In this episode, Dr. Roman Palitsky, a clinical psychologist and Director of Research Projects at Emory Spiritual Health, discusses the connections between spirituality, meditation, and mental health. He highlights the lesser-known risks of meditation and psychedelics, practices often celebrated for their benefits but not thoroughly examined for their challenges.
In Search of Good Sauna: Heat, Tradition and Connection, with Glenn Auerbach, Founder and Editor of Sauna Times
Heat is really having a moment. And not just heat, but cold, too. Saunas and cold plunges, sweat lodges, and swimming in freezing oceans. Infrared home saunas and cold showers. In the last year, all of these and more have been featured in every conceivable form of media. Why the sudden fad?
While there is likely more than one answer to this question, a major reason for the popularity of exposure to heat and cold is the purported health benefits of these practices, everything from treating depression to reducing the risk of developing dementia or dying of a heart attack. Unlike many flash-in-the-pan health fads, data supports these claims. Not that heat or cold treatments will solve all our health problems, but they actually do appear to hold promise as a means of enhancing mental and physical health.
As more and more of us either contemplate or actually begin to expose ourselves to hot and cold therapies, the question of how to optimally do this becomes increasingly relevant. That is where this podcast comes in. Today we speak with Glenn Auerbach, Founder and Publisher of SaunaTimes.com and a leading expert on what makes for “good sauna”. He joins us to explore the question of what are the elements that make the traditional use of heat and cold as emotionally and physically effective as possible?
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