The Painless Guide To Cold Showers
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Ever try taking a cold shower, but then quit because your body shivers and you can't catch your breath? It sucks, doesn't it!? I faced the same issues but eventually found a common sense approach to befriending the cold.
You won't find the same old advice here about how you just have to tough it out.
In a way, that's true...
You won't find the same old advice here about how you just have to tough it out.
In a way, that's true...
...but it's also bullshit.
I used to doubt I could handle a cold shower.
It's funny how lack of faith in ourselves can manifest in something so trivial.
If you doubt you'll ever get there, that's fine. You don't need faith in yourself, but you do need faith in the human species! Have faith in your ancient ancestors who lived closely with nature's elements for the last hundred thousand years or more.
It's funny how lack of faith in ourselves can manifest in something so trivial.
If you doubt you'll ever get there, that's fine. You don't need faith in yourself, but you do need faith in the human species! Have faith in your ancient ancestors who lived closely with nature's elements for the last hundred thousand years or more.
The human body is designed to survive, and even thrive in harsh conditions. But we've lost touch with our ancient abilities.
We aren't weak, we just have amnesia. We've forgotten our primal past, and the strength that lies buried there.
Believing that you aren't capable of taking a cold shower is insisting that you are special, but not special in a good way.
It is an insistence that you are especially weak, especially vulnerable, especially disconnected from your Paleolithic ancestors. My friend, I'm here to tell you that this is complete crap.💩
Reviving your dormant, primal capacities is easier than you think.
Self-improvement doesn't happen overnight and getting used to cold water is no exception. But, over the span of a few weeks you'll be amazed at your progress. I bet that at least once, you'll finish your cold shower and let out a triumphant and well deserved battle cry!
It's truly an accomplishment, so get excited and get ready to crush it!
Are you ready!?!
Are you ready!?!
Here's what you do:
Take your normal hot shower, and when you're done, turn the water down to lukewarm for 10 or 20 seconds. On your first attempt, doing this for even 5 seconds is a victory.
Don't turn the water down so it's uncomfortably cold - just till it's a little bit cooler than your normal shower temp. You don't want to trigger your body's cold shock response. Gasping, difficulty breathing smoothly, and shivering are signs that you've turned the water down too cold!
(Caution: Another reaction to cold shock is to involuntarily inhale. You don't want to breath in water, so don’t let cold water hit your face unless you have control of your body. Try purposely exhaling when wetting your face with cold water.)
Do this every shower. Get used to lukewarm water by spending more time in it. Work your way up to a minute or two.
Don't hide from the water. Keep a strong posture, and rinse your whole body.
Focus on slow and deep breaths as you work through any discomfort.
Move around, rinsing all parts of your body. Your chest, back, head, and under arms. If you have a detachable shower head, use it to cool down your thighs, your butt, and the backs of your legs.
Actively engage with the dis-comfort by making sure the warmest part of your body is the next to get wet.
Learn to focus on your breath and accept lukewarm water for a few minutes.
Once you've got that down, you're half way there!
You're easing into what's called a contrast shower - starting hot and ending cold.
Repeat this process with incrementally colder temps until you can finish your shower with 100% cold water.
There's no rush. It might take three weeks or more to recondition your body.
Your goal is to slowly expand the range of water temps your body can tolerate without getting the shakes.
As the water gets colder it helps to psych yourself up. Remind yourself why you're doing this in the first place - for mental and physical well being.
You're awesome for taking on this little slice of adversity that most people shy away from.
Keep these rules in mind and you'll do fine:
1) Turn the water temp down a little, but not so cold that it makes you shiver.
2) Focus on your breath.
3) Don't hide from the water.
You'll eventually be able to take a hot shower, and switch it to completely cold without shivering or freaking out.
Once you can do that, it's no big deal to take a completely cold shower.
Congratulations!
You've just reclaimed the cold!
You've woken up a primal capability most of us doubt we even have.
Don't get me wrong, a cold shower still kind of sucks. That doesn't ever change, unless you become a special kind of freak. 😀
"Wait a minute!?"
"Is that it?"
"Isn't there a 'hack' that will make me immune to the cold, like drinking a unicorn milk smoothie or something?"
Sorry, work is work.
This takes time and commitment.
Learning to control your body in the cold will be a game changer for you!
Here's why: Cold & contrast showers are a healthy dose of controlled adversity.
You make the conscious decision to do something that you once thought impossible and that kind of sucks.
When you conquer a limiting belief, even one as trivial as taking a cold shower, you start to wonder what other barriers you can knock down.
Practice cold showers daily, and your new level of strength and determination can't help spilling over into other parts of your life! 💥❄️💦😀
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