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DAILY PLAN FOR HEALTHY SKIN: PREPARING FOR BED
It takes about three hours for such a meal to digest, so it will be wise to spend most of this time without undertaking anything very strenuous. This will mean that the time will be reached when it will be necessary to prepare for bed. The skin sufferer should spend the last half-hour of the day stimulating the skin and toning up the muscular system. If it is indicated a bath will be taken – perhaps the Epsom salts bath – and this will use up at least thirty minutes of the time. If the bath is taken in the strenuous way which we have described in an earlier chapter then no further exercises will be necessary. On the other hand it may be the evening for an air-bath and some exercises to stimulate the circulation.
The room should be warm but well aired and the whole of the body should be exposed. The skin needs airing in this way after being covered with clothes all day and nothing is more refreshing to the system. At the same time a few exercises may be undertaken to prevent chilling and to tone up the muscles. There is no need to practice any set system. If one is used to a few exercises that one likes, all well and good; if not, then keeping in mind the idea of a circle is a very good way of inventing them. Try to circle the head, then the upper part of the body, then lift one arm and circle it, then the other; lift one leg and do the same; then the other, and so on. If you have been stooping most of the day, then try to stretch the opposing muscles; if you have been standing most of the day, do some exercises sitting on a chair and using the upper part of the body; if you have been sitting during working time, then try circling the feet and the legs so as to equalize the circulation. If you have a mirror, take a look at your figure and then try to adopt a better standing position. Watch yourself when you move around, and try to correct some of the mistakes you make in carrying yourself. In this way ten minutes’ exercise can be done without any boredom at all and with great benefit to yourself. And if the body is unclothed the skin will be stimulated so that the sweat and the sebaceous glands will function properly.
Children who have a tendency to skin troubles should be trained from quite early days to take an air-bath in this way, and by the time they are grown up they will be able to expose their skin in quite cold air with no danger of “catching” cold. As a matter of fact taking air-baths in this way is one of the best ways of preventing colds, because a healthy skin is one of the best safeguards against all kinds of coughs and colds. The person who catches colds and suffers from chills is most likely to be one who wraps up too warmly and coddles himself too much. By exposing the skin to the air he will be able to “harden” himself and prevent the recurrent colds.
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