I've been cold showering for a year now and will never look back. No matter what I have to face in the day, it steels me for it. Far more invigorating/life-affirming than coffee (and I love coffee).
Celia, I don't know if you remember me from Curio magazine a long time ago but I'd love to interview you on my podcast, Post-Woke: https://mickeyz.substack.com
Stumbled across Vim Hof online about 6 or 8 years ago. As a practitioner of sweat lodges and cold plunges for the past 40+ years, I'm glad to see someone touting their virtues to the masses. To maximize thermal benefits, gotta work on the diet as well. https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/will-the-next-plandemic-be-food-born?s=w
I grew up in northern Ontario on Georgian Bay... and when I was a teenager, our little cottage didn't have a shower. No shower, no tub, only the cold lake. Only to say that when I finally heard of Wim Hof, I could not stop laughing. I'd always loved the cold but had no idea there were so many benefits. Now I start my day with the breathing and cold showers (I don't have a tub at the moment). If you haven't tried it yet... just do it! Celia thanks so much for sharing your healing journey. It's so encouraging. :-)
Celia, after managing to slowly slowly get in ice cold Lake Geneva (12C) and swimming for 15mn, I came out and shivered for half an hour. That was 4 days ago. Since then the overwhelming pervasive draining permanent sensation I wanted to be dead has disappeared It is truly amazing.
I'm with you 100 percent, ice baths are a profoundly healing systemic reset, deletes pain of all kinds faster than any drug and the only side effect is that you feel great.
Wim is a great guy, but crazier than a bag of cats.
A great book to read about WimHof is "what doesn't kill us" by Scott Carney.
I discovered Wims method when we started doing the Tough Guy race (idea then stolen by Tough Mudder) and one of the obstacles was the cold and hypothermia, meaning that hundreds wouldn't finish at all.
To prepare we began swimming in rivers lakes and the sea, all year round.
The coldest so far was 2 C.
The cold dip is a real mood lifter, though I do now get chilblains every March for my troubles.
I enjoyed the healing and relaxing experience of Korean spas for years however the cold water plunge was the one treatment I only could dip in for mere seconds. Thank you for this. I love Wim’s breath work. I’ll dip into an ice bath this evening! 🥶
Me ruined at the Better Way Comderence this past weekend. The healing remedy of ice baths. Many people swim each day in the sea here in Exmouth, they seem
been cold showering daily for 3 years. outdoors for 1. I'm in California so wintertime is tolerable. never got covid, been very healthy since doing this, along with a few other health-related lifestyle changes like better diet and regular exercise.
PS- Wim Hof is able to do his crazy ice shit because of his genes... his brother can do the same thing and his brother doesn't practice any of it like Wim does.
Thanks.A few summers ago, I combined a wine barrel with a an on demand water heater for a poor mans hot tub. It quickly became a cold dip barrel, although i still luxuriate in a hot steamy one now and then. Winters are best for icy cold except when you have to crack the ice. Still learning to handle the cold.i rarely if ever stay longer than a minute.
Cold baths are definitely better than warm ones. Notice cold climates have few diseases compared to warm and wet climates. They called "tropical" diseases for a reason - they are found in the tropics! Ask anyone who has ventured into any tropical area or jungle.
Thank you for sharing this, Celia. My brother told me about Wim Hof a year or so ago and I didn't follow up on looking into anything by him. I did try a couple of cold showers. The municipal water here is COLD! The cold shock almost cause me to pass out. So, I'm going to go gradually from warm to cold. I've had a lifetime (since 7 years young) of depression. Lately, I've been very depressed and am having high b.p. issues that I haven't had before. I going to try it tonight.
A friend says "Whenever as a pre-teenager i woke during the night with a wheezy chest i'd go outside and sit in the cold night air without any upper body clothing. By breakfast time the wheeze had gone. Now in my 70s i find it harder to breathe during the colder months. So no iced baths or cold showers for me."
I've been cold showering for a year now and will never look back. No matter what I have to face in the day, it steels me for it. Far more invigorating/life-affirming than coffee (and I love coffee).
Celia, I don't know if you remember me from Curio magazine a long time ago but I'd love to interview you on my podcast, Post-Woke: https://mickeyz.substack.com
Stumbled across Vim Hof online about 6 or 8 years ago. As a practitioner of sweat lodges and cold plunges for the past 40+ years, I'm glad to see someone touting their virtues to the masses. To maximize thermal benefits, gotta work on the diet as well. https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/will-the-next-plandemic-be-food-born?s=w
I grew up in northern Ontario on Georgian Bay... and when I was a teenager, our little cottage didn't have a shower. No shower, no tub, only the cold lake. Only to say that when I finally heard of Wim Hof, I could not stop laughing. I'd always loved the cold but had no idea there were so many benefits. Now I start my day with the breathing and cold showers (I don't have a tub at the moment). If you haven't tried it yet... just do it! Celia thanks so much for sharing your healing journey. It's so encouraging. :-)
Celia, after managing to slowly slowly get in ice cold Lake Geneva (12C) and swimming for 15mn, I came out and shivered for half an hour. That was 4 days ago. Since then the overwhelming pervasive draining permanent sensation I wanted to be dead has disappeared It is truly amazing.
I'm with you 100 percent, ice baths are a profoundly healing systemic reset, deletes pain of all kinds faster than any drug and the only side effect is that you feel great.
Wim is a great guy, but crazier than a bag of cats.
A great book to read about WimHof is "what doesn't kill us" by Scott Carney.
I discovered Wims method when we started doing the Tough Guy race (idea then stolen by Tough Mudder) and one of the obstacles was the cold and hypothermia, meaning that hundreds wouldn't finish at all.
To prepare we began swimming in rivers lakes and the sea, all year round.
The coldest so far was 2 C.
The cold dip is a real mood lifter, though I do now get chilblains every March for my troubles.
I enjoyed the healing and relaxing experience of Korean spas for years however the cold water plunge was the one treatment I only could dip in for mere seconds. Thank you for this. I love Wim’s breath work. I’ll dip into an ice bath this evening! 🥶
Me ruined at the Better Way Comderence this past weekend. The healing remedy of ice baths. Many people swim each day in the sea here in Exmouth, they seem
pretty darn content💕💕
been cold showering daily for 3 years. outdoors for 1. I'm in California so wintertime is tolerable. never got covid, been very healthy since doing this, along with a few other health-related lifestyle changes like better diet and regular exercise.
the real benefit is not the ice bath but the pain and discomfort activates a reward system afterwards for dopamine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha1ZbJIW1f8
PS- Wim Hof is able to do his crazy ice shit because of his genes... his brother can do the same thing and his brother doesn't practice any of it like Wim does.
Thanks.A few summers ago, I combined a wine barrel with a an on demand water heater for a poor mans hot tub. It quickly became a cold dip barrel, although i still luxuriate in a hot steamy one now and then. Winters are best for icy cold except when you have to crack the ice. Still learning to handle the cold.i rarely if ever stay longer than a minute.
Cold baths are definitely better than warm ones. Notice cold climates have few diseases compared to warm and wet climates. They called "tropical" diseases for a reason - they are found in the tropics! Ask anyone who has ventured into any tropical area or jungle.
I am going to try this. Seems to help a lot of people.
Thank you for sharing this, Celia. My brother told me about Wim Hof a year or so ago and I didn't follow up on looking into anything by him. I did try a couple of cold showers. The municipal water here is COLD! The cold shock almost cause me to pass out. So, I'm going to go gradually from warm to cold. I've had a lifetime (since 7 years young) of depression. Lately, I've been very depressed and am having high b.p. issues that I haven't had before. I going to try it tonight.
A friend says "Whenever as a pre-teenager i woke during the night with a wheezy chest i'd go outside and sit in the cold night air without any upper body clothing. By breakfast time the wheeze had gone. Now in my 70s i find it harder to breathe during the colder months. So no iced baths or cold showers for me."