SHOWERING
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© June 2025, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
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An article about how to take a shower may seem trivial. However, it is quite important.
First, it is a very important safety matter. The shower is one of the most dangerous places in a home! Many people lose their lives due to falls in the shower.
This article is also important because many people do not clean the body properly. This can compromise your life today.
We strongly recommend taking a shower as described below after doing one or more coffee enemas. Alternatively, one can shower after using a sauna.
II. SHOWER SAFETY
- SIT DOWN during your entire shower. We cannot say this often enough. To repeat from the section above - many people lose their lives due to falls in the shower. It is one of the most dangerous places in any home.
Sitting is also much more relaxing. Sitting also allows you to clean your feet much better.
- Never make any quick moves in the shower or tub. Always move around slowly and deliberately. If possible, hold on to railings and handgrips when getting in and out or moving about in a shower.
- If your shower or tub is slippery when wet, wear rubber sandals, use a bathmat, or buy some non-slip strips and put them on the bottom of the shower stall or tub. This is very important.
- Do not bend your head while in a shower. It is too easy to become a little faint and fall over. Keep your head straight. Also, do not turn your head too much.
- Don’t move your feet if they have soap on them. If your feet have soap on them, any shower surface will become slippery. First make sure you have washed soap off your feet and body before standing up or moving about.
- Do not eat while showering. Some people who are in a hurry bring food or a drink into the shower with them to save time. This is not a wise idea because 1) you will not digest anything too well during a shower, and 2) you are more likely to move fast or slip and fall if you do this.
- Always test the water temperature of a shower before putting your body under the water spray.
- Never push another person in the shower.
- Do not move backward in a shower. If you want to move the other direction, first turn around. Then move forward in the direction you wish to go.
1. Buy plain soap to wash the body. A very good one is Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap. If you cannot find this one, another brand of pine tar soap can be used.
This soap and this one only contain many souls, although this may sound unusual. They will go to work cleaning the body in unusual ways.
DO NOT BUY SMELLY SOAPS. Smelly soaps usually contain cheap, toxic chemical fragrances. Even the ones that contain natural fragrances are most often toxic and best avoided. The fewer chemicals you put on the skin, the better.
IDEALLY, DO NOT USE SHAMPOO. Shampoo contains detergents and often many chemicals. Detergents are all toxic!
An exception is if your water is hard and your hair is very fine. Then you might need a clarifying shampoo.
Keep your hair short. A better solution is to cut your hair very short. Then usually you will not need shampoo. We strongly recommend that everyone keep their hair very short. This is for safety and it makes washing the hair much easier. In fact, we believe it is very difficult to keep long hair clean.
Read about soap – an amazing germ-killing and cleansing substance – and use plenty. For details, read Soap.
If you need shampoo, we suggest plain J.R. Liggett’s Bar Shampoo.
If you must use other products, better brands of body products include Jason, Aubrey Organics, and a few others only. The rest are full of chemicals, even in the health food store! For more on body care products, please read Care Of The Skin on this site.
2. Buy a four-legged shower stool or other bench or chair and always use it in the shower. A simple stool costs about $30-40.00 in the USA. If you prefer, you can use a small picnic bench or a plastic lawn chair instead of a shower stool. Do not use a stool that has only three legs. These are less steady.
3. Buy a body brush. This is a brush with a long handle. Buy one that is not too rough. Synthetic bristles are fine and I find them softer.
A loofah is a natural material used for shower mitts and brushes. It is okay, but many of them are very rough.
4. We recommend thin, light weight spa towels instead of big fluffy towels. The reason is one can change them frequently without filling up the washing machine. We change them about every other day because they will get dirty. They are also a little easier to use because they are lighter weight.
5. If you own your home, a good idea is to buy a shower massager. This replaces the usual shower head in the shower. It has a long tube so that you can move the shower head around your body and bring it very close.
A massager allows you to sit comfortably in one spot without needing to move about to wash the body. In addition, the pulse position offers better cleansing and a massage of the skin.
Shower massagers are easy to install and cost about $30-40.00 in the USA. Buy one with various settings. One good company that makes them is Waterpik.
6. Other helpful items are a pumice stone or heel file and a nail brush. A pumice stone grinds off roughness around the heels and elsewhere on the feet. A nail brush is a small brush that fits in your hand and makes it easy to clean under your fingernails.
7. Less important, but helpful, may be to put a cover on your shower if the top is open. The reason is to keep the heat in the shower.
The top can just lay on the shower structure and need not be airtight. It can be made of a sheet of plywood cut to fit, or plexiglass, or an inexpensive plastic sheet material called Coroplast Polypropylene at a hardware store.
THE FIVE STAGES OF SHOWER CLEANUP
During a shower, we recommend going through five stages, each cleaning up the body more. These are:
1. The quick rinse to get wet. This will wash off some dirt and debris. It is most effective if there is good water pressure.
2. The soap stage. Apply lots of soap to the whole body. The body should turn white.
3. The main rinse. After applying soap, wait at least five minutes so the soap can do its work. Then wash off the soap.
4. The genital bath. Do the genital bath for at least a few minutes. This is an excellent procedure described below.
5. Dry the body with a towel. This will remove more toxic substances from the body. Towels need to be washed frequently in the washing machine.
MAIN SHOWER PROCEDURE
1. If needed, warm up the bathroom. This will help you relax and enjoy your shower more.
2. Turn on the water. In most homes, the water will be cold. To save time and water, you may be able to begin your shower with cold water on your feet
Otherwise, let the warm up and then get into the shower and SIT DOWN!
3. Wet the entire body.
4. To save water and reduce your exposure to toxic chemicals that are often in tap water, turn off the water once the body is all wet.
5. Soap up the entire body. Start with your head and hair. Remember, ideally do not use shampoo. It is detergent and all detergents are toxic. Ideally use a plain, pine tar soap. Remain sitting down while brushing the body.
You can rub soap on the body with your hands or with a brush or loofah. Use plenty of soap. Your body should turn all white!
Start with the head. Run your fingernails along your scalp to clean the scalp. Be sure to soap up the ears. To do this, curl the fingers of both hands over your ears so the thumbs are in the front of the ears and the fingers are along the back of the ears. Now move your hands up and down. This should wash the front and the back of the ears.
Then do your arms and front of your body. Then do your back using a body brush to reach the entire back and spine. Move the brush up and down the spine.
Then do the mid-section of the body including the groin area, genitals, and butt. You may have to stand up briefly to do this area. Move slowly and carefully.
Then do the thighs, knees, back of the knees and legs.
VERY IMPORTANT: When you wash your feet, run one of your fingers vigorously between each of the toes. This is often a very dirty area that most people forget to wash at all. It may sound strange, but the alien group called the thugs, rogues or satans often put tiny devices on people between the toes. It is important to wash them off.
Places many people forget to wash are:
a) The entire head area. Your head sweats a lot and collects all sorts of poisons because it is uncovered.
b) The ears – all around and inside, too, and behind the ears.
c) The neck – all around the neck
d) The entire crotch area – wash from in front and from behind. This is another sweaty area and one where toxins accumulate, as well.
e) The elbows, wrists, and behind the knees.
f) Between the toes and all around the feet. Many people do not wash the feet much at all.
If you use a brush, switch hands often – using both the right and the left hands to hold the brush. This is more relaxing and it helps you to learn coordination using both hands.
6. Once you have soaped up so the body is white, relax and leave soap on the body for about 5 minutes so it can do its work. DO NOT IMMEDIATELY RINSE IT OFF. If you just rub the soap on and then quickly rinse off, the soap does not have a chance to do its work.
7. Turn the water back on, and rinse off the soap.
8. If desired, remove callus and dead skin. If you wish, you can rub off the thick callus that most people have on their heels. This requires a pumice stone.
Other parts of the feet and body may also have some thick dead skin that can be rubbed off with your fingers or with a pumice stone.
9. Wash your fingernails. Preferably use a nailbrush.
10. Do the genital bath. For this, one turns the shower water to cool or cold so that the water spray just hits the genital area. Most people can tolerate this quite well. If you cannot tolerate it, put on a pair of underpants to lessen the pressure. The genital bath moves energy properly through the body and is quite powerful. For details, read The Genital Bath.
11. Dry off. This is best done inside the shower stall or tub. Sit down and rub the body with a towel. This should feel good, and is a method of skin brushing.
Once again, start with your head and work your way down the body so you don’t miss any areas. Common areas that people forget to dry are their hair, neck, under the breasts in women, the groin area and the legs.
12. When leaving the shower, it is best to wrap the towel around your waist and tuck it in so you don’t have to hold it. This way you will have two hands free to hold on to the tub or shower door to prevent falls.
13. Dress in light-colored clothing. For details, read Colors. Also read Clothing for ideas about dressing sensibly and for safety.
OTHER OPTIONAL PROCEDURES
1. The genital bath at the end of a shower. This is an excellent healing procedure. While sitting down, run cold water just on the genital area for at least five minutes. For details, read The Genital Bath.
2. The bidet procedure. A shower massager can be used as a bidet. This is a spray of water on the floor of the pelvis. Besides cleaning up the area, it is an excellent healing and development procedure. For details, read The Bidet Procedure.
3. Other energetic therapies with water. There are other sprays using a shower and/or shower massager on the energy centers of the body and on the reflex areas of the hands, feet and elsewhere. We plan to write about this in the future.
4. Turning down the water temperature at the end of your shower. Some people end their shower by turning down the water temperature. It is a kind of toning for the skin. Also, when you get out of the shower, you will not feel as cold. As long as you don’t become chilled, this is a good idea.
5. The vigorous wet and dry brushing shower. This is similar to the procedure above. The difference is to use more force with a body brush and more force with a towel when drying the body.
It activates your skin and makes it much more moist and much more beautiful. After a while, you will not need lotion, which is all toxic, to have beautiful skin. Brushing vigorously does not just affect the skin, but also the body’s energy field and channel system.
An athletic experience. This shower procedure will also give you stronger hands and arms. It requires a little extra time in the shower. However, once you are comfortable with it, it goes quite fast and it becomes a daily athletic arm and hand workout.
5. Shaving in the shower. Some people like doing this because it is easy to clean up afterwards and because the hair all over the body will be saturated with water and therefore somewhat easier to shave. If needed, you can buy a mirror designed for use in the shower. For safety, remain sitting at all times.
6. The salt rub. Some clients, especially women, say they benefit a lot by ending their shower with a salt rub. One option is to buy a salt bar on the internet. Try different brands because you may like one more than another.
You can also make salt paste by adding a little water to some sea salt in a small bowl. The internet also has recipes to make your own salt bars.
Rub the salt or salt bar all over the body. Then leave the salt on and get dressed. A number of clients report that this is a wonderful procedure to reduce anxiety. For more details, read The Salt Rub.
MORE PROCEDURAL DETAILS
How many showers. Plan on showering daily for cleanliness. If you are sweaty or do physical work, a second shower or more showers during the day are fine.
We shower off after doing one or two coffee enemas in the morning, and again in the afternoon if one does coffee enemas before dinner. The reason is that the coffee enemas will cause the buildup of toxins on the skin.
How long should a shower take? We recommend short showers – about 15 minutes - to move through all five of the showering phases.
Water is a very cold or yin substance in macrobiotic terminology. This is important to know about. As a result, overdoing on exposure to water is not helpful for your health. Also, today any bathing at all exposes you to chemicals in the water.
For these two reasons, we suggest shorter rather than long showers. We also suggest taking showers, rather than taking a lot of baths. We suggest limiting baths to a maximum of two per week.Long showers expose you to more water, which is yin, and more chemicals found in most tap water.
Washing long hair. Women with long hair often want to stand up to wash and rinse their hair. However, a shower stool can be placed so that one can sit and wash long hair much more safely.
We strongly recommend short hair for safety reasons and to make showering faster and easier. Wearing your hair short also seems to speed up development for women, although we are not sure why.
No orgasms. Some people like to give themselves an orgasm in the shower. We do not recommend this because it wastes precious sexual fluid. However, showering should be fun and enjoyable.
Trauma related to showers. Many women have been severely traumatized in showers by the thugs, crap or satans. This is not an easy situation to overcome!
However, learning to shower properly is still extremely important. Have a lot of patience with yourself and work at overcoming fears.
The shower as psychodrama. The shower can be used as psychodrama to help resolve traumas. For details, read Psychodrama.
Applying lotion after showering. We do not recommend applying lotion after a shower. It adds chemicals to the skin, shuts down and congests the pores of the skin, and is not necessary if one follows a development program to become healthier.
If you have dry skin, it will become more moist if your follow the development program. Very dry skin is a sign of nutritional deficiencies or toxic metal excess.
If you must use lotion, use as little as possible. Also, buy one that is as totally natural as possible. Even if the label says it contains no chemicals, some companies lie about this on their label, so be careful.
Showering with a partner. This is okay, but be extra careful about accidentally pushing another person that would cause a fall.
Urinating in the shower. This is okay. However, try to remain seated and be sure to run the shower water for another 10 seconds so that the urine will get through the ‘trap’ or S-shaped pipe that is below the shower drain. Otherwise, urine will remain in the trap and leave an odor.
Hot showers and toxic chemicals. We do not recommend very hot showers. Showering with very hot water vaporizes many toxic chemicals in the water, which one then breathes while showering. This is an important reason to keep the water temperature reasonable, and keep your showers short.
Shower water filters. These may be helpful if your shower water is high in chlorine or other chemicals. You will need to change the cartridge or the whole filter at least once every six months to keep it working correctly.
More about shampoo, conditioners and other body care products. Shampoo contains chelating agents and other chemicals that remove the oils from the hair. These are toxic chemicals that are best avoided! If you keep your hair short, you should not need shampoo.
Using shampoo adds time and toxicity to your shower. It will leave your hair soft, which some people like. Using too much leaves the hair lifeless by stripping the oils away. In this case, a conditioner is used that just replaces the oils. This adds more chemicals.
Deodorants. Use as little as possible. Try to use a very natural product. Some people just use hydrogen peroxide spray or a little scented soap under the arms.
AVOID ALL ANTI-PERSPIRANTS because they all contain highly toxic aluminum. Do not use a deodorant stone or deodorant crystal, as these also contain aluminum. Also, do not use Weleda Citrus Deodorant, as this also contains aluminum although it is not on the label.
V. RELATED TOPICS
TYPES OF SHOWERS
In addition to a standard shower, there are other options that are useful in some situations:
- The army shower. This is very fast! One stands in front of a sink and washes off. Be careful not to slip! Be sure to wear shoes!
- The beach shower. This is a cool or tepid shower, similar to what they have at some beaches to wash the salt and sand off the body. If your water is fairly warm, you can use it instead of hot water.
- Steam shower. This is the use of steam in a shower instead of water. It saves a lot of water and is cleaner because you can use distilled water. The steam is also very relaxing and detoxifying.
At this time, there are some problems with steam generators, so we don't recommend the steam procedure at this time. For details, read The Steam Procedure.
THE SHOWER SCANS
This is a more unusual research topic. Directing a strong spray of water on certain parts of the body can be used by souls and some creatures to visualize or illuminate various areas inside and around the body and the planet. Ones we know about are:
Top of the ankles – shows the upper or energy bodies.
Ears – shows parts of the brain.
If one broadcasts, a strong stream of water on the major energy centers or on the reflex points on the feet can illuminate the major energy centers around the earth.
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