If you’ll allow me,

Ill go in a little bit about myself and this particular routine, maybe you can give it a try and maybe it’ll work for you.

It starts with stating my intention, and by now I just know what’s coming,

but I have it in my head what I’m about to do.

That’s like the first battle with myself.

When I’m comfy on the couch or tired after a long day, to convince myself to get up and do something that’s going to be uncomfortable..

I’m also aware of what it would do to my confidence in myself, to bitch out at this point.
So I get up and get to it.

So, I meditate in the shower,

I start with a hot regular shower, to get clean and all that,

then I as soon as that’s over,

I reach for the knob to switch it to as

❄️cold🥶 as I can get it

now, this is harder on some days than others,

but I know in my head, I already set my intention,

which is at least 5 minutes of cold exposure.

I get it to cold..

Now when the cold hits my skin, I do a reset, like I need to, I feel my breath start to pick up.

I got this from a Japanese Study, of 20,000 individuals with hypertension and also normal blood pressure,

by simply taking 6 deep breaths,

Personally, I go from the diaphragm, up to my chest, hold, then exhale,

these individuals lowered their systolic blood pressure by activating the parasympathetic nervous system(or rest and digest), decreasing their heart rate and dilating blood vessels.

Just practicing this alone, can make your brain relate to relaxation state, and you can now train to remain calm In stressful situations, to help face problems with a clear head.

Hence, why I do this during a cold shower, but HEY don’t listen to just me do your own research lol.

To me it feels great to get my mind to reset as I know my body will follow,

Now when I first started cold exposure, it was frantic breathing and almost like motivating myself through the pain.

Now the motivation method worked, but it just felt like dealing with pain, and training that muscle, which can help to an extent,

But I set my aim, at acceptance.

More than just pain tolerance, it’s acceptance of turbulence in my world, and then training my mind and emotions, which in this case is to freak out and jump out of the shower as fast as I can, to simply accept it.

It’s like a trigger thing now, of like, I can fight and convince myself it’s not cold, or try to trick my mind into feeling it differently,

or I can just accept, its cold,

and that it is my current surrounding,

and that things don’t have to be my favorite or preferred or the ideal condition to be calm and focused.

that’s the first half of it, the cold exposure.

If you want to learn more look up Wim Hof, amazing story and he’s like THE GUY on cold exposure. I’ll link his Instagram at the bottom.

The 2nd half, is meditating on my future self

So during all this,

I envision, a small chunk of a day in my future life,

But I also imagine, that I myself, my future self, is at the time taking a cold shower

I expect myself to still be doing this in the future, so to me, it’s connected.

I try not to disconnect those two “people”,

because I know that in time, the time will come where in 10 years, that’s still me, so I might as well get really close to this guy, and believe everything I envision for myself, is the same guy, me.

I realize, in my vision for my future,

I have to bring me, WITH ME

Dr. Joe Dispenza speaks deeper on this, ill link him at the bottom as well.

Did that make sense?
but just to not confuse, I’ll put “his”

But I picture what his day was like,

I think what problems is he running into?
How does he go about solving it?
What was his thought process during that?
Who’s coming to see him?
What time did he wake up?
How fit is he?
What’d he have for breakfast?
What car is he going to drive?
What disappoints him?

I try to step into him, because he essentially is me, and I’m going to live somebody’s life, when the time comes, I can just set my aim at his.

Now, I don’t know if this makes me crazy,

but I know which house I’m going to live in, the address, how the shower looks, the light right behind the front door, the kitchen, the pool, the backyard,, the view, it’s on YouTube lol.

I know which cars I’ll have, which color, what the leather feels like, what it smells like, what the car sounds like, what it sounds like from the inside, what year and model, and I also consider there will be newer cars that don’t yet exist, but you get the point.

But I feel it,

I do this thing where I touch the walls, of my shower because I know the material of my future shower, I touch the glass because the glass in my future shower is placed the same side as my current shower,

I GO DEEP.

All while under cold water, eyes closed also, by the way.

Now when my 5 minute alarm goes off,

I envision that “his”, alarm just went off,

from taking his cold shower,

and I let it ring a little

But in that moment,

Im him, and I’m thinking

”Man do you remember when you…

lived there,

drove that,

worked there,

weighed that,

was hurt by that,

was so appreciative of that,

first started that..”

And I’m looking back at myself NOW,

and I think how grateful that guy must feel to get that far..

the joy he feels, looking back at what he’s accomplished and who he’s served,

and a weird thing happens where

I feel it in myself, I genuinely feel it.

I feel the gratitude,

I feel his problems, his worries,

but also his joy,

also his sense of self.

And I, as the future me,

tell current me,

that “it’ll all be okay, just keep working hard, keep pushing, put the reps in..”

because, looking back that’s what I would tell my past self if I could,

I’d tell my 15 year old self that same thing, I truly believe it.

Then I turn off my alarm, switch it back to warm,

and think

“Man I have a far way to go, but that life exists, time just hasn’t caught up yet.”

Charlie 🚀 Rocket, speaks more on this, ill link him as well.

And hey, maybe I’m crazy, maybe I’m doing this all wrong,

but only time will tell.

Maybe add some of these to your routine, and let me know how it goes.