Achieve a blue mind

NEW DELHI: According to USA Today the term 'blue mind' means "the mildly meditative state we fall into when near, in, on or under water. It's the antidote to what we refer to as 'red mind,' which is the anxious, over-connected and over-stimulated state that defines the new normal of modern life."

One experiences chronic stress which leads to have a 'Monkey mind' and attention fatigue. Our lifestyle of rushing from one thing to another can eventually result in memory problems, poor judgment, anxiety, depression, and over reliance on alcohol and drugs for relaxation. Chronic stress damages the cardiovascular, immune, digestive, nervous, and musculoskeletal systems. It lowers levels of serotonin and dopamine, making us feel exhausted and extremely down.

Blue Mind therapy is a modern name extending these age-old concepts, that can be understood by a layman. Seeing water around you is always healing. Firstly the calmness of blue colour in water bodies is healing, and then even water heals us. We are made of 5 elements and water constitutes 70 percent of our bodies. So obviously water is healing, beautiful and calming.

So, if you are entirely psychologically or physically parched then take a delineated pathway to a blue mind for its brilliant distillation of the entire body, mind and soul.

Ingest: The human body is 79 to 80 per cent water, and the brain itself is about 80 percent water by volume. So it's no surprise that consuming enough water is a requirement for healthy brain functioning. Clear water can help us access the state called "flow," where we connect to the default mode network, or daydreaming parts of our brain. This can restore our ability to focus and perform cognitive and creative tasks with greater ease.

Colour therapy: As per colour therapy, it is great to have a blue glass, fill water in it, keep in sunlight for 3-4 hours and then drink that water. Turquoise or light blue is best used to increase intuition and sensitivity. It works to relax sensations of stress. This soothing colour captures the turquoise colour of the Caribbean water and the eternal sky that meets it. Just like the sea, turquoise opens you upward and outward with boundless, endless and border-less skies.

Ice bath treatment: Once or twice a week practice Ice bath therapy to reduce inflammation and improve recovery by changing the way blood and other fluids flow through your body. When you sit in cold water, your blood vessels constrict; when you get out, they dilate (or open back up).

Turquoise Crystal: Turquoise crystal is a purification healing stone which consists of amazing properties of balancing and aligning all the chakras, stabilising mood swings and capturing the essence of or instilling inner calm and beauty. It is excellent for depression and exhaustion, it also has the power to prevent panic attacks. Turquoise promotes self-realisation and assists creative problem solving. Envisaging turquoise in life will help in dispelling all the negative auras surrounded within your chakras and aids in the absorption of nutrients, enhances the immune system, stimulates the regeneration of tissue, and heals the whole body. It contains anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects, and alleviates cramps and pain.

Picturesque Portrayals: The trick is to pair the colour with your surroundings and give it a natural touch. You can use any colour turquoise picturesque painting as these carry healing properties that affect the mind and the body. Turquoise is believed to help neutralise acidity, increase growth and muscular strength, alleviate gout, stomach problems, viral infections, rheumatism. Most imperatively it helps to keep the environment calm.

JalDhauti: Dhauti means to 'cleanse'. The variant of this procedure helps in cleansing the respiratory and the entire digestive system. Dhauti eliminates excess bile, stomach acids, mucus and toxins. Apart from cleansing it helps relieve nausea, reducing the acidity in the stomach and discards disease like asthma. (IANS)

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