Dr. Joy Kong describes a stress-relief protocol: 15 to 30 minutes of meditation followed by an infrared sauna with red-light panels. The intense heat and sweating create a physiological shift that overrides sadness, forcing attention away from emotional pain and onto the body's sensation.
I think I have shorter strategies and ones that it's going to take longer. So my shorter one will be my shift wave. So I can meditate for whatever, 15 to 30 minutes, and then I get into my infrared sauna. So when you are really hot and sweating, it's a little harder to stay stressed because you just physiologically, you just have to get into a whole different state. Sauna is my happy place. Is that right? Then with the— so I have red light panels in the, in the sauna. So, you know, I play meditative music and I just go into a different place. Yeah. And I remember there was one One time I was deeply sad about something and I got into the sauna and it was so hot I realized I couldn't be sad anymore. I was like, wow, this really works, that I just physiologically couldn't feel sad because I had to focus on how hot it was.
