Caroline ’s Reviews > How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days > Status Update

Why aren't saunas everywhere as part of healthcare?: "In Finland, the sauna has been called the poor man's pharmacy. Emerging research substantiates this sentiment; going to the sauna has an astounding list of health benefits that make me wonder why it isn't prescribed for conditions ranging from insomnia to hypertension to chronic pain to asthma. In addition to easing stress and promoting relaxation, sauna [BELOW]

"...what's known as the Peak-End Rule in psychology suggests that people judge and remember experiences based on how they felt at the "peak," or most extreme and intense point, and at the end of the experience. So these extreme—and usually rare—instances can become our default memory of what winter is like, even when evidence suggests that's not usually the case." [CONT'D BELOW]

"Mindsets are true but biased: they zoom in on one slice of complicated phenomena. Similarly, our attention is selective: it's meant to filter. Attending to every light, sound, and physical sensation at all times would put you in sensory overload. We can't notice and observe everything, so our mental shortcuts—including our mindsets—help determine our focus. [...] One of the ways mindsets become [BELOW]

"While there were questionnaires that asked about seasonal depression, distress, and sleep disorder in winter, there were no surveys that made room for the potentially positive aspects of the season. This not only created problems for my study, it hinted at biases in the larger scientific framework for researching winter. If we can only study what we can measure, the fact that there were no existing [BELOW]