It isn’t exactly science, but there are actual medicinal qualities that the lighting of a candle offers to the stressed and disrupted body or mind. The use of candles in spas and health massage parlors is rapidly increasing in popularity, so much so that those who cannot afford a weekly trip to the spa will do all possible in their own bathtub and sleeping quarters to replicate that Zen, peaceful feeling conducive to healing, rejuvenation, and mental cleansing. And this Always includes candles. Why is that?
Could it be that as humans, with all of our stress and pain, worry and hectic running, emotional turmoil and fatigue, we just are not capable of clearing our minds of all things when we are supposed to be relaxing? Even during the most amazing massage or skin treatment, the mind is often twirling with feelings of guilt, pressure, lack of time, and work days gone awry. We never seem to master the full effects of complete freedom… until we gaze at the swaying, methodically wild, completely understated flame of a burning candle.
It is here that the human psyche can find the displacement and calm hypnosis that allows us to fade away from the physical world, without even realizing what has happened. The only thing that I have found to be as naturally distracting and soothing as the flame of a candle under mild darkness is the clean wash and transfixing sounds of warm spring rain. Many attempt to simulate the calming, relaxing action of warm spring rain by sitting on the shower floor.
All of this natural cleansing and hypnotic therapy for just pennies each day? No expensive sessions or dragging up painful memories of that time when your mom forgot you at the grocery store? No other symbol, treatment, therapy, or method can do what the lighting and watching of one simple candle can. Try this… it really works.