6 Years Of Cold Showers | My Biggest Lessons
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Do you know the difference between self-confidence and courage? What do you think is more important? It's courage, and I'll tell you why. Standing in front of a bath filled with ice cubes or a cold shower and knowing that you need to step in typically scares the shit out of people. With every fiber in your body, you know that the cold is painful, uncomfortable, and torture for the body and mind. So fear builds up in you like an invisible shield that locks your body and freezes your mind. It's by overcoming this fear by an act of courage that we grow personally.
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“I don’t love cold showers, I hate them”. I am one year into taking cold showers. Each time I stand outside of the shower set full cold I think “I don’t want to do this.” Then I step in and let it wash over my head and shoulders as I slowly breath in and out. It’s then that I embrace it. This has greatly reduced my Parkinson’s symptoms and has made me able to endure cold weather better. I don’t bundle up nor do I have a need to in the cold. Embrace the stress.
Can you tell more about how it reduced your Parkinson symptoms? How many percent reduction, which symptoms were reduced, which were not?
@@profet1385 I had entered into an experimental drug program for PD. It advanced me from a stage one to a stage two. I withdrew from the program and decided that I needed to take responsibility for my health instead of just handing it over to the doctors. I started into intermittent fasting, cut out carbs and sugars. Began forced exercise program after reading a research paper on it for Parkinson’s. I took probiotics for my gut Along with 480mg of magnesium citrate, L-tyrosine, D3, K2, C, zinc with copper, cold showers and L-Threonate. I had lost 29lbs and was doing 300 push-ups a day and walking four miles in the woods
.I went back to the neurologist after four months and she told me that my symptoms were better than when she had first seen me. She told me “Most people could t do what you have done”, I disagree, anyone that wants to fight PD can do it. I have recently gotten a sauna and do 50 minutes a day in it. I’m 67 years old and figure I won’t beat PD but I will go kicking and screaming to the end.
I’m the same way and found that after consistent cold showers for 6 months I can now much better regulate my ptsd and trauma explosions of anxiety
@@profet1385 I apologize for not seeing your reply sooner. The theory is that cold showers or soaks exercises the Vegas nerve. We are way to comfortable and we stay in controlled environments that makes the nerve lazy and open to disease. After going in three years of cold showers I don’t mind them and in fact was asked by a Dr that specializes in Parkinson’s if I would take hot showers for two weeks, record my heart variability rate then do cold showers for two weeks and do the same. After two days of taking the hot showers I quit. I found that just didn’t have the motivation and feeling exuberance that I had with the cold showers. A cold shower is like my cup of coffee in the morning. I embrace them now. So as far as how it has improved my symptoms, it’s all part of my regime. I start the day with a cup of coffee that has ghee, chocolate collagen powder, creatine, coconut milk and MCT oil. Smallest setting on the coffee machine for the coffee. I walk almost four miles with my dogs in the woods a day. Then a sauna followed by the cold shower. I take a lot of supplements such as magnesium citrate, B complex, D3 with K2, niagin, C with rise hips, Fish oil (2 tbs), Mucuna which has helped with tremors. I adopted an intermittent diet so I don’t eat after 7:00pm then besides my morning coffee I don’t eat until around 2:00pm. No processed foods or seed oils. I have an infrared light hat that I wear for 20 minutes a day that has lights at 660nm and 960nm. I try to stay away from sugar but still have chocolate or cocoa. I also do yoga and Near Sleep Deep Rest meditation. All of this has actually reversed my symptoms. When I get stressed the I notice the tremor returns as if it’s adrenaline or something I’m not sure so I try to avoid conflict. Hope this helps
@@Gundog55This is incredible. I’m grateful to see how much you take care of yourself
''We suffer more in imagination than in reality.'' That couldn't be more true.
Thanks for making another great video, will definitly watch this back again.
I've suffered mild panic attacks on a weekly base for about 6 years. Tried different things but nothing helped.
Until a therapist told me about something she just read in a book.
You can roughly focus your attention on 3 things; yourself, your environment and your task.
My attention was mainly focused on myself and how my environment looked at me, pretty much doing my task on autopilot.
My therapist said I should try and put around 80% of my attention on my task and the other 20% on myself and environment. By just doing this I managed to get rid of my panic attacks.
I still use this fairly simple method to get things done I'm scared of.
Hope this will be helpful to anyone
Thank you for sharing this 🧡
You deserve way more views than this , your videos are amazing
I agree
Me too
Appreciate it my friend, thanks!
He will get there for sure
Found myself 30 feet up in a zip line situation and realized my discomfort. I had a fear of heights, but no real plan. The friend I was with told me to pay attention to only the 12 feet in front of me. Wow! It worked and have been back up on ziplines around the world, climbing steep hills and rock faces on back country trails. Placing the mind where I choose to place it.
Great video! Thank you🙏
Love you talk, love your stuffy and you have a great sense of humor. Thank you for sharing
Your videos are always inspirational! I used to fear taking cold baths but since a year Ive been taking then everytime I feel stressed or before I rest. Since then I love cold baths and the fear is obliterated. Your channel is underrated af
Thank you very much for your perspective. It was most inspiring. :)
Thank you for sharing. Iin the beginning a cold shower is so hard but if you persevere it becomes a style of living. Keep on going!
I love the feeling after the cold shower. More than a year IN. Never sick and much more resistant to cold and CALM…
Have you been sick regularly before? I'm wondering if taking cold showers will actually help against illness like a cold or flu..
I really enjoy your videos. for 5 months I do my version of an ice bath daily, in sub zero temps, I pour a half gallon of cold water over my face, head and body outside in the elements. It was interesting to find I enjoy it very much now and have even almost completely lost my fear or anxiousness. It is still uncomfortable, but my response is positive and I've developed great power in pushing beyond perceived limits. Thank you for shining light on the deeper side of ice baths.
DUNE! - I was just thinking of this yesterday while doing the hand in ice thing! Great connection and reasoning for cold showers
Thank you for watching🧡
Dear Kitaro,
you have amazing content and you are my favorite whm instructor. I love your vibe and im very curious about your thoughts of catching a cold, a virus and having inflammation and so on. What do you do when it happens, do you expose to cold, do you do breathing and so on, or is it a time for rest from the method?
Hope to hear from you,
Have great day,
Matas
Excellent.
I know an old lady in her 70's, cold showers all her life except when she is sick or travel to winter places. Smoker and very very fit.
I also know a few old people who take a daily swim in the lake in the winter. And they are all super healthy and fit
You said in one of your videos that you read hagakure? That's a cool book but the amount of seppuku that takes place is wild.
Your videos are great. Thank you for sharing. I have found a way to help overcome my fears: yoga. Every time I come to the mat I find my appropriate edge. I begin to get used to being comfortable in discomfort (either through a stretch to my edge, holding a challenging strength pose for longer than I think I can, or a falling out of balancing poses and being okay). It is making me less afraid off of the mat. Yoga has helped me with many other things, too: self-compassion, humility, self-love. I think it's an amazing tool for body and the mind.
Thanks for sharing! You sound like my wife - Yoga does all of that to her too 🤗
Great video and clean video edit too!
Thank you 🙏
@@KitaroWaga Keep the content coming bro! Love it
Every time I see that video, Destination Unknown, I must take a cold shower. A twisted sense of humor can carry you through the deepest flog through the deepest muck.🙂
Kidding aside, cold showers are a great way to begin.
I use a trigger spray bottle with cold water first to get ready for the shock and it works
Very cool video thank you! With cold showers bow down and start with back of your head, for some reason it makes it easier ;)
Thank you for watching and sharing your experience
Love this video and your bedpetbuddy. Agree completely with your way of fewing the cokd showers. The first weeks were more terrible and even painfull though.
Yes, I laughted at the cute stuffy
Thank you for your comment🦉🧡
I agree. However, it is not all just psychological. I have a heart condition and T2 diabetes which mean poor circulation. Been doing the WH breathing method for almost 3 years every day with amazing results. But I have serious trepidation about the ice bath and even real cold showers. Thanks, your presentations are excellent, especially for younger healthy people!
Great talk! Inspiring to say the least. I have been taking cold showers for about three years and it has helped change my life completely. The only this I struggle with is maintaining a regular breath whilst in the cold. It always seems a struggle which causes asthma attacks more often than I would like. Any tips? Thank you.
I had big problems with outdoor cold exposure , always getting a cold .Then I heard somewhere that doing few rounds of wim Hof breathing every day helps a lot and yes it really does make massive difference .It's like getting a pair of new ,strong lungs ; all its take's about 10 minutes a day 💯👍
Thank you for the comment. As the body goes into panic mode when entering the cold water, it’s normal that we have a fast breathing. So you can try t to breathe fully, deeply and strongly (not shallow breathing). Then gradually try to calm your breathing down with longer exhales. Don’t rush it.
I hope that helps a little.
I have found a couple of ways to make entering the cold shower more pleasurable and less of a shock. One is to take a few relaxed deep breaths and then move into the running water whilst slowly and fully exhaling. This way I can remain in parasympathetic mode, rest and digest, rather than gasping into fight or flight mode and feeling stress.
The other way is to take advantage of the mammalian dive reflex.
Stig Sverinsen the Danish free diving yogi describes this in his free Ebook. When the face is submerged in cold water it becomes easier to hold a lungful of air. This is a survival mechanism for obvious reasons and particularly helpful for us oxygen hungry mammals.
I have found that if I take a few deep breaths and then fill my lungs to the max and hold my breath, I can then lean forward so that my face is in the running water for a while and I’m feeling comfortable in the breathold. Then it is easy to move the rest of the body into the water. By the time I feel a strong urge to breathe I’ve already gone beyond the possibility of gasping, rapid breathing and shock.
Hope this helps.
„the problem“ is meanwhile i love cold showers 😅 when i get out of bed they wake me up and i love the fresh start
Thanks for the fantastic videos! I was taking cold showers but stopped because I was getting hives afterwards. Upon researching it, apparently you can develop an allergy to the cold. Nuts... perhaps I was doing it wrong...? Or my nervous system rebelled? Inspired by your videos and I am slowly starting to try it again. Thank you. Peaceful happiness Judith
This can happen because the cold water can dry your skin. Try to experiment doing it less often, shorter cold showers or a good skin lotion.
@@KitaroWaga Thank you!
@P A Thank you! Working on it...
I’ve checked the Playback speed •😂•
Maybe it’s the COLD-SHOWER RUSH •
Blessings 🙏🏼☁️
I am doing the cold showers since one month, i like the showers and i doo the breathing, but i dont feel the benefits and my skinn feels like ice and i feel cold all the time, what doing im wrong?
I am 4+ years in and it took 10 months for me to stop losing my breath. Now I can stand under ice cold shower in the winter as if it were warm. Btw I can't do warm showers they make me feel itchy and hot.
Are you still incorporating the Win Hoff breathing to go with the cold showers?
For cold showers I normally don’t do a Wim Hof breathing. For ice bath I sometimes do a short breath work session before. but I incorporate parts of the WHM breathing all the time, also for taking cold showers. For example, when I get the shock of the cold water I automatically breathe deep and strong and then try to bring my nervous system down by long and calm exhales.
Awesome...great tip with the breath work! I am struggling to stay in the total discomfort...will power wains...stay with the breath. Ok...back to the drawing board, I'll try again😍
In the 1980's I experienced a sudden urgent need to be around animals-turned out to be a need to ride horses. So I found a local riding stable and ultimately had the "life changing" experience of "jumping" (the horse allowed me to ride him) a horse over fences. I'm 5'7" and weigh about 135 lbs. Jesse, my massive mount, gave me the incomparable gift of COURAGE. And that's the conversation I access as I approach a cold shower: "I CAN DO THIS".
I hate cold showers, right up until I am in the water.
Can pregnant do cold ice ? foot and hand only. Not full body. Is it okay?
should be ok. But better ask your doctor first.
@@KitaroWaga thank you
i like them alot I think they age you though
After 4 years I stopped doing cold showers on daily basis. I realized that I just was feeding my ego. Nothing important changed. Still fearful and insecure.
Insecurity and fear is mindset, you can do all these things and they will help make it easier but it all comes down to mindset gotta flip the switch. Wish you well i feel similar to you ❤
I’m doing it now for two years, and recently I’ve got a cold and an otitis and it took more than three weeks to heal. So nothing changed really by doing the Wim Hof method..
But the great benefit of the cold showers for me is that it gives an enormous energy boost for the rest of the day. I’m a lot more active with than without the cold shower.
Please make sure to let everyone know NOT to take cold showers after any strength workout. It will fuck you up. Otherwise they're the best thing I've ever done lol
why do you think it fucks you up??? I have been doing my cold baths after workouts for years now - I do strength workouts
I consider it reduces inflammation, like icing the muscles
@@eagle444 note that its a bad thing, reducing muscle growth.
Ok well I sauna and cold shower back and forth after strength training and it's the most beneficial thing for all parts of health in my opinion
Being comfortable all the time breeds complacency which breeds laziness which breeds a unhealthy sedimentary lifestyle. Cold showers help remind us to NOT always be comfortable all the time.