Psychological unloading at the end of the year: Russian bath

From the point of view of psychology, a Russian bath isthe most unattainable ideal society in which all are equal. Whether you are a democrat or monarchist, general or ensign, director of a meat-packing plant or an honest thief, in a steam room everything is the same, except for small physiological differences. A stripped person is helpless in all respects, and, therefore, forced to become what he really is.

From the point of view of a psychologist, nothinghas to sincere conversation, like a joint trip on the train or a collective trip to the bath. We have not yet learned to confess to bearded uncles in cassocks, but to pour out the most intimate naked, pretty and absolutely unfamiliar, fat man in the locker room of the bath and laundry combine, and for the sweet soul.

New Year's campaign Zhenya Lukashin onlyrecorded the potential ability of a Russian person to turn a simple process of steaming bones and washing up individual members of the body into a layer of great deeds and great nonsense. The Russians of the male and before Ryazanov knew the cunning and witchcraft of their secret predilection for the steam room, but after legitimizing the basic bath attributes, they got into their hands the strongest ideological weapon in the fight against the weaker sex.

But a real Russian bath, if you userhetoric of proletarian poets, this is not a launching pad for sentimental relations, but a forge of health. In the light of the upcoming next New Year's Eve, it is on these health-improving methods of relaxation that we undermine the strange and unpredictable winter organism that we will stop.

All the delights of a real Russian bath

First, dry run through the medical indications:

• the skin begins to breathe, the pores (and possibly the chakras) open;


• pathogenic microorganisms capitulate already on the fifth minute of stay in the normal steam room;


• Lactic acid, together with heavy sweating - off;


• vegetative system, muscles relax;


• the joints stop grinding, the bones ache, the soul suffers.

If you sprinkle on the heater with allexisting herbal infusions (mint, St. John's wort, thyme, chamomile, etc.), then the best phytotherapy and emergency inhalation session of the respiratory system can not be recommended to you by any doctor. Take the eucalyptus broom and just fan them - your favorite cold in winter this winter, most likely, will not come.

Hardening of the body is not shown to everyone, butto test your body on the temperature contrasts is still worth it: for the person the main happiness is to know that he is not weaker than others and still something can. Treatment, rest, psychological relaxation: a Russian bath 3 in 1. It is a pity that this kit is not always available in conditions of our city baths. If you have not found your secret place in the communal space, there is an alternative.

New Year in a country bath

This option of meeting can afford onlyespecially clever men who pre-fussed and sent their wives, children and girlfriends to distant warm lands for the whole winter vacation. Bachelors in this case have a clear advantage. The holiday itself implies the departure of a friendly company to the nearest or remote suburban areas with the subsequent relaxation of all the places that have been strained for a year on the body.

We collected and literally processed the collectivethe opinion of many respondents about such an extreme ban race, in the end, the following happened. Actually, the preparatory bath procedure (dragging water from a well, harvesting firewood, heating, searching and soaking brooms) could not be remembered by any of the participants.

Obviously, the good old Grandfather Frost erased the memory. The number of trips to the therma, as well as the frequency of jerks along the snow-covered area to the house behind the additive, could not be determined. Admissible for publication epithets sounded something like this: planted trees here, why do you need so many beds, you could hang up lanterns, what uncivilized person put the red-hot brazier on my way for the fourth time, why the snow is so prickly, etc.

The New Year was notall, practically to no one. But the aroma of steamed birch and oak brooms, the taste of a shish kebab, a stupid bathing in the snow and long philosophical conversations in the dressing room for some reason remembered all the tested. Apparently, human memory is selective, and for complete relaxation it is necessary not to remember something, but as much as possible to forget. Nothing will be bad if you meet the New Year clean. Enjoy Your Bath!

Author: Katerina Sergeenko