Session 30 August 2014

As far as I know according to S. Kneipp one should never take a cold shower or a cold bath if one is cold.
Before taking a cold shower/bath one should take a hot shower or brush the body. After a cold shower one should get into bed under a warm blanket/duvet for about 15 minutes.

For the beginners he recommended swilling with a cold wet, towel then graduated watering.
 
It is also advised to keep moving while you are in the basin (not that you wouldn't want to, it's really cold, and most times thoughts focus primarily on how to get out quickly again). My mother told me as a child I would get a heart attack if I didn't move, and I still have to overcome a little fear of this cold shower thing...

M.T.
 
Heaalih said:
And I am going to try to convince my wife and young children to do so. I'm not too optimistic on that part... :)
Click to expand...

My wife and my seven years old child did it ! (except the head for this first time)

About my headaches I propose to continue here :
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35931.0.html
 
Well, I tried cold showers yesterday and this morning. I started with lukewarm water, which was neither pleasant nor useful in the scope of cold adaptation. When I tried with a little bit colder water, it went really unpleasant. I had huge difficulties to breathe under cold water, like I was panicking or something. I had to stop after a few seconds. The water wasn't even "cold cold", just a little bit under lukewarm.
 
How can you be sure about the temperature of the water without an integrated thermometer ?
I have no indication on my shower system. I think that I could fill a glass with the water from the shower. Then I could test the temperature with a Thermometer. When I would reach 10-15° I could record the right level of the tap. Does someone have another option ?

Tomek said:
When I tried with a little bit colder water, it went really unpleasant. I had huge difficulties to breathe under cold water, like I was panicking or something. I had to stop after a few seconds. The water wasn't even "cold cold", just a little bit under lukewarm.
Click to expand...

I habe been hating cold water for years, With experience I noticed that we're not all equal about it :cry:
Some people are just not very sensitive to cold water that's unfair :-[
By the way, I understand you Tomek !

Anyway I'm pretty sure it's very good for health and you can feel how much you're feeling alive and dynamic when you go out from cold water :lol:
We can't blind ourselves in front of all the proofs there are from the benefits of a cold bath/shower

Now got much work to do :halo:
 
Many thanks for sharing.
I've been accustomed to finish every shower with cold water since 1 year approx. I always feel like it's strengthening my Will.
Now it's a question of increasing the duration and dropping the temperature lower. I think one has to get used to a longer duration before dropping the temperature lower and lower.
 
Tomek said:
Well, I tried cold showers yesterday and this morning. I started with lukewarm water, which was neither pleasant nor useful in the scope of cold adaptation. When I tried with a little bit colder water, it went really unpleasant. I had huge difficulties to breathe under cold water, like I was panicking or something. I had to stop after a few seconds. The water wasn't even "cold cold", just a little bit under lukewarm.
Click to expand...

If you didn't try it, try pipe breathing before turning the water temperature down, and then continue with the pipe breathing. Others have mentioned that they do this and it helps.
 
I just took two different thermometer readings of my shower tap water. 23 C was as low as it went. Plan B? You can't buy bags of ice here like you can in the states, so running down to the 7-11 is not an option for filling the tub with some ice. 23 C water is brutal enough for me. No doubt as the season progresses and the temperatures fall, so will the tap water temperature. I guess going with what is available now and working my way down gradually, as the outside weather progresses to winter, is how the universe intends for me to do this. A tank of liquid nitrogen to bubble into the tub until the desired temp is hit could work, but seems a bit extreme.

Yesterday, someone posted on my facebook wall a video of a Russian submariner undressing on the deck of his surfaced sub in the Arctic, then jumping in. Ice cakes floating all around. Now that's a cold protocol. He didn't stay in long.
 
So when we live in warm countries, like me in the Canary Islands, what to do with the cold protocol? The water this morning for my shower was cold but not too much cold. Then it came warm, really. Is there something to do in cases like me?
 
Laura and the team thank you for a great session and thx to the U.K crew for keeping the home fires burning. ;)
 
Heaalih said:
Heaalih said:
And I am going to try to convince my wife and young children to do so. I'm not too optimistic on that part... :)
Click to expand...

My wife and my seven years old child did it ! (except the head for this first time)

About my headaches I propose to continue here :
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35931.0.html
Click to expand...

Conversley, would dunking ones head in ice cold water do anything for the immune system? I remember doing it as a kid to get some relief from my migraines.
 
davey72 said:
Conversley, would dunking ones head in ice cold water do anything for the immune system? I remember doing it as a kid to get some relief from my migraines.
Click to expand...

Hey Davey72, this comment is relevant, but no mention that it effects the immune system, at least not in the same way as total submersion.

Laura said:
Session Date: March 22nd 2014

Laura, Ark, Pierre, Perceval, Andromeda, PoB, Kniall
[...]

Q: [laughter] (Pierre) He sure was active! (Ark) I have a question. You {Laura} are taking these cold baths, but I am getting up with these headaches. Should I also like put my head in the cold bath to stop these morning headaches?

A: Yes and your remodeling plans should help a lot also.

Q: (Chu) The remodeling of your bedroom. (L) He gets his headaches in bed. He wakes up with them. It's those curved walls that are deadly. Dead man's curve! (Pierre) We have to do that. (L) But I dread it. It's gonna be such a mess.

A: But you will love it when it is done, and the reality will change dramatically in concert with the relief of psychic and physiological constrictions and restraints.

[...]
END OF SESSION
Click to expand...
 
Just coming out of the ice-shower...jeez, it was hard, but I couldn´t help laughing because I felt like one of those Bugs Bunny Cartoon-Characters with teeth chattering, slowly turning into an iceblock...and then imagining all those people who are doing the same thing today after reading this session. :)
 
Hello and thank you for the latest session!

There was a man who lived in Russia, last century, by the name of Porfiry Ivanov.
He was famous for walking barefoot and without clothes in any season. He intuitively figured out that cold water treatments is a way to a healthy life and he lived until 85 years old, despite all the hardships that he encountered. He was routinely pouring cold water on himself, even in the coldest of winters. There are a lot of resources about him in Russian language on the Internet, but not much in English:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfiry_Ivanov

SlavaoN
 
This is really fascinating. I had a cold shower this morning to try it out and it wasn't bad at all. I started slightly warm and worked up. (Or is it down?)

My partner is one of those who figured this out instinctively years ago, too. He avoids wearing a coat in winter sometimes and rarely gets sick.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Trending content

Back
Top Bottom