I don't know if I can answer this question without crying...

The Epsom salts are made of magnesium sulfate. Magnesium is awesome for a lot of reasons. Magnesium helps our bodies handle calcium more efficiently, helps muscles relax if they are sore and painful, aids in enzymatic action, assists with other minerals, boosts energy, etc. Although most people probably don't have a true magnesium deficiency, sometimes your body can be out of whack due to acidic conditions, and your magnesium levels can become imbalanced. If you are magnesium imbalanced, you can become moooooody, suffer from anxiety/panic, have heart palpitations, get muscle spasms, and suffer from insomnia.

I was doing all of that.

When you do a detox bath, your pores open up and you sweat like the dickens. You know your skin is your largest organ, and it is just beautiful in function. You know our skin is porous, like a sponge. We can sweat, releasing toxins into the water as we soak in the tub, and we can soak up goodies, like the magnesium from the Epsom salts, or the herbs we choose to soak in, as in the Cold Sheet Treatment herbs. Taking detox baths is just another way to get the bad out and the good in.

For me, detox baths elevate my heart rate a little. I get to exercise my heart, when it isn't really easy for me to exercise in other ways. I don't know if everybody's heart rate elevates.

The tears are because I did a ton of emotional work in the tub. I'd be in there every other night... sometimes I needed to do the emotional work every night...for a good 20-30 minutes, and sometimes longer if I was having a particularly deep emotional experience. I had a "ton" of built up negative emotions that I was harboring. These toxic emotions were killing me, pretty literally. I did EFT some, but I did most of the emotional work while I was in the tub. I went all over the place emotionally- revisted some really traumatic experiences in my past- the kinds of memories you lock up in a closet and you never want to open again. I did the "womb" thing- you know, as a "safe place." I did a mountain of self-examination- why do I act like this? Why do I accept this? It felt like I released an enormous emotional tumor, that was every bit as real to me as a physical one would be. It was gross. I was ashamed. But I had to let this garbage out, and it came out through gut-wrenching tears and even dry heaves sometimes.

I did other things, too, Solmare, to balance all this heavy work out. Just to name a few, I went out into my back yard and just laid in the grass to ground myself and fill my lungs with good, fresh air, and feel the sun on my skin. I connected to Nature out there in a way I never had before. It was sweet. I learned a little tai chi, qi gong, and yoga. I did a massively huge declutter in my house of everything that I had a bad memory associated with it. I created a "sanctuary" that was my own personal space out of a spare bedroom. My kities love it in there. :) I worked out. I danced. I sang. I started a new business. I drank a bunch of green drinks, and played around with making my own protein drinks using raw cacao and things like maca. I got rid of a bunch of clothes that don't fit any more. I started speaking my truth. I dumped some toxic "friends," and literally became a recluse for a full year in order to do this.

I know you didn't ask for all that, but when I said I "loved" detox baths, this is why. I don't expect anyone else would experience all this, nor would I ask them to. It's just what I needed. By doing all this work, I feel like I know who I am now. And I like who I am. :)

Anyway, we are triune beings. Sometimes we can have either emotional or spiritual blocks which hinder us from healing physically. Sometimes it's the spiritual or emotional stuff that is causing our physical issues. We have to be willing to look at *everything* and change whatver needs to be changed.

I still have stuff to work on, but man, do I feel more centered and grounded.

Wings

I "write for a living" now, and collaborate with editors on an almost daily basis. One time I wrote a "Health Benefits of XYZ" article, and my health and wellness editor almost didn't publish it. She wrote me a kind note, saying my article was excellent, but it only told half of the story. She led me to a couple of links which told of  "horrors" that had occurred from taking this very widely accepted alternative health care product. She asked me to edit my article to be a "Benefits and Risks of XYZ" article. I did, and my article got published.

I agree, my positive post on ES was biased, based on my personal experiences. I should have presented a more fair and balanced report on it, and I'm glad you took the time to present the other side. I am learning... :)

I do have to say, for the readers of this forum, that hot ES baths are not mentioned anywhere in the Schulze/Christopher reference materials, that I can recall. However, ES baths have been a tremendous part of my healing story of late, and I wanted to pass this info along.

Yes, yes, yes, as with *everything* else, please always do your own homework and use the brain God gave you before jumping on any kind of protocol.  What works for one person may be detrimental if not downright dangerous for another. That's why there is not a "one size fits all" magic wand protocol or treatment or whatever you want to call it. I did say that if you have any heart-related issues, check with Uny before doing this. But I didn't think about kidney or adrenal issues possibly contra-indicating ES baths, because I don't have these issues.

Thank you, Uny. I'll do my best to be more balanced with future posts. :)

Wings