The Profound Healing of NOW!

What??? That was 5 minutes?? No way!! It felt like a minute max!!

Every single Cold Assisted Psychotherapy (CAP) client says that at the end of their first cold plunge (5 minute duration). There's a very profound mechanism at play that causes this.

Neuroscientists have discovered that the (cold induced) state of Peak Experience (as well as flow states) deactivate the region of the brain that governs the sense of time. The result is a different experience of reality. It feels as if time has stopped.

Timelessness plunges you (pun intended, sorry) into the deepest and most blissful state of utter and complete presence. Your mind, heart, body and 5 senses are completely absorbed in the here and now. Everything ceases to exist. The only thing that is real is the NOW.

How does CAP utilize timelessness? In many, many ways. Let's look at trauma as an example.

Trauma is when the horrific events of the past are experienced in the brain and body as if they are happening now. The tragedy of trauma is that the past robs you of the NOW.

A foundational and indispensable part of every trauma therapy is the ability to be grounded and anchored in the moment and simultaneously attuned to the inner experience of the trauma. 

The essence of healing from trauma is when the brain and body experience the past as past, and the present as NOW. Many therapies such as EMDR and IFS will spend many, many sessions just on this skill. (EMDR calls this "resourcing" IFS calls it "unblending").

CAP's unique gift is that it delivers the NOW in the most powerful and beautiful way, instantly! That allows for unbelievably rapid trauma resolution. There is nothing more healing than experiencing the torment of the past dissolve in to the bliss of NOW!