Spa days are known to cultivate self-care, relaxation, and well-being. Treatments found in spas, and even just the atmosphere, help relieve stress and induce the body’s relaxation response.
In a spa, you give yourself the pleasure of enjoying the time you need for “me”. Take a step back from everything, all the pressures and just relax, you can detoxify, beautify and enjoy countless health promoting experiences.
Studies have shown that going to the spa regularly has a direct bearing on how well you sleep, how good your physical and mental health are, and how happy you are in general.
Read on for the 5 key benefits of going to the spa to pamper yourself.
Improve health and fitness
Body treatments, massages, and thermal hydrotherapy work to improve the circulatory system. Blood circulation improves, there is a reduction in blood pressure and an increase in healthy flow throughout the body.
When you take the time to take care of your body, your mind soon follows and it becomes happier and healthier as well. Being touched during a massage, pedicure, or facial sends a signal to the brain to release some of the “feel-good” hormones dopamine and serotonin. Its release into the bloodstream indicates that the mind, body, and soul are in perfect harmony.
Also, let’s not forget how improving your body image has such a positive effect on your overall self-esteem and confidence.
We all know that we tend to sleep better when we are happy and relaxed. Now imagine what the quality of your sleep will be like after a day at the spa. You’ll enjoy a deep, peaceful sleep and wake up the next day feeling refreshed and refreshed from head to toe.
Relieve aches and pains
Today’s spas focus on how to combine anti-stress treatments with fitness and good nutrition to end the suffering of joint pain and disease. Different types of massage, ranging from therapeutic to shiatsu to deep tissue, help relieve tight, knotted muscles and problem areas. There is also acupuncture, reflexology, physical therapy whose sole purpose is to hone in on areas with a specific problem or injury.
Another great relief from joint pain is the heat from a steam shower, sauna, or hot tub, which can help ease the pain that accompanies fibromyalgia, arthritis, or other joint pain.
Detoxification
A good soothing massage stimulates the lymphatic system, which plays an important role in keeping our immune system healthy. When the lymphatic system is stimulated, there is adequate lymphatic flow throughout the body. This draws out metabolic waste, along with toxins or excess water. This is why detoxification is known for the loss of water retention. So when all toxins and excess fluids are flushed out, your system becomes clean and thriving with clean new blood. Any swelling or pain in the body is lessened and the ability to fight disease is maximized.
Skin detoxification is also an important factor that spas take very seriously because the skin is the body’s largest organ and is also its main line of defense against bacteria, germs, and toxins. Facial treatments and mud baths are excellent detoxifiers because they draw impurities out of the skin and also contain vitamins and minerals.
Stress
Going to the spa gives you a feeling of renewal. You renew your energy, you look at your lifestyle and you renew / discard certain habits, and you renew your vision of life. A relaxing massage can help invigorate you, relieve tight muscles, and lower your stress levels, ultimately altering your mood – just what your doctor ordered.
Just being on the receiving end of physical contact in a professional and safe environment is essential to our happiness and comfort. The power of a touch affects us in a way that we cannot even begin to understand. Touch influences our mood, our health, our sense of security, and our confidence in ourselves.
Prevention
Experts are now trying to focus their attention on how to prevent health complications early on so that people can enjoy a healthier, stress-free lifestyle. Relaxation is not simply a state of mind where you hum and sing, it is so much more! Relaxation plays an integral role in deciding how healthy you are today and how healthy you will be 10, 20, 30 years from now. Going to the spa for a relaxing day, freeing your mind from any hassles and worries definitely restores your energy levels before they are completely depleted. It will also restore your positive outlook on life and restore faith in your abilities to be successful in whatever you do.
Being in good physical and mental shape requires that you take the right steps to get there; exercise, eat well, sleep well. However, be sure to add a little pampering to your life to tie it all together in the perfect way.
Just walking through the spa doors makes you dizzy with excitement. Add to that the calm, relaxed atmosphere and beautiful surroundings, a day at the spa is without a doubt the perfect way to enjoy taking care of yourself, because you are so important.