This is an absolute must before going into a cold shower or an ice bath 🚿🧊

I've been sticking to cold shower cause filling up a bathtub felt like a waste. (Don't have a cold tub yet) I used to try and resist the cold. Now I turn the knob to cold and I wait quietly. I know it's cold, my body knows, the initial shock is not amplified by resistance. The less you resist the easier it is. Your mind often makes things much worse than they actually are. Your expectation of what the cold will feel like makes you all tense. You are sitting in fear, anxiety and expectation. Found the same analogy for weight lifting. Sometimes you feel like you have to suffer, so you grimace, exert yourself a lot, and end up making the set feels much harder than it actually is. When you let go, and allow the set to be exactly as hard as the weight dictates it, it actually becomes much easier. It's like real-life ping. When you constantly live in fear of the next 5 seconds, you end up doing twice the work to accomplish half the work. If you remove delay, you play with 0 ping. Whatever has to be felt is felt. No diminishing or amplifying it. Your now experience reality, not "the distortion of reality through your mind's fears and expectations" Now I have to apply this and stop clenching my jaw and traps all day long , fuck.

😆 brilliant, i'll try that. not tried for a while so i'll give it another go

the tibetans have some experiences with cold and mindfulness - did Wim ever look into this....

Cold water is my friend and relative!

The cold is our teacher, Wim Hof it's Master!

Nice one

I'm doing 30 breaths before and just go inside Works everytime

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@Germain8611 Mind over matter. Mindful awareness yes.

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