Sweating isn’t “purifying,” but there’s a biological reason it feels so amazing.
Here’s what my experience in a Temazcal taught me.
She explains that sweating is the way our bodies cool us down.
Evaporative cooling is humanitys evolutionary superpower, Everts says.
That extra blood flow isone reason why heat can feel so good on your muscles.
But the cardiovascular overdrive also prompts the brain to release happy hormones like endorphins and adrenaline.
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Our evolutionary biology is such that we luck out, we get happy hormones, when that happens.
Bottom line: that feeling of gooey euphoria you get in a sauna?
Thats very real, on the level of your brain chemistrys reaction to your body dealing with the heat.
There is this social catharsis that we get from sweating, Everts says.
Thats a really universal human thing.
Thats what your kidney is for.
Its really not a chemical detox.
Theres the muscle relaxation, and the stress-reducing, happiness-boosting brain chemical effect.
Which takes us back to the Temazcal tucked away by the cenote.
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So many aspects of the Temazcal were new to me, and to my relationship.
Mayans associate fire as a process that transforms things, Arroyo says.
It is a place where you enter with the idea of going through this process of transformation and evolution.
There is this not just euphoria, but you [also] feel closer to the people around you.
Theres something about that that leads to sweating being partly a universal hobby.
At the end of the hour, we were told to exit and say I am reborn.
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