While I have never required much sleep, I seem to be getting more rest out of the sleep I get and it seems like a more pleasant and peaceful sleep. My appetite has improved for a healthier and for a larger variety of foods that I am enjoying, to my own surprise and its wonderful enjoying food again.

My short and long term memory has improved, before the sauna program I was becoming notoriously bad at remembering the simplest things like names, phone numbers, part numbers, drawing numbers, etc (small trivial things that I use to retain without effort, my friends and co-workers call me the “library” because of my short and long term memory skills). While an erosion in memory may be acceptable to most people that are now “middle age” or have had problems with drug use, it is not acceptable for me. I have built a memory through association that allows me to recall old drawings and documents, remembering the drawing or document number, what information is in the drawing or document and usually what page the information is on that I may be looking for. I can remember hardware part numbers, diameters and lengths of items I have only used once, much like a filing cabinet of information.

Considering the advantages we have today that allow us to use the internet to search for the most trivial amount of information, I have always relied my memory to gain an edge over my competitors when being considered for a new job or when a group of engineers is being narrowed down close to the end of a project or when the companies I work for need lay off workers due to financial constraints, so a broad and expanding memory is very important to me.

I feel calmer and more relaxed. Over the past year or two I have tended to be somewhat of an angry, withdrawn, emotional “time bomb”, and while I always speak my mind and stand up for what I believe in, I find that un-angered, yet raw emotional reactions make it easier to spread my message to others, and when my mind is well adjusted those reactions flow like water. I feel like my personality is brighter and livelier and my sense of humor has improved, I laugh without reservation. My interaction with others feels less constrained and more comfortable.