If you are struggling with addiction of any kind, cold immersion therapy may be the most potent for immediate relief. Benefits compound over time to address underlying neurology. One of many uses cases that cold plunging addresses uniquely.
National Geographic ran 2,000 words on why the cold plunge is overhyped. We read all of it, including the part most people never reach.
Everyone has an opinion on cold exposure. Listen to practitioners who have done it for years.
Cold plunge companies are now selling oxygen nanobubbles. The pitch: oxygen goes "right through your pores" and "super saturates you, more than a medical grade hyperbaric chamber."
Peer reviewed studies behind it? Not one in cold plunge conditions.
The cold is the product.
The most cited sauna study in history might also be a cold plunge story.
The sauna study only measured three things: how often, how long, and how hot.
That is not how the Finnish do sauna.
Cold-water cooling during sauna is โwidely practiced.โ - Dr. Jari Laukkanen
The cold is one of the greatest teachers of how to accept the brutality of life and leverage it.
Acceptance is the impetus for adaptation.
Adaptation is the foundation of all growth.
Our customer at Release Well-Being Center posted the different breathing techniques you can perform in a cold plunge. All of these techniques help you dampen adrenaline spikes, accept the cold, and adapt. We recommend experimenting with each.
Humans are creatures of habit. Quality sleep, quality exercise, and the virtuous cycle of positive reinforcement.
Pinnacle Cold Exposure is another powerful daily habit. Like a prime reset for your nervous system.
Neural genesis = Increased neural connectivity ๐ง ๐ช
Mind & Build Your Vigor:
Sleep fills the vigor well
NSDR replenishes it (Look it up)
Exercise raises capacity for more (vigor)
Caffeine etc. borrows it (but IMO is great)
Reaching milestones reinforces it
Pointless back & forth drains it
Good people in your life secure it.
@IamProHuman Great post!
We've found that cold plunging can be a great addition to our daily routine.
When it comes to mood, depression, and anxiety, placing the body under acute, low dose stress like a cold plunge resets the mind. ๐ง
Pinnacle cold exposure interrupts the default mode network - in other words - it shakes you out of autopilot.
Plunging in a BlueCube is a reset to zero; a true-up.
There are no shortcuts.
Only proof of work.
#ResetToZero#ProofOfWork
this is a proof of work universe
you either get addicted to easy dopamine release
or you get addicted to DIFFICULT dopamine release
either way you build habits, patterns
protocols
blockchains
the Kali Yuga is perceived as an age where man is "far from God"
I don't know about that one way or another - but
perhaps God is simply another word for truth
the truth piercing through you like a rapier of righteous awareness
"forget everything else...
THIS is real
THIS is life or death
YOU are ALIVE
YOU CAN CHOOSE"
that's what cold plunging is
dabbing daily
no middlemen
learning pinnacle cold
#WarpSpeedTV @bluecube_baths #ProofOfWork
@esaagar The issue is that Americans cannot easily start businesses and buy property in China. Whoever wrote our trade laws with China was asleep at the wheel.
@JamesClear@robdyrdek for both. Exceptional entrepreneur.
Fully engaged family man. Master and creator of his calendar. Hard to find people who live their lives beautifully across both areas.
Hard activities like exercise, ice baths, and fasting cause short term pain and long term pleasure. Easy activities like social media scrolling, porn, and gaming, provide short term pleasure and long term pain.
Dr. Anna Lembke's seesaw.