You may already know that sauna benefits are well recognised by many athletes and health professionals in the world today.

Eastern European and Asian cultures have used saunas to assist with health problems for many centuries.

More importantly than these facts, did you know that when a sauna is part of a well-researched and designed program created for your wellbeing, it is no longer only about healing or helping the body.

The sauna benefits now greatly include increased mental wellbeing.

When you want to succeed in life, when you want to be there for your family in every way possible, yet things aren’t quite happening as you want, then you need to make a change somewhere.

The change almost always needs to occur firstly with you.

Do you find that you run into times and situations (more often than you care to admit) where your emotional and mental response is not as appropriate as it could be?  Have you ever later regretted “it”, yet “it” happened again and you couldn’t seem to ever really, knock it off?

Are you someone who simply lacks enough motivation to push through the mental effort, or restrain yourself from dramatizing particular, unhealthy mindsets?

You don’t really know why you experience them, the funny thing is you have explanations as to why you behave in such a way, even if deep down those reasons don’t exactly feel right.

What you need to know is that there is a way to make improvements.

Things do not need to get worse, they do not have to stay the way they are because, “that’s life”, or “it’s who I am”.  The truth is, inappropriate negative reactions and mindsets, unnecessary struggles or worries aren’t things you “simply have to live with”.

There are solutions.

You would agree that the wrong bit of food can make you feel unwell, it can also affect your emotional attitude and feelings at the time it is happening, right?

So, what about when your body is filled with chemicals and drugs?  Residual deposits you don’t even realise are still there?  It is a fact that these deposits exist.  They can affect mental and spiritual wellbeing.

If you can become emotionally down or unmotivated when unwell from a bout of food poisoning, too much exposure to sun, or taking certain drugs then… what about when you live with unhealthy chemical and toxic deposits day to day?

Can they have a similar effect on your mind, your motivation, your energy levels?

Yes, they can.

THE WORLD TODAY

In the world that we live in today, we are surrounded by chemicals and toxins.  They are in the air we breathe, food, clothing materials, containers, paint, and so on.  Then there are the drugs we are prescribed, street drugs and alcohol.

The human body is designed to survive.  As part of this survival mechanism the body will protect you from danger by doing its utmost to remove harmful toxins and chemicals.

Basically, the body will do this by storing them as safely away as possible, in places such as fat deposits, as well as eliminating what they can from the body.

By taking such steps to cope with danger though, there can be negative effects on the mind.

THE MIND

The human mind is also a large part of how well you live, how happy you are.

It functions by storing recorded pictures of everything you perceive, moment by moment, 24 hours a day.

These pictures hold all the perceptions that you have of every single moment.  Things such as what you have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, felt and experienced.  They are dated in a very precise way.

When you think about it, you can start to understand that the mind is a really powerful thing.

So, what can happen is a person can take any quantity of drug, for any period of time -a medicine, a street drug or a psychological medication – and as the mind constantly records everything 24/7, it would therefore include recordings of the effects of the drug.

Therefore, if you take an aspirin to “dull the pain”, yourself feeling a little dull as the aspirin takes effect, this is recorded in your mind.

What can also happen then, when you take the aspirin, is that the mind itself gets dulled.  It doesn’t function so efficiently, it can start jumbling memories up, creating imagined situations and scenes, getting stuck.

What is really important to understand is that the effect isn’t necessarily that one time. You can be caused to hold onto mental pictures of the drug and its effects. It can create repercussions further along in life, the results not always being something you are necessarily conscious of.

Have you ever seen an alcoholic portrayed in a film?  The kind of alcoholic character that has become intoxicated so much, so often that they have imagined incidents, they make accusations of imaginary occurrences. Even sober, they might insist that something happened, or somebody has a particular attitude toward them – when that attitude doesn’t exist at all.   There are certain behaviour patterns that are out of control of the character.

The portrayal may be subtle or intense, but like with an alcoholic in real life, these things are examples of what can transpire.

Potential signs of needing to free the body and the mind of residual drugs and toxins include, negative responses, unexplained emotions, dullness, lack of motivation towards life, brain fog and more.