Salt is a staple across cultures, used for enhancement, preservation, protection and cleansing. Regularly taking salt baths may help cleanse negative energy from head to toe. How? Let’s explore.
“It is used in Wiccan practices as protection. In India, it represents goddess Lakshmi. In the Bible, a reference discusses using salt to counteract sins, while salt circles are commonly used in rituals to protect the space,” says Ajay Kumar Parakkal, intuitive energy healer and founder Moksa Crystals, Gurugram. He says that although science hasn’t considered salt to be able to remove any negative ions, salt water may help produce low-level electrical pulses, similar to the experience of those who practice Reiki and other forms of healing.
“Salt is essentially a crystal, and crystals have this great ability to change wave patterns around us. Because salt is alkalizing, it takes away heavy, humid energy from the environment,” says Nidhi Pandya Bhanshali, a third-generation classically trained Ayurvedic practitioner who practices between Mumbai and New York. Salt’s qualities are unctuous, hot, piercing, and kindling to the digestive fire. She provides the example of how salt is used to melt snow in the West to illustrate its sharp, piercing attributes. According to Bhandshali, the other qualities of salt are that it breaks bonds and penetrates channels, along with a ‘scraping’ effect that also makes it a popular ingredient in oil enemas as it breaks up the build-up within the colon and intestines.
“Salt can be used to energetically cleanse and draw moisture from healing stones that cannot be washed under water and is also used to cleanse one’s space and body by adding it to a base, like water,” explains Parakkal. This is why salt baths are highly ranked in wellness practices as they’re said to remove negative energy.
Since wellness is the new currency of luxury, the usage of salt has become prevalent, especially within detox remedies.
“Detoxification is an overused and misunderstood buzzword from the past, to be exact, the spas of the 1990s,” says Colin G Hall, a spa and well-being advisor and the founder of Spa Wallah. “The body naturally eliminates toxins itself; however, essential oils, salts, and other natural minerals can support this elimination,’ he explains. “Himalayan, Dead Sea, and Epsom salts can be used in assisting the body to draw out impurities, ease aches and pains and remove dead skin cells, oil and dirt,” says Hall. “In salt scrubs infused in oil, the salt’s mineral ions penetrate the skin, stimulating regeneration, thus rejuvenating and rebalancing the complexion.”
Whether it’s in indulgent spa practices or simply as a soak, scrub, or an aura cleansing wash, salt is used in various ways.The best part? Salt baths cost very little and are always available at a moment’s notice.
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