3 Ways To Get The Courage for Cold Showers!
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2023
- So, you've wanted to try cold showers but you just can't seem to get up the courage? Here are three methods to get you started! Cold showers condition you to the cold, and are a powerful mental exercise to strengthen your willpower and discipline, as well as to teach the magic of "letting go".
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So cool that you got your girls to do it when they were that small!
I have done cold showering daily for quite a few years now.
A funny tip, that is probably silly for some, is to dance, smile, clap with your hands and just act silly and have fun while taking the cold shower. It can really make a cold shower fun and help you get past the first shock until the body kind of get used to the cold water hitting it. It's easy if the curtain is shut but I know it can be difficult to do in front of others. But why should it actually matter if others find us silly? 😅
Great advice! Especially as that silliness is so good for us all around -- and for those who get to witness it. As you say, why should it matter? =)
Still adorable.
Relaxing is definitely the way to go; just let go, and do it. The most intense part of it is the first few seconds. If you don't get locked into fighting it during that time, it's pretty easy to just stay relaxed and experience the sensations, without judgement or attachment. I do enjoy the contrast method sometimes though, but more as a tool to become better at quickly relaxing into it. Turn it from cold to hot, and then as soon as you begin to feel the hot, back to full cold.
So well said, my friend. If we can avoid getting "locked into fighting", as you so aptly put it, we're on to a good thing =)
The power of hot and cold. Ahh. Several years ago, I would wake up with my hands so stiff I could barely pick up my empty coffee cup. I would rinse it out (oops, should have done it when I was done with it) with hot water. The kitchen, being the longest run from the water heater, meant I started with cold water. Or waited. When the water finally got hot it was too hot so I turned it to cold. Didn't like cold, so back to hot. Back and forth. After 3 or 4 cycles, I found I could move my hands easily with no more pain!
Cold shower? I'm chicken! Haven't done the hot and cold treatment on my hands for a while, and had actually forgotten about it until you mentioned it as a way to start doing cold showers.
Those girls sure have grown! I love watching all of you.
As for kids growing, I'm now hearing I'm as tall as you grandma!
Love to all of you!
We'll be hearing that soon as well! Mirabelle was standing near my mother the other day and we noted that she's about an inch away! Oh gosh, they grow, don't they? We love you too, Maude!!
Adooooorable! This morning I was sleepy at 6am and still cold even while taking a hot shower. I didn't feel like having a cold shower but then I said screw it, I'll feel better. On a whim I just did it and boom my body warmed up quickly. We need the blood circulation to warm up and surpringly hot cold hot actually leaves you feeling much more refreshed awake warm and calm than when you made that journey into the shower. The journey of a million miles begins with one step.
Yes! Wonderful and inspiring words =)
Parker had his first snowflakes land on his head this morning and Nic is even planning to try the lake when it freezes over this year! That's huge for her, never would have guessed in a million lifetimes! Great video!
WOW! That's awesome! You're inspiring people, my friend! I know you inspire me!!
@@ReWildUniversity Goes both ways, pal!
I have been doing cold showers for the last three years.
To be honest, I really don't even notice the temperature of the water any more. It is refreshing and I plan on continuing this from now on.
Awesome. A testament to how well we can adapt.
The best way I think is to combine it with sauna. Go from cold shower to sauna and repeat as much you'd like. I was in Slovenia many years ago and they had a bathhouse with saunas and an unheated swimming pool that went outside the walls of the bathhouse. You'd simply dive under wall and emerge outside the building. And old Scandinavian/Finnish tradition is to take sauna and then go outside and dive into big piles of snow. Snow feels really nice as it goes from cold to wet to warm.
Oh goodness, I couldn't agree more! Sauna to cold dip and/or snow is amazing! Our neighbors are building a sauna that might be ready for next winter. I'm excited!! =)
Thank you for this reminder! I’ve been taking cold showers before and really enjoyed the results 😊 but recently ive been coming up with too many excuses not to take them, have to change that! Thank you, love your videos. 😊😊👍👍❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
So glad to hear you're getting back into them! And thanks for those words -- so glad to have you here!
Absolutely adorable to see the girls so young and taking the cold showers in stride!🥰 cold showers are the best!!! I've been taking them for a couple of years now and I can tell you all that you spoke of happens each and every time!!! 😊
Speaking from real-life experience! Thank you Gabriela for sharing your voice on this!!
Hi Kenton. You brought to mind a hot springs we went to when I was a child. They had a hot pool and a cold pool. I remember most of us going from hot first, then to cold, and doing it often so as to 'get off' from the shock, rather than thinking it as any real challenge. In fact, the whole POINT was to experience this rapid change with its attendant feelings! I'll never forget that time and place. I also remember how we always had to wait for the pool clearance from the park service due to the dangers from lightening strikes. But once it opened, we were THERE!!
Oh wow, that would be amazing. That's something I've never experienced -- a natural hot spring.
I will say they lead to water conservation. For me, a cold shower is a rather shorter one than a long casual warm one hehe, especially in burrier months. For whoever this would apply to, saving water could be seen as a good thing. >>;=) It'll definitely wake you up too! Side note, love the natural wood in your bathroom; really nice feature. Wood, stone or other natural materials are nice.
Great point! And yes, having wood and stone indoors is SO nice =)
Absolutely adorable
Aww, thanks! Love your new YT name =)
Thanks to Kenton's advice in one of the previous videos, recently I've started to take cold showers and it feels fun.
So glad you're trying it and enjoying it! It's been great having you here on the channel -- I always look forward to your comments =)
@@ReWildUniversity No problem. I'll think about some more. By the way, I plan to plunge in a local lake today. It should be around 41 F (5 C) outside today.
I've been taking cold showers daily since earlier this year. It was easy in the spring and summer and helped me ease into it. Now it's cold and more difficult to get myself to do it, but I've grown to really enjoy it and a warm shower just doesn't feel right anymore
Agreed -- this is often the time of year when I can start making excuses. Glad you're sticking with it! =)
For some time I used a fourth technique: you turn the shower cold, and then start with your feet, than legs upto the knees, one after the other, than a full leg, then an arm, etc.... to me it is how I sometimes entered xold swimming pools
Nice! I'll try it!
I trayed cold baths for 9 months every day thru the winter months a couple of years ago.When it was - 15C outside the water would be one or two degrees plus and that would be 17 degeers warmer the the air. I could sit in the water as it was snowing and that was lots of fun . Before I would go into the water I,d do breathing exersices holding my breath which helped me relax into the feeling once in the water. Found at about the 45 second was for me the piont when the calm feeling came over me.
Cold baths-- that's the real deal! Just picturing you outside in your bath as the snow tumbles down =)
hey Friend..cold is good it makes you feel the essence of life and the moment you exist in... what I do since a week again( do that every year) as the first snow is here is that every night after the warm shower I go just with a towel around my hip outside bare foot in the snow 5 min thru the yard...now it is still quite war minus 6 or so...but now it gradually gets colder every day so gradually also expose my self to lower temps...that has the effect that when I do it in minus 30 to minus 40 what happens around mid winter I need to wear much less clothing during the day then I used too and I can tolerate the cold longer and way better...I came up with this method a few years ago as I used the shower as well first with cold water..but I feel natural cold outside is somewhat different it feels more ..well.. natural if you know what I am saying...
Thank you for sharing this technique! I hope some people try it. I might try it myself!
@@ReWildUniversity welcome....try it..if you use the wimhof breathing technique it becomes quite easy
Thank you! ❤
Of course!!
A tip: turn yourself so that the cold water flows to different areas so your evenly cooling your body and not just 1 spot. This develops intention and ability to move within the cold. So your not suffering but actively engaging and choosing what you want. Choice becomes easy, I dont think about cold as "damn cold" anymore, it's more like varying degrees of icicle me. Just kidding. :) Seriously try it if you havent.
Great advice my friend! Thank you!
1. Have your electricity and hearing cut off.. so that you can't cheat.
2. Deal with it as a challenge to reorganise yourself. Charging of powerbanks, shopping, cooking.. propane? Wood?
3. Enjoy. You're training for survival 😀
That's hard core -- I'm impressed!!!
I have come to believe that many forms of pain are your body resisting some perceived bad experience:
I have sprung my ankles so many times I have developed a "Bruce Lee type" technique to be able to get the pain over with in minutes. It has happened to me just about halfway on an 8 hour loop hike in the Presidential mountain range (ankle bone to the ground). I just kept concentrating on contracting the muscles around the pain and let that confidence seep into the injured part and stretch with the same purpose (there's more to it than I can explain). After maybe 8 minutes I was ready to keep going and finished that hike at regular cruising speed with no consequence.
Incredible! I'd love to get a more in-depth tutorial from you at some point. Are you a member of our patreon? You can become a free member now if you aren't already. We're about to launch a new feature where people can join a ReWildU Discord server and share things like this with each other =)
i will never get used to get out cold showers i don't like taking cold showers but i do hear most say take warm shower first before taking cold shower i do take cold shower sometimes when i do first take warm shower before i take cold shower i may not like to take cold shower but my hair loves cold water the only thing way i take cold shower too is because it's for my hair when i wash my hair i heard most say cold water is good for the hair i also think warm water is good to hair too i don't see good after taking cold shower but i know some people do feel good after taking cold showers and some don't feel good after taking cold showers but it is true most say the cold shower does help to wake us up competely i do try to take a deep breath i do try to relax i just still can't not handle the cold water it just don't work for everyone i think it's ok if some don't like cold showers and some that do l love cold showers i think it's not ok to force peer pressure most that don't like cold shower to love cold showers change our mindset on my but it's fine if some love cold showers but i know that your not forcine anyone to love cold showers your just giving advice we can take it or leave it i know you made it clear you respect our free will and there are some that believe that cold water is not good for hair and body think it's bad, some think cold water is good for hair and body i think everyone has the right to think how they wanna think by following there heart gut insticnts speaking there difference point of view perspective take truths i respect that but for me i do think warm and cold water if good for the body and hair too that's just my perspective on it i don't trust hot water because it does damage the hair and it burns the body too i know some people love hot water and some don't like hot water and some don't like warm water and some love warm water i also think that's ok too everyone is difference i respect everyone's differences that's what makes us unique
I knew a girl in my youth who had the most beautiful, shining, silky hair. She said her secret was rinsing it in ice cold water -- never hot. Just like you're saying! =)
@@ReWildUniversity oh ok thanks for sharing that with me you you knew a girl in your youth who had the most beautiful, shining, silky hair she said her secret was rinsing it in ice cold water never hot i also don't used no hot water either and thanks for sharing letting me know just like what i'm saying and i want to say that i also hear most say here on youtube i found most videos say cold water helps hair be and look heatheir and it helps is look shining too it actually does help my hair shine and look heatheir look great it works well for me even tho i'm not white and i'm brown it works for me i don't like the label black that's why i rather used to label word brown i know they say indian are brown no us i think that's not true that only indian are brown don't get me wrong indians are brown but i also think some of us have brown skin too we don't actually have black skin that's why i think most of us that get called black it's a lie because our skin color is not actually black at all it's actually brown and yeah the cold water was help my think hair look great, heatheir and shinny too that's how i want to say i hope you have a great day take care
I love cold showers, I have taken them most of my adult life. And I have experienced some of the hot, cold shock that some of the comments described. It is great.
But now my water is not that cold even in winter.😨
What a funny thing to complain about huh!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes indeed! Most wouldn't complain of too-cold water! That's one thing I love about the people who frequent this channel. They are paradigm-busters =)
I overdid it with the cold in my first year, it was miserable, I forced a lot of things.
And even today I take cold or ice baths, my immunity is strong, ok. But it seems like something is wrong, it still tingle too much or I suffer too much as if I had learned (wrongly) and just suffered from the cold, without recovering well. My highest body temps in winter is 35,5°C, bad thyroid. Is there any way to improve this? It's not just mental, purple toe is not something 'just' mental to solve. The temps indoors in winter don't exceed 12...15°C, extremities do not heat up above 20°C (skin). Once a year, Reynauld's pain is severe and lasts for weeks with red sores. The detail we not have snow here, there are about 4...6 frosts a year. Any tips, I'd appreciate it.
My friend, I wish I had some advice for you. I haven't dealt much with people dealing with Reynauld's. My instinct is to suggest a month-long regimen where you go from warm baths to cold baths, moving in small intervals. Perhaps that would give the body some adaptation time? Please, if you find something that works, share it here!
Don't worry folks! Climate change is gonna make real easy to just take cold showers. That is, if you can get enough water for it.
I suppose forcing things might be good for some of us . . . comfort is addicting, and costly.
I don't care about climate change so much anymore. I'll live in and I'll adapt to any climate really. OF course I do care, I have multitudes of perennial beds, skirret, daylilly etc so I don't need petrocarbon transportation of food if push comes to shove. Doing is the best form of action for caring. Words are just words, put your body effort physical struggle where your mouth is. I would do great in an Amish community, ability to adapt is key and think of what's around you. Whether it's forest trees for wood and leaves (to build compost) or open areas with sunlight (for growing tubers etc) we can adapt. My woods are filled with Solomons seal, an amazing tuber that is delicious. There's plenty of abundance around you but you have to do the work.