00:00hello and welcome today's project's all about cold showers and why cold showers helps you overcome anxiety but it also improves your physical health as well now wim hof he's sweeping the internet with his wim hof breathing and it also through his cold showers but why is it having such a great impact on him why has he become this ice man character well it's because he suffered from mental health challenges in his past his wife passed away his life became chaotic and he found clarity mental clarity through the ice through the cold water now that's interesting how can that happen so in this video i'm going to talk about why cold showers is important for your
01:00day-to-day life both mentally and physically now when when you get in that cold shower you're going to make a lot of excuses not to not to go in there but it's important to to know before going into that cold shower why it's important so that you can actually get in there and do it so i want to first talk talk about the beginnings of my anxiety recovery when i was going through my anxiety recovery when i was going through this hell this chaos i started to improve different aspects of myself now once i started to improve once my eyes became awakened to my insufficiencies that's one of the i think that's the first step is to recognize that oh man i'm just so insufficient i have all of these uh issues and i've been causing all of this pain myself no one else has been causing it
02:00but me it's been me creating this hell that i've been living in and so recognizing that makes you become awakened so i became awake to oh man i have to take responsibility for my anxiety i have to start to improve all the different things that's that's been making my life hell and so i started to do that and i and i started to progress to a goal to an aim and through the that progression through facing those challenges i got a dopamine kick each time i proved my old self wrong i became i i was like oh this is cool like i'm becoming different i didn't know i could do this before and so i that made me want to seek out more challenges more and more challenges so the the one of the challenges i was facing uh is the cold shower challenge
03:00as as well as many other challenges at the same time so when an anxiety sufferer is suffering and in this chaos they're really unconscious right they're unconscious they're not aware of their their negative attributes they're not aware of the habits that they're doing that's causing them to remain in this anxious identity this chaotic state and so the view of the world is very narrow they're unconscious right have you ever been around somebody who's who's said to you you know why do all these negative things happen to me why am i always in negative relationships why can't i ever you know have something good in my life and so they they're unconscious that they're the ones causing that negative uh energy to manifest right their habits their mindset and so they're unable to become awakened
04:00and and pursue the proper path because they're just so unconscious not they're not even aware that there is a path to follow so i hope that this channel i hope that this video helps with that path the path towards enlightenment but also the path towards being awakened to being awakened to all of the insufficiencies that you're manifesting so make sure you subscribe and follow me because i have everything related to anxiety recovery but also related to the path to that ideal you right everything that's going to help you achieve the the person that you've always wanted to become and so that brings me to cold showers so cold showers was one of the challenges i faced when going through recovery and why i was attracted to this challenge
05:00was because of the improvements wim hof was talking about and as a former anxiety suffer health anxiety suffer i was so uh obsessed over my health i was obsessed over the little different marks on my body i thought they were diseases i was always constantly checking myself to see if i was okay so this cold shower challenge or now it's a lifestyle for me because i've been doing cold showers for two years now so it's been a long time uh it's just my lifestyle now i never take hot showers the only times i took hot showers was when i went camping once because the only available water was was hot and another time it was the same idea in florida the water wasn't cold enough it was just warm so those are the only times in the past two years that i've taken
06:00warm to hot showers so i love cold showers because when i started to take cold showers i i i knew that there were health benefits to that and so when i was suffering from health anxiety i needed to add evidence to why i am healthy because i have strong beliefs i have strong support systems in my unconscious holding up this identity of being unhealthy that's why i was so obsessed because i had strong beliefs that i'm unhealthy so i had to start to chip away at those pillars making up this anxious to prove to myself that i am in fact healthy and cold showers was the one of the reasons why i i started them to prove to myself that i am in fact healthy because i was suffering deeply and worried about my health
07:00continuously so cold showers was one of the reasons why to a health anxiety sufferer why it's so important to do so let's talk about the mental reasons why is cold showers important well what happens when you when you get into a cold shower before you even get under the water you feel the water it's freezing cold what happens well there's a thousand and one excuses that come up in your mind why you shouldn't go in there you're gonna make up a thousand excuses you may even avoid the shower and and go clean your room or you might go walk the dog you'll do something challenging but less challenging than the cold shower and so cold showers is important because you're bypassing all of those negative thoughts that's interesting right you're you're you're
08:00you're pushing away all of those negative thoughts and you're getting in that damn shower you're you're you're just becoming a different person you're you're actually stimulating new circuitry in your brain when you do that because the old identity the old brad would be like how i'm just going to avoid all challenges that's the thing that's the anxiety sufferer the brad that's like i'm just going to avoid everything that's that's challenging and and just live on pleasure island but no i decided you know what i'm going to get in that damn shower i'm not going to listen to that voice anymore i'm going to bypass that i'm going to jump in that shower and i'm going to i'm going to stimulate new parts of me new circuitry yes it's like a swordsmith uh forging a sword what happens you put it
09:00under intense heat you hammer the crap out of that sword and you flip it and you keep hammering it and you keep putting it in that heat so you have to put it under intense heat for it to forge what do you have to do with your mind if you if you believe you have a weak mind if you if you are worried about your health if you are suffering for a long time what happens when you put yourself in intense situations you're forging a new mind you're hardening your mind you're changing new circuitry that's why cold showers is important that's why you should be doing cold showers you're disciplining yourself anxiety sufferers are not disciplined they're not they live on pleasure island they avoid all anxious situations all challenging situations so the more you go and place yourself in challenging situations
10:00the more you're going to face other so for example you going into that cold shower facing that cold shower in the morning you're more likely to face other challenges throughout the day also you get a dopamine high when you get out of the cold shower you're like oh i can't believe i did it i feel good oh man i didn't want to go in there but i did it anyways and i'm so proud of myself so you get that high which is super cool that's important too now there are also physical sides to it so like i said before i was proving to myself that i am healthy so the physical parts of it is you're actually improving blood throat blood flow throughout the body when you get out of that cold shower all your body is red you're stimulating blood vessels which is super cool you're actually working your heart in a good in a good
11:00way you know you're improving your health but also when you get under the cold water you go you breathe you breathe deeply so you're breathing heavily in that cold shower and thus you are your blood becomes alkaline you're at your your there's more oxygen in your body you feel more relaxed after the cold shower that's so cool too and also this is cool it lowers cortisol which is the stress hormone so when you get into a cold shower if you have a lot of stress if you're worried about a bunch of things throughout the day or or if you're worried about your health you get under that cold shower what happens you instantly forget what you're worried about the anxiety that you're you're that you're you're going through because you're focused on the cold water that's all you can think about it's freezing so you forget about all of the things that that's making you anxious that your
12:00health your health situation your anxiety your depression the chaos around you you forget it for that moment and so that's pretty cool too so there's a lot of benefits to taking cold showers oh man that sun just came out of nowhere but there's a lot of benefits to taking cold showers and i urge you to start doing that now and and i've felt all of these benefits and they are real so start taking cold showers you won't regret it it's a challenge but we need challenges we need to to to progress somewhere in life there there is some sort of ideal right you have to have some sort of ideal and when you progress towards that ideal when you start to do things out of your comfort zone and do them and successfully do them you get the dopamine high and thus happiness comes when you watch yourself progressing
13:00and that's where i'm going to leave you on today's video thank you so much for being here with me today and remember do not let anxiety define who you are i will see you on the next video bye for now remember to hit that subscribe button and that bell so that whenever a new video of mine appears you will be the first to know namaste