Posted on 07/23/2014 5:17:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ha...you don’t live in Oregon.
I live 45 minutes from the ocean. When I’m stressed out that’s where I go, the sound the smell the sun.....it’s very relaxing.
A lake getaway is great too.
I’m 8 miles from the beach, but I have a nice pool with a lake just beyond the pool. I love the water... ocean, bay, lakes, rivers... they’re all good. I like the birds and life that’s around the water too.
The sound of the ocean is music to my ears. The smell of the ocean is stimulating. The sensations from the ocean are like a full body massage.
I live 3 blocks from the Pacific, and it is very relaxing, even though it is a constant roar.
Living in the desert, I get my biggest water fix when I sit on the stool.
I do like seeing the rushing water. I also like to sun myself for at least a twenty minute period. I think of the sand turtle as my model.
Bump!!
No ocean beaches around, but soaking in the hot tub, gazing at the Montana night sky is bliss.
ping
“Can Simply Being Near the Ocean Wash Away Stress?”
Having grown up within earshot of the ocean, the smell of the ocean, spent my youth with fishing pole in hand on the beach, the offshore fishing barge, the all day boats, AND a lifetime working in the harbor then moving to, and living in the Inland Empire for the past 27 years I can assure all that indeed one can know the difference.
Yes simply being near the ocean does wash away stress.
Funny how the occupants of most of California’s oceanfront properties are screaming Leftists anymore. To the point one prefers the stress.
I have my own isolated little lake and cabin. Nearest dwelling is 3/4 mile away.
That must be nice, too! I love camping! I guess it doesn’t much matter if it’s a lake, a river, a brook, or the ocean...they all make me relax!
“Deep calls to Deep”
Psalm 42:7
In a month, I will be sitting on my balcony watching the waters of the inside passage slip by.
Peaceful.
It does for Me...
As a kid oh those many moons ago this old dude was transplanted to the south shore of Long Island two blocks from the Ocean becoming a beach rat and later Life guard where I breathed, inhaled the salty air and sea until all became a part of me Forty three years ago I relocated to a small abode surrounded by Peconic Bay Tidal waters beaches less than 100 yards away in all directions. My Daily bathe in these waters is and has been a second Baptism and Miraculous stress dissipater and I would not live anywhere else.
Can’t afford a house on the beach so I now live in a boat in the harbor. I’d say it’s cut way down on stress. Plus, no lawn to mow.
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