When Creating a Home Spa, Think Peace and Serenity

Make your bath an oasis of relaxation and a place to escape the stress of the day

What could be more fun and exciting than creating a home spa? In these days of long work weeks, constant running to keep up with kids sports, school activites and other obligations, who couldn't use some personal pampering and relaxation time? On the other hand, with such a full schedule, who among us has time to set up some spa appointments to get that much needed spa pampering?

Do not despair. With some thought and planning, and with all the fixtures available today, it is possible to set up and create a home spa bathroom. You may be thinking at this point, "Yeah right. Like I have a ton of money to develop a spa bathroom." Have you given this any thought at all? Have you shopped the home stores and researched the Internet to see what products are available? For the price of a spa weekend getaway, you could have one or two of these spa options installed in your own home.

Creating a Home Spa is Creating an Experience

Therapies

• Water Therapy
  Water therapy is one of the easiest things to consider when creating a home spa. This can range from soaking in a claw foot tub to relaxing in the latest airjet bathtubs. If you have a whirlpool tub or one of the newer air jet baths, you also get the benefit of a relaxing massage for your body. By taking time to relax your mind and body, you provide healthful benefits to yourself.
  
  Pampering yourself is not selfish. When you feel well, healthy and stress free, it effects everyone around you. You are doing the world a favor when you take time to pamper and take care of your mind and body.
• Aromatherapy
  An aromatherapy spa feeling is achieved when you take time to add essential oils or natural bath salts to your bath. Various scents create different moods and help heal and relax your body. So breathe deeply and feel the power of the scents through every pore of your skin as you re-establish your inner harmony.
  
  There is an unlimited amount of information about this on the internet. Take some time to research this interesting subject in order to obtain the greatest benefits from your essential oils and bath salts. This is also an easy therapy to include when creating a home spa in your home.
• Sound Therapy
  Sound therapy is easy to incorporate when creating a home spa. A simple CD player is all you need. Of course if you are looking for that professional quality you find in a spa, you would need to update to a sound system with several speakers.
  
  Sound therapy is using sounds to balance our energy centers and vibrations to relax, energize and heal. Sound therapy works best if you resonate with the music. This should be music that relaxes you and does not make you want to get up and dance. Sound can put your mind into beta, alpha, delta, and theta, various states of relaxation. The slower the brain wave, the more relaxed you are.
  
  Sound therapy helps to recharge our mental capacities and perform better in a conscious state. It even brings us to a state of calmness, to feel more rested. One of the best producers of brain wave music is Dr.Jeffery Thompson. My particular favorite is Music for Brainwave Massage 2.0
• Chromotherapy
  Chromotherapy is the therapy of color. Want to be stimulated? Use red. Prefer soothing calmness? Blue is the color you are looking for. In general, warmer colors stimulate while the cooler colors of the sky and sea calm people.
  
  Chromotherapy is the latest spa amenity. You can purchase both chromotherapy tubs and showers to surround yourself with light and color to suit your mood. This is one of the more expensive options available when creating a home spa.
• Thermotherapy
  Thermotherapy is relaxing with heat. I'm sure you are all familiar with saunas. There are 2 types of saunas, steam and dry. Saunas stimulate the metabolism, soothe taut muscles, rejuvenate the skin, reduce stress and totally relax both mind and body. They also eliminate toxins and impurites through the pores. You will receive the same benefits from both steam or dry saunas. Newer models also come equipped with chromotherapy units.
  
  Another thermotherpy product is the steam shower. These showers have been a staple in many gyms and spas for years. They are now avaiable for home use. What is a steam shower? Basically, it is a small, enclosed room with a vapor-tight door that is equipped with a steam shower generator. The steam generator heats water to a boil and then delivers the resulting vapor into the enclosed room.
  
  These showers offer the same relaxing health benefits of a sauna without having to find space for an extra piece of equipment which is sometimes helpful when creating a home spa. These steam showers have been coming down in price and many homeowners are now adding them to their master baths as an affordable luxury.