Blogging Our Way From Frumps to Pumps: Day 8 – A Moment of Silence for Showers

Why is it that Mama is always the last one in line for a shower?  That’s the way it works at my house, anyway!  I’d like to say that it’s because everybody smells worse than I do (!!!) and that’s why they get to go first.  That would certainly be true of the little ones with stinky bottoms, but that’s not the whole story either.  I can’t tell you how many times company has been arriving at our front door and I am still in the shower!  That’s because on my to-do list, everything is more important than taking a shower!  Food needs to be cooked and the house needs to be cleaned.  “What’s the point of taking a shower,” I whine to myself, “When I’m just going to get sweaty and dirty and need another shower again in an hour or two?”

I don’t know if we’ll be showering in Heaven, but I do know that when I finally get into the shower, the warm water pouring over my body feels absolutely divine! (It’s even better if there are no little people banging on the bathroom door calling, “Mama!  What are you doing in there?  Mama!  I neeeeed you!”)

It turns out that part of God’s plan for us it to be clean.  (**Gasp!  Who knew???**)  We’ve all heard the expression, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” but did you know that showering and bathing regularly can actually help your health?  Consider this:

My friends at the White Creek Wellness Center regularly use baths and showers to help people improve their health. Here's a picture of the double tub in their hydrotherapy treatment room. Photo Credit: L & K Bauer

• Our bodies secrete toxins through the skin.  A warm bath or shower not only washes away the toxins on our skin but can open the pores and help to remove more toxins from our bodies.
• A warm bath or shower really helps me to de-stress… and as my doctor once told me, “Stress can cause just about any physical problem you can imagine!”  So being able to deal with stress is always a good thing!
• According to a 1993 study by the Thrombosis Research Institute in England, taking daily cold showers actually increases the number of white blood cells in our blood.  Since white blood cells fight viruses, this showering strengthens our immune system!  How about that?

So ladies, taking a shower is worth making time for!  Showering is not just about smelling better, it’s about feeling and living better, too!

Interested in more ways that water can be used to help promote health?  I highly recommend the book Home Remedies:  Hydrotherapy, Massage, Chracoal & Other Simple Treatments by Dr. Agatha Thrash!