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I have tried the Wim Hof method a few times but I just can't get used to the cold showers. I can do it for a few days but instead of getting used to it I dread

I have tried the Wim Hof method a few times but I just can't get used to the cold showers. I can do it for a few days but instead of getting used to it I dread it more and more. Has anybody else tried it and got used to the cold? I should add that I always got easily cold and there is almost no temperature where I say that it's too hot.

t_akosuke 8y ago
I've been doing it for years without being aware of wh, i come from a tropical country (and used to dread cold very much since childhood), moved to a northern country and eventually decided i didn't want to let the cold control my life so i started developing some strategies. one of them is cold showers - i got used to them after a couple months persistence and now i don't like hot ones anymore, except occasionally it's done a lot of great stuff to me. winter depressions are a thing of the past to me now, and I'm almost as outgoing in the cold seasons as in summer.
- graeme 8y ago
  Do you find you get as clean? That's been my only hesitation, I wasn't sure that cold water gets shampoo out as well or cleans odours as well.
  - krageon 8y ago
    I've spent a few weeks in a place with no hot running water before (only a "shower" filled with water from a meltwater river and the river itself), so I can comfortably say that you can indeed get perfectly clean with one of those. It's mostly a function of the amount of time you're willing to spend in there.
  - t_akosuke 8y ago
    i get clean enough for my needs, which might be different than yours. I find that hot water is only really necessary to get rid of stuff that's stuck which is not a very frequent thing, but if you don't agree you can always combine hot and cold
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ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> there is almost no temperature where I say that it's too hot Did you ever ask a doctor about this? Especially an endocrinologist. One example of many possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidism As for cold showers, I dreaded them but at some point in my life I just relaxed. I would call it "acceptance", in general, life throws bad stuff your way and all you can do is "exist", i.e. nothing, really. So if I want to or have to have a cold shower (e.g. when hot water was out once) I just turn on the cold water and get in and accept that it's uncomfortable, especially at the very beginning. Nothing I can do about it - and, more importantly, since I know it's only uncomfortable but not threatening, nothing I have to do. All I have to do is stand there and do nothing and feel whatever there is to feel. At that point I'm just an observer of my own body, with no active role to play. The conscious part does nothing, the forces at play are all controlled by lower level brain functions.
- maxxxxx 8y ago
  I think I could do cold exposure if I was active. Maybe swimming in cold water. Or even sitting in a bathtub where I don't get hit by cold water drops.

t_akosuke 8y ago

I've been doing it for years without being aware of wh, i come from a tropical country (and used to dread cold very much since childhood), moved to a northern country and eventually decided i didn't want to let the cold control my life so i started developing some strategies. one of them is cold showers - i got used to them after a couple months persistence and now i don't like hot ones anymore, except occasionally it's done a lot of great stuff to me. winter depressions are a thing of the past to me now, and I'm almost as outgoing in the cold seasons as in summer.

graeme 8y ago
Do you find you get as clean? That's been my only hesitation, I wasn't sure that cold water gets shampoo out as well or cleans odours as well.
- krageon 8y ago
  I've spent a few weeks in a place with no hot running water before (only a "shower" filled with water from a meltwater river and the river itself), so I can comfortably say that you can indeed get perfectly clean with one of those. It's mostly a function of the amount of time you're willing to spend in there.
- t_akosuke 8y ago
  i get clean enough for my needs, which might be different than yours. I find that hot water is only really necessary to get rid of stuff that's stuck which is not a very frequent thing, but if you don't agree you can always combine hot and cold

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ThrowMeDown01 8y ago

> there is almost no temperature where I say that it's too hot Did you ever ask a doctor about this? Especially an endocrinologist. One example of many possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidism As for cold showers, I dreaded them but at some point in my life I just relaxed. I would call it "acceptance", in general, life throws bad stuff your way and all you can do is "exist", i.e. nothing, really. So if I want to or have to have a cold shower (e.g. when hot water was out once) I just turn on the cold water and get in and accept that it's uncomfortable, especially at the very beginning. Nothing I can do about it - and, more importantly, since I know it's only uncomfortable but not threatening, nothing I have to do. All I have to do is stand there and do nothing and feel whatever there is to feel. At that point I'm just an observer of my own body, with no active role to play. The conscious part does nothing, the forces at play are all controlled by lower level brain functions.

maxxxxx 8y ago
I think I could do cold exposure if I was active. Maybe swimming in cold water. Or even sitting in a bathtub where I don't get hit by cold water drops.