Beach Living for Ultimate Potential

ThomasMcGregor

We have all heard someone say, “Some day I’m going to live by the ocean!”, and maybe that someone was you. Nevertheless, we all have some association with living near a large body of water. The numbers are in and more people flock to beach site living every year chasing the idea of a calmer frame of mind on the beach. This way of thinking may not be as far fetch as it sounds. The research has shown that living by the beach has massive benefits for our health and well-being. Don’t be dismayed if you don’t live by the beach, you can benefit by visiting the beach on a regular vacational basis. Good news!

We have all heard someone say, “Some day I’m going to live by the ocean!”, and maybe that someone was you. Nevertheless, we all have some association with living near a large body of water. The numbers are in and more people flock to beach site living every year chasing the idea of a calmer frame of mind on the beach. This way of thinking may not be as far fetch as it sounds. The research has shown that living by the beach has massive benefits for our health and well-being. Don’t be dismayed if you don’t live by the beach, you can benefit by visiting the beach on a regular vacational basis. Good news!

Beach Living for Ultimate Potential
Who Doesn’t Love The Beach?

There are wonderful positives to living close to the ocean or on the beach. Those who can afford to buy property right on the beach will get even greater advantages. The view out of the windows alone is worth every penny spent to live close to the large bodies of water. Coastal properties are also in high demand and make for good rental properties, i.e a good investment. The small town beach communities can  make for  living near the coast an attractive way to spend your time away from the water — yet still close.

Pacific Beach, California
Pacific Beach, California

A wonderful example of a great place to visit or move to is Pacific Beach, Ca. O. S Hubbell founded Pacific Beach, California(with some help) and developed it from 1886 and 1888. He did most of the work and built a racetrack in order to draw attention to location. Though the racetrack no longer exists, other attractions have been built-in the area, which continue to attract people to Pacific Beach from around the world.

With an image like Pacific Beach, we can only imagine how beach living can aid in our ability to live a healthy life, basking in ultimate well-being.

In a recent HuffPost publication, Tanya Lewis cites current research that backs up this claim. She states that epidemiologist Lora Fleming of the University of Exeter in England and colleagues at the University of Exeter’s European Centre for the Environment and Human Health have begun a project called “Blue Gym” to study how natural water environments can be used to promote human health and well-being. [Stunning Sands Gallery: A Rainbow of Beaches]

In one experiment, study participants were shown photographs of ocean views, green fields or cities, and asked how much they were willing to pay for a hotel room with each of those views. People were willing to pay more for the room with an ocean view, the results showed.

When you put a person in a beach environment, “It’s not going to be any great surprise to you that people relax,” said study researcher Mathew White, an environmental psychologist at Exeter. The question, he said, is how many people experience such health effects, and how much they impact people’s health.[HP1]

Is it possible that our physiology, and therefore our mind, changes due to our environment? This would explain that people that work in grey-walled office environments summer from depression and bipolar conditions. Just as in nature, we also are effected in many ways by the environment we are inhabiting. If we are in an environment that fortifies free thinking and creativity, we tend to be happier because we establish a sense of human growth. By living, or visiting, a beach environment we set ourselves up for success and longevity due to the freedom and sense of ease we get from simply being in the fresh environment.

When we look out on the open ocean, what do we see? We see beauty, vastness, and something bigger than us. What does this mean? This means we see something new, slightly scary, and ego-less. When we are in this environment we find that everyone is relaxing almost instantaneously. As humans we don’t feel as though we are living unless we are growing. The ocean has the ability to enable us to move into the frame of mind that stimulates inner growth. Maybe growth is that simple; visit the ocean and grow to your ultimate potential.

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