Full Description
A fresh introduction to 'blue health', The Healing Power of Water shows how building a new relationship with water can calm stress, awaken clarity and enrich your body and mind.
From coastlines and rivers to lakes and rain, ocean advocate and Blue Health Coach™ Lizzi Larbalestier combines academic research and lived experience to encourage you to discover some of the many ways water heals and how you can connect more deeply with it.
This photographic-rich book includes:
Guided practices: breathwork, short meditations, and sensory exercises you can do wherever you are.
Practical activities: rituals and thought experiments, as well as physical activities such as snorkelling and surfing, to cultivate simple everyday habits and bring blue health into your routine.
Evidence and explanation: accessible summaries of the latest scientific research on how water improves health.
Eco-centred perspective: reflections on stewardship and how deepening your relationship with water supports planetary as well as personal wellbeing.
Beautiful imagery: evocative photography and illustrations that make the book a tactile, coffee-table companion as well as a practical guide.
Whether you live by the sea or seek peace of mind in busy urban spaces, The Healing Power of Water offers science-informed tools to reduce anxiety, sharpen attention, restore vitality and cultivate a more fluid way of living. This is the perfect book for wellness readers, mindfulness practitioners and anyone wanting to develop their blue health.
Let The Healing Power of Water be your invitation to slow down and connect with water, to fall in love with it in the many ways it shows up in your life, and to enhance your mental and physical wellbeing, whilst helping protect the planet's most vital natural feature.
For more ways to connect with nature, discover other books in the series, The Healing Power of Trees and The Healing Power of Sound.
Contents
Introduction
1. What is Blue Health?
2. Humanity and water: an ancient partnership
3. How water influences our mood
4. How water awakens our senses
5. Taking time to connect with water
6. The life-enhancing gifts of water
Endnotes
Dedication & Acknowledgements
About the author, photographers & illustrator
Index
