I love baths! This is a statement that has drawn much judgment throughout my life. But if you’re finishing judging or thinking, that’s too personal, like in a recent State Farm commercial with Patrick Mahomes, I’m sharing this because baths have improved my life. I got into the habit of taking baths in high school to help recover from sore and tired legs that I suffered from playing high-level high school water polo. Later in my life, I started using baths as a way to relax as a way to ease my busy mind. In my middle 20s, as I was in a particularly stressful part of my life, I would use baths as my time to read Sports Illustrated. It was the only time I felt I could actually relax and read. This is what I would consider one of my first meditation experiences, allowing myself to enjoy the present moment and enjoy my own company and thoughts without thinking about all my stressors outside of the bathtub. I highly recommend giving yourself time to relax in a bath or to give meditation a chance, but if that is something that you’ve tried or you’re not a fan, try to find something that you enjoy that relaxes you, and do it for 10 to 15 minutes. Then try it again the next day. Take note of how you feel before and how you feel after I’ll be amazed by its positive effect. Life is really busy, stress exists, and you can’t block out negative emotions or negative things that have happened to you, and you have to live with them at times and process those emotions. Meditation helps you realize the negative things that pop into your head because you often try to block out those negative emotions or events, as you try to clear your head and think about nothing, that’s when they pop up. This exercise gives you a clear idea that you have thoughts you don’t like, and you start understanding how you feel about them. Having Negative emotions is healthy. Trying to block them out and ignore them is unhealthy.
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