MENS FELICITAS IN CORPUS DIVINUM… (or…getting mellow…by just floating along…)

The health mavens of our world have apparently come up with another means of achieving…Mens Felicitas In Corpus Divinum. Pardon our fractured Latin here but the meaning is…a happy mind in a divine bod, or…getting mellow…by just floating along.

This time they seem to have spent some time studying the beneficial effects to be found from a regular regimen of…just floating in an enclosed box of water, well saturated with Epsom salts (to help keep you from submerging), and warmed to match your body’s temperature. A combination which is claimed to greatly relieve the stresses of modern living, lower blood pressure, reduce insomnia, ease arthritic aches and pains…and so on.

We’re not sure how well that might work for most of us. For one thing, some folks have all the “floatation” characteristics of a piece of concrete. For another, lying in a tub of warm water saturated with Epsom salts for any length of time would probably have most of us end up looking like wrinkled prunes, and, leave us as limp as well-cooked linguini…requiring some kind of lifting mechanism just to get us out of it. Of course, much the same effects are looked for with things like yoga, aroma therapy, sauna time, so this may just be one more addition for health maniacs to add to their portfolios of apps for keeping fit and in shape (apparently unaware that…round…is a shape).

But…if floating all alone in a closed box full of water…isn’t your idea of getting healthy, you may recall how some years ago these same health mavens, after a decade-long study, had come to the conclusion that the best way to relieve stress, keep fit, and even prevent mental disease, was to just engage in a very regular regimen of good old-fashioned…sex.

Which leads us to wonder…could both of these methods be combined? Now that…would be an awesome app indeed.

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