Project #4 of 78 Things to Do When You Are 78

Take a Music Bath.

Take a long soak in a hot tub, and wash away your tension. A shower is fine, for getting the body clean, but when the spirit needs cleansing, nothing beats a warm, luxurious drawn-out bath.

You may not have thought about a bath as a Pleasurizer, but this is no ordianry, hasty tubbing.
1. Plan to spend at least thirty minutes in the tub.
2. Let the message machine take any calls.
3. Put on your favorite music-to-tub-by in a nearby room. Have a tape or CD ready for this purpose. If you don't have an appropriate CD, sing or hum yourself a tranquil tune.

Oliver Wendell Holmes thought the music more essential than the water. He said, "Take a music bath once or twice a week...you will find that it is to the soul what the water is to the body." Most high-stress persons who have discovered this way of pleasure, prefer both--water and music--in combination.

When the world is too much with you and you feel like throwing in the towel, get out your thickest, most absorbent one instead--and run yourself a music bath. Even the small waterfall sound of the tub filling is a de-stressor!

Add candles and scent, bubbles, from dishwashing liquid, are good, bubble bath, a rubber duck if you like, or a book, a folded up towel to support your head. All this to brighten your life as they lighten your load.