From healing skin ailments to boosting your energy, beach health benefits go much deeper than you might think. The Soothing Sound of the Waves Relaxes your Mind and Body. The Fresh Sea Breeze is Good for Your Night time.The Salty Ocean Air lifts Your Spirits. Soaking Up UV Rays is Good for Your Mental Health.
.Throughout history human walked, sat and slept on the ground, cultivated their land with bare hands and spent a lot of their time naturally on the ground. However, today, we have become increasingly disconnected from nature by our modern lifestyle.
Research has shown that connecting to the Earth by walking can diminish chronic pain, fatigue and other ailments that affect so many people today.
This connection to the ground beneath us is referred to as grounding (or earthing) and offers several vital life-giving health benefits, especially when we walk barefoot. Do you know that the soles of your feet have more sweat glands and nerve-endings per square centimetre than any other part of your body? Walking barefoot on sand when visiting the beach helps stimulate these nerve endings, while also strengthening the muscles in your feet, also grounding and restoring our natural energy flow.
.Although there are other sources of vitamin D, according to Harvard Medical School you absorb vitamin D most effectively when it comes from the sun in UVB form. This is because sunlight reacts with a cholesterol-related compound in the body which then metabolises into vitamin D. A study reveals that, exposure to sunshine by enjoying an outdoors lifestyle was shown to offer benefits such as an increase in endorphins and possible prevention of autoimmune diseases.
Vitamin D is crucial for our overall health – those deficient in this, can be at risk of osteoporosis, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, asthma and more. When you visit the beach, no matter if its blazing sun or the gentle lemony rays of sun, vitamin D soaks into us and our overall health and mood reaps the benefits.
.Swimming in the sea can help to fight off infection and gives the body endless benefits for the body and mind. Why? Well seawater has high levels minerals like magnesium, iodine, and potassium which have therapeutic effects and help the body heal and detoxify. Thalassotherapy, (from the Greek thalasso meaning ‘sea’ and therapia meaning ‘treatment’), uses the healing and beneficial properties of the sea and the marine environment for your health and is defined today as a seawater cure in a medically supervised environment.
Visiting the beach and immersing yourself in the ocean air is also highly beneficial for health, as it fills you with negatively charged ions – molecules that attach to your lung tissue and boost your immune system. Swimming in the ocean helps open up the pores in the skin, allowing absorption of the mineral and the ridding of toxins from the body. Do you need any more convincing for a long cool dip in the ocean?
.It Boosts Creativity and Productivity, a mildly meditative state characterised by calm, peacefulness, unity, and a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life in the moment. Do you ever feel like you’re in a creative rut and want to bang your head against the wall? Well, scientists now believe that those who are in a creative checkmate can hugely benefit by visiting the beach. Being in blue space allows you to clear your head and tackle your problems and creative hurdles in a much more succinct fashion. Much like meditation, being at the beach encourages a calmness and a calm head which allows you to tune everything else out and reflect on what it is you have been needing to focus on.
.Improves Our Relationships, while enjoying the restful, contemplative state associated with visiting the beach and being close to water, it is common to experience feelings of awe. Feeling awe as a result of the stunning views, the vastness of the ocean or the enormity of the sky invokes feelings of a connection to something beyond oneself. We feel this sense of vastness as an attempt to make sense of the experience.
“When you experience that feeling of awe, you get that ‘one with the universe’ feeling,” says Wallace J. Nichols.
You feel connected to yourself, the world around you, and whoever you happen to be with. That puts you in a ‘we’ state of mind. It’s perhaps no coincidence then that proposals, marriages and honeymoons happen overwhelmingly at stunning coastal locations.
Nature in general has always been a factor in healthy happy lives, but the beach in particular is so good for the soul. It is almost too obvious, and often gets overlooked, but the health and neurological benefits of visiting the beach are very real and should not be ignored.
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