The Art of Savouring for Fluid Control
Dialysis patients need to limit their fluid intake to be healthy. Too much fluid can raise blood pressure, cause damage to the heart, result in swelling, and make your next dialysis treatment uncomfortable.
It is, hence, really important to get a grip on how to manage your thirst. And the sooner you do this, the better.
So, what can you do when that thirst bug hits? You can practice the ‘Art of Savouring’.
To ‘savour something’, as defined by oxford learner’s dictionary, is to enjoy a feeling or an experience completely. To savour something, you need to immerse yourself in the experience and thoroughly enjoy every bit of it.
To savour something, is to deliberately prolong and enhance the positive emotions you feel. When you do this, your sense of satisfaction derived from the activity increases exponentially.
As a patient on dialysis you can only drink limited quantities of water. If you drink your daily quota hurriedly to quench your thirst, then you will feel immediate relief. But this will only be momentary. And you might feel an overwhelming desire for another drink. This would, on most days, stop you from sticking to your daily fluid goals. And we know what this means when dialysis is the only way to regulate the fluid in your body.
So, when you drink water or any other fluid, take sips and enjoy every drop of it. Don’t make every drink a thirst quencher. Be mindful about your experience and pay conscious attention to the experience of pleasure that you are feeling.
Savour every sip, every drop that you drink. It might not be easy at first, as Savouring is surely an Art.
It is the art of gaining conscious control over your impulses and building positive energies by thoroughly enjoying what you are doing, which for us is ‘taking a drink’. It is also the art of using these positive energies as a reservoir that powers you till the next time you can treat yourself to another glass of water or juice.
Practice the art of savouring and master the management of your daily fluid goals. Once you start doing this, rest assured, you will never have to worry about excess fluid build-up again.
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