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The Very
Best Stress Relief Product of
All
You can call
just about anything a stress relief product. There are those
little ashtrays full of sand that people call desktop golf,
worry stones and stress balls, or herbs and vitamins
supplements. One stress relief product soothes away your stress
with “tachyon energy.”
All of those
products might be helpful, but none of them hits the top of the
list. What would be at the top of your list? What is the best
stress relief product of all time? I think it’s a three-way
tie. The very best stress relief products of all are good food,
bed or a bath.
Food
This is a bit
tongue-in-cheek, because this type of food really doesn’t help
with stress relief in the long run. In fact, physiologically,
it gives you a sugar rush, and then your blood sugar plummets
so that you want more food, and it sends you into a physically
stressful cycle.
A nice, hot,
juicy hamburger sure feels like it relieves stress, though. So
does creamy cheesecake, or smooth, cool vanilla ice cream with
hot fudge poured over it – you get my drift. Food sure feels
like the best stress relief product of all
time.
Bed
This is a bit
more realistic, since rest and sleep really do help with
stress. So maybe a good bed is the best stress relief product
money can buy. It can’t be just any bed, though; it has to be a
luxurious bed, like one of those pillow top beds or a sleep
number bed, with a down featherbed on top of it that’s about
six inches thick and a big pile of down pillows. It’s got to
have soft, warm blankets and clean, smooth Egyptian cotton
sheets. You just snuggle into all that down and good cotton,
relax, and go to sleep. That’s stress relief, and that makes a
good bed the best stress relief product you can
get.
Bath
Again, any old
bath won’t do. To qualify as the best stress relief product,
this bath has to be something special. It has to be big and
deep, so that you can sink down into warm water. It needs jets
to massage your sore muscles, and have lots of aromatherapy
candles or maybe some scented bath salts. (Bubble bath and
jetted tubs don’t go together very well, so we’ll use bath
salts instead.)
It could be a
color therapy bathtub (honest, they do sell color therapy
bathtubs), and we’d use soothing colors like blue and green.
Play some gentle music and soak your stress away. A bath like
that is costly, but we’re talking about a stress relief product
here – it’s for your health.
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