I have always grown up with the luxury of being able to begin or end the day with a steaming hot shower. Not that I’m in poverty now and don’t have access to hot water, but nowadays the knob never turns that far.
Cold showers have been a technique I’ve managed to implement into my daily routine over 6 months ago. When I first began taking them I did so because of the health benefits linked to cold showers.
Over the past two to three months, I’ve really began to toy with cold showers to discover the potential effects on my health that they can deliver. At first, I would only take cold showers in the morning and I would enter a warm shower and eventually end on a cold setting.
That is nothing like what happens now.
Any shower I take now is cold.
Let’s break this down now. Just like meditation, I came to the realization that much of cold showers has more to do with the mindset behind it and less to do with the benefits we expect from doing it.
This has nothing to do with me wanting to take cold showers.
However, there hasn’t been one time that I walked out of a cold shower not feeling on top of the world and mentally and physically refreshed; even when I take one before bed and am snoozed out within 10 minutes of laying down.
Cold showers help build an inner strength just as meditation does. It’s not gonna be easy. Sometimes you aren’t going to want to do it. Even when you don’t, that small accomplishment gained from doing so gives you a sense of achievement.
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