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Cold Exposure: Where Discipline takes over Comfort

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What the body and mind doesn't want, but actually needs. The perfect discipline practice.

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The benefits of Cold Exposure



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There is a common misconception out there, that cold is bad, because supposedly it makes you catch colds. But reality is that the cold is what you need to expose yourself to, to be able to reinforce your immune system, to prevent yourself from falling sick, such as catching colds.

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The first and foremost benefit is immune system reinforcement, as it enhances immune function and increases the number of white blood cells, which play a crucial role in fighting infections and cancers.

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Cold exposure has a significant impact on metabolic health, as it activates the brown fat, it increases the energy expenditure and promotes weight loss. Unlike white fat (that people want to get rid of), brown fat's activation allows you to feel more comfortable in cold temperatures, how big of a furnace you have to generate heat for your own body depends on the density of that Brown fat.

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Cold exposure improves glucose and lipid metabolism, on top of enhancing insulin sensitivity, which reduces risk factors associated with metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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Exposing yourself to cold temperatures reduces inflammation by constricting your blood vessels, it helps in reducing pain in arthritis for instance

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It also aids in muscle recovery, benefiting from the inflammation reduction as explained above. (if muscle growth is the goal, you'll need to wait one hour after exercising, to expose yourself to the cold, but that's not our goal here.)

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Most importantly, cold exposure improves your mental health and mood, the primary mechanism at work is the release of norepinephrine and dopamine, which acts as a mood booster, promoting feelings of alertness and wellbeing.

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Cold exposure, also aids in brain health, the activation of cold shock proteins enables specific proteins crucial for rebuilding synapses (the connections between the nerve cells)

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How to practice Cold Exposure

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There are a few methods to do Cold exposure, you have Ice baths, Cryotherapy, jumping into the nearest lake, or more simply (and cheaply) Cold Showers.

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How cold ? Resistance to cold temperatures varies from person to person. So we'll go with the following scale :

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  1. Pleasant temperature

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  2. Neutral temperature

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What we're aiming for here is your current "uncomfortably cold, yet safe" temperature. If you were to try my current "uncomfortably cold" temperature (as i have been practicing cold exposure daily for more than 8 months), your heart would probably stop immediately, so stay within the safezone, do not force yourself.

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How long ? At the minimum 11 minutes per week is what you need to be able to have positive results.

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If you want to see more benefits, try to make it even more. My daily shower is approximately 10 minutes long, and now, i take it ice cold right from the beginning, the whole time. For me this amounts to a little more than 60 minutes of cold exposure per week, where for me the benefits are undeniable (for example remaining in contact with my entire family without falling sick for 2 whole weeks, remaining OK the whole time and after).

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As the goal is to gradually work up your cold tolerance, if you want to do it like i did, put the shower temperature at the "slightly cold" temperature, and every day, very slightly turn it down, to a slightly lower temperature, without ever turning the temperature up again. The temperature either stays the same (at that slightly cold temperature) or goes down, but it must never go back up again.

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You'll probably be suprised to see after a while, that the heat you usually sought when entering the shower no longer needs to come from the water, the heat comes from your own Body. That;s when you know the brown fat is being activated. This is a clear reminder, that what can be achieved from outside, can also be achieved from within.

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You are waking up early today, your body wants to remain in bed, but you decide that you are going to get up early.

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Because you do not intend to let your body decide things on it's own, You make it stretch entirely with the yoga practice of your choice.

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Great, you started to control over your body for the day, it's time to get it to refine the blade now.

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It's also time to get control over your own mind now. What does it want ?

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+"Come let's go back in the bed and stay warm, put on that cover and turn up the heater!"
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But after reading all the benefits of cold exposure above, you're not going to miss out are you ?

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There's only one thing you need to remember: That water is as cold as it needs to be, it is perfect the way it is.

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Take your time to get used to the cold water, take your time. Start with the hands, then the arms, then the shoulders, then the legs, then the crotch area, then the belly, then the torso, then the back, and lastly the neck, the head and your face for last.

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Then as usual, clean yourself, but without ever turning up the temperature, take your time to finish cleaning yourself, there's no rush.

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If you want to see faster progress, and are willing to dig deep into it like i did, directly switch to that uncomfortably cold temperature, You will see that your body is going to make you breathe through your mouth instinctively. it's going to be a vivid reaction at first, the typical fight or flight stress response.

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Look at how your body is reacting: gasping for air, and instinctively breathing deeply

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Listen to what your mind is saying: "Get me out of here! Turn the temperature up!"

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Controlling the Body:

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With the cold water flowing down from the head downward onto the rest of your body, stay immobile, with your joined hands together. Stop breathing through your mouth, only breathe through your nose, and try to breathe more slowly, in a controlled manner.

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In that same posture, once your Body is firmly in your control, and breathing steadily, see if you can think up the Nihilism mantras with each inhalation and exhalation:

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+Dissolving Compulsions:
+Inhalation: I want nothing
+Exhalation: I need Nothing
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+Dissolving Beliefs:
+Inhalation: I know nothing
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+Dissolving the Self:
+Inhalation: I am nothing
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You will see, in that stressful situation it will not be easy to get your mind to repeat those mantras with each inhalation and exhalation consistantly, but once you are able to do that, while doing your daily cold exposure, this is when both your mind, and your body are taking instructions from you. This is when you can truly say that you have chosen Discipline over Comfort.

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Preparing the Body

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❌ Yoga to stretch the entire body (Angamardhana)

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✅ Yoga to stretch the entire body

❌ Diet to favor cerebral activity

❌ Meal Frequency: Hunger is normal

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✅ Opus Nihil: Dissolving Compulsions

❌ Scio Nihil: Dissolving Beliefs

❌ Sum Nihil: Dissolving the Self

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❌ Cold Showers: Mind over matter + Immune System Reinforcement

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❌ Cold Exposure: Where Discipline takes over Comfort

diff --git a/productivity/opus-nihil/index.html b/productivity/opus-nihil/index.html index 9023d40..19be011 100644 --- a/productivity/opus-nihil/index.html +++ b/productivity/opus-nihil/index.html @@ -85,10 +85,16 @@ It doesn't need anything, besides being contemplated for it's own beauty.

Look back the last 10 years of your life, did you always need the same things just to live ?

Did you take up habits over that period of time, things that you did not even need in the first place ?

Let's take the most common: Alcohol, Coffee, Tobacco, Weed, and similar substances. Do you actually need those ?

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+Upon the crystal-clear lake, What would happen if I threw poison into it ? I want to see.
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At first it may just be wanting it, but over time it may turn into the illusion of needing it.

After indulging into those things for a while, do you even want them ? is it true that you need those things ?

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You don't need anything else. You need to work that poison out of your system.

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Lock yourself up for one full week, with only 2 meals per day, and water. Are you still alive after that week ?

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You don't need anything else. Work that poison out of your system.

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Look back the last 10 years of your life again, did you always want the same things ? Or did the things you wanted for yourself change over time ?

Most likely, if you have a very active life, the things you wanted at one point in life, you no longer wanted them the next month.

Perhaps even, now you realize that you didn't truly want those things in the first place.

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Are you sure that you truly know what you want ? even now ?

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+We all try to get more of something, whatever staircase you have found, be it Money, Power, Fame, or Substances
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Truth is, the content of our minds change on a regular basis, you can't ever be sure you truly want something, in the long run.

Moreover, is it something that YOU want, or is it something that someone else wants you to pursue ?

Maybe you don't truly want something in the end, how can you be sure you're not chasing someone else's dream ?

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Nihilism: Dissolving Compulsions



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Modern Nihilism, as i am arrogantly pionnering myself, is a set of sentences, or mantras, to be repeatedly mentally thought of, in order to change your perception.

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Modern Nihilism, as i am arrogantly pionnering myself, is a set of sentences, or mantras, to be repeatedly mentally thought of, in order to change yourself from within, this aims to alter your perception, your beliefs, and your actual sense of self.


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It doesn't matter what you currently think you want, or what you think you need. It's an illusion anyway. And to be able to get rid of those compulsions, you need to uproot them from your mind directly.

 
It is all up to you. Are you going to need a cane to walk forever? Are you going to seek puerile pleasure all your life? Stop being what others want you to be, dissolve it all. Hit that reset button.

 
Repeat that mantra for a while, keep doing it as long as you need to, until all the poison has been worked out of your system.

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The lake has not been clear for a very long time, but it needs to become clear again, and to be kept clear.

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Once the slate has been wiped clean, once clarity is back, think for a while. What is it that you truly want to do with your life ? What will bring you the most satisfaction, until the very end ?

 
In that moment of clarity, decide for the next 10 years, what will your life be about. Then stick to it, no matter what happens. If your mind deviates from that goal, dissolve the falsehoods again, and again, keep the lake crystal clear, every day, only then will you function at your peak.

 
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Yoga as a word means Union, it has existed for thousands of years already, and it has been used as a way to bring into fruition just about anything that can be achieved within human beings: health, peace, love, joy, ecstasy, compassion, wellbeing, bliss, heightened perceptions, dissolving the ego, purifying the body, etc.

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Yoga practices most commonly include using the Body to align it to a specific geometry that provides benefits. As a practice, it can turn your body into a completely friction-free machine, which means that you'll waste less energy, and you'll be able to do things with your body more efficiently.

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If you never did yoga so far, i recommend trying out this one first:

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Skipping the meditation parts, it should only take 20 to 30 minutes to complete. And by then you'd have already worked out some sweat with your own bodyweight, along with having stretched just about everything in your body.

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