A water garden big or small, indoors or outdoors may give some healthy benefits and here’s some research to prove it.  I’ll cover the following subjects:

• Healing Negative Ions
• Wabisabi Stress Buster
• Sound Therapy
• Feng Shui

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Healing Negative Ions:  Water Gardens may be a source of Negative Ions.  Here’s some healthy data you might find interesting.

Did you notice when you’re outdoor’s you feel better – you feel good don’t you!  You know why?  Cause it’s because of negative ions!  Negative ions are charged particles of oxygen.

According to Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D., author of The Owner’s Manual For The Brain, multitudes of negative ions can be found near beaches, mountains and moving bodies of water.  When negative ions are inhaled, they produce a chemical reaction within our bodies boosting serotonin levels that are instrumental in lifting our mood, making us feel much better.

Doctor Howard goes on to say “The air at the beach contains negative ions, but in homes and offices, there may be only a few hundred – or even zero.”  Getting a good helping of negative ions improves our health.  Howard goes on to say “The result is that our moods rise, our stress dissolves, we have more energy and we even sleep better at night.”

Ion researcher Michael Terman Ph.D., at Columbia University states, “At the shore, it’s the pounding of the surf on land that creates negative ions in the air.  But thunderstorms do the same thing, by pounding the earth with heavy rains.”  Terman goes on to say “Negative ions seem to be most plentiful in humid environments.  So if you expose yourself to humidity, you’ll likely get an energizing and mood-lifting dose of negative ions.”  So if your not out in the wilderness, just step outside on your porch after a thunderstorm has long passed and get a good helping of negative ions – heck open up the windows to get the whole house full of negative ions!

So next time you’re outdoors and are feeling blue, feeling down in the dumps, or a survivor in your group has a bad attitude, – instead of slapping that whacked-out survivor around or securing him 50-meters downwind next to your latrine, GO STATIC near a beach, moving water source, mountains,… or hunker down after a thunderstorm and collect some healing healthy negative ions and carry-on with the 8 Elements of Survival (Fire, Water, Shelter, First-Aid, Signal, Food, Weapons and Navigation).

Negative ions have been studied to have the following positive effects on the body:

• Improve one’s energy
• Improve mood
• Fight depression
• Fight fatigue
• Reduce or eliminate stress
• Improve sleep

But what if I want negative ions in my home right now 24-hours a day?  You can purchase a negative ion generator which are found at your local hardware stores.

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Wabisabi Stress Buster:  Japanese practice the stress-busting effects of a philosophy called Wabisabi.  It’s a practice of appreciating nature.  Research has proven that just looking at nature scenes INSTANTLY lowers heartbeat & respiration and calms the nervous system.  And a water garden with its pond plants and surround plants around the water garden may act as a Wasabi Stress Buster.

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Sound Therapy:  Sound Therapy is based on the idea that sound and music can influence our health through both its calming and energizing effects on the brain hypothalamus and central nervous system.  Sound Therapy is used in hospitals, schools, and psychological treatment programs to alleviate pain, improve movement and balance, lower blood pressure, overcome various learning disabilities, promote endurance & strength, and reduce stress!

Water gardens provide the sounds of flowing and splashing water.  The sounds promote better moods, counter toxic sounds like loud music, loud traffic, loud motorcycles, barking dogs, loud neighbors,…

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Feng Shui:  According to Feng Shui, WATER is the symbol of wealth and prosperity.  Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway) is an ancient Chinese Art of Placement.  In modern times, placement or lack of placement of house (office buildings, work place…),  entrances, furnishings, stairways, walls, windows, plants, walkways, beds, trees, trails, improved roads (asphalt), colors, room shape,… are utilized to achieve a balanced flow of what the Chinese call chi or prana or universal life force.

Feng Shui also called Geomancy is the art of manipulating your fate in your favor by using Feng Shui to invite prosperity, health, and happiness.  Feng Shui’s goal is to establish a harmonious balance of chi throughout your house, office, workplace,…

Water flows in the water garden should be facing the entrance into the house.

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Water Garden Lessons Learned!————————————Hot Tub Turned Into A Water Garden!

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