Why should you go into the cold? Could be ice baths, cold showers, natural bodies
of water, wild water swimming.
I will give you ten great reasons to go into the cold.
1: Improved immune system
Through going into the cold, you ignite and activate the immune system which is
part of dealing with danger.
the cold is danger, but we are able to get in and exercise, exercise in the cold
making ourselves so much stronger because the depths of ourselves will be
ignited, resetting our bodies to our best performance.
2: Improved blood circulation
Through going into the cold, naturally your blood circulatory system will improve
because its is exercising the blood circulatory systems, which is 70,000 miles long,
as long as three times the world round at the equator all inside of us.
So exercising the blood circulative systems through the cold?
It’s the best there is.
3: Increased energy
when you go into the cold, you train your blood circulatory system, the
cardiovascular system which transports energy, minerals, vitamins and oxygen.
So when you go into the cold, you exercise that system, oxygen and minerals,
vitamins get much better into the cells and thus you get a lot more energy.
It's amazing.
4: Decrease inflammation
Going into the cold, brings the adrenal axis to life. You learn to reset your body
and thus it brings down inflammation, which is a general cause and effect of any
disease.
You bring it down by going in to the cold, yet always follow your feeling.
If you feel really depleted of energy do the breathing first.
5: Improve sleep
By going into the cold you activate yourself to a 100%
That means cortisol will get out of your body and adrenal axis activation.
resets the body by which all the hormones, like melatonin which is responsible for
sleep, is able to set in much more smoothly, thus your sleep will be better.
6: Regulate stress response
By going into the cold, it's you who is going into the cold.
You learn to willfully control your body, making it stronger in that moment,
meeting the cold and thus you learn to have control over stress.
So the cold is a great mirror of how you act in stressful situations, because that
will be your mirror,
of how you are going to act in a stressful situation in daily life.
It's amazing how that works.
7: Increase mental control
By going into the cold naturally you set your mind, that is exercising your power
of your will over your body.
And thus if you exercise a muscle it becomes strong if you don’t... it doesn’t .
Through going into the cold, the power of your will is being exercised and thus
you have mental resilience in daily life within your control.
That's the power of your mind.
8: Better mind body connection
It's through to going into the cold that you learn to regulate your mood at that
moment, to become stronger.
Thus your body becomes stronger. You learn to have this connection with your
body, that is called ‘interoception’.
interoception is your connection of the mind with the body and as you are
exercising it, before even going into the cold, you learn that there is a possible
connection that makes you body stronger only because you want so.
So if your body doesn’t feel so good in daily life you learn to command it to feel
good.
Wow, that's mood regulation. So mind-body connection is amazing to exercise by
going into the cold.
9: Better focus
By going into the cold, you learn to focus.
It's not just focusing on little things, no your whole body is a vessel, an
instrument, and it becomes stronger if you build up a deep connection with the
body at that moment for your body to become stronger, and in that way the
performance is a lot better.
That's focus.
Focus this beautiful. You are a beautiful vessel instrument to become stronger
and ready to perform to the best of your powers.
10: Overall positive hormonal increase
by going into the cold you will stimulate the hormonal system endocrine system
in the deep brain through the activation of the adrenal axis, an adrenaline spike .
Not only that it’s also the dopamine, serotonin, the cannabinoids and the opioids that all will be activated to increase like 100, 200, 250%, 500%.
