In honour of World Water Week this week in Stockholm, let’s explore this year’s theme of “Water Cooperation – Building Partnerships” with a spicy discussion on sanitation – the daily showering habits.
Now the purpose of the shower is to get clean. It doesn’t take that long to quickly refresh your skin and neutralize the expired pheromones lingering on your body past their due date, so as long as you don’t have an ulterior motive skulking around in the recesses of your subconscious mind, you will likely not have an emotional attachment to the length of time you spend in all your naked glory.
An emotional attachment to a habit operates at the subconscious level making it much more difficult for you to replace it, but not impossible.
For instance, let’s assume that you have an intimate morning ritual disguised as a commitment to keep your air space fresh and inviting that is near and dear to your heart (or other part of your body). Then may I suggest you find a different location and time in which to perform said ulterior habit. Alternatively, you can just speed up the work(it)out until it fits within a 1-minute time frame .
NOTE: making haste of such a ritual only applies to us women. Men, do NOT speed up that habit…Please!!!
Permit me to be so bold as to say that unless you shower for at least 20 minutes, dear male Woman Not Waiting supporter, it would serve your extracurricular activities best to focus on one task, and I do mean making sure you are socially acceptable in the olfactory department.
If you can’t possibly imagine going cold jerky I mean turkey, but you still want to make changes in the spirit of water cooperation, you might opt to continue the long lathering sessions with the water OFF until the tipping point…where the soap just cakes on your body. Then water-blast away— a seemingly excellent compromise. However, more water would be needed and indeed more vigorous rubbing would be required to remove the crusty natural fragrance-free oatmeal bar cling-ons from your body bits.
At first, you may say: “Hey! Then I can still keep to schedule and get all my morning deeds done AND still save some water. It beats the 20 minutes, right?
Hmmm. Indeed it does, but at a slithering cost that will bite you in your end.
Remember this year’s water week theme? “Water Cooperation” AND “building partnerships”. All the dry rubbing against your skin as the soap turns to crust will just give you dry snake scales or worse…shriveled shrinkage. Business would definitely not continue as usual.
So what’s the solution? The 1-minute shower!
Yes, I know. It’s a paradigm shift, but it works.
First, replace the unproductive habit with a productive one by repeating the following affirmation 100 times before snuggling in every night for a month and acting on it every morning (record it, loop it, and play it as you fall asleep. You might even get a nightly bonus too):
“I am so happy and grateful now that I share my vim and vigor with my partner immediately after waking and improve our partnership bottom line.”
Or for those of us who are temporarily solo in the mist…”I am so happy and grateful now that I am doing something extremely creative that I could not possibly share on this post.” Nudge nudge. Wink wink.
Or choose a salacious affirmation of your own, censor it, and share it as a comment below (e-mail me the uncensored version of course. Heeheehee!)
Next, stretch those muscles to stay loose and limber for tomorrow.
Then, head to the 1-minute shower: 10 seconds to soak, however long to lather with the water off, then 50 seconds to rinse. If your hair poses a particular challenge, then perhaps sneaking a peak at my own Secrets In The Shower might help.
So there you have it…and once you “get it”, you’ll never regret it. 😉
Photo Credit
Shower – By OhKyleL on Flickr – Some Rights Reserved
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