In a recent guest post here, Barbara Dunkel writes about the sauna experience as:
“…unity of body and soul.. as you give yourself to the heat and steam”.
Give yourself.
Surrender.
We are wired to never surrender, never give up. Â Maintain control.
Perhaps those that enjoy sauna have cracked some subtle code. Â Giving ourself to the heat and steam is a lesson in surrender. Â When we surrender we actually become free. Â When we are free, we allow unity of body and soul. Â (nirvana?).
All this may be heavy to digest.
A simpler way to look at it is, perhaps, from the negative. Â Those that “don’t like” sauna seem to be those that don’t like giving up control. Â “I feel claustrophobic.” Â or “I don’t like to be too hot.” Â Ok, but could these objections be another way of saying, “I cannot surrender myself in a sauna”?
And that’s ok because it doesn’t have to be sauna. Â Some surrender themselves in church, or on top of a mountain, but I doubt ever at a shopping mall. Â Wherever it is,
It feels great to surrender.
2 thoughts on “With sauna, when you surrender you win”
Church, sailing and sauna
But not necessarily in that order
Another wild pitch on the topic: 15 million viewers have been drawn to Brene Brown’s TED talk on vulnerability, the first cousin to surrender.
Sauna is good training ground.
link: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability