This is such a surprise! How easy and fun traveling this page of bemusing thoughts. I have tried the cold shower and can’t seem to get past the 30 second blast at the end. I deem it a failure and discontinue instead of seeing it as a beginning of a practice of building tolerance to discomfort - which can open many doors. Success and failure, another pair of petulant children in my mind’s back seat.
Ahhh, you are SO right! Thanks so much for the encouragement to continue. I always feel I have to go all in or nothing - which is ridiculous! That is the old, extremist self rearing it’s ugly self.
This is great, but I feel like I have to point out that it was published on July 20th and the author is only "a month or two" in to the routine. Speaking from experience, there is a massive difference between a cold shower in the summer and one in the winter.
A couple years back my water heater broke in February in New Jersey. I showered for at least a week with cold water and can vouch for all the benefits, but there was never any relaxing or unclenching, just lots of cursing and yelling the entire time. I hope the author stuck with it though. Getting acclimated during the summer would definitely give you the best shot at making it through the winter.
Yep! And in the same vein, it’s easier to jump in a cold shower after an intense and sweaty work-out, rather than when just getting out of bed! I picked up doing the former again recently.
I also noticed that different mixing taps, boilers, water sources and plumbings have a different idea of what is the coldest. Here in summer, I can get really cold water. But elsewhere I could only get it to lukewarm-cold-ish. There definitely are various degrees of cold water.
110% vouch for water therapy in every extreme and center.
🌈💓😘👍🏽🏠💫
Pretty sure there is a merman here within; including a standing offer by an artist who makes Incredibles out of trash to be a model so he can make a mermortal tale….er, ahem…tail.
Borderline self-helpy (which always puts me on edge) but Dolnick is a great enough writer (and comfortable getting personal) that you can just zip through this without even realizing you’ve been taught something important. Enlightened.
This is such a surprise! How easy and fun traveling this page of bemusing thoughts. I have tried the cold shower and can’t seem to get past the 30 second blast at the end. I deem it a failure and discontinue instead of seeing it as a beginning of a practice of building tolerance to discomfort - which can open many doors. Success and failure, another pair of petulant children in my mind’s back seat.
I think those 30 seconds (or frankly, 10 when I do them) are worthwhile in themselves. They at least make me feel more awake when exiting the shower!
Ahhh, you are SO right! Thanks so much for the encouragement to continue. I always feel I have to go all in or nothing - which is ridiculous! That is the old, extremist self rearing it’s ugly self.
This is great, but I feel like I have to point out that it was published on July 20th and the author is only "a month or two" in to the routine. Speaking from experience, there is a massive difference between a cold shower in the summer and one in the winter.
A couple years back my water heater broke in February in New Jersey. I showered for at least a week with cold water and can vouch for all the benefits, but there was never any relaxing or unclenching, just lots of cursing and yelling the entire time. I hope the author stuck with it though. Getting acclimated during the summer would definitely give you the best shot at making it through the winter.
Yep! And in the same vein, it’s easier to jump in a cold shower after an intense and sweaty work-out, rather than when just getting out of bed! I picked up doing the former again recently.
I also noticed that different mixing taps, boilers, water sources and plumbings have a different idea of what is the coldest. Here in summer, I can get really cold water. But elsewhere I could only get it to lukewarm-cold-ish. There definitely are various degrees of cold water.
Excellent observation and point!
110% vouch for water therapy in every extreme and center.
🌈💓😘👍🏽🏠💫
Pretty sure there is a merman here within; including a standing offer by an artist who makes Incredibles out of trash to be a model so he can make a mermortal tale….er, ahem…tail.
🧚🏽🦄✅🙌🐬🫐
Dynamite. Short and sweet and right on the money.
Borderline self-helpy (which always puts me on edge) but Dolnick is a great enough writer (and comfortable getting personal) that you can just zip through this without even realizing you’ve been taught something important. Enlightened.