and physiological processes: A review with emphasis on underlying mechanisms and implications for health. Psychological Bulletin, 119(3), 488-531.

Depression

Can’t sleep? Sleeping too much? Increased appetite? Decreased appetite? These and other symptoms like feelings of sadness, fatigue, and loss of interest in daily activities may be signs of depression. Depression is a concern for millions of people throughout the world and can affect anyone of us. The key to treating, overcoming, and working through depression is through understanding, knowledge, and work. Yes, work or “working out” as I like to say.

         Some causes of depression include stress, trauma, family history, outlook, medical condition, or other. The effects of depression can be widespread including chemical changes in the brain, strained relationships, decreased immune system functioning, work performance, and more. Working through, loosening, and unraveling depression’s handiwork is as individual as we are unique. The person living with depression is the expert in knowing which treatment approach works best for them. The first step in treating depression is recognizing the symptoms and working with a medical and/or mental health professional to discuss treatment options.

         In conjunction with treatment, there are many things you can incorporate into your “work out” to aid in the healing process. Here are a few ideas you can add to your “workout” routine:

1) set reasonable goals-start small and build on successes

2) exercise-doing something you enjoy outside if possible

3) eat whole foods-especially fresh fruits and veggies

4) create a rolodex of people you can talk with

5) write in a journal- express your thoughts and feelings

6) visualize what everything would look and feel like if a miracle happened right now and the depression is gone

7) take small steps to manifest your miracle-act as if the miracle has happened

8) create pleasurable experiences-like taking a relaxing bubble bath or steam shower with your favorite tunes playing in the background

9) your thoughts_________________-please share what works for you so we can all benefit!

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Call the game warden: A Cold out of season!

I recently found myself in the middle of June and battling a cold, congestion and a cough that seemed to spring out of no where, and not want to surrender its ground gained to anything- I attempted to take cough medicine to combat the breathing difficulty so that I could sleep. This isn’t my first time dealing with a summer cold of course- they are, however, a mystery nonetheless as the years go on –but it was the first time I allowed to bother me as much as it did. The only solace I did find was inside my shower. And I did something that seemed counter productive at the time but was an act which sought to maximize the amount of the medicine which was working: steam. I ratcheted the thermostat on my house to down around 62 degrees and sat chilled for about twenty minutes before stepping into my shower and turning the water on as hot as it would go… the amount of steam in the room was staggering. As the hot water faded I turned down the heat to take my own advice and sat with the cold water streaming over my body. I was immediately energized and after around two minutes before turning the water off and enjoying the rest of the steam stuck in the room. I repeated this three times a day for around four days before the cough and cold was abated. 

This was not, of course my only line of action. I was also relying heavily on green tea, Vitamins and trying to eat as well as I could. While also trying not to rest too much; I wanted to stimulate my body’s defense system, keep blood flowing STRONGLY, and not give the invader a chance to claim anymore victories in the battle over my body. While knowing there are other bodily ailments associated with the “common” cold it is the affectation of breathing which stifles people’s spirits the most. And the main weapon in the assault, the one which disrupts the most (for me and most I’ve asked) is the cough.

            

Coughs are a symptom most often, not an actual problem itself.  There are many variations of coughs, sometimes seeming to possibly vary greatly as each personality having one would vary from a different yet similarly affected individual’s cough- as though they’ve wind of their own!  I don’t wish to advocate procrastination in anyway, shape or form; however I will simply say there could be temporary relief to be had in a steam shower session.  Depending on the availability and the effectiveness of the steam shower along with all its vitalizing elements you may wish to, in the event of a particularly stubborn or incessant (chronic) cough enter and enjoy the steam shower session twice a day- perhaps in the morning to start the day with a soothed and cleared breathing tract and then also at night when you may elicit the aforementioned therapeutic effects as well as relax all muscles, rid them of wastes and toxins and ready yourself for slumber.  In the name of good sense, if one is worried about a particular cough- whether wearing out its welcome and sticking around too long, the contraction of diaphragm muscles too violent, the expectorant effect too productive with the removal of mucus from the pulmonary organs and process one should see a certified medical practitioner in order to accurately diagnose exactly what type of cough one has, and how then to remedy the symptom and thereby the ailment- with any luck. 

                If it is determined to be a dry cough a steam shower may prove indispensable and provide relief from the scratchy and dehydrated cells lining the airway into the lungs- as well as, if one is exposed to the steam shower long enough, the steam and heat acts as an expectorant- hastening the clearing of phlegm and other pulmonary contents which may be impeding optimal breathing and oxygenation of blood to be circulated.  The steam shower doesn’t only engulf and cradle you in warm airborne liquid, nor does the steam shower’s number one ally and element, water, solely make its way into our system through the relaxed and opened pores; you also inhale these wonderfully soothing and therapeutic micro-particles, welcoming the steamed warmth of the ingested medicine- indeed one of natures medicine, for it seems our bodies are programmed to respond to the luxuriant products and bi-products of steam showers. 

Steaming pain...AWAY!

                  Pain is at the top of almost everyone’s list of complaints, daily pain, sporadic pain, monthly cramps, migraine headaches, endometriosis, stress headaches and achy joints from our stressful and poorly orchestrated non health oriented lives with every company and entrepreneur offering a magic bullet of their own rifling.  There are no magic bullets, no Deus Ex Machina which will descend from the heavens to relieve your pain, however there are active things which you can do to make a part of an overall health program; something along the lines of enjoying the luxury of a simple steam shower.  This will begin a psychological shift of sorts as you sit or stand- as is your preference –bathing and breathing in all the steam shower has to offer- only thinking of the health you’re enjoying, the health you’re aspiring to, and NOT thinking about anything else while enjoying the benefits of steam inhalation.  This may seem oversimplified and fly in the face of my denouncement of magic bullets, pills, or theories but truthfully I am putting the power to change your life in your own mind, your own bathroom, beginning with an act which you do on your own and asking you to contemplate only healthy possibilities as you luxuriate and relax the day away with a little help from a steam shower- a therapy the likes of which have been enjoyed for thousands of years.  The benefit of a steam shower was not manufactured in a lab using synthetic materials to provide a false sense of well being.  Shedding extra weight will often provide pain relief by simply lifting extra weight off of our load bearing structures- bones, joints, muscles –and keeping the weight off.  Rewards of being healthy aren’t fast enough for some people- though your body WILL thank you immediately –which is why a reward system works well for some people trying to maintain health and weight; of viewed not only as a health enabler but also a daily reward by resort style luxury a steam shower is the perfect papering addition to your bathroom, lifestyle, and future.  Being the practitioner of a healthy lifestyle has its benefits and perks; enjoying health through a personal steam shower or Far-Infrared Sauna to name a few.  Enjoy.

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                Muscles are prone to a bevy of problems due simply to the way they exist and are exercised due to natural physiology.  Spasms and cramps are the most common ailments which see immediate relief in the use of steam showers.  Since muscles are in a constant state of contraction they build up waste materials- lactic acid – and fail to function properly.  However, their failure to function can be cured is the waste is given a way to exit the muscles, enter a steam shower, and allow room for nutrients to enter and repair damaged muscles- making you stronger and hastening recovery.  Steam showers relax tissues.  They expand and release what they are holding onto.  20 minutes would be good time spent in the steam shower giving the cells opportunities to contract and expand, release and take in nutrients quickening the process of recovery through the water dense environment of a steam shower. 

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          Ancient civilizations (not in anyway whatsoever intimating all their contributions to history have been antiquated, made obsolete or less applicable) discovered and exploited the curative elements of many of the Earth’s natural resources and environmental factors such as Steam- now intelligently harnessed in the form of Steam Showers as preventative medicine and/or Steam Showers playing an active role in curing already acquired ailments caused by pathogens or viruses which have invaded our bodies and slipped past the sentinels of our immune system.  Native American sweat lodges could be likened to the effects garnered from steam showers- mechanism not the same, alls well that ends well.   

Steam showers work in an entirely created-at-will healthy environment inside simple steam enclosures as well as the elaborate, well equipped and luxuriant steam showers which we have seen modern technology make marvels of in the last few decades.  Few organizations, be they of the medical field or those companies practicing the craft of remodeling and improving the bath and shower industry stand in as high esteem as the My Bath Steam Shower company which specializes in amalgamating the best of what the old has to offer with ALL that we imagine the future will shed light on scientifically- our imaginations being the only limiting factor in applying steam showers to enhance every aspect of our lives. 

“Every aspect” includes the soothing steam shower environment calming anxiety and stress- no more prescriptions needed in some cases, please refrain from fisticuffs when you shell out a co-pay for a young whipper-snapper of a doctor to say, “a steam shower should do the trick.  And in the event one doesn’t do the trick, feel free to take another steam shower…”  Gee, thanks for the liberty doc!

Any teenager past, present and future understands the frustration and borderline embarrassment of Acne; steam showers have proven powerfully effective for improving the quality of skin, old and young alike.  As a teenager’s skin is inundated with moisture inside the steam shower, be there on in their home, their pores are coaxed open to release toxins and cleanse the very pores out of which acne and pimples sprout.  Steam showers are currently likened to the blue jeans of bathroom fashion and utility… make no mistake, steam showers are here to stay! 

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     Essential oils link us in a “made for one another” relationship with nature.  All essential oils are found in and derived from plants which grow naturally on the planet.  Perhaps some of the first medicine known to have ever been used; essential oils are the cumulative wisdom of countless civilizations of human kind who noticed certain physiological effects to the body when certain plants or herbs were ingested, chewed on, snorted, or burned to be inhaled as smoke, or heated with water and inhaled as a vapor.

                Several of the My Bath steam showers have Aromatherapy dispensers which allow you to enhance the steam shower experience, inhale and enjoy the positive effects of aromatherapy.  Whether you are looking to aid the steam shower at relaxing you directly before bed time, or perhaps after playing a baseball game with friends and family, or melding the steam with an invigorating essence to jump start you day, along with ending your session inside the shrine of a steam shower by gradually allowing the water to cool and then become tolerably cold for at least two minutes, instituting contrast hydrotherapy- all the while inhaling healing through the steam shower’s Aromatherapy dispenser. 

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  Time (even twenty minutes to be spent in a Steam Shower) is a limited commodity in today’s society which is why health oriented philosophies and practices are leaving the gym and steam bath houses and entering our homes.  Entrepreneurs of business industry are collaborating with innovators of science and technology to make health decisions easy decisions and engineering ways to get maximum results out of a steam shower session which consumes no ore time than it takes for a regular shower.  Combining several steps of ones day into one, the steam shower industry is doing its best to pique your curiosity in health while entertaining you long enough for it to catch on.  It would be a hope that after some time enjoying and being regaled by the truly awesome technology pioneering the industry, you’d enjoy the steam shower for its health benefits and it could be the tipping off point for you to pursue health on your own, without technological goading or being enticed by electrical gadgets… though they are WAY COOL!

It is perhaps one of the ultimate ironies that one of the things we claim not to have enough time to care about is our health- the very things which ensure we WILL have more time for everything else.  Set aside twenty minutes a day to enjoy the benefits of a steam shower.  Steam showers fit inside any domicile, are simple to install with the aid of a certified plumber, and are also a special luxury to be enjoyed. 

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                Steam is the miraculous mixture of heat water and air amalgamated, preferably, in a closed space such as a steam shower or steam room to maximize steam density and allow for absolute environmental inundation of the person utilizing the health benefits of the element.  Centuries, civilizations, even millennia have passed and the idea of using steam as a prescription for health has been a mainstay for all of humankind- without regard to the civilization or the century in which they bathed and lived.  Our civilization has many choices when it comes to steam therapy.

There are steam baths, steam showers, steam rooms and the residual/unintentional steam enjoyed by the person who showers with a door closed in a small bathroom- all essentially proffering the same effects to their users.  However, if everyone acknowledges a steam shower’s utility and indeed everyone enjoys them and tries however minimally to breathe in steam whenever they can, it now becomes a matter of maximizing the effects of steam.  You will naturally want to shop around and decide which type of steam shower is best for you; based on the needs of your family or needs dictated by space constraints in your domicile.  Your basic steam shower isn’t so basic anymore. 

You may enjoy the steam we’re speaking of, yes of course, however with the addition of a Rainforest steam shower from My Bath, you may also enjoy all the luxuries of modern day life.  Steam showers have captured the attention of experts who are now weighing in on times necessary to achieve benefits from activities- including steam bathing –many steam showers have begun the adornments of steam showers with all the bells and whistles one would expect in a living room.  Everything from a phone to a television to MP3, MP4, and Ipod connections may be enjoyed inside such marvelous models as the My Bath Rainforest 78 steam shower. 

Steam- produced inside the Rainforest 78 steam shower -is also wonderful in carrying small particles of essential oils and other scents for aromatherapy.  By readily making these essential healing oils airborne the steam shower aids the aromatherapy in being the most effective way to administer any type of medicinal elements- by breathing it into our lungs and sending the tiny soothing ingredients out with a large amount of oxygenated blood to pulse it through your body.  About every medical text which mentions steam showers and aromatherapy backs the immediate benefits of both, and would double its endorsement when it is released inside a steam dense environment like a steam shower.  The steam opens pores and dilates blood vessels.  Swirl essences and particles, inside a steam shower, which want entry into your system and you’ve a match made in… a steam shower- which will seem heavenly enough to make Elysian residents jealous.   

Steam’s immediately visible effect is on our skin; steam showers are almost a fountain of youth for our appearance. Dermatological effects of a steam shower session include the opening of pores to hasten the removal of waste- reducing breakouts –and initiating a process through which the body could begin a cleansing of itself all the way to the core including vital organs.  Once a steam shower initiates a healthy process your body naturally wants falls into the healthy lifestyle, cleanses itself, gets rid of toxins, you’ll seek more nutritious food, set better sleep patterns, exercise etc.  And all because of one simple state of the art conduit- a steam shower.