But what is this".

Alone and amazed in the

hydromassage

bathtub , in the dark except for some lines of interesting blue light, the smell of

essential oil

climbing up my nose, I remember the seven

Jacuzzi brothers,

and specifically Candido, who, to relieve the pain of His son, who suffered from

rheumatoid arthritis

, modified one of the hydraulic pumps made by the family business to convert the

bathtub

at home into one that

expelled bubbles.

With this gesture of generosity, he invented an object, the jacuzzi, which made his family a millionaire and immersed bubble fans in tons of good times.

The fact is that I think that the seven Jacuzzi would hallucinate with the bathtub in which I am in right now, where I experience the first phase of a treatment called

Detox Hydroenergetic Cure.

Then there will be a

marine wrap

(phytofangotherapy) on a massaging

water bed

and finally a revitalizing

aquatic lash with a hydrojet.

But we haven't gotten there yet, and for the moment what happens is that I can't believe my

feelings

, so I make a conscious effort to concentrate on them, because the 17 minutes I'll be in this bathtub -whose bubbles run through your body in phases and lift you off the bottom, giving you a magical feeling of

weightlessness

- I always want to remember them.

Because for me these bubbles are pleasure.

So.

As it is.

Although it is true that there are as many ways of conceiving

pleasure

as there are people;

for me it is closely linked to

discovery

.

For this reason, and now I rewind, here I am, two days before my

religious experience

in the hot tub, one night in November, arriving at the exclusive SHA Wellness Clinic like someone disembarking from one of Columbus's three ships in Guanahaní, delivered to the

adventure

although aware of the possibility of finding an obstacle along the way.

The obstacle, ahem, would be me.

For example, will I like the hyper-healthy

food

served at your

SHAmadi restaurant?

Its nutrition, they say, is "balanced, natural and alkalizing, designed according to the constitution and condition of each person to cover nutritional needs, providing all the necessary energy value, promoting health without sacrificing flavor."

Okay, but would I like to eat this healthy for four days?

Whether I like it or not, I'm going to do it, that's why I've come, to give myself one hundred percent to a program called Rebalance whose objective is "to recover general well-being thanks to a learning experience and disconnection in an ideal environment."

At the moment, I am disembarking in this place full of healthy mysteries nestled in one of the most beautiful hills in the province of

Alicante

, on the

bay of El Albir,

next to Altea, and with the mythical Puig Campana on one side of the views.

As I arrive at night, the lobby shines like a polished geode, a premonitory portal to a world that I imagine for the chosen ones, the place where they come to get anti-

stress cures,

quit smoking,

lose kilos

or simply let themselves be pampered for a few days.

The luxury of taking care of yourself at SHA begins by talking

It must be said that no matter how much the SHA is called a

wellness clinic,

its skin is a

five-star hotel.

That is why you are breathless when at dawn the next day you are overwhelmed, in suite 304, by the spectacular panorama of the bay.

Once answered, a morning full of commitments arrives: meeting with the

agenda manager;

advanced preventive diagnosis

with a bunch of

machines

that will measure your body from top to bottom, from the inside out, and find out what proportion of fat, lean matter, bones, water, minerals... is in it;

medical examination with

Dr. Baeza;

nutrition

consultation

with Natalia Restrepo, with whom you will review your habits, your resolutions and your eating nonsense.

All this, before the meal.

Later, in the

Fitness room,

they will do a functional assessment of my body (it turns out that I'm not as rusty as I thought).

Later,

SHA Detox therapy

(an experience, that massage with cupping).

Will I have time to get to know the spa?

Well yes, I find time to dedicate to the award-

winning spa

at SHA, so relaxing that I almost fell asleep playing dead in the pool.

When a day later I have already gone through an acupuncture

session

, the mythical

hydroenergetic detox cure

and the

body Indiba, I

begin to observe that all these treatments, consultations and therapies begin to have an effect on me.

I may not agree with everything I hear, or what is proposed to me, but I confess that all the professionals I have spoken with have given me food for serious reflection on my current

lifestyle

and how important it is to shake it up. and improve it.

Even if you know it, sometimes you need to talk to someone to listen to you... And listen to you.

To your body, come on, that blessed one.

My little glass of cider vinegar

On my last day at SHA I have gotten used to starting

dinner

with a glass of

water with cider vinegar

and ending it with an

apple infusion with kuzu

.

Of course: it still seems miraculous to me that a seitan lasagna can be so delicious, or that after three days without dairy products I don't miss them.

What is clear to me at this point is that I will miss the

Facial Foaming Enzyme

session and the

deep tissue massage session,

in which I am about to propose to the masseuse.

In the end it will turn out that I will be sorry to leave here.

I review what I have experienced, look for connections and understand the concept:

true luxury,

in the end, it is within you.

And it is the people of the SHA -I know, I am getting dangerously close to the cliff of kitsch-, more than the food or the treatments themselves, the ones that teach you to locate it, catch it and not let it escape, a fortune inside that body that it is, at the very least, your best possession.

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