#cold shower

[balkanparamo]

The Cold Shower - Brett Whiteley. b.1939, Australian painter

[strangerthanfictionlife]

Keeping cool in the heat wave by taking a second cold shower

[tombama]

Nice Piece Of Architecture

[how-much-for-a-whump]

Bambaşka Biri 4. Bölüm

[saber-monet]

Take Cold showers to ignore the 3d

If you're in the loass community and want to practice the concept of

" ignore the 3d and persist" taking cold showers is the way to go!

why?

when you commit to taking cold showers you condition your brain to think wanted thought and abandon the negative one .

You quickly learn thinking negative thoughts like:

" this is hard"

"I cant do this"

"why am i putting myself through this? i could just stop rn" etc

only make the experience worse.

You learn to consciously choose to think wanted thoughts like:

"This will be over soon, this wont last long"

"I feel warm and toasty rn"

"I've already completed this, it's already done " etc.

Basically affirming your desired state and tapping into it and staying there. ( you gain resilience to stay in your preferred state). And you actually feel that way in real time. It feels bearable. It feels fine taking a cold shower.

Because If you start saying the negative thoughts again, the experience becomes miserable and you feel terrible and weak and you will want to quit. You can quite literally feel yourself shifting states based on the words you're saying.

My experience:

I started with 30 second cold shower and the next day 1:00 minute, then 1:30 the next and worked my way up to 3:00 minute cold shower today.

What I do is set the timer and affirm(out loud): " I feel nice and toasty right now", "this 3 minutes went by so quickly", "that was so easy" (affirming as my future self ) and I basically do that till the timer goes off.

This exercise definitely teaches you how to tap into your desired future self, and hold your future self's thoughts.

It's gotten so good that I've started automatically affirming how well my showers are going to go before I even step into the bathroom.

Before I used to think, "oh my gosh this cold shower's gonna be so uncomfortable. I'm gonna hate it", etc.

Now, whenever I think of a cold shower, I automatically think, "oh nice and toasty that's gonna go by so quick". And it feels nice to think about. It doesn't feel forced at all. It's become ingrained as a positive experience on my conscience and it took less than a week to do 🙌🏾

[robinlovexo]

remember agua es vida, water is life, please use water sparingly when you play in the shower ;)

it is a blessing to be able to use water in such abundance - hot bitches take quick cold showers

[secret-gallavich]

thank you @michellemisfit for this weeks @galladrabbles prompt! i immediately thought of cold showers to help a situation but im a sucker for fics about mickeys childhood so here we go

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PROMPT: COLD SHOWER

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Mickey has fond memories of the public pool.

He remembers going there when he was young. With his older brothers and younger sister. And his mum.

She'd take them up three times a week sometimes. Would let them splash around in the water all day and drag her in too. She'd force them to shower, force them to use soap and wash their hair with their shampoo to get all the chlorine out.

It wasn't until he was older that he realised it was to avoid having cold showers all the time when no one had paid the heating bill.

[galladrabbles]

Happy Monday you beautiful people!

It’s always a bit difficult to get going on a Monday, isn’t it? y’know what can really help kickstart the system?

This weeks’ prompt:

COLD SHOWER

Have mercy on those of us who are dealing with sub-zero temperatures, Michelle @michellemisfit 😣😬

But you're right, Mondays are always so slow, so maybe a cold shower is exactly what the doctor ordered 😎

Lovelies, go wild!! Happy drabbling 🤗

-Evie

[ithilien-wolf]

Daniel Brühl in Cargo, 2006

Dir. Clive Gordon

Part 4/6

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 5 | Part 6

[tombama]

Lost the soap again

[stabby-apologist]

I would very much like to be the spread in a Hoffman and Amanda sandwich

[westernstarofthenorth]

No words needed

[thescienceofdeductionn]

Daily Protocols

Mostly, we are talking about mindset, observation, logic etc. These are all good and important parts but we need to talk about our daily habits and protocols which either enhance or limit our skills. For this post, I will speak of caffeine, cold shower and exercise. 1-Caffeine

Caffeine has immense effects on us. I won't go deep into the neurology of it but basically, it increases the number of dopamine receptors which increase our motivation, drive and pursuit of goals. It is also very effective in improving our memory. Most consumed caffeine sources are coffee, tea, yerba mate and caffeine pills. It's all good to know what it does but protocols for achieving those effects are more important so let's see how we can use that: Before Learning

If you ingest caffeine before studying or working out, it will increase your focus, motivation and memory. Peak effects of caffeine start 30-60 min later but it is better if you ingest it in 10 min. (Don't sip it for 1 hour because the effects will be lower.)

After Learning

If you ingest caffeine after studying it will enhance your memory capacities more because memories get encoded with 3 molecules: Acetylcholine, dopamine and epinephrine(adrenaline). Caffeine will increase the effects of these molecules and you will remember what you studied before.

Note: The recommended dosage of caffeine is around 1-3 mg per kg of body weight. If you are going to use caffeine before workout you can take 3-6 mg per kg. Be careful about dosage because everybody has different genetics and adaptations. 2-Exercise

Exercise is the most basic protocol you can do for your overall health. It is especially important for your memory because studies shows that it has the most enhancing effects for memory.(By increasing gray matter and also exercise have beneficial effects on the hippocampus, a brain region particularly sensitive to age-related decay.) You can do your exercise before or after study session and it will has similar effects with caffeine. It will increase your focus and memory capacity. 3-Cold Shower

It is one of the easiest and fastest protocols to improve focus, memory, dopamine etc. It helps us to control our emotions and reactions and enhances our ability to focus even under stressful situations. If you take a cold shower after a study session, it will increase the memory encoding.(Similar mechanism with exercise and caffeine.)The release of adrenaline is going to increase your overall energy and motivation. Key Take Aways 1-If you want to improve memory encoding, apply these protocols after your study session. 2-If you want to increase your focus, apply these protocols before your study session. 3-If you want the best effects you can apply the protocols together. For example, ingesting caffeine before studying and taking a cold shower after. 4-Find the appropriate dosages/timing for you. I would like to talk about those more but it will be a very long post so I encourage you to do your research. It is important to find protocols that will help you to improve your observation and deduction skills. That's all for now. If you have any questions let me know. See you later.

[apartmentbuilding-num3]

me in a hot shower: mhhhhh hot

me in a cold shower: mmhhh cold

me in a warm shower: *contemplates life and all of exsistance including love and how cannibalism is used as a metaphor for devotion*

[how-much-for-a-whump]

WHUMPTOBER day 15: Emotional damage

"Breathing Through the Pain"

Die Bergretter S11E06