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Soak in Salt and Soda

Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt in Beautiful Spaces, Blog Favorites, Clearing, Clutter, Cultivating, Ease & Simplicity, Humor & Joy, Mindfulness, Nourishing Self-Care, Practices & Tips, Related Writings, The Journey, Your Spacious Self

Here is a wonderful remedy to help you integrate deep clearing work – or any time you feel jangled, stuck, or plain fried after a long day. This remedy came to me from a healer and colleague, Desda Zuckerman, who adapted it from Edgar Cayce.

Taking a Salt and Soda Bath or Shower is the third way to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter.*

Here’s how it works:

• Combine equal parts coarse sea salt (not Epsom Salt) with Arm and Hammer Baking Soda.
• For a shower, [after you've shampooed, soaped and rinsed off] make a paste in your palm and rub it all over your body, including your hair, and shower off.
• For a bath, just pour into the tub and soak.
• It doesn’t matter if it’s a cup to a cup or a teaspoon to a teaspoon, as long as it’s equal parts of sea salt and soda.

I buy my coarse sea salt in bulk at my local natural food store, and the baking soda in the 10-pound bag they sell at Costco. Both last me a long while. I mix a four-cup batch at a time (2 cups of each) in a jar and keep it next to the tub. Both salt and soda have a way of absorbing all kinds of unsavory energies, so make sure the bags you store are well sealed.

Next up: “Refresh (and Beautify) with Water.”

*Learn 5 ways to ease the symptoms and support a successful clearing practice in these five blog posts [located sequentially in the Archives for July 2009, or found individually by entering titles in the Search box]:

• Press Pause, Step Back
• Reduce and Repeat
• Soak in Salt and Soda
• Refresh and Beautify with Water
• Do Nothing: Reflections on the Art of Non-Doing

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Tags: Clearing Side-Effects, Conscious Clutter Clearing, Gentle Self-Care